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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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...continued in rafael melendez's three bottom-most comments below.

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  • Aug 9 2012: 7. The acceptance of the practical dissolution of the checks and balances known in our country as the three branches of government put in place at the beginning of the creation of the constitutional republic, proof that zealous special interests would one day declare victory over virtue.
    8. The acceptance that it has taken decades to finally observe the House of Representatives vote to audit the cartel of private financial institutions known as the Federal Reserve but, yet, it now remains stifled in the Senate because its partisan majority leader refuses to bring it to a vote even though the bill passed by a 75% margin in the House.
    9. The acceptance of politically correct as just correct.
    10. The acceptance that any man or woman born in this country and reaching an age of 18 is allowed to cast a vote regardless of his awareness of the duty of citizenship, particularly his civic duty to learn and understand the Constitution of the United States, the rules of the nation to which all legislators and public defenders swear to defend and protect and under which we all live.
    11. And finally, the acceptance that being a great consumer and a great sports and music fan sadly defines, in very large measure, what it is to be a great [sheepish] American.
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      Aug 11 2012: I took the liberty of creating a compendium of your 11 points indicating what the U.S. government is doing wrong now or has done wrong recently. Please check it for correctness.
      1) Validated the bogus 9/11 Commission Report even though it was scientifically disproven by a group of experts.
      2) Allows President to use military as global assassins, even killing American citizens.
      3) Allows Ex-Patriot Act to control people's capital.
      4) Allows S.E.C. and Wall Street to freely exchange information.
      5) Allows those to blame for real estate bubble debacle to go unpunished.
      6) Allows media to censor dissenting opinion.
      7) Allows disintegration of constitutional checks and balances.
      8) Resisting audit of Federal Reserve system.
      9) Accepts Political Correctness in place of actual correctness.
      10) Allows uninformed citizens to vote.
      11) Defines greatness by accomplishment in sports, entertainment and/or personal wealth.
      Please advise, Mr. Melendez. Thank you!
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        Aug 11 2012: 1) don't know

        2) Yup

        3) Don't know

        4) Don't know but that would be epitome of cronyism make that incestuous

        5) Do you mean Greenspan, Barney, and Chris?

        6) The media is liberal and don't realize that they are censoring. Sort of like you have to know that you don't know or is it you have to be aware of being aware?

        7) yup but that his been going on so long that it isn't newsworthy.

        8) yup except that the amendment that creating this organization is dubious as well but an audit would certainly be nice as I have found that is where the real transgressions are.

        9) Yup aka group think

        10) Hell yup

        11) Yup

        Oh were you talking to me?
        • Aug 15 2012: You can add Blankfein (GS) and Dimon (JPM) to the listed under #5. And one more category of recent....Eric Holder and his deputies (Department of Justice).
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          Aug 15 2012: Sure man, I'm talking to everyone in the conversation.
      • Aug 15 2012: This is correct.
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          Aug 15 2012: Mr. Melendez,
          You have the makings of a series of debates in this one post. Nothing helpful can come from such a shotgun approach. May I suggest you post each of your eleven gripes as individual, sequential debates? Thanks for expressing your thoughts on America's situation. I hope we all have an eye on helping to improve her.
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        Aug 15 2012: Rafael

        That is right blame the fox for eating the chickens. What profound thinking.

        Spare me the Glass Speigal trope it didn't make any difference.

        Like I said Barney Chris and my fellow Radian (in name only) Greenspan, Cra, Clinton are to blame. Any words to the otherwise are ignorant.
        • Aug 15 2012: you want to limit yourself to the short list of names, be my guest. this problem has been with us since the first time that the ape man picked up a stick to hit the other ape man next to him because he wanted the kill of the day all to himself. Moving forward to today, your suspects were but the latest soldiers of fortune, hence, the commanders remain conveniently unnamed.
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        Aug 15 2012: Yes conjecture is so useful...
      • Aug 15 2012: Not a bad idea. I'll give it a go, later tonight with item #1, 9/11. Here's reference material for all those interested:
        Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth: http://www.ae911truth.org/
        Pilots for 9/11 truth: http://pilotsfor911truth.org/
        State Crimes Against Democracy (SCAD): http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17922

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