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Disagreeing with U.S. politics.

rafael melendez wrote:

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Daring to disagree is a vital part of a healthy society, analogous to allowing our human immune system to strengthen by learning from exposure to foreign invaders for, in the same manner in which the immune system learns from these interventions, so does our society from disagreements. Hence, it fundamentally helps maintain the integrity of its fabric by guaranteeing accountability and understanding and clearing of its complexity to realize better solutions to problems. Silence this tool and opportunity to invite concealment in a free society becomes inevitable and with it, the establishment of systems of inequity, partiality and general contempt. The level of lack of disagreement is a telltale of things to come and proportional to the disintegration of this same fabric and the weaving of another, cleverly harmonized for public acceptance.
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    Aug 9 2012: Daring to disagree is a vital part of a healthy society, analogous to allowing our human immune system to strengthen by learning from exposure to foreign invaders for, in the same manner in which the immune system learns from these interventions, so does our society from disagreements. Hence, it fundamentally helps maintain the integrity of its fabric by guaranteeing accountability and understanding and clearing of its complexity to realize better solutions to problems. Silence this tool and opportunity to invite concealment in a free society becomes inevitable and with it, the establishment of systems of inequity, partiality and general contempt. The level of lack of disagreement is a telltale of things to come and proportional to the disintegration of this same fabric and the weaving of another, cleverly harmonized for public acceptance.
    1. The acceptance of the 9/11 commission report that led to an unjust war, the creation of Homeland Security and the Patriot act even though thousands of licensed architects, engineers, metallurgists, chemists, physicists, demolition experts, fire protection experts and others have completely disproven it using sound scientific methods.
    2. The acceptance of Congress to allow unabated executive power to order military intervention on foreign lands, target individuals for killing including American citizens and extend the Patriot Act
    3. The acceptance of Congress to enact the Ex-Patriot Act in order to control the capital of citizens
    4. The acceptance of the unabated revolving door between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Wall St.

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