Whatever happened to the "...the land of the free and the home of the brave"?

We aint exactly free anymore because the government apparently can wiretap us whenever it wants. And we have a couple million people locked up here in the land of the free, more per capita than any other country. According to
NationMaster.com, we are way way ahead of any other country, 715 locked up per 100,000 people. Cuba, that dangerous Commie dictatorship, is way down at the bottom, at ZERO (believe it or not!) per 100,000 people. Land of the free? I think not.

And certainly not the home of the brave. Republican politicians for years have been orchestrating our fears and using fear to get themselves elected to Congress and the White House. And we have been buying it by the bushel load. Apparently we have been such scardy cats--manipulated by cynical or paranoid politicians--that we have allowed them to shred the Constitution and take us into two disastrous military adventures plus all the other illegal crap, including secret prisons and torture.

Home of the brave? I think the Founding Fathers would be ashamed of this country.

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