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As our glorious government spends billions of dollars on “secrete” operations and third-world aid, we sit back thinking that we have our freedoms. I will begin with my favourite anti editor cartoon, which shows Charles Dickens sitting in a fancy book-lined office. His editor, who has one of those smug Hollywood smiles that drives writers to intricate fantasy of torture, is saying, “Mr. Dickens, either it was the best of times, or the worst of times, it cannot be both.” But someone living in America during these last few years, complete with fire, flood, riot, earthquake, and O.J. on the freeway, the paradox of opposites being true simultaneously rings with a piercing clarity. Never have we had some many powerful outlets for our minds, while also having so many destructive tendencies and pleasures. Need an example to clarify that last thought for you? Ok, I’ll be nice. Take the Internet, its’ early purpose was to exchange ideas and information across the planet, there was no point for censorship. But now, because of the profiteering low-lifes in our society, everything is being censored. From e-mail to literary information on Isaac Newton, nothing is tolerated. The Internet is becoming a single web page, www.denied.com. We have all these freedoms, that we cannot exercise. A restricted freedom, shrouded in presidential scandals and foreign policies. Yes, yes, I know, we shouldn’t talk badly about our lovely little government, but why not when there is so much to talk about? Did you ever think that maybe the government even initiates it’s own conspiracy theories to mask the true nature of our beloved system? The “hidden” Area 51 draws so much attention from the rest of the world, who is paying attention to the other parts? Who is watching that cornfield in Libya? Did you ever take a look at it? I didn’t think so, but then, who would? The censorship of documents dubbed “classified” or “sensitive” has intrigued people for years. But how many people are interested in a reading a small pox report from F.E.M.A.? Didn’t think so. The conspiracy count rises. The lies mount and run so deep that the President of this “democracy” is unaware of most of them. Democracy, that’s a laugh. Democracy is defined as a form of government in which supreme power is exercised by the people. Do the people really have supreme power when we are forced to chose between two individuals, both of from the privileged class, to be the executive leader and ultimate reprehensive of our nation? The only people with the power to decide are the corporate conglomerates that are controlled by the upper three percent. These companies hold their finger to the pulse of every decision from the smallest business to the very industries that supply us with water and electricity. They do this by expanding their capitalistic empires into many smaller, unrelated service and manufacturing venues. Take for example, general Electric. GE is split into fourteen different divisions ranging from medical systems to televisions networks. This same company was responsible for the death of thousands of innocent people during the Gulf War. It was GE who manufactured the warplanes which dropped the bombs that destroyed hydroelectric damns leaving these people powerless, waterless, and hopeless. Are these the people you want choosing your leaders and leading your lives? The same people who, moments after the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed, began a strategic lay off of thousands of American workers in order to move their factories to Mexico? Do we, the average majority, not have, or at least deserve the right to voice our own opinions? To speak our minds, even though our minds are constantly bombarded with lies? To demand, in one large voice, our right as a knowledgeable society. Or should we be dedicated followers of the industrial bulldozer that strips a path through our logical reasoning and plants the seeds of deceit deep in our subconscious? Sanctified disciples of the most corrupt and undercover political system in the world? Nothing will change until the people demand it. We lose more and more control everyday. So I urge you, as victims of your own country, to remove the iron curtain from your eyes. Because if you don’t throw a wrench in the cogs, there will be no stopping the corporate machine.