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   From: rubenstein@bean.nasa.gov   
      
   The strength and survival of a democracy depend on control of   
   centralized power. Too much centralization of power would threaten the   
   freedom of individuals.   
      
   What we have today in the very fiber of the society is a complex grid of   
   corporate structure that has pierce through virtually all aspect of   
   individual’s rights and freedom. The dynamics of social change has been   
   flowing in the direction of centralization of power. And the power is   
   clearly in the hand of corporate American. Individual liberty and   
   freedom have been diminishing as the will and the means to fight against   
   the domination of corporate America are weakening by sophisticated and   
   manipulative tactics deployed by the major corporations of America.   
      
   Dwight Eisenhower cautioned us about the "acquisition of unwarranted   
   influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial   
   Complex". And this complex was identified as a serious threat to the   
   true liberty and democratic processes. What we have seen today in the   
   Bush administration is a new level of ‘hi-tech’ corruption. Between the   
   weapon industry and oil-gas industry such as Lockheed-Martin and   
   Halliburton, the nation’s foundation of democracy has been seriously   
   eroded and weakened. With the effective (so far) assistance from a team   
   member, Fox News, corporate American have been successful in   
   conditioning and numbing most of the American public to accept the "way   
   it is" while the corporations enjoy the exploitation and robbing of the   
   national resources as well as becoming what resembles the classical   
   dictatorship, only in a much more sophisticated form. Employees are   
   becoming less of an individual with fundamental human dignity, but more   
   like robots and instrument to serve their masters in corporate America.   
   Nothing is really new here. However, with the Bush administration in   
   high office, the loss of human compassion and the gain of corporate   
   power as well as corporate corruption, e.g, Enron, have deepened at an   
   unprecedented rate. Bush is obviously a DUI. He’s been running the   
   country under intense influence of corporate America, especially the   
   petroleum and weapons cartels. All done at a huge and possibly   
   irrecoverable loss to the nation’s welfare and security, let alone   
   democracy and liberty. The ironic thing here is it is the very same   
   group of people who boast democracy, freedom, and liberty are the one   
   that are doing their best to kill these values.   
      
   So, why does it work so well? Why are the evil corporate America so   
   successful in raping, torturing, manipulating, and killing democracy and   
   liberty in America?   
      
   The answer is right in front of you. Just look around. First, he   
   majority of the Americans have been conditioned to desire a "better   
   materialistic life" without understanding of the long term cost and   
   destruction may cause by their bottomless desire for materialism.   
   Second, education in the US, especially in the past few decades, has   
   been designed to train the students to "just do it" while ignoring   
   emphasis on logic and critical thinking. Furthermore, the current   
   education system tends to discourage the students' attentions to key   
   issues that would potentially reinforce and strengthen the foundation of   
   democracy. With university administrators mostly driven by money,   
   regardless of its origin, education institutions have become nothing   
   more than a dot com under the skin of dot edu, only with much less   
   honesty and more sophisticated deception. This kind of environment   
   breeds the kind of workforce we have today: soulless human with value   
   weighted by machine-equivalent scale.   
      
   Democracy in American is in ‘critical condition’ if not already ‘dead’.   
   And a few more years of Bush, it may be all over for the habitats of a   
   country once known as a champion of democracy and liberty.   
      
   So the real enemy of democracy and freedom and liberty isn’t the so   
   called terrorists as Bush and his neo-con conspirators have been   
   pounding on the Americans and the people of the world. It’s the greedy   
   and evil corporate America that is the clear and present danger and a   
   deadly threat to national security, the survival of an experimental   
   democracy, and the livelihood of a healthy and peaceful society.   
      
   You have been warned.   
      
      
      
      
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