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tomkoop

(55 posts)
Sun Jun 17, 2012, 11:49 AM Jun 2012

EYE IN THE SKY WATCHIN OVER YOU!!

Our government, which is supposedly all about what "We The People" want, is set to launch thousands of drones airborne over the friendly skies of the United States of America all in the name of security.
Our security is being whittled away by the very people we sent to office to be our guardians in government.
These people are against the freedoms we love and the security we love.
Facist America is not too far off, if not already here.
How long until the jack booted thugs go marching down Main Street?



I am not paranoid. I am not a conspiracy theorist. I am an American citizen who tells it like it is.

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EYE IN THE SKY WATCHIN OVER YOU!! (Original Post) tomkoop Jun 2012 OP
A guy warned us about covert ,secret societies. orpupilofnature57 Jun 2012 #1
No friggin' WAY Plucketeer Jun 2012 #4
That sort of thinking died orpupilofnature57 Jun 2012 #9
and our citizenry collectively yawns Plucketeer Jun 2012 #2
Exactly crazyrayray Jan 2013 #13
As Empires Collapse, Security, And Control Reign Supreme - The Elites Protecting Their Fictions cantbeserious Jun 2012 #3
the odd thing is this: why aren't "conservatives" screaming their lungs out? grasswire Jun 2012 #5
WHAT? ret5hd Jun 2012 #6
I said civil liberties, not civil rights. grasswire Jun 2012 #8
Citizens have civil rights ,Human beings have liberties . orpupilofnature57 Jun 2012 #10
A lot of them are kudzu22 Jan 2013 #16
I don't hear any of them. grasswire Jan 2013 #17
As Rummy would say "targets, lots of targets". n/t 2on2u Jun 2012 #7
Our Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves skiptaylor Oct 2012 #11
Who's fault is this? crazyrayray Jan 2013 #14
You don't know the half of it WhoIsNumberNone Nov 2012 #12
Oh great more government intrusions in my life. Hanzip Jan 2013 #15
 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
2. and our citizenry collectively yawns
Sun Jun 17, 2012, 12:04 PM
Jun 2012

"Duh - I ain't doin' nothing illegal! Whatta I gotta worry 'bout?"

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
5. the odd thing is this: why aren't "conservatives" screaming their lungs out?
Sun Jun 17, 2012, 12:37 PM
Jun 2012

Conservatives used to be constitutionalists, and protectors of civil liberties.

ret5hd

(20,518 posts)
6. WHAT?
Sun Jun 17, 2012, 01:00 PM
Jun 2012

When?

During the slave trade?
During the civil rights marches?
During the war protests? (feel free to pick a war, any war)
During the McCarthy era?

Name me a subject, decade, era, whatever that conservatives have been for any civil rights (for all) other than gun rights.

 

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
10. Citizens have civil rights ,Human beings have liberties .
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 10:49 AM
Jun 2012

One is for the public ,the other for the private individual .

kudzu22

(1,273 posts)
16. A lot of them are
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 03:36 PM
Jan 2013

I think there are really two spectrums of political thought. There's the liberal-conservative continuum, and there's also the libertarian-statist continuum. Whether a conservative (or a liberal for that matter) objects to intrusive government depends on whether they're from the statist end of their side.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
17. I don't hear any of them.
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 07:06 PM
Jan 2013

Probably a lot of money from drone manufacturers is making its way into pockets.

skiptaylor

(22 posts)
11. Our Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 11:45 PM
Oct 2012

Last edited Wed Aug 13, 2014, 09:41 PM - Edit history (1)

Thomas Jefferson who said "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered"

The American people have been betrayed by our so called leaders. We have a byzantine legal system whereby only the 1% that can afford to pay an expensive lawyer can even get legal representation that is competent. I have to ask questions online to get pathetic free legal advice

The banks create money out of thin air and lend it to the American people at an interest rate. This is crazy. No wonder our children are saddled with student loan debt which now tops 1 Trillion dollars and home-owners are buried in mortgage debt. that is upside down compared to the value of their homes.

 

crazyrayray

(19 posts)
14. Who's fault is this?
Mon Jan 7, 2013, 11:34 PM
Jan 2013

not long ago I remember GM, Chrysler, Fannie Mae and a few others get bailed out by big government.

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