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9 February 2006, 16:39

I was in Mexico a year ago and was speaking with a German expatriate there. I told her no one that I knew was for the war in Iraq. She asked, "Then why don’t you do something?" (collective you - the nation) I told her that the people have no power. I always knew that in the back of my mind, but it was the first time I spoke it and faced it. In other countries, people take to the streets, shouting and protesting. If we do that here, we are tear-gassed and arrested.

Most people in the U.S. are so comfortable that they don’t care what happens as long as they remain comfortable. Most citizens don’t think past their ability to buy SUVs, houses, and cell phones. If you turn on the national news, you will see the same stories broadcast on all the channels, but at different times during each respective broadcast. We are told what the government wants us to hear. In other countries, people get much more news from all around the world, as I discovered when in Mexico.

I think it’s too late for the U.S. I think all a person can do is to try to protect themselves from the government by protecting what assests they have privately and/or moving to another country. I am in the process of doing both.