
Because of the eagle's majestic appearance and power of flight, it has been called the "king of birds." Since ancient times it has been a symbol of strength and courage. The American bald eagle was chosen by Congress in 1782 as the emblem of the United States.
As symbols of freedom, we
erect The White House
for The
President
with the Capitol Building
as the hub of government within which sit the
House of Representatives and Senate, with this
for
the Supreme Court;
then we blindly fill them with self-serving charlatans who sell out to the
highest bidder, ignoring the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the constituents
that misplaced their trust when electing them to be honest representatives.
Those same deceivers of their constituents then repay those
deceived constituents by erecting elaborate monuments to former betrayers of
trust. One good example of completely ignoring the facts that this one in
particular did an about-face before and during "HIS" war with the statements:
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. -- Abraham Lincoln January 12, 1848

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. --Abraham Lincoln
With a show of total contempt for those who gave their lives in the name of freedom, token monuments are also added, as if in mockery. The Viet Nam Memorial "Wall Of Tears"
A system of government originally intended to be the "voice of the people and by the people" has (thanks to the apathy of those very same people thoroughly brainwashed in federally controlled thru extortion run dumb-down institutions misnomered as "schools") become an intrusive invasion of individual freedom beyond belief in a supposedly free nation. This is not something that happened suddenly, UNTIL the most (heretofore unimaginable within our borders) horrendous attack on 9-11-01 at the World Trade Center in New York forever changed not only that skyline , but affected the whole world.

One prime example of brainwashing I know from personal experience is the constant mention in the D-D institutions I attended that this country is a democracy, continually spouted as gospel by another one of the most traitorous former residents of The White House, FDR; the one person solely responsible for the previously worst attack on this country, Pearl Harbor. That this country was founded as a "democratic republic" and the differences between the two is never mentioned, much less explained. SFC Steven M. Barry, USA (Ret), founder and managing editor of The Resister gives the best definition of democracy I've ever seen: "The demand by the stupid to rule the intelligent because the stupid outnumber the intelligent."
In perpetuatiing their survival (the entrenched incumbents) as an elite ruling class, the limits set forth in the Constitution are repeatedly ignored, more blatantly contemptuous as time goes on, thanks to allowing federal control of schools thru extortive practices and deceit to increase unchecked, assuring the resulting product of those dumb-down institutions being more compliant and apathetic toward the losses to their freedoms and rights with every year. Resulting from the emotional blindness after the WTC attack leveled them, the so-called "Patriot's Act" has all but nullified The Constitution and Bill of Rights, martial law may not be far behind with the addition of the "Homeland Security" programs and especially those picked by our fuehrer to run things.
And the latest contempt for our intelligence is from the 10/07/06 edition of the Seattle Post Intelligencer,

In 1865 a French
historian, Édouard de Laboulaye, proposed a gift to the U.S. from France in
memorial of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence, another symbol of freedom known worldwide. In 1924 the Statue of
Liberty was made a national monument and in 1956 Bedloe's Island, where she
stands, was re-named Liberty Island. In 1965, another nearby symbol of freedom,
Ellis Island, was added to the national monument. In her right hand is a torch
lit at night by the lights in the balconey, in her left hand is a tablet of law
with roman numerals for the date, July 4, 1776, and at her feet are broken
shackles. Not visible yet to the naked eye, those broken shackles at her feet
have slowly been being rewound around America's freedom. No one seems to notice,
watching sports on TV is more important.