While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Republican (fascist/socialist) President George W. Bush signs the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, imposing a myriad of testing and documentation requirements on industries that previously had not posed a threat to consumer safety.  The act is anti-competitive in that it impacts more severely upon smaller businesses—including thrift stores—than larger corporations; and has caused an immediate closing of at least eleven-hundred stores across the nation. 

       [added 5/7/2021]

       The Reverend Rick Warren, of Saddleback church  (a 501(c)3, government-chartered, non-profit corporation, as opposed to a new testament (First Amendment) Church) in Lake Forest, california, hosts the Civil Forum on the Presidency, in which he endorses the two presumptive presidential nominees of the status quo political parties, Democratic (socialist/fascist) de facto senator Barack Hussein Obama, II. Esq., (a.k.a. Barry Soetoro, Jr.), of illinois, and Republican (fascist/socialist) de facto senator John S. McCain III, of the Federal enclave of Arizona.  Excluded from the forum are Alan Keyes, former Ambassador to the United Nations, presidential nominee of the American Independent (dominionist) Party, and consumer advocate Ralph Nader, presidential nominee of the Peace and Freedom (feminist-socialist) Party, who were both outside the property in protest.