A few progressive and liberal journalists, academics, and bloggers, have been dropping Jefferson's revolutionary rhetoric from the Declaration of Independence into their efforts recently. The words started flowing out especially following Katrina, Rita, and the other umpteenth next natural and manmade disaster that Bushco chose to ignore all but the very wealthy. Coupled as it has been on the ever broadening and expanding corruptions and usurptions of power by this most dangerous to the world cabal, one might, if one was not a citizen of the US, think that the people of this nation might actually do something about it all. They would be wrong.
When Jefferson wrote: "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. ..." he was outlining, prefacing?, the recitation of facts regarding these evils that could no longer be tolerated. If we, as citizens, can't figure out that we are now so far past "light and transient" and even well beyond the suffering from so many evils, then really all is pretty much lost here.
The planet is providing the most instant and demanding karmic lessons and US citizens praise their oil company execs for subsidizing the price of gasoline to get through the holiday season in happy ignorant bliss.
Bush says that the US must be: free to torture, free to spy at will on its citizens, free to incarcerate and detain indefinitely anyone it chooses without having to present any information to justify such behaviors, free to exercise the most corrupt practices of governance to better provide relief to the wealthy who are struggling against the increasing wealth and power of Asian and European rich, free to act with irresponsible military aggression whenever it chooses for no reasons whatsoever if it is felt that doing such will provide capital largesse to those in power.
The MSM buys this up, eats it for fodder in order to shit out the pablum diarrhea to feed the masses so that they will be saited and happy to watch "reality" tv that is scripted and edited and rehearsed and reshot all in the name of keeping the eyes on the bouncing distracting balls.
If you really believe that spying on you is the best thing to keep your wealth safe, then i guess you won't mind if the rest of us also keep track of you and your expenditures and personal behaviors. Contrary to what most might think, neighborhood watch has taken a whole new form, with an entirely new cast of humint and agent provacteurs waiting on your street corner for the signal to round up the untidy and those who exercise the poor judgement of dissent. I really hope you are next.