Originally posted by cornholetrading
As a side note, it makes you sometimes feel like we trade under a totalitarian regime, with no say in the matter.
I've got news for you: This IS a totalitarian regime. In a few weeks you will even have unprovoked aggression against a defenseless country. It's like it was in Nazi Germany when the leaders in their speeches would go "Do you want the total war?" and the croud would applaud them. And like they had the Jews as an idealized public enemy for the masses to hate, they now have anyone who looks like an Arab or Muslim.
We also have government incentives for losers to procreate in an uncontrolled fashion (see thread on taxes, I believe started by Gordon Gekko), balanced by a nice mix of legislation that prefers illegal immigrants to honest or able ones and brainwashing through commercial television propaganda (like the mandatory "Volksempfänger" radios in Nazi Germany).
Just like in the communist Eastern European countries, we are of course still allowed to travel anywhere in the world, it is just not very convenient or efficient, because we have to protect our citizens from the evil that awaits outside the borders.
We have concentration camps for enemies of the state where there are no human rights or anything like that, of course the Geneva convention "does not apply" either.
But we are not just a totalitarian regime, we are also a danger to the civilized world. We have ALL types of weapons of mass destruction in vast quantities, we are not just TRYING to manufacture one little atom bomb. We are also financially responsible for virtually all the cruelties as well as the (according to the UN) illegal arsenal of weapons of mass destruction that we have provided the Israelis with.
The USA is definitely also the single greatest danger to peace and civilization on this planet.
When I was younger, I used to wonder what the world would be like if Hitler's military had been stronger and the Germans had conquered the world. Now we are about to find out what happens when a state like that happens to be stronger than all other nations combined. China does, however have lots of nuke-ular weapons, so there is a good chance none of us will live to see it.
And while I'm at it, if Bush wanted to go after the one country in the world that has violated by far the greatest number of UN resolutions, or the one that has the largest amount of illegal (even according to the unfair definition used today) weapons of mass destruction, it would be one and the same country, and it would be in the Middle East, and we would spell it's name with an "I", but it would not be Iraq or Iran. And, no, it would not be India either.
