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<span><img height="84" width="129" id="959a9e2a-dee8-4330-8949-093581b32a64" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:C7413859-63D7-4098-94EA-5835FF85D840@mcn.org"> A Question –– "Impertinent" ? ?</span></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Georgia, Times; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; "><a href="http://robertreich.org/post/55191562750">http://robertreich.org/post/55191562750</a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Georgia, Times; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; "><a href="http://robertreich.org/post/55191562750" class="timestamp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(150, 150, 150); text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Georgia, Times; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: Georgia, Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-size: 24px; line-height: 30px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-size: 24px; line-height: 30px; ">Suppose a small group of extremely wealthy people sought to systematically destroy the U.S. government by . . . </span></div><div><p style="margin-top: 21px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(56, 56, 56); line-height: 30px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(1) finding and bankrolling new candidates pledged to shrinking and dismembering it; </span></p><p style="margin-top: 21px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(56, 56, 56); line-height: 30px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(2) intimidating or bribing many current senators and representatives to block all proposed legislation, prevent the appointment of presidential nominees, eliminate funds to implement and enforce laws, and thr<span class="text_exposed_show" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; ">eaten to default on the nation’s debt; </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 21px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(56, 56, 56); line-height: 30px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><span class="text_exposed_show" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(3) taking over state governments in order to redistrict, gerrymander, require voter IDs, purge voter rolls, and otherwise suppress the votes of the majority in federal elections; </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 21px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(56, 56, 56); line-height: 30px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><span class="text_exposed_show" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(4) running a vast PR campaign designed to convince the American public of certain big lies, such as climate change is a hoax, and</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 21px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(56, 56, 56); line-height: 30px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><span class="text_exposed_show" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(5) buying up the media so the public cannot know the truth.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 21px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(56, 56, 56); line-height: 30px; "><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 24px; white-space: pre; "> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><i>Would you call this treason? <br></i></b></span></font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 21px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(56, 56, 56); line-height: 30px; "><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><b><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If not, what would you call it? <br></i></b></font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 21px; 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"> </span>And what would you do about it? </i></b></span></font><br></span></p></div><div><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><img id="ea37b9ec-1d4a-4c8c-a06e-f2a8c432a075" height="147" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:835963F8-BEED-44AD-B8BB-1546320D85C0"></div>
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