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  By Gary Hancock In Greek mythology, the songs of the Sirens were of such potent appeal that mortals who failed to resist listening to them were inevitably lured to a path of languishing doom. True of many myths, the story is an allegorical lesson: this one teaching that some things that have great appeal or sound wonderful have bad endings. That message, though timeless, has always been lost on those who are inattentive, indifferent or opt to swoon along with the enticing songs without bothering to discern the consequences. Such can be said of most of those who comprise the base of the progressive and democratic socialist movements of today, movements which, in combination with the statist ideology, are instruments of an elite government structure determined to swell government’s power and socially, economically and philosophically control the masses. To many, the ideological siren songs of “free” stuff, utopian outcomes, and redistribution of wealth are no less appealin...

I guess many people still don't understand the true nature and extent of the betrayal that is going on in our country. You prefer to trust the media types like Rush Limbaugh who carried water for George W. Bush for eight years while he got very rich off our stupidity, or Mark Levin who keeps pushing his books and his idea for a Convention of the States when the Constitution is not the problem... The people in power who don't like the Constitution are the problem.. You can't fix what's wrong with America by breaking the Constitution. The fact that so many people believe that the end justifies the means and they are willing to break the Constitution in order to get whatever it is or WHOEVER it is they want IS PART OF THE PROBLEM! That is just what the Democrats did when they elected Barack Obama... and that is what many Republicans want to do now