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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-02-07 02:47 PM
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Amerika -- 20 Years After
Amerika -- 20 Years After
by roxy317 rcs1
Thu Aug 02, 2007 at 12:32:36 PM EST

In 1987 the mini-series Amerika aired on ABC amid much hype and controversy and then died a quick death. In 1995 there was a limited release on VHS. While the premise of the mini-series was to show the United States 10 years after a take-over by the Soviets, the story is hauntingly familiar to the America we are living in now.

For the most part, apathetic Americans let the coup progress with no resistance, resulting in an occupied America.

Nobody wanted to risk anything for anybody else. Everybody was afraid they were going to lose what they had. They knew it was bad. They were just afraid it'd get worse. That's all they lived for - for things not to get worse.1

The country was under direct control of the "Kremlin." Factories were dismantled and shipped to the Soviet Union -- leaving 40%+ of the population unemployed; history was rewritten -- Lincoln's picture now appearing beside Lenin.

Freedom of Speech -- gone. Freedom of Assembly -- gone. Resistance movement -- imprisoned. And the country being divided into three distinct region-countries -- Pacifica, Heartland and New England.

Six Years into the Bush Occupation

With the Bush Administration's brutal rape of the Constitution, our freedoms are in jeopardy today. The movement of jobs to the global marketplace is resulting in a rising tide of unemployment, Americans are disheartened.

In 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln spoke these prophetic words:

"From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia . . . could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide."2
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http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/8/2/0524/20742
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-02-07 02:50 PM
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1. Why do you hate Amerika?
;)
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-02-07 02:58 PM
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2. For once that statement makes sense!
:D
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jdlh8894 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-02-07 03:23 PM
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3. But,WE THE PEOPLE
Have no representation! These a**holes that(I hate to say it )electedjust want to do what they want .Screw the rest of us!
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