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Sorcha, thanks again for your personal invitation here 7 years ago.
I have actually had 8 different people respond to my posts since then.
Bill Hawn was one of them. Bill, as you walk the tight rope of objecrtivity I imagine you have had personal misgivings regarding your word selection that might jeopardize your career. Interenet posts even at relatively obscure sites like this one have cost people their jobs.

I, on the other hand, have no such concerns. Speaking my mind freely in print, original images and song has only resulted in be banned from dozens of websites, some of which I had been a member for 7 or more years.

We are in a world of multinational corporations that pay no US tax but help control the direction of US foriegn policy. For example Halliburton's corporate offices are in Bermuda and Vanatu, ergo - they are free from US corporate taxation. For them patriotism is for suckers but patriotism feeds their coffers.
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The proud Americans who support "my country right or wrong" are looking the wrong direction. It should be 'my corporation, right or wrong'.

The business of America is business. As long as all the corporate money controls the Congress, the Presidency, the Defense Industry and the Media - America will be milked of every last dollar. Access to the courts or Congress is more limited with every passing year. Access to prison or no/free spech zones increase every year.

How far the pendulum swings will depend on the personal suffering and conscience of the US population.

For all the true "patriots out there, I say - Suffer well and choose wisely".