With the issuance of indictments, I will celebrate. I will jump up and down; I will be filled with an abundance of joy, and will undoubtedly cry tears of joy.
"Fitzmas" is not about the stain on our democracy, it is about taking steps to remove the stain on our democracy.
It is not about feeling shame because of our country's humiliation, it is about beginning to hold our heads up again because our system is working to address that which has shamed us for so long.
When
the media has failed us,
When
our Party has failed us,
When
our election process has failed us,
When
our Supreme Court has failed us,
When
our whistleblower protections have failed us,
When
our system of checks and balances has failed time and again,
Finally, we have something that has hope of working.
It's nearly all we have left. We celebrate fully because it is a big step in ridding us of the incompetent, corrupt, sick, cowards that make up this neo-con administration.
WE CELEBRATE JUSTICE like the family of a murdered loved one celebrates the killer being caught. They rejoice not because their loved one was murdered - they feel redemption and hope that the killer will not continue to get away with murder.
For me and many of my co-celebraters, the issuance of indictments by a Grand Jury is like a light at the end of a very dark tunnel. It is a light that says our experiment in Democracy is not a failure - not quite yet anyway.
Calling it "Fitzmas" is a recognition that this is like a new life for many of us. It is not IMHO trivializing his work; it is to some of us a small way of honoring our new HERO Patrick Fitgerald.
Celebrate unapologetically, for the rest of the world will be doing so also.