Somebody Call the FBI!
By David Glenn Cox
I had a good laugh yesterday, a full belly laugh. You see in some people’s eyes I’m a dangerous character and there is no telling what sort of iniquity my dirty running shoes might deliver. I was taken to task on a progressive website by a commentor who wanted to know if I was the same Daveparts who had called Barack Obama a fascist?
I answered that yes, indeed that I was and then I repeated my claim that Barack Obama is indeed a fascist. To this person however with their History Channel education there was only one fascist in the world and it was that guy in Germany. They were outraged that I would compare Obama to Hitler, which I didn’t do and they specifically used the word Fuhrer that I didn’t use. Of course Fuhrer is the German word for leader so they were correct although I doubt they would know or understand why. On the National Geographic Societies, national geography test a majority of American’s couldn’t locate the peoples Republic of China on a world map. This type of ignorance is inexcusable, as 25% couldn’t even find the United States on a world map.
When it comes to Marxist thought most Americans don’t know the difference between Karl and Groucho. This isn’t anything new during the McCarthy hearings college students asked Americans to sign a document with phrases taken from the Declaration of Independence printed upon it and got few takers.
This is why our political leaders come up with solutions like, "separate but equal" and, "don’t ask don’t tell." Many Americans are afraid to express their own freedom. What they should be anxious to shout about from the mountaintop instead they hide their freedom and pull it from their pocket only when they are alone and in the dark. If you were an African American in the 1950’s you didn’t need a law degree to understand that, "separate but equal" meant separate but unequal.
"Separate but equal" was a cowardly legal absurdity it was George Orwell’s some animals are more equal than others. It was a cowardly thing the hiding of freedom because somehow we feared that actual freedom for someone else might diminish our own. This also describes, "The Defense of Marriage Act" it is shameful and cowardly thing. A political pandering to religious bigots who zealously attempt to protect their freedom by denying it to someone else.
Steeped in their religious folderol I accept and respect their right to be religious bigots because my freedom is based on their freedom. For some that is a hard concept to grasp that I must respect the opinion of others who I vehemently disagree with because that is all that protects my own freedom. I do not how ever have to accept or respect their bigotry as a matter of law.
Who someone falls in love with and wishes to marry is absolutely none of the states business! What those adults do behind closed doors is absolutely none of the states business! Be it Bible reading or kinky sex so how can a country that declares as inalienable rights life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness deny that right to anyone? It’s so obvious, just give these people their god dammed civil rights as Americans and shut the hell up about it. This isn’t grist for the political mill this is about people’s lives their freedom and their pursuit of happiness.
It costs us nothing and hurts no one and it not about being liberal or conservative it’s about living in a free country. These people are Americans and have the right to live their lives anyway and with anyone that they choose and if that offends you, too bad! Into every life a little rain must fall.
In 1948 when Harry Truman desegregated the military of the United States by executive order and the generals protested. They claimed that there would be riots and officers would resign in droves and Truman answered, "Let em." Many on Truman’s own staff were beside themselves House and Senate members lit up the White House switchboard as Truman’s decree included National Guard units. Truman only had one good answer to the firestorm; it was the right thing to do.
"Not all groups are free to live and work where they please or to improve their conditions of life by their own efforts. Not all groups enjoy the full privileges of citizenship... The federal government has a clear duty to see that the Constitutional guarantees of individual liberties and equal protection under the laws are not denied or abridged anywhere in the union." (Harry S. Truman)
Any question here about what Truman was saying? Clear as rainwater isn’t it? Don’t ask don’t tell? The Defence of Marriage act? Any question where Truman would come down on it?
It is when you look at the difference in performance of our past leaders that you can see the truly craven and servile nature of the current crop. Truman did what was right because it was right and if it cost him an election he could live with that. When Truman left office he didn’t have any money and the Congress had to give him a pension. Imagine forty years in politics and no money!
The commentor on the progressive website suggested that I should be reported to the FBI. I didn’t suggest the burning of Koran’s but I have thought that a weenie roast over several million Bibles might be fun but only because of my what's good for the goose is good for the gander beliefs. But to this commentor on a progressive website thinks that I am a dangerous fellow because of my ideas. I am an American thought criminal!
You mustn’t say unpleasant things even if they are true. You mustn’t speak unkindly about our dear leader, der Fuhrer especially if it’s true. The greatest threat to our freedom is in those who don’t understand it. Those who want to call the police to protect others from ideas which they either don’t agree with or don’t understand. In a sad perverse way I found that hysterically funny that a commentor on a progressive website thinks a police state is the correct answer to calling the President a fascist.
A Fascist is someone who advocates the blending of state and corporate power.
It is a government that is subservient to money and industry.
My thoughts are indeed dangerous; I am a dissident and a revolutionary. I want to see the corporate power broken and over thrown just like that other dissident and a revolutionary Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I want to see Americans given their just rights as because that is all that protects mine.
As Vaclav Havel said, "a state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states."
But in the words of Mario Savio, "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."
My time came as my own financial fortunes hit the skids and I found myself thrust into the new reality. A reality of empty houses and empty stores and of good people forced into terrible situations through no fault of their own. People who have lost everything a people ground down into the dirt and a government that ignores them. I slowly discovered that perhaps all that I had gone through was for a good reason. Maybe there was some good that could come from my own troubles. So I speak up for these people, to tell their stories and if that makes me a danger to the United States of America then so be it! Call the f*cking FBI!
Federal Bureau of Investigations 404-679-9000
It gets pretty lonely here in the garage sometimes and I know that if the FBI ever does come to see me it is only because I’m making progress.