“Look at the past 25 years we went downhill, . . . In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there’s available to an average citizen in America right now . . . God almighty, what have we done to each other?”
-Merle Haggard
By DOUG THOMPSON
03/09/07 “Capital Hill Blue” — — Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to pull the plug on this failed democratic republic called The United States of America.
Turn off the life support. Disconnect the IVs. Bring in the priest for last rites. The US of A is brain dead with no chance for revival.
Some 40 years ago, I lost friends in the heat and squalor of Vietnam. They died in a war that never needed to be fought, supporting a cause that didn’t exist for a government that lied to justify the fight.
A few years later, as a young reporter, I wrote about the attempts of Richard Milhous Nixon to destroy the Constitution of the United States. He failed because the system worked and both Congress and the Supreme Court exercised their powers in our system of checks and balances to restore order to a faltering nation.
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