Was a nice thought Gojira.  Even if it is a lie.  This government hasn't belonged to the people in a very long time.  It is the instrument of the Banking Elite and their special interests.

I have to disagree.

The government does a great job of dismissing dissent as "ridiculous" and "silly", which leads to a population less inclined to disagree. Which is bad.

Yea, part of the problem is us... but a larger degree of blame rests with our leadership, in my opinion.

Can you elaborate?

Well, look at our 2 party system, for instance. It's extremely limiting and makes anyone with an alternative or mixed view point to become a minor party. Dissesnt becomes a minorty which means policy comes in 2 flavors and often times they both taste like shit.

Another problem is people in this country just let politicians run everything because Americans feel no responcibility to understand the issues. The more a politician can complicate a problem the better chance we have of not understanding it. It becomes worse when the media starts doing it too.

Americans have a responcibility to understand what is goin on in this country and MANY don't have a clue... especially the youngns' who can vote.

As far as I can see, the failure of this country rests with her people AND her leaders.

The American people are so clueless, most don't even know that the US has been in a State of National Emergency since 1933.

What is worse, is that if you tell someone about this, they still do not care, as they do not see how it affects them, so they are simply not interested.

Any person who actually cares about liberty and cares about the future of this country would wonder why the US has been in a state of national emergency for so long and why it isn't reported by the media.

The USA has been in a declared state of national emergency since 1933.

There were a few years where there was no declared national emergency during the 70's, but it didn't take long for the national emergency to be reinstated.

From Senate Report 93-549

War and Emergency Powers Acts,

 "A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years [now 66 years], freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency. The problem of how a constitutional democracy reacts to great crises, however, far antedates the Great Depression. As a philosophical issue, its origins reach back to the Greek city-states and the Roman Republic. And, in the United States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crises have - from, at least, the Civil War - in important ways, shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency."

The Foreword to the Report states in part -

    "Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, there are now in effect four presidentially proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 16, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971.

    These proclamations give force to 470 provisions of Federal law [hundreds more since 1973, particularly in the Clinton administration since Jan 21, 1993]. These hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers, ordinarily exercised by the Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing manners. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule the country without reference to normal Constitutional processes.

    Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens."

http://www.barefootsworld.net/war_ep.html

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I am not sure what year the national emergency was reinstated, but I know that Reagan declared at least one national emergency.

Under Clinton, the National Emergency was continued every year he was in office.

Now, under Bush, the National emergency must be continued every 6 months.

Some of the reasons given for continuation of the national emergency were pathetic.

For instance, under Clinton, one of the excuses to continue the national emergency was the threat of terrorism from Libya.

While Clinton was in office there were actually 12 different national emergencies that were continued.

Despite Congress' effort, a dozen or so national emergencies have been declared and renewed annually, and are right now in effect. These are premised upon problems with Iran (every year since 1979), Libya (since 1986), Iraq (since 1990), Yugoslavia (since 1992), proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (since 1993), UNITA (Angolan anti-communists, since 1993), Middle East terrorism (since 1995), Colombian drug dealers (since 1995), Cuba (since 1996), Burma (since 1997), and Sudan (since 1997). Even the expiration of a statute, the Export Administration Act of 1979, caused President Clinton to declare and renew a state of national emergency (since 1994).

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16932

Yeah, I see Burma as such a threat that we need a declared state of national emergency.

If you want to read more, just type into google "CLINTON NATIONAL EMERGENCY" OR "BUSH NATIONAL EMERGENCY"

Ah! I am convinced. Thanks!

This new information irks me.  But such is the convoluted intricacies of the American Government...