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The Danger Lives On

They did their damage and left, avoiding accountability for their crimes. George Tenet. John Ashcroft. Andrew Card. Donald Rumsfeld. Karl Rove. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who did the greatest damage of all, announced on August 27 that he’ll be leaving next month.

Not a minute too soon. Mr. Gonzales leaves an unmatched legacy of destruction - and it’s questionable as to what would remain of US law were he to continue. He was Attorney General in name only, serving the interests of George Bush to the detriment of the whole country.

Who can forget his characterization of the Geneva Conventions as “quaint” and “obsolete.” Or his assertion that the Constitution did not protect Habeus Corpus.

Thanks to Mr. Gonzales, the Pledge of Allegiance has been replaced with One Nation Under Surveillance. No warrants needed. Your connection to a mythological Al Qaeda can be made with no problem at all - and you will pay the price with your freedom.

The true character of Mr. Gonzales can be suggested by his famous visit to a seriously ill John Ashcroft, trying to get his predecessor to sign off on some legally questionable intelligence gathering techniques.

We got another taste of Mr. Gonzales at the recent Congressional hearings about the firing of nine United States attornies, to make way for political apointees and for their refusal to target Democrats disproportionately to Republicans.

Mr. Gonzales distinguished himself by answering “I don’t recall” and “I have no recollection”
over and over again, like a Mafia Don. In one Senate hearing earlier this year, his former Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson answered “I don’t remember” 122 times. Stonewalling has become an art form.

The contempt for Congress was so obvious, that Democrats considered the possibilities of perjury charges or impeachment. That’s as far as it went, of course. Our brave Democrat “representatives” have yet to find the backbone to initiate any meaningful action.

Gonzales has all but destroyed the Department of Justice. He has left the Constitution just a semblance of its former self. He has all but destroyed the rule of law in this once-law abiding nation, and he has severely curtailed our freedoms, leaving us with the very believable fear of becoming an actual Police State.

The single most outrageous thing, however, is that, thanks to Alberto Gonzales, we have legalized torture. Torture! Call it enhanced interrogation or any other Newspeak term, it’s still torture. Now as representative of “Democracy” as Mom and apple pie.

Abu Ghraib was just the tip of the iceberg - and we were allowed to see only part of what went on there. You wouldn’t want to know about the rest. You are not allowed to know about the CIA’s secret prisons and other American concentration camps - all over Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan and many other countries all over the world.

You are not even allowed to know about the very real torture we are inflicting - this very moment as you read these words - on the prisoners held in the American concentration camp known as Guantanamo. According to the International Red Cross, 80 to 90 percent of those prisoners are innocent.

The symbol of America is no longer the Statue of Liberty. The symbol of America is now a hooded Iraqi prisoner standing arms outstretched on a raised platform, electric wires attached to his genitals, in deathly fear of his life should he fall.

That’s what Democracy and America symbolize today - thanks in good part to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the war criminal he represents and protects.

Speaking of war criminals - the International Red Cross and other human-rights organizations are compiling detailed, documented evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity we have perpetrated in Iraq, Guantanamo and elsewhere. They are gathering a mountain of material from prisons all over the world - to be used in the Nuremberg-like war trials that, one day, will extract a terrible price from the perpetrators of those crimes. Something that Alberto Gonzales - and perhaps the entire Bush administration can look forward to.

Side Note: The day Gonzales announced his resignation, NFL star Michael Vick announced that he was sorry he got caught torturing dogs. Pets, people, what’s the difference? Alberto Gonzales says it’s OK.

Since we have legalized torture, of course, we have given up the high ground. We no longer have the moral authority to dictate to anyone. Democracy? Just another word for bloodshed and violence. Another word for dictatorship and occupation. Another word for torture.

Thanks to our controlled so-called free press, the American public is kept pretty much in the dark about almost everything. Mainstream media “news” is little more than pure government propaganda. The rest of the world has a different picture. They are allowed to see what we try to hide or ignore.

They know about the unspeakable atrocities we have committed with our legalized torture. And because of those atrocities, we are now the most feared and hated country in the world. Thanks, in good part, to Alberto Gonzales.

To give you a practical example - a real, live victim of Alberto’s handiwork - consider the case of Jose Padilla, American citizen, arrested in 2002, accused of planning to build a dirty bomb, held in violation of his Constitutional rights, and used as a pretext to drum up support for the invasion and destruction of Iraq.

Padilla was held, beaten and tortured for five years! When Bush and company were required to prove their manufactured charges, the terrorism charges were dropped - and Padilla was recharged with supporting Islamic wars in various parts of the world.

Jose Padilla, 36, guilty of thought crimes, faces life in prison - a real victim of the real terrorists in this country: Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, and the rest of the neocon cabal that has done so much to destroy us.

American citizen Padilla was denied habeus corpus, his rights to an attorney and due process. He was held illegally and tortured. The Justice Department demonstrated that the individual has no rights, in violation of the Constitution and federal law. Thanks to Alberto Gonzales, American liberty is dead.

Several names have been mentioned as possible successors to the Attorney General’s office. One possible choice is Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. He certainly has the legal expertise and intelligence Mr. Gonzales lacked. Those attributes, however, might be overlooked due to another lack - Cherttoff’s lack of urgency in handling relief operations for the victims of hurricane Katrina. His slow response was considered inexcusable. In fact, two years after the hurricane disaster, New Orleans residents are still waiting for help. Two Years!

Another possible choice is Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, despised by Democrats for his unwavering support of Bush’s policies in Iraq. If selected, some fear that dual loyalist Lieberman might be tempted to begin measuring the children of this country for IDF uniforms.

Mr Lieberman’s loyalty has never been in doubt. I’m quite certain that an Attorney General Lieberman would place the interests of this country at least second. What would remain of the Constitution is anyone’s guess. My guess is that it would become little more than a fond memory.

The coming Presidential election, of course, might save us from cronies like Gonzales calling the shots. Or not. Every candidate (but one) advocates bombing Iran. Every candidate (but one) advocates torture.

Gonzales opened the door. We are now known as the United States of Torture. We are indifferent to the unbelievable suffering we have created. Four million refugees. Lives completely destroyed or condemned to live out their days in agony. We have turned the Cradle of Civilization into a radioactive wasteland. Iraq no longer exists!

And we are about to inflict this horror on 71 million innocent Iranians. Why? Why are we so anxious to destroy a country that poses no threat - to us or anyone else. For the same reasons we destroyed Afghanistan and Iraq. For oil and for Israel.

When are we going to come clean and tell the mothers of America that they sacrificed their children to defend and protect Israel? Would they believe it? Probably not, even if you showed them irrefutable proof. We have, after all, been brainwashed by masters.

Lets all just sit back and enjoy the show, in all our depraved indifference. We are the Germans of the thirties and like those Germans, we are about to pay a price. Torture? So what. Destroy one country after another for lies and greed? So what.

Little Chinese schoolchildren will someday tell you “so what” - since they will probably be the inheritors of our mistakes. In the meantime, if you do any travelling abroad, pretend you’re Canadian. You won’t have to apologize for torture, or a government off its meds.

No More Bullets

American servicemen fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are firing more than 1 billion bullets a year. That’s a lot of bullets. US forces have fired an estimated 250,000 bullets for every insurgent killed. No word on how many bullets it takes to kill an innocent Iraqi. I guess basic training was just a little too basic. They forgot to teach how to aim.

Whatever the reasons, we now have an ammunition shortage in police departments nationwide. Law enforcement officials are now considering alternative training weapons - such as paint ball guns. Maybe they should also consider blowguns, harpoons and crossbows.

Police departments are trying to cope with year-long delays for handgun and rifle ammunition. When available, prices are double what they were just a year ago.

Another factor contributing to the shortage is an increased demand for copper and lead from China. Yes, something else we can blame China for - along with contaminated seafood, pet food, toothpaste, toys, and so on.

I wonder why the controlled press hasn’t investigated and exposed the manufactured pet food scare. The so-called poisoned additive was absolutely harmless. The real story had to do with irate Latinos, legal and otherwise, contaminating fast foods with Ecoli. Why didn’t we read about that one?

Instead of blaming China for everything, perhaps we should assign just a little blame to avaricious US corporations abandoning American workers to relocate offshore, to reduce labor costs and convert those costs into million dollar management bonuses - without a dime of those windfall profits ever being returned to American consumers. Loyalty is a one way street.

Blaming China for everything has become a popular pastime. One of these days, however, the patient Chinese are going to say enough is enough. With the stroke of a pen they could destroy our economy completely. Maybe the dimwits running and ruining our country should take note.
We could all be in for a very painful, needed lesson.

Getting back to the ammo shortage, orders placed a year ago have yet to arrive. Police are unable to qualify with their assigned weapons. Using paint balls during training courses has become a serious consideration in many departments across the country.

Alliant Techsystems which operates a government plant near Independence, MO has provided the military with most of its small arms ammunition. They produced almost one and a half billion rounds in 2006.

General Dynamics Corp. in Falls Church, VA produces much of the military’s small arms ammo. It also ships some 250,000 rounds a day to 3,000 police departments across the country.

Since American companies can’t keep up with the demand for ammo, we have had to import ammunition from Israel. The Israelis, of course, are only too happy to sell back to us the bullets we gave them. Maybe if we’re real nice and hurry up with that additional $30 Billion aid package handout, they might give us a wholesale price.

We used to manufacture everything. Planes. Tanks. Aircraft carriers. Every weapon needed for every war. Now the largest economy in the world can’t manufacture enough bullets. Now we manufacture nothing. We have to depend on places like Israel and Taiwan to keep us supplied.

Maybe - just maybe - it might have something to do with the fact that we’ve lost over 3 million jobs due to outsourcing since Bush took office. Thanks, George. Your job creation plan worked like a charm. You can be proud of all the wonderful jobs you created. Temporary jobs. Part time jobs. Service jobs. Low wage and no benefit jobs.

It’s too bad you didn’t create a few manufacturing jobs. We might have had enough bullets to fight all your illegal wars.

Guess you were too busy creating another $3 Trillion in debt in the past 6 years. The national debt is now $8.4 Trillion dollars, with a trade deficit of $800 Billion. We have to borrow $2.5 Billion a day just to stay afloat. Thanks again, George, for creating an unbearable burden for generations of Americans to come.

As for the lack of bullets, there’s a very simple solution. Stop the wars! Bring home our servicemen and women - what’s left of them - from Iraq and Afghanistan. We’ll have more than enough bullets for every police department in the country.

But I guess that’s just a little too logical to contemplate. And I almost forgot. Our own government has joined the outsourcing exodus. You can’t stop the wars without permission from Tel Aviv.

The Coming Destruction of Gen. David Petraeus

You have to feel sorry for General Petraeus. He is about to be vanquished by an enemy he never saw coming: his own government.

The entire country has been waiting for the General’s September report on the escalation of violence in Iraq known as the surge. According to script, we’re given the impression that a negative report might lead to the timely return of our troops.

Recent comments by the good General suggest he’ll request a little more time for the surge to work. Maybe a few more months. Perhaps another year. Or longer.

Others have a different view. The BBC has noticed progress. The New York Times declares that Petraeus has transformed US troop morale. Victory is in sight!

If you get your news from the internet and not just from the controlled, censored media, you’ll realize that the surge has only created more violence, more death and destruction. And victory, no matter how you define it, is as far away as ever.

Many believed, myself among them, that the General’s report was already written. Whatever the actual situation, more time would be needed - at least enough time for Bush to leave office and turn over his catastrophe to someone else.

But wait! Now we’re told that the September Petraeus report will not even be written by General Petraeus. It will be written by the White House! After some sort of “input” from the General.

The Bush administration will be giving its own progress report on its own Iraq policies - using the name of General Petraeus to add some sort of legitimacy. Is there a single living soul in this once-free country who would believe a single word? Unbelievable!

You would think that someone with a Princeton Ph.D would be aware of the consequences of lending his name to such a fraudulent document. I can only surmise that the General may have spent a little too much time in the boiling Iraqi sun.

I have just 2 words of advice for the General: Colin Powell. Former US Army General. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Former United States Secretary of State.

General Colin Powell, at one time perhaps the most admired and respected man in the country - who could have had the Presidency for the asking. General Powell who almost single-handedly tried to defend our government - until he was overwhelmed by the predatory neocon takeover we still suffer from today.

Until February 5, 2003, when he delivered a speech to the United Nations, trying to justify war in Iraq with fictitious, manufactured “evidence” about weapons of mass destruction. Powell later called it a “blot” on his record.

It was more than a blot. A man who had the respect of the entire world, lost it all. All dignity. All respect. Reputation shattered. The achievements of a lifetime - gone forever. And for what? Cui Bono? Whose benefit?

I would think twice, General Petraeus, before you allow your name to be used on a fictitious document manufactured for the benefit of George Bush. You could very well find yourself consigned to the oblivion enjoyed by your fellow General.

Speaking of which, General Powell surfaced recently in a television rerun of some event, showing him singing and dancing, and you had to cringe at the awkwardness of the former statesman, so completely out of his element, trying to perform in a new and unfamiliar role.

Think twice, General Petraeus. You too could lose it all. Maybe you and Colin Powell could get an act together. The dancing Generals. You could play the Catskill circuit.

Here’s a lesson all your years of service and Princeton schooling probably never taught: There are few things as import as respect. Once you lose it, it’s gone forever. Don’t sacrifice your career, your good name and your respect for the likes of George Bush. He isn’t worth it.

A Fatal Choice of Words - Romney

Never underestimate the power of words. Consider, for example, how a few innocent words can potentially derail a candidate’s presidential aspirations.

Republican candidate Mitt Romney has 5 sons ranging in age from 26 to 37. Until recently, they have been employed as ad executives, sports marketers and real estate developers. They are now actively campaigning for their father’s election.

Asked about their military status at an Iowa rally on August 8, Romney said he respected their decision to avoid military service, pointing out that his sons were supporting the country by helping their father get elected.

Anti-war activist Rachel Griffiths, who asked the question, was a little disconcerted by the answer. Told that Romney’s son Josh was supporting his country by riding all around Iowa in a Winnebago, trying to get his father elected, was not exactly what she expected to hear.

Romney’s explanation is more than a little revealing of his character. In fact, it tells you exactly what he is. Yes, you can call him a flip-flopping, poll-driven, draft-dodging, Mormon millionaire elitist robot - or anything else.

His sons have a right to avoid the war. For any number of excellent reasons, and if I had sons of military age, I would advise them to avoid it too. What is truly unconscionable is Romney’s ardent support of the war - and somehow equating his sons’ activities with the horrendous sacrifices made by our servicemen on active duty in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Apparently it is acceptable for other kids to go to war - to return brain damaged or blind or without limbs or in a body bag - as long as your kids are safe.

But of course! Why didn’t I think of it? His kids obviously deserve only the best. Yours? Cannon fodder! Peons. Serfs. How dare you even think to question the king of the hill?

Romney revealed who he was, and under that innocent Mormon facade, there’s an opportunistic power-hungry, privileged elitist - no different from any of our demented rulers in the White House.

In a word, he’s a Hypocrite. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that are not his own. A word derived from hypo - meaning small. Despite his incredible fortune, his slick talk and attractive demeanor, It would appear that Mr. Romney is a very small man.

Elect him, if you will, but don’t expect any change from the disasters we face now. We’ve had more than one hypocrite in the White House. Another shouldn’t make that much difference.

Just try not to be completely deceived. When a warmonger advocates more war - for your kids, not his - who does he represent? Certainly not you. It’s always the poor who pay the price - the poor who fight and suffer and die. Not people like the Romneys.

I think there should be a law that requires active duty military service for the sons and daughters of every elected official that votes for war. Might be a few less wars then.

Note: It’s Sunday, August 12 as I write this. Mitt Romney has won the Iowa straw poll - as expected. How could this happen? Who knows. People are looking for a new leader, and Mr. Romney is an accomplished actor. Maybe we can chalk it up to a failed school system - and the deliberate dumbing-down of our citizens. Maybe it’s the press - our wonderful “free” press that manipulates every item of so-called news. Maybe it’s just a question of Iowans being unable to recognize the obvious.

More likely than not, it’s probably just a question of money. Mr. Romney wouldn’t be the first politician to buy an election. Maybe he’s wealthy enough to buy the Presidency. I wonder what it must feel like - to be able to buy anything you might want...

At any rate, winning a straw poll doesn’t guarantee anything. Mr. Romney still has a few hurdles to cross - and one can only hope that the great unwashed out here in Sheepleland come to their senses in time.

I still believe that the turning point in Mr. Romney’s career came with his fatal choice of words - excusing his sons’ lack of service, while supporting an illegal war that takes the lives of others not so fortunate.

In the unlikely event of a Romney Presidency, however, I’m prepared. I have two documents in front of me, and I just have to choose which one to use. One tells me how to build a bomb shelter. The other is a travel brochure of Canada.

A Magic Number You Need to Know

The Interstate 35W bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota collapsed during rush hour traffic on Wednesday, August 1. As of this report 2 days later, 5 are confirmed dead and 79 injured. Recovery efforts continue as divers still search for submerged, crushed vehicles.

Investigators on the scene blame the collapse on structural deficiency and suggest it might take as long as a year to find out the exact cause. I can tell you right now what caused it. I can also give you a possible contributing factor you could never imagine. No, it has nothing to do with the 40 year old bridge being packed with bumper to bumper traffic at the time.

Before going any further, just consider for a moment the last sentence above. Does it seem logical that such a massive amount of traffic would result in only 5 deaths?

We have, in my opinion, a government with zero credibility. I do not accept at face value anything the government or its controlled media says, especially anything to do with numbers. If a government agent gives me the time of day, I want a second opinion.

I may be wrong, but the declaration of 5 dead and 79 injured, for some reason, just doesn't sound right. I would be more inclined to believe that the 79 figure referred to the number of dead. But I'll suspend judgement for a little while. Maybe they're just being cautious. Maybe the plan is to recover all the submerged vehicles and issue a corrected number.

I can't help but think, however, of some of the other numbers that turned out to be wrong. Deliberately wrong. Innocent Iraqis, for example, that we managed to liberate from their lives in Fallujah - estimated to be in the neighborhood of 600. Somewhat less than the 6,000 actual deaths claimed by the other side.

Another interesting number is the 3,600 or so American deaths in Iraq. No one will ever know how many Americans died in Iraq and Afghanistan, but I understand a top secret report was recently sent from the Pentagon to the White House, indicating actual American deaths to be almost 21,000.

I have no way of knowing whether or not such a report actually exists, but that number sounds a lot more logical than the 3,000 figure which never seems to change very much, despite increased reports of American casualties. Isn't it wonderful to have a government you can trust?

Getting back to the bridge, it should be obvious why it collapsed. It was old. It was cracked and corroded. It wasn't well maintained. Why? No money. Where did the money go? I'll tell you in a minute. But first, here's an explanation of the collapse you'll never see or hear on Fox Fairy Tale News. Which, by the way, now has a legitimate tragedy to divert our attention with for awhile, instead of manufactured so-called terrorist alerts.

Russian writer Sorcha Faal, writing for WhatDoesItMean.Com, reports that Russia's Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics in Irkutsk picked up a massive ultra low frequency (ULF) signal coming from the exact latitude and longitude as the Minneapolis bridge - at the exact moment it collapsed!

Russian military experts speculate that the disaster was caused by an acoustic weapon, used by the US military, operating from the US acoustic weapons research organization at Augsburg College, located less than a mile from the 35W bridge collapse in minneapolis.

Coincidence? I don't think so. In this case I tend to go along with the Russians further speculation that the United States could quite possibly be continuing its history of using its own weapons on its own citizens. For "research" purposes.

Whether or not the above is true is anybody's guess. I believe it is a very valid possibility. Maybe our controlled mainstream media will see fit to discuss the subject, but don't hold your breath. The chances of that happening are slim to none.

Getting back to where the money went, let me give you 3 figures - 3 Magic Numbers - that might explain everything.

1.6 Trillion Dollars: A 2005 engineering estimate to repair our deteriorating infrastructure. We have bridges all over the country in the same or worse shape than the one that just collapsed. But here, in Super Power America, we can't seem to find the money.

We don't seem to have any problems in finding a spare 20 Billion Dollars to offer as a weapons package to the oil-rich Saudis. Or another 30 Billion Dollars for Israel! Or another Billion Dollars to build the biggest embassy in the world in Baghdad. Or any number of other criminal enterprises.

While our infrastructure crumbles. While our education system falls further and further behind. While our health care system is the laughing stock of the world. While our wounded returning servicemen wander homeless in the streets - or if not too brain damaged, sent back into battle with a handful of Prozac in their pockets. The treatment of our servicemen is a national disgrace!

1.6 Trillion Dollars: Estimated total cost of the Iraq war, so far costing 650 Billion Dollars. How do you find the money to fix a few bridges when you need 2 Billion Dollars a week to fight the war in Iraq?
That's 2 Billion Dollars. A week!

And for that 2 Billion Dollars a week, the Iraqis are lucky to get 1 hour of electricity a day from "Super Power" America. And no running water, or waste treatment. Quite a few years ago, as a young sailor in the US Navy, I spent a little time in the Iraqi city of Basra. What I remember most about that experience was the heat. It was 115 degrees. Can you imagine what it must be like to try to live in 115 degree weather? Without electricity? Without air conditioning? Without running water? The Iraqis have good reason to long for the good old days of Saddam Hussein.

1.6 Trillion Dollars: Our cost, since 1973, in aid to Israel, estimated by Washington economist Thomas Stauffer. That's more than twice the cost of the Vietnam war. This estimate, by the way, is estimated to be at least a few hundred billion dollars low.

There you have it. 1.6 Trillion Dollars will take care of our infrastructure. Of course, we can just sit back and watch the rest of our bridges collapse. Think of all the nice heroic stories you'll get to see.

Or maybe we can do something about it. How about the war? Anybody know why we're there? Why can't we just call it quits and come home? I'll tell you why. We have become Germany in the thirties. Complacent. Indifferent. Unconcerned. Until it's too late to halt the rush to complete disaster. We'll leave Iraq when we receive permission to do so. One guess as to whose permission we need.

But wait! Maybe the next administration will bail us out. Really? Get a grip. It's all a fixed game. Didn't you see the recent report proving that every electronic voting machine can be hacked and manipulated to produce any desired result? I guess the "free press" forgot to mention that one. But then I guess they'd be a little embarrassed to tell you your vote no longer mattered. Rigged elections do not a democracy make.

I wouldn't count on the next administration for any improvement whatsoever. The only thing in doubt at this point is which country President Clinton and Vice President Obama plan to destroy next. Obama is salivating at the prospect of pulverizing Pakistan. Hey, Obama - here's a Newsflash: Pakistan has nukes, and they just might be tempted to use them.

So much for Pakistan. I imagine Hillary would want to concentrate on eliminating Syria and Iran. They have a lot of nerve, you know, in hiding our oil under their deserts. And then, of course, the rest of the hit list. Saudi Arabia. Kuwait. Wherever we're ordered to go.

Which brings us to Israel. So-called ally. So-called democracy. Thanks to Israel, millions are suffering and dying in the Mid East. Thanks to Israel, America is the most feared and hated country in the world.

What to do about Israel? The choices of an occupied nation are few and, apparently, there is little that can be done. Perhaps I should clarify that by saying that our bought and paid for (BPF) government lacks the will to do anything about it. So accept your fate. Recognize the fact that you are a puppet on a string, waiting to be jerked this way and that at the will of your Zionist puppet masters. Ready, willing and able to torture and destroy the rest of the world with your weapons of mass destruction.

Until the day happens when the rest of the world has enough. When the nuclear weapons of Russia and China rain down upon your heads, putting to an end, once and for all, this failed experiment in humanity.

But wait! There is another number that gives me hope. That number is 10,942. It's a number that should interest anyone who wishes to retain at least a semblance of freedom, and has decided not to resign themselves to perpetual war.

10,942 is the number of Americans who moved to Canada in 2006, a 30 year high. Why did they move? For any number of reasons - none of which involved dodging the draft. Then again, the possibility of another draft is not inconceivable. About 25,000 Americans a year moved to Canada during the 70s to escape the draft.

Expatriate Americans have different reasons today. They talk about feeling safer. And about free health care. And about politics and insecurity and Iraq and an increasing loss of freedom, and any number of other reasons. One new Canadian said, "They care about their people here."

When you really consider the possibilities of what could happen next here in America - Bush's new executive order giving him the power to seize without warning and without reason the entire assets of any US citizen, is just one example of an out-of-control government. It's comforting to realize there is some place you can go.

What can you expect there? I don't really know - but I intend to find out, before it's too late. One thing they don't have is a psychopathic president who is, more likely than not, ready to enforce his executive orders at the next real or manufactured "terrorist" attack, to institute Martial Law, to "suspend" all civil rights and liberties, to cancel all elections, and install himself absolute dictator for life.

Think it couldn't happen here? Democracy is disappearing right before your eyes. Our Constitution is all but dead. One of these days - one day soon - the concept of freedom in this once-free country will be little more than a fading memory.

What can you do? You could consider Canada as a temporary or permanent refuge - a place to escape to, to try to recapture a way of life we once enjoyed here. As the expatriate American mentioned before said, "They care about their people here."

If not Canada, consider some place else. Consider joining the quiet exodus. It might be advisable to consider one soon, because at some point, your abilities to move could be seriously curtailed.

There you have it. All the good news for today. Need any more advice? Start learning to speak Canadian. And stay away from bridges.