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Our Wonderful Foreign Policy

author: Lone Vet        e-mail: lonevet2008@comcast.net

Heroes being arrested trying to bring aid to Gaza

for my friend Malcolm

US BOAT TO GAZA

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8 American members of Freedom Flotilla were just arrested while Hunger Striking in front of US Embassy! Take action now!




Article:

By Ray McGovern



Yes, that was I standing before the U.S. Embassy in Athens on the eve of the July Fourth weekend holding the American flag in the distress mode -- upside down.
Indignities experienced by me and my co-guests on "The Audacity of Hope," the American boat to Gaza, over the past 10 days in Athens leave no doubt in my mind that Barack Obama's administration has forfeited the right to claim any lineage to the brave Americans who declared independence from the king of England 235 years ago.

In the Declaration of Independence, they pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to a new enterprise of freedom, democracy and the human spirit. The outcome was far from assured; likely as not, the hangman's noose awaited them. They knew that all too well.

But they had a genuine audacity to hope that the majority of their countrymen and women, persuaded by Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the elegant words of Thomas Jefferson, would conclude that the goal of liberty and freedom was worth the risk; that it was worth whatever the cost.
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Our freedoms are being eroded by corporatism.  This was Benito Mousolini's form of governement, which is an offshoot of fascism.