Suggestive Reading

Suggestive reading for Oak Leaf Road residents.

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"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-6073694-7573524

While the title of this book may sound somewhat amusing, the book is serious about people taking back their government. True the author is speaking mostly about higher levels of government, the concepts discussed in this book very much apply to local goverment as well. Perhaps you would agree after reviewing the text from the book jacket's flaps posted below.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necesa­sary for a people to rise up in protest ...

When a handful of bull-market bullies and corpoa­rate profiteers amass vast fortunes while 35 million citizens languish in poverty ...

When average Americans decide they're sick of the burden of credit card-fueled lifestyles, tired of sending their children to violent, decaying schools, and sick and tired of sending corrupt, ineffectual career politia­cians back to Washington year after year to pander to their richest soft-money contributors ...

When a majority of registered voters no longer have enough faith in our fat-cat "leaders" and their obsolete parties even to show up at the polls to replace them...

When these truths become self-evident ...

Then the time has come to overthrow the govern­ment.

Arianna Huffington has earned a reputation as one of America's best-known and most independent political commentators, but this book will surprise even the most ardent followers of Beltway politics. In its pages she breaks away from the party-line platitudes of cynical Republicans and hypocritical Democrats alike and shines a harsh light on the real crises of contemporary America. Our democratic system has broken down, she contends. The two political parties have become indistinguishable. Their policies are feeble, their motives self-serving, their campaign tactics ruthless and insulting. And, as they kneel at the altar of profit, our nation's foundations are crum­bling. Decay is everywhere: The physical decay of our cities and schools is matched by the moral decay of a drug industry that is allowed by politicians to push Prozac on children, a media industry that looks only for the next scandal, and a political industry that hyp-

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notizes its candidates with polls, paralyzc smear tactics, and seduces them with ca ouflaged cash.

How to Overthrow the GovernmE Huffington's call to arms: a challenge to American to seize the government back f: cial interests that now hold it hostage and trol to the people themselves. From camp reform to new voters' rights to grassrc activism and civil disobedience campaig for fresh and radical solutions to this nati and offers a directory of local and nati groups to contact that can help make it h

For if we are to preserve and prote perfect union, We the People must stand for our country-before it's too late.

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON has been of Washington's most influential comn both Newsweek and People. Her syndic, appears twice weekly in newspapers arou try, including the Los Angeles Times, th Post, and the Chicago Sun-Times. She i guest on television talk shows from Politically Incorrect, and a contributing m magazine. The author of seven previou! lives in Los Angeles and Washington, her two daughters. She can be reached 1 arianna@ariannaonline.com.

Jacket design © 2000 by Charles Rue Won Jacket photograph © 2000 by John Earl Handlettering © 2000 by Irene Vanderoc