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"When fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag carrying a cross."
--Sinclair Lewis
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The following are the Top-5 Most-Read Articles (plus 1 editor's pick) from Populist Party Commentary since our last newsletter, "Whatever Happened to the Land of the Free?"
Should We Kill People Over Gay Marriage?
Orson Scott Card Seems to Think So.
by Brian Trent - 105,769 reads
This isn't the first time I've disagreed with Mr. Card; for the life of me, I can't see how he can consider Terminator 3 a good film. But we have our agreements also; we both feel Citizen Kane is overrated. And yes, we even agree that revolution in America can be a good thing.
I am disgusted with the tumor-like growth of government in America. and we can thank both Democrats and Republicans for that. I am appalled by the way our elected officials use our Constitution as toilet paper, at the fear-mongering and contempt they show for their citizenry. Personally, I do foresee a balkanization of the U.S. in the future; too many people care only about their religion or ideologies at the expense of the Constitution's Enlightenment ideals of reason, humanism, and liberty for us to stay united.
The National ID card? Yes, that's a reason to fight a revolution because it rapes the Bill of Rights. (And believe it or not, 21 individual states are rebelling against the National ID card as we speak.)
But Card wants to play a bloody real-time game of Risk over the issue of gay marriage. He wants to see people killed over it, shot in the streets, the blood running into gutters. He wants people to die all because consenting American adults want to get married.
(read more here)
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Not Your Father's Republican Party
by Cliff Carson - 20,057 reads
My Party, that bastion of Constitutional rule of law, began to shred the Constitution. Warrantless spying on good American people became the order of the day, even though it was against the law, Corruption began to sprout up like grass on a warm spring day, Bush and Cheney hired Mercenary Corporations at unbelievable cost to go into the fray answerable only to the Corporate bottom line, Torture was implemented, followed by Renditions, and all manner of depravity to other men.
And when Patriotic Americans rose to protest, my Republican Party gave Bush the same treatment as those despicable Democrats did for Clinton. Seeing the Morality of my Party and Country sink into a moral Abyss, I decided as an American, I needed to raise opposition to the depravity that was beginning to sweep the land.
(read more here)
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Cracks in the Constitution
by Stephen Lendman - 5,692 reads
 The "supreme Law of the Land" here deters no President or sitting government from doing as they wish, law or no law. The Constitution is easily ignored with impunity by popular or unpopular governments doing as they please and inventing reasons as justification. Lundberg is firm in debunking the notion that America is a government of laws, not men. It's "palpable nonsense of the highest order," he said. Governments enacting laws are composed of men who lie, connive, misinterpret and pretty much operate ad libitum discharging their duties as they see fit for their own self-interest.
(read more here)
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Land of the Silent, Home of the Fearful
by Dave Lindorff - 5,589 reads
There is a remarkable and palpable fear abroad in this land - not a fear of terrorism, but a fear of speaking up, a fear of being labeled as "different" or as a "troublemaker."
People will lean over and whisper their opinions, if they think they are anti-Establishment, as though someone might be listening. People write me after some of my columns run, praising me for my "courage," though why it should be perceived as requiring courage to merely write something in America is beyond me.
The worst thing is that every time someone says she or he is afraid, or acts afraid to speak or write what she or he is thinking, five more acquaintances become equally scared and silenced.
(read more here)
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The Military and American Liberty
by Evans Munyemesha - 4,839 reads
I am not confident that the majority of our contemporaries will accept the conspicuous truth that liberty is not a child of militarism. The liberty of a people in any society, a rarity to be sure, is dependent on the character of the free members of that society; and therefore, for there to be liberty in society anywhere, its members, individually, must be free. This means that the members must be self-directing individuals.
Liberty sought by use of bombs and other instruments of terror is liberty sought in vain. If found, it is fleeting and only for a special class.
(read more here)
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Editor's Pick: Constitution Day
A classic from Harry Browne - Constitution Day was September 17th.
More and more, the Constitution became a political toy, to be tossed about, invoked, ignored, or misrepresented - whatever suited a given politician's agenda at any given moment.
The income tax amendment in 1913 hammered the final nail into the coffin of limited, constitutional government. Now the politicians had not only the authority, but also the unlimited revenue, to do whatever they wanted. It seems very, very unlikely, for example, that Americans would have been dragged into World War I if the government hadn't had the unlimited revenue to finance it.
Even the Bill of Rights - which eliminates all ambiguity by spelling out specific things the government may not do - was relegated to second place behind the needs of politicians. By the first World War, the Supreme Court had decided that the words "Congress shall make no law . . . " don't really mean that "Congress shall make no law . . . " They mean only that the government must have a "compelling interest" in doing something. Not surprisingly, the government employees on the Court almost always decide that the government does have a compelling interest.
(read more here)
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