I'm still shaking my head in amazement from yesterday's passage of a bill that not only authorizes the use of torture, but abrogates over 200 years of settled Constitutional law.
When I volunteered for the military some thirtyish years back, I promised with G'd's help to protect, uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Not coincidentally, people elected to serve in the halls of Congress make nearly exactly the same oath. The first item to which one pledges absolute loyalty and defense is to the Constitution.
Because I gave my promise and asked G'd for His help to keep me true to that promise, I took it (and still do take it) very seriously. That promise was in honor of the men and women who sacrificed much (if not all) to create the United States and the Constitution that makes it the country that it is.
Destroy the Constitution and you destroy that which is in and of itself America.
These Republicans (and a
list of traitorous Democrats as well), with their undying loyalty to the overthrow of the Constitution are the same "Got more Jesus than yew!" crowd who assaulted us with their Leviticus-ized version of cult-christianity from one end of the air-waves to the other one.
Then again, their posterboy, the monkey-in-chief says that the Constitution of the United States is "just a goddam piece of paper". (These are his words, not mine, so don't come at me for taking the Lord's name in vain.)
Some fine Christians these Republicans are. They spit in our faces and then turn around spit in G'd's just for good measure.
First they lied to the American people, promising that they will protect, uphold and defend the Constitution. Quite rightly, since each and every one of them took office, they have nothing except attack and degrade the Constitution. That clearly and textbook-thoroughly defines them as traitors to the United States and the sworn enemy of anyone who did (and still does) promise to uphold the Constitution.
Why is it that they take the Lord's name in vain, wipe their bums with the Constitution, steal from the poor, leave thousands of New Orleaneans to drown or starve, start an illegal war for Halliburton and other BushCo cronies to profit wildly, take medicine away from seniors, send civil rights back 900 years and they still remain in office??? How that can be, along with their cries of "more kreeshchyin than yew!!!" while spitting in G'd's face and the face of His children?
I honestly can't get my head around it all.
Have Americans plain lost their minds? Do we not care about our country? Do we not care what happens in the life hereafter? How in the world could we possibly face our Creator after countenancing this abomination on earth?
"Shame" doesn't even begin to cover the depths of this depravity.
Each and every American owes their freedom and rights to the Constitution. Not to a political party gone amok, for certain. Yet, self-proclaimed Christians would screw over the ones Jesus charged us to protect and care for. The vileness and duplicity are appalling.
Military service is an offering of thanks to the Founders and Framers. I offered my service voluntarily, as a thank-you to my ancestors who actively participated in the building of this nation and its liberation from imperialistic tyranny.
Equally, accepting an elected office should be a service to the Constitution (they swear to uphold it, do they not?) and to the people of this nation. Instead, the GOP Congress have used the national treasury as their personal piggybank, slurping up the spoils of K street, and worse, have actively attacked the very document that makes America "America".
Second, they lied to G'd, thinking no more of placing their hand on the Bible and asking G'd's help to keep a promise to their country than wiping their arses with the Bible and the Constitution. For using G'd's name to lie in that fashion and to attack the Constitution, I'm pretty sure G'd will be rightly pissed.
Right now, He's going to have to wait. We're right here, right now and have a moral duty to begin actively recalling, impeaching and removing these traitors from office. It is the duty of each and every American to ensure that elected officials do not besmirch our trust and the stewardship of the Constitution. I would ask that every patriotic Democrat find out how to remove the GOP traitors from office and to persue every legal avenue.
If you don't think it's important, just keep in the back of your mind that not only can a shadow government spy on you at will (and already have -- YES, they've spied on YOU), now they can detain you indefinitely without charge or reason, simply because the Chimp may arbitrarily decide that you're and enemy of the state.
Yes, it can happen to you. It has already happened to innocent Americans.
Now, just because a few sick, demented traitors have decided that while torture doesn't produce reliable results, it's still so much fun and entertainment to inflict pain and humiliation on fellow human beings. Understand well that this means that at any second, YOU can be deemed a terrorist, with no proof and no burden of proof, you can be thrown into a black-site prison and tortured.
You have no right to recourse, to right to redress, no right to counsel because your Republican Congress, who hold themselves above American law and tradition have arbitrarily removed those rights.
Moreover, the Constitution holds that treaties with foreign nations (the Geneva Convention being just one) is the highest law of the land. That means, in all cases, those treaties should be the first consideration in lawcraft, not the abrogation of such treaties. Congress has once again traiterously turned its back on the Constitution for political expediency. To add torture to the mix of sins only weighs down their immortal souls further into the fires of hell.
How anyone can believe that this is okay, that this is an acceptably American stance is no American at all. Anyone who believes that Jesus would condone the actions of this Congress, which has done everything in its power to steal from the poor and ply to the most extremely wealthy, a Congress which has voted to codify and implement torture is no Christian of any kind at all. End of story.
Jesus was very, very clear about the proper treatment of the poor, the different and the disadvantaged. The Gospel of Matthew has many teachings and admonishments on this very issue. I'll give you two here:
Mat 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Mat 18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
Take in Matthew 18. You will not find one right-wing-"christian" or politician's behavior in any of Christ's lessons there. Hatred is not a virtue, neither is torture, neither is taking G'd's name in vain to forward these GOP-treasured values of hatred and theft.