...If we could ask our founders today, I am sure that they would tell us of the time when they tired of the lion chewing on their shoulders too. They knew that eventually the pain would become unbearable unless the lion was removed...
"I heard a shout. Starting, and looking half round, I saw the lion just in the act of springing upon me ... He caught my shoulder as he sprang, and we both came to the ground below together. Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier does a rat. The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though (I was) quite conscious of all that was happening. It was like what patients partially under the influence of chloroform describe, who see the operation but not the knife."
--Dr. David Livingstone
While this may be a recounting of Dr. Livingstone's brush with death from a lion mauling while in Africa and was used to describe how the human body reacts to pain, I just could not help but feel the irony of the present moment of life in our country for every U.S. citizen and it left me asking several questions of myself and fellow countrymen.
Are we too being attacked and watching the predator begin the devouring stage of the kill?
Am I so shocked at what I am experiencing that I keep telling myself that this can't be real ... that it must be a dream?
At a time when every citizen should be feeling sheer terror at the loss of their personal privacy, all in the name of national security, why are we feeling a curious detachment or a numbing sensation when we should be feeling the intense shock waves of the after bite. Remember that pain is only numbed for awhile ... eventually you will feel the full effect ... unless you die first.
Is it because we want to believe that our ruling elite have our best interest as their number one priority or is it because we do not want to ruffle any feathers?
Why should we be getting the feeling that we are being toyed with while we are actually being eaten alive?
Did you ever believe that NAFTA was going to be the resounding success that it has become for the American people? Look at all the jobs it created for Mexico! Now that was American wisdom in action wasn't it? What it has done is padded the pockets of those who believe (who could they possibly be?) that the middle class in America needs to be removed and that there needs to be an ever increasing gap between those that have and those that have not.
How do the millions that have lost jobs feel about that agreement now? Once those small manufacturing towns were the definition of America and now they are like ghost towns. I wonder if they are still numbed by the savage bite taken from their once held, small as it may have been prosperity, or has the pain finally began to feel real?
Several years ago, I was attacked and bitten by a Saint Bernard that I had been playing with just one day prior. Initially, when he sank his rather large incisors into my face, I felt no pain. Later, when I was examining my third nostril and the severe lacerations across my throat, I can assure you that the numbness had left and any cuddly feelings that I may have had for that dog were gone. Friend or no, he had inflicted serious pain on me and when he was ran over by a tractor trailer a couple months later, I lost no sleep over its death.
Normally, I am fairly quick to recognize when someone is trying to stab me in the back but I have to give credit to the anti-Constitutional surgeons on Capitol Hill today. Their process at knowing how much anesthesia to give the American people so that they will remain numb while they remove our very soul will be considered by them to be their greatest stroke of genius since our Founding Fathers assembled and arguably constructed this nation's and the world's greatest governmental master plan back in 1787.
If we could ask our founders today, I am sure that they would tell us of the time when they tired of the lion chewing on their shoulders too. They knew that eventually the pain would become unbearable unless the lion was removed.
by Keith Simerson [click here for more articles], who is a self-employed foundryman and sculptor as well as an Air Force veteran in the security field. See his website at www.stonereproductionworks.com, and his blog at www.goodnevilguy.blogspot.com.