Betcha didn't know the American government can imprison people with no charge and no trial.

This may be a brief post. My computer has gone quite insane - and I don't know which repair shop I should go to. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We don't hear about it, but world governments have been subsidizing coal, oil, and gas - the enemies that will destroy our planet - to the tune of a million dollars every minute. And Canada is a world leader at 64 billion a year plus hidden tax breaks. Bless you, all those thoughtful Canadian Liberals, especially Trudeau, and all those dim wit Conservatives. The reality is those two parties dominate because our billionaires own them. No. Canada and the U.S. are not democracies. No country can be a democracy when it is owned by it's capitalists. The Liberals and Conservatives (and Democrats and GOP) are owned by our billionaires. They, not the voters, get to decide who will govern. And the result in every election in history is that those parties get to govern. We live in one hell of a undemocratic country. But it used to be worse. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ At one time, Canadian hospitals were capitalist operations, like the U.S. And, like the U.S., they charged clients terribly. Today, and unlike the U.S., our hospitals are available to all who need their care. And that change had nothing to do with Liberals or Conservatives. That was pushed through in the 1950s by the socialist CCF party. Ever since then our capitalists have been looking for ways to bleed us. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ And gee, who woulda guessed it? Climate change is not a recent development. No. There was a conference of oil companies who knew exactly what was coming - and this conference of Exon, BP, Chevron, Shell and others kept their secret, leaving us in ignorance of what they were doing in poisoning our skies, our environment.... ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ One day I was on morning radio in a discussion when we were stunned by the news that a U.S. sky scraper had been crashed into by a passenger jet plane full of innocent passengers. Then there was a second, then another in a field, and another into the Pentagon. We could only stare in horror, and in fear of where this would take us. The U.S government led by the dimwitted president Bush, immediately said the villain was Afghanistan- and he declared war on it. In fact..... Afghanistan had nothing to do with it (but the U.S. did have an interest in Afghanistan's mineral resources.) However.... The attackers on that terrible day were NOT Afghans. They were from that good friend of the U.S. Saudi Arabia. But the U.S. has never said that. (So much for the honesty of the New York Times, The Toronto papers, the Montreal papers, in fact, so much for the whole U.S. and Canadian news media.) In fairness, the experience of that war gave a boost to all those brave American soldiers (and Canadians?) who murdered uncounted thousands (or more) of Afghan adults, children and babies. Gee. The Canadian Legion, as I recall it, approved of the war against Afghanistan. Any thoughts on that from the Canadian Legion? No. The Legion isn't big on thinking. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ For twenty years, the democracy loving U.S. has asserted it's right to imprison people - with no charge and no trial. And it does so - often. God bless America. At this point it needs all the blessing it can get.(So does Canada.) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Now, you may not hear from me for some days. My computer is behaving very, very badly. And I really don't know how to deal with this.