If you tolerate this, then your children will be next

Ghostdog

Detained without charge
Deporatation without a hearing
Illegal wire taps
The Patriot Act
The death penalty
Illegal war
Secret courts
Warm winters
Stolen electio
Widen gap between rich and poor
Dick Cheney
Halliburton
$70 barrel for oil
New front in Iran and Syria
Bin Laden not captured
Collateral damage
Executive stranglehold over the Supreme Court and Congress

How did it come to this?

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One thought on “If you tolerate this, then your children will be next”

  1. I would have to say fundementalism of leaders. A clash of politlcal ideas.
    or maybe just capitalism disguised as democracy.

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