They abuse you because they don't respect you and they don't respect you because they don't fear you!
Mark Twain once remarked how he saw one man berate a lynch mob, how one man with moral courage overcame the entire angry mob. He continued the mob had no sand in them against someone with moral courage. If physically brave men were all that was required they could be had by the cargo, but morally brave men and women were in short supply or perhaps out of stock.
We have watched our court system gelded and our legislative bodies put out to pasture.
Our eyes have seen and our hearts have felt yet our feet remain still and our inaction emboldens them.
Our Congress has deserted us! Like the poor in New Orleans they claim there was nothing they could do they counted heads not enough for a filibuster they lamented,
dang were sorry.
Their comes a time when the table should be overthrown with the cry of no more!
The passengers of the hijacked flight 92 airliner could have formed a subcommittee with a list of recommendations to the hijackers. This was a crisis, they didn't hold a vote or count heads for they knew unless direct action was taken they would die! Even though there was a very good possibility they would die either way they chose to stand and die to stake a purpose to their last moments of life instead of hiding under the bed like frightened children.
Our government has been hijacked, and our Congressman and Senators meekly explain we counted heads and we just didn't have the votes. Talk about bringing a knife to a gunfight! This group brings a Jell-O mold to a gunfight! We are not talking about the appropriations for national parks, we are talking about the founding principle of modern democracy on earth almost 800 years old, that the King is not above the law. A man has a right to face his accusers and cannot be held without charge. These rights were won at the point of a sword! Do you believe they could be kept with kind words and platitudes?
This is not a failure of party but a failure of institution, a monumental failure with catastrophic consequences. God Damn you all! To those who voted with the President I say to you, it is not that you are bad Republicans or Democrats for it is not on a political level that you have failed. It is on a moral level you have failed, you are failed human beings and the shame should haunt you the rest of your mortal days and even your children for you have disgraced even your legacy. A Judas who sold out the suffering servant of democracy. Not since the Reichstag passed Hitler's enabling act has their been such an outrageous and odious political performance, your in fine company now!
To those who voted against the President, God Damn you all! You didn't fight hard enough, you stand there mugging for the cameras shuffling your feet kicking the carpet saying gee wiz we tried! In the dark days of 1940 Churchill concluded one of his speeches "Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be." What would it take? If this principle isn't enough for you, what would it take to make you overturn the tables and cry no more! To throw their damn tea into the harbor!
When Moses walked down from Mount Sinai with the tablets of Ten Commandments do you think he checked to see if there was room on the back for corollaries? He was their leader wasn't he allowed to interpret the law as he saw fit? No, because Moses was an honorable man, if we learn nothing else from Nazi Germany we must remember democracy requires honorable men. The Germans fell prey to the Fuehrer principal,
let the leader decide, he knows what is best for us.
When disreputable people enter government democracy is easy prey, the Nazis never gained a majority vote but through double-dealing and conniving they obtained key posts including Vice Chancellor and control of national elections. They made sure no one tampered with your vote by having a Nazi official in the booth with you! Little wonder they had such a low opinion of democracies, they brought knives to gun fights. The Reichstag passed the Enabling act to give the leader freedom of action from a supposed internal threat. Do you think the act was passed to provide security for what had already happened? Or what was it passed for what going to happen!
I have heard the crap the President is seeking to protect himself and his administration from war crimes charges. Bullshit I'll ask again! Your looking through the wrong side of the binoculars, do you think the act was passed to provide security for what had already happened? Or was it passed for what going to happen? The Patriot act defines the term enemy combatants Patriot 2 redefined it. When the Presidents pen touches parchment it's redefined again to mean any one he says. The Fuehrer principal is alive and well. Think about that for a moment and then ask yourself what is worth fighting for? The plans are already on the board for Halliburton supplied camps. The ship won't right it's self it's passed the tipping point.
If we look to history tyranny is always overthrown, eventually. Either by war or the death of the tyrant that my friends is the good news. The bad news is it almost always follows complete collapse, Napoleons France Czarist Russia, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and the Eastern Block or Argentina. Maybe not in our lifetime or perhaps I should say our expected lifetime. History shows us only two roads back military defeat and or bloody revolution. Our own American Revolution is due in part to mental illness in England's highest office why do we think we are immune? History's is like a song the verse may change but the chorus is always the same
We are not the first to have had our Government hijacked but we may be the last. The madmen want their wars and won't be dissuaded. Like children on the fourth of July the want to shoot off the big rockets, they wanted to put conventional warheads on ICBM's
They've grown bored with the other toys and besides they've broken most of them.
To those monarchist who prononce "You just hate George Bush!" I proudly say Your God Damn right I do! Every American who loves and cherishes what this country is supposed to be will say the same thing. I'm tried of arguing with morons, if they were to put Charles Manson in a Santa suit they'd say you just hate Christmas don't you! Charles Manson is the opposite of what Santa is supposed to be and Bush is the opposite of what the President of the United States is supposed to be.
What would George Washington say of this? His idol was Cincinatus, or Lincoln? His idol was Socrates, so he feared much about the death of democracy. Thomas Jefferson expected this and predicted it, in his genius of being a dreamer yet well grounded gave us the answer not at the end of the debate but at it's inception, you cannot accept only parts of the ideals set forth in the document it must be accepted in total
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."
They abuse you because they don't respect you and they will continue to abuse you because they don't fear you!