The U.S. has no functioning democracy at this moment.

[Matter-Eater Lad]

Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts says, “The country is not being run by the President. It is being run by spy agencies and private interest groups, Wall Street and military security complex . . . They run the country. The President is a puppet, a figurehead.”

 

Dr. Roberts contends, “If you are a lawless state, which the United States is, it obeys no international law. It does not obey the Geneva Convention . . . It tortures people. It doesn’t obey the Constitution. It doesn’t obey anything. It does what it wants. . . . If you are a lawless state, you disguise yourself as a democracy.”

 

Former President Jimmy Carter agrees. Just last week, Carter said, “The U.S. has no functioning democracy at this moment.” Why hasn’t the mainstream media picked up this astounding comment from a former Democratic President?

 

Dr. Roberts says, “Five firms now own what used to be a large dispersed independent media. Nobody can open their mouth, they’d get fired. They have become a propaganda ministry for government and corporations.”

http://www.fedupusa.org/2013/07/paul-craig-roberts-us-a-lawless-state/

[Reilly]

This has been the case since before and including Carter, except different presidents have had varying degrees of influence, they did not however run the country democratically. It is good to see people saying it though.

[Prince Myshkin]

Was gonna make a new thread for it but might as well post in here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595529-38/feds-tell-web-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/

[Matter-Eater Lad]

^How are people okay with all this?

 

Reilly-Well yes, but we basically had two major, they're not major right now, but were, admit to this.