Stop corporate-run imperialism

We have lost our democratic government to a fascist government. We must rid our nation of this fascist government and return the government to the people.

I say this because: Fascism is corporatism, it is the merger of government and corporate power. Our elected government officials need to have a major ideological shift in their ways of thinking. The Grand Old Party needs to stop thinking about the enhancement of corporate privatization for corporate profit.

We must change our foreign policy and make U.S. corporations stop cheating Third World countries out of their natural resources. What are the root causes of terrorism? If we look at what our government has done to protect corporate interests in Third World countries, we will probably find our answer. We must stop the corporate-managed and government-assisted imperialism in Third World countries.

Iraq is a political play on power by our government for corporations to control oil, a political miscalculation due to Bush and Rove and a military disaster due to Cheney and Rumsfeld. Our American service men and women can no longer be collateral damage for our government’s loyalty to corporations. I support our troops, but not he Bush-Cheney agenda. We have a disastrous rise of misplaced power and this will persist if “We the People,” don’t get our “constitutional rights” returned to us immediately. Bush’s Patriot Act must be rescinded, because if you look at the USA Patriot Act, officially known as HR 3162, most of its provisions have nothing to do with fighting terrorism. The Patriot Act is for spying on all Americans.

Why is there no accountability for the trillions of dollars that have disappeared since Bush has been in office? We must do something about the rampant corruption in the U.S. government and corporate America.

PAT BOWEN

Everett

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