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I received this in an e-mail from a friend (who wrote it). I thought it was too good not to share.
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Hello everyone!

Today is the Fourth of July. Remember this day as the
day when several of the greatest political
philosophers that have ever lived just so happened to
be together in the late 18th century on a big piece of
frontier known as "America" : Jefferson, Washington,
Paine, Adams, Franklin, the list goes on and on.
Together, they sought to begin this great social,
cultural, and political experiment currently known as
the United States of America. They envisioned a
country ruled by a great educated populace where
dissent was not only tolerated, but encouraged. They
believed that the only way to seek the truth was to
argue relentlessly until an encompassing synthesis was
reached; democracy at it's finest.

Unfortunately, today, we may be beginning to let our
founding fathers down. Turn on the news. Michael
Moore, Tim Robins, Sean Penn, all Americans letting
their opinions be heard. What happens to them? They
are chastised as anti-American, Pro-Saddam, Pro-bin
Laden Hollywood Liberal Wackos by those in power.
What is it that they are saying that is so bad as to break
our traditional views of dialogue that requires us to
call them, as Ann Coulter frequently does, traitors?

Is it that they take part in sharing their dislike for
the President and his agenda - one that rivals Warren
Harding's as the most corrupt in our nation's history?


It just so happens that Halliburton received a
contract to rebuild Iraq, total coincidence. No,
really; coincidence. It doesn't matter that Chaney
was their former CEO...or that the dealings were done
privately. It's all a HUGE coincidence.

Maybe they are hated for showing their dislike for his
using of an American tragedy as an all encompassing
catalyst towards getting what he wants.

Let's order a record amount of fighter jets from
Lockheed-Martin! That'll beat those box-cutter
wielding terrorists! No, future campaign support has
NOTHING to do with upping the military budget!

or

Let's invade Iraq, they've been giving those dastardly
terrorists weapons for YEARS. They're all Arabic,
they MUST be in cahoots!!

Maybe they dislike his slow, methodical erosion of
civil liberties that haven't been seen since the age
of McCarthyism. (*grows tired of sarcastic "I'm Bush"
motif*)

The PATRIOT act is possibly the biggest atrocity they
have come up with insofar as dealing with the average
American. They can LEGALLY view your library records,
for goodness sakes. They can LEGALLY detain you if
they find you to be an accessory to terrorism; no
judge, no jury, no due process. I honestly wouldn't
be surprised if the old verbal test with a new twist
didn't come into usage, "Are you now, or have you ever
been, a member of a radical fundamentalist Islamic
terrorist organization?"

Maybe they dislike him for the horrible job he's done
with the economy.

He is trying to resurrect the concept of trickle down
economics from the days of Reagan. Where giving money
to the top 5% will allow them to afford to hire more
workers. I've got news for 'ya Bush. It doesn't
trickle. It certainly doesn't trickle down. And
there is no way, given hell doesn't freeze over, that
there will be a trickle down effect. You know what
happens when you give the top 5% more money? They
save it. They ALREADY have more money than they can
spend. They just heap into their giant money vault
like old Scrooge McDuck on Ducktales. The entire
point of the tax cut was to stimulate the economy.
Poor people will spend money. They have to, it is a
question of need. Rich people will not. They do not
have to, they became rich because they know how to
deal with money, and investing in a faltering economy
isn't one of them. The bottom line is that spending
causing an increase in production is the only way to
get us out of this mess, and the only thing you've
done, Bush, is increase our debt to untold amounts of
money. This is also the only time a president has
lost jobs in the workforce since THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

Or, finally, and most convincingly, maybe they just
think that his administration, for lack of a better
word, is evil.

Paul Wolfowitz. Karl Rove. Dick Chaney. Elliott
Abrams. Richard Pearle. Donald Rumsfeld. What do
they have in common? Two things. 1) They are Bush's
Puppetmasters, er, I mean administration 2) They are
the founding and card-carrying members of the PNAC.
For those of you that know little about the PNAC,
(http://www.newamericancentury.org) they are a group
of neo-conservatives that believe that, essentially,
America is a divine device that should rule the world
with an iron fist through the wonders of American
Imperialism. They are students of a conservative
professor from Chicago named Leo Strauss. His idea of
government is one where the weak are in submission to
the strong. It doesn't matter if the strong lie to
the weak, because if the will of the strong usurps the
will of the weak, than the better idea has been
chosen; thus the strong are always right. Guess who
the strong are now? Does this possibly explain their
animosity towards dissent? You heard right folks,
they believe in the divine rights of kings. Don't
believe me? Read for yourself (the second one is
killer)-->
http://home.earthlink.net/~karljahn/Strauss.htm
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...2/717acusr.asp

And this is the big reason I support Howard Dean,
along with the minor ones above; he is the anti-Bush.
He preaches unity, oneness, democracy as opposed to
eliteness, divisiveness, and plutocracy. These
Straussians have taken our congenital purpose, a
democracy where every voice has it's say in finding a
synthetic truth, to it's current saddening state,
where our leaders believe that they ARE absolute
truth; where there is no dissent because the
dissenters are irrelevant. Guess what? That's called
a dictatorship. I believe that people speaking out
against our president is infinitely more patriotic
than simply being a sheep, blinded by fear in such
turbulent times. The very idea of these
intellectual zombies calling US unpatriotic makes my
irony meter go haywire. So snuggly wrapping
themselves in the flag under the guise of patriotism;
after 9/11 doing nothing but hiding behind symbols of
America to show their cowardice in the face of fear.
I would rather we wrap ourselves in the constitution
under the dreams of democracy; to show our
unflinching devotion to the soul of America in the
midst of tragedy.

We cannot stand idle and let this country go to hell
like these idiots are trying to accomplish. We cannot
let our country become the next Rome, where they
crumbled from within due to the imperialistic
ambitions. If we do not learn from the lessons of the
past, we will be doomed the same fate as our
predecessors.

Our country has such a beautiful concept. It is best
reveled in our pre-McCarthy-era motto: "E Pluribus
Unum." Of many, one. It doesn't matter if you are
black, white, man, woman, gay, straight, atheist,
theist, in the end we come together under one
definition: Americans. We are America, a democratic
republic. Together we are unstoppable.

Have a happy Fourth,

jon1

:notworthy

fatherphil

from what i heard, many of the mechanisms of our government were hammered out in private by our founding fathers for some reason.

but i would like to say that this is a good moment (the 4th) to remember the shuttle astronauts who lost their lives this year.

lunachick

What a great letter!! Thanks for posting it. There is hope!

I hope it gets forwarded to as many people as possible. A great message indeed.

:notworthy

Jewel

What an excellent message! Thank you for sharing that, Never.