America As Control State

greatcyber

New member
The article eerily rings true. Hence, I am happy to also be an expat, having moved to escape some of what I perceived to be persecution that I felt could lead exactly to where the article states.
 

Contratrombone64

Admiral of Fugues
Amercia the beautiful ... unless you happen to be poor, i.e. earn under $250,000 dollars per annum. I didn't have a chance to read it comprehensively, but I will, too busy now.
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
CT64,

Exactly!!! One needs quite a bit of cash if one runs into the sky-high medical bills, which are due in part to the medical malpractice insurance that doctors have to fork out in order to have the right to hang their *shingle*.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Interesting article. In Britain we seem to have started to swing back the other way. Public scrutiny, stop and search and the misuse of the terrosit acts are slowly being reversed after blatent misuse by the last goverment. Money or the lack of it is not such a problem socially as in America, but the feeling that too few people are subsidising the many is growing. As long as we feel that we owe the world a living at the expense of the working people, or those who have worked all their lives and are now retired, we will have a problem. It is also a problem that whereas the majority of the people over here where capable of policing themselves through a sense of moral justice there are now too many people who do not have those feelings any more, and they are the ones who need supervision to provent them spoiling life for the decent majority. Any answers anyune?

teddy
 

Contratrombone64

Admiral of Fugues
The website that that article is posted on seems to be an extreme right wing one, so their sentiments are not surprising at all I'm afraid.
 

Catrina

New member
There is much going on in this world and if we were to know it, would shock us to our very core.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
All one can do is try and obtain as many views and angles as possible to enable one to make an informed decision.

teddy
 

Contratrombone64

Admiral of Fugues
I say down with the Whitehouse and down the number 10 downing street for starters ... sadly the British and the Americans are the most horrific warmongers since world world 2. I also hasten to add that my country got involved because our then prime minister (Howard) was a clone of Thatcher in polcy - ugly to look at and ugly as a PM.
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
I see the US is pulling out of Afghanistan now, that will please some, all I can see is a blood bath that will follow, if you are going to fight a war then finish it.
 
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teddy

Duckmeister
I am reading a lot of reports that say Obama will not be re-elected and is using the oil spillage as a smoke screen. They also make the point that the oil rig concerned was owned and operated by Americans. Is this a one sided view? Have people really benifited from the compensation which is being paid, so they are in a better position than they would have been had this disaster not happened. Shame Alister Cooke is no longer with us for his views. Opinions would be appreciated.

teddy
 

dll927

New member
It would not surprise me at all if Bam-bam winds up being a one-term president. There is much speculation that the elections this November will make life very difficult for him. Which serves him right. He can't seem to do anything without adding more to an already unjustified national debt.
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Talking of debt, who do all these countries owe the debt to ? is it the World Bank if so where does TWB get its money from, eh, what, chew on that one The IMF ???
 

alphshuffel

New member
If it made that politics remains better and the people are honest with the people and state then survival will put a next step to strong it.
 

lukas6644

New member
a recurring theme

Interestingly, we had exacly this discussion with some friends during the last days. I my opinion the general direction is sadly enought towards reducing liberty, with `liberal' being alrady a 4-letter word for quite a while.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Hello Luka and welcome to the forum.
Our last goverment was hell bent on reducing our liberty, although pretending otherwise. They tried to curtail our freedom of spech whenever they did not like the subject being discussed. They also introduced thought crime (see 1984 ) by introducing a law which stated that if someone thought you were saying something nasty you could be prosocuted whether there was intent or not.

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
teddy, I think all governments aspire to have complete control, ours (NZ) are no different, I hate this PC crap and will not be part of it on or off line "a spade is a spade is a spade" is my motto type of thing, this is not to say one sets out to offend someone but if making a true statement offends, then so be it, tough lol
 
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