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Carla Binion: 'From Jefferson's republic to banana republic' Mending our broken democracy By Carla Binion Dave Johnson, a concerned blogger, has written, "We are a country of broken systems...Everything is broken. Every thinking person knows it. Democracy is broken. The media is broken. The health care system is broken. The budget is broken. They say Social Security is broken. They say the schools are broken. The economy is broken. The system of international law is broken. We don't even have a reason to trust that the election tomorrow - sorry today - is legitimate because the machines that record the votes are broken by design." Dave expresses what many of us know about America. We've lost the republic of Jefferson and replaced it with a sort of banana republic wherein we don't have elections. Our elections have become just for show. Our institutions - the ones that used to support democracy - are now crippled. The various corporate media outlets gaslight the public by failing to report vital facts, instead telling us fairy tale versions of national events. The national delusion continues. To borrow an old-but-good Paul Simon line, we're still crazy after all these years (and growing crazier by the minute.) On various Internet sites, evidence mounts to indicate votes weren't accurately counted in election 2004. Meanwhile, the talking heads of Fantasyland TV news keep telling the public George W. Bush won, no questions asked. They say to the public, "move on, move on, nothing to see here," while hundreds of blogs expose likely vote fraud right before our truth-seeking eyes. An example is a Greg Palast article, "Kerry won," at the TomPaine.com site. Millions of Americans know George W. Bush is deeply corrupt and has arguably committed crimes of an impeachable nature. However, our broken corporate media outlets virtually ignore this fact. Around 100 prominent Americans and over forty family members of September 11 victims have petitioned New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to open an investigation into possible Bush administration misconduct regarding 9/11. This is an important story, but we hear nothing about it on TV news. ---------- (For rest of this article, go to url listed at top of page.) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No More BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
