March for America

ACGR & FLIMEN, SWFL will be participating in the March for Freedom in Washington, DC, June 14-16, 2007. Click post title for complete information.

Economic Apartheid Kills

Joel Hirschhorn seems to have summed up the State of our Union in this article.

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Tuesday, 12 December 2006
by Joel S. Hirschhorn

‘To be successful in overturning our elitist plutocratic system we should add economic apartheid to our semantic arsenal. Better than economic inequality, economic injustice and class warfare, because apartheid is loaded with richly deserved negative emotions. Sadly, in South Africa , economic apartheid has taken over from racial apartheid. How ironic that the Bush administration successfully talked up the global threat from terrorism while it pursued domestic and foreign policies promoting economic apartheid, a far greater and more pervasive threat to national and global stability. The human race on planet Earth, taken as an aggregate mass abstraction, may be getting richer. But a new report from the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University shows that wealth creation is remarkably – one might say criminally – unequal. Follow this hierarchy at the top of the wealth pyramid: The richest 1 percent of adults alone owned 40 percent of global assets in the year 2000; the richest 2 percent owned more than half of global household wealth; and the richest 10 percent of adults accounted for 85% of the world total. That leaves very little for the remaining 90 percent of the global population. Could it be any worse? Yes…”Read the rest of this story at: http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/425/81

Democracy or Republic, Which is it?

We the People Foundation takes an active role to bring power back to the people!

Set ‘em Straight

How many times have you heard people refer to America as a “Democracy”?
We hear it all the time from relatives, friends, news reporters, local businessmen and from media “talking heads.” We read it regularly on Internet websites, newspaper articles (including editorials), magazines, and even our children’s textbooks. We even hear it from the President, members of Congress, state and local elected officials, and educators — even those who possess a license to practice Law.
How many times, in response, have you quietly mumbled under your breath or shouted at the television, “It’s not a Democracy, it’s a Republic !!, (insert your choice of belittling descriptor such as dimwit, meathead, dolt, nitwit, dunderhead, etc.)”
Those of us who know the truth of the matter could simply ignore the ignorant and go about our lives, but cannot for a very compelling reason: We are a nation of Law… http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2006-12-13.htm