Since da is an international community, and I sometimes encounter negatives about the U.S., in various forms, I decided to put some info in my journal.
First of all, I don't like everything that's happening. Not many people in the U.S. do. I read somewhere that about 80% of our population, according to polls, don't trust the government.
I've heard from various talk shows the excuse that our politicians are 'disconnected', meaning they're so wrapped up in the goings on in Washington that they forget they're supposed to be representing the people who elected them, and imagine that since they're trying their utmost to do what is thought in Washington to be for the common good, that they're doing a good job. Something like that.
What is wrong is what they think is good is what other people, not elected by our people, have influenced them to believe is good.
The U.S. was formed as a democratic republic, basically meaning people vote for representatives that are supposed to represent them in our city, county, state, and federal governments.
What has happened is our representatives think they're too busy, or somehow not smart enough, to do the job. What other excuse could they have? Most of the bills (which are proposed laws) presented by members of our congress to be voted on, are written by groups of lobbyists, and special interest groups. When they're done conjuring up a bill, which can contain many new laws that aren't related to each other, it goes before congress sponsored by one of the congressmen. Many, many, many, many times the bill is thousands of pages long, and it is IMPOSSIBLE for all of it to be read, because the vote is scheduled too quick. That's a nice way of putting it.
Yet our congressmen vote on them and they become laws. I remember reading a little about the Patriot bills, and how large they were, and how little time our representatives had to read, judge, change, and vote on them.
I'm not a political activist, and don't want to be. I don't think it would do any good. I don't think it matters if I vote either, because they're going to do what they want anyway. I've collected lots of quotes where some of them have openly stated that. The reason I'm putting this up is so the people on da from other countries will understand that our people either don't know all that's going on or don't always agree. I am really tired of people from other countries being abusive toward us or attacking us for what our government is doing that they don't like. We're not the ones doing it.
What prompted me to do this now is the latest plan, which I believe at least 90 percent of our people won't want. I say it in those terms because I believe they're going to do it whether we like it or not.
Here is a little background -
[link] They're going to form a North American Union. And I believe eventually 'dissolve' the United States. - [link] [link] On June 21, viewers of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight heard the alarming introduction to a segment of the program devoted to the future of the United States of America. "The Bush administration's open-borders policy and its decision to ignore the enforcement of this country's immigration laws is part of a broader agenda," Dobbs intoned. "President Bush signed a formal agreement that will end the United States as we know it, and he took the step without approval from either the U.S. Congress or the people of the United States." [link] [link] Alot of stories here [link] and here [link]ub-2932230807573228&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&safe=active&cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BLH%3A70%3BLW%3A297%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsmax.com%2Fimages%2Fhome%2Fa-logo.gif%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsmax.com%2F%3BLP%3A1%3BFORID%3A1%3B&hl=en&sitesearch=NewsMax.com There are many more news articles about it. I'll close with quotes:

Curtis Dall, FDR's son-in-law
"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support. The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power. The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank." - as quoted in his book, My Exploited Father-in-Law

James Garrison, president, Gorbachev Foundation USA
"We are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable ... There's going to be conflict, coercion and consensus. That's all part of what will be required as we give birth to the first global civilization." - quoted in The Daily Record, Dunn, NC, p.4 10/17/95

Mikhail Gorbachev
"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order." - before the UN, December 7, 1988

John R. Rarick, Congressman
"The CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is the establishment. Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also finances and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitution Republic into a servile member of a one-world dictatorship."

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1931
I will merely repeat that we are at present working, discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands....

President Woodrow Wilson
"I have ruined my country… We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - (President) Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913)

David Rockefeller
"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will.
If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." - from his autobiography 'Memoirs'
"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries." David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address before that organization in June 1991.
Lynn M. Stuter

INTERDEPENDENT TRANSFORMATIONS: NOTHING that is happening in this transformation of our culture, and, therefore, our form of government, stands alone ... is in isolation. It is ALL integrated, interconnected, interdependent such that one part cannot function without all the others. Depicted as a drawing, it looks like a massive spiderweb. Education is not separate from gun control, growth management, land use planning, environmentalism, heritage rivers, land grabs, property rights, salmon recovery, and the plethora of other "issues" people across this nation are fighting their government over. All of these issues are serving the same purpose: to TRANSFORM our nation from a republican form of government -- wherein the government serves the people -- to a socialist/communist form of government where the people serve the government, aligning them with all other nations of the world to blur borders in a global economy that is, in actuality, a one-world government. Once you understand systems theory, the whole of this comes together and people understand ... People who don't understand systems theory tend to cut off the morning glory blooms to watch them grow right back.

So there you have it. Now, on a lighter note, I just can't help adding this on. I believe the relationships with these 'people' have caused at least some of the religions around the world. -
Astronaut Scott Carpenter
"At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs." - Carpenter photographed a UFO while in orbit on May 24, 1962. NASA still has not released the photograph to the public.