Why would independent candidates and those who go against the mainstream be so mercilessly shut out of the debates?
Perhaps because their popular support was so slim as to not justify giving them a space on the stage? I'm just guessing.
Did you know that 100 miles inland from the border of the Unites States is a "Constitution free zone?" I didn't come up with that term. Our loving government did. Our loving government, which infected black men with sphillis without telling them and studied them as they died. The same government that brought the sick and twisted Nazi scientists over to work in our own country so that we might benefit from the research they were able to conduct... Much of it on death camp slaves.
First, no such thing as a "Constitution free zone."
Our government also apologized for the Tuskegee incident (the patients were not treated--not infected--with syphillis, which I agree is horrific and deplorable). The scandal led to numerous investigations by the US government, and numerous laws, organizations, and regulations designed to prevent it from happening again. So far as I can tell, it has not. So the Tuskegee Experiment, while horrible, actually illustrates that the US Government is quite responsive--in more contemporary years--to human rights abuses.
Our government also brought over some German scientists who had previously worked for the Nazis to work on various defense-related projects, specifically those related to rocketry. You can disapprove of that if you wish, but it hardly means that the US Government has done anything close to perpetrating 9/11 on its own people.
You think a government that would do that to one nationality of humans wouldn't do the same thing to another?! [referring to Iraqi casualties caused by American forces - Heuristic]
Yes. Governments don't treat all persons of the world as equals. This is surprising to you? The American government is the agent of the American people.
IS NORM MINETA SAYING FROM HIS OWN MOUTH THAT CHENEY GAVE THE STAND DOWN ORDER, NOT ONCE BUT TWICE. WAKE THE FUCK UP!
Actually Mineta testified that he heard Cheney give the order to SHOOT THE PLANES DOWN. So that there is no misunderstanding, here is the relevant part of Mineta's testimony. Can you at least acknowledge this?
Here is the testimony, taken from
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/archive/hearing2/9-11Commission_Hearing_2003-05-23.htm
MR. HAMILTON: We thank you for that. I wanted to focus just a moment on the Presidential Emergency Operating Center. You were there for a good part of the day. I think you were there with the vice president. And when you had that order given, I think it was by the president, that authorized the shooting down of commercial aircraft that were suspected to be controlled by terrorists, were you there when that order was given?
MR. MINETA: No, I was not. I was made aware of it during the time that the airplane coming into the Pentagon. There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to, "The plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the vice president, "Do the orders still stand?" And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?" Well, at the time I didn't know what all that meant. And --
MR. HAMILTON: The flight you're referring to is the --
MR. MINETA: The flight that came into the Pentagon.
MR. HAMILTON: The Pentagon, yeah.
MR. MINETA: And so I was not aware that that discussion had already taken place. But in listening to the conversation between the young man and the vice president, then at the time I didn't really recognize the significance of that.
And then later I heard of the fact that the airplanes had been scrambled from Langley to come up to DC, but those planes were still about 10 minutes away. And so then, at the time we heard about the airplane that went into Pennsylvania, then I thought, "Oh, my God, did we shoot it down?" And then we had to, with the vice president, go through the Pentagon to check that out.
MR. HAMILTON: Let me see if I understand. The plane that was headed toward the Pentagon and was some miles away, there was an order to shoot that plane down.
MR. MINETA: Well, I don't know that specifically, but I do know that the airplanes were scrambled from Langley or from Norfolk, the Norfolk area. But I did not know about the orders specifically other than listening to that other conversation.
MR. HAMILTON: But there very clearly was an order to shoot commercial aircraft down.
MR. MINETA: Subsequently I found that out.