Why I Don't Support This Administration Anymore | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 hidden)
You aren't alone. (none / 0)
But it's not just the corruption in the administration or in Congress.  Richard Posner, a judge on the 7th Court of Appeals no less, demonizes the desire for privacy as an illegitimate and immoral desire to conceal, opening the door to both government and corporations to more easily manipulate us.  The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says that God is not a religious concept, a blatant insult to atheists and agnostics, and allowing the use of schools to indoctrinate children into religion systems in order to more easily control them.  And the Supreme Court says that corporations should have the same rights as human beings even though they cannot, by their nature, have the same interests as human beings.

There are a handful of people in Congress who still have the interests of the people at heart, but they are a small minority.  Years of Republican and pseudo-conservative control of government have stripped the People of their control over their country, and enough Democrats have been corrupted to seal our fate.  Our educational system has been weakened to the point that a large portion of our population is easily persuaded to vote against their interests and to surrender their rights and power to a small minority of the very rich.

Things are going to get much worse before they get better.

by EveningStarNM on 03/12/2010 12:08:48 PM EST

where the hell you been? (none / 0)

kind of scarce lately huh?

 

Chris

by chrisandyasemin on 03/12/2010 01:45:00 PM EST

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Small point (none / 0)
I agree with your post but your statement that a U.S. Court of Appeals said the concept of god is not religious struck me as curious so I tracked down the decision itself. It weighs in at a ridiculous 193 pages so I didn't read it all. In the first 7 pages, though, it seems to argue the pledge is constitutional because the Declaration of Independence says people are endowed by their creator with certain rights. By itself, pretty lame but I didn't read the remaining 186 pages. Anyway, on the seventh page it says, "Not every mention of God or religion by our government or at the government’s direction is a violation of the Establishment Clause." So it appears not even this panel is stupid enough to think god is just a concept by which we measure our pain. Here's the decision: NEWDOW v. RIO LINDA UNION SCHOOL DIST.

by Corpusless on 03/12/2010 04:52:42 PM EST

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A small point in rebuttal. (none / 0)
It doesn't matter what the Declaration of Independence says.  It has no controlling authority in law.  It is not the basis for any law.

Our Constitution is what is important and, if you'll notice, the word "God" is not mentioned even once.  Nor is any reference to a "creator" or even to any spriritual concept other than in the First Amendment.

The judges on that court are morons, and dangerous ones at that.

by EveningStarNM on 03/14/2010 05:41:10 AM EST

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Why I Don't Support This Administration Anymore | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 hidden)