We’ve had a night and a day to digest the State of the Union address by President Obama. When I went into the break room of the building I work in, after the shop was closed, to flip on the TV and watch the address, I was wondering how far in it'd be before I’d raise an objection.
We are part of the American family. We believe that in a country where every race and faith and point of view can be found, we are still bound together as one people; that we share common hopes and a common creed; that the dreams of a little girl in Tucson are not so different than those of our own children, and that they all deserve the chance to be fulfilled.
I enjoyed this part. I believe it's true. When I'm doing deliveries for my employer, I see people on the street, in their cars, in their place of business, and in their homes when they answer the door. All these people I see, I believe they and myself are apart of a family, and we are bound together as one people--that we do share common hopes, and a common creed.
But it was here where the first objection arised:
That world has changed. And for many, the change has been painful. I've heard it in the frustrations of Americans who've seen their paychecks dwindle or their jobs disappear--proud men and women who feel like the rules have been changed in the middle of the game. They're right. The rules have changed. In a single generation, revolutions in technology have transformed the way we live, work and do business. Steel mills that once needed 1,000 workers can now do the same work with 100.
Yes, the rules have been changed--but how and why have they been changed? And in what specific ways? President Obama couches the change as if it's due to advances in technology, but President Obama didn't mention the changes GATT and NAFTA brought about, and how manufacturing jobs have not been lost to technological advances, but by multinational coporatism, its effects on governance, and the resultant outsourcing of jobs to other nations.
Kossack Badabing wrote a diary recently, which she said took three days to compose: http://www.dailykos.com/...
If you haven't read it, or missed it, please do read it now.
The agenda of multinational corporations is not going away--no matter how hard President Obama works with the 112th Congress.
So what are We The People supposed to do?
Here's a debate taking place this next Monday in St. Louis: http://www.franklincountypatriots.or...
It continues to dawn on more and more folks, the need for the Article V Convention.
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably thro' every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery...."
--Thomas Jefferson A Summary View of the Rights of British America
These words for our time, read: Acts of Congress and rulings of the Supreme Court may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period (which we might ascribe to the 1980s and the era of deregulation), and pursued unaltered through each and every session of Congress since, plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing We The People to corporate slavery.
"The word constitution is used to signify law which is superior to legislative acts. A constitution is a text of principles beyond the control of a legislature, executive, court, or group of private interests [such as multinational corporations]. A constitution is a social agreement where the whole people contract with the citizen, the citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by law for the common good and that government is based upon that agreement. Constitutional conventions, as a means of amending written constitutions, are a distinctly American institution. In fact, written constitutions themselves originated in this country."
Constitutional Conventions: Their Natures, Powers, and Limitations by R.S. Hoar (1917)
