Truth in a time of Lies

Truth in a time of Lies

Mark Twain once remarked how he saw one man berate a lynch mob, how
one man with moral courage overcame the entire angry mob. He continued
the mob had no sand in them against someone with moral courage. If
physically brave men were all that was required they could be had by
the cargo, but morally brave men and women were in short supply or
perhaps out of stock.
We have watched our court system gelded and our legislative bodies put
out to pasture.
Our eyes have seen and our hearts have felt yet our feet remain still
and our inaction emboldens them.

Our Congress has deserted us! Like the poor in New Orleans they claim
there was nothing they could do they counted heads not enough for a
filibuster they lamented,
dang were sorry.
Their comes a time when the table should be overthrown with the cry of no more!
The passengers of the hijacked flight 92 airliner could have formed a
subcommittee with a list of recommendations to the hijackers. This was
a crisis, they didn't hold a vote or count heads for they knew unless
direct action was taken they would die! Even though there was a very
good possibility they would die either way they chose to stand and die
to stake a purpose to their last moments of life instead of hiding
under the bed like frightened children.

Our government has been hijacked, and our Congressman and Senators
meekly explain we counted heads and we just didn't have the votes.
Talk about bringing a knife to a gunfight! This group brings a Jell-O
mold to a gunfight! We are not talking about the appropriations for
national parks, we are talking about the founding principle of modern
democracy on earth almost 800 years old, that the King is not above
the law. A man has a right to face his accusers and cannot be held
without charge. These rights were won at the point of a sword! Do you
believe that they could be kept with kind words and platitudes?

This is not a failure of party but a failure of institution, a
monumental failure with catastrophic consequences. God Damn you all!
To those who voted with the President I say to you, it is not that you
are bad Republicans or Democrats for it is not on a political level
that you have failed. It is on a moral level you have failed, you are
failed human beings and the shame should haunt you the rest of your
mortal days and even your children for you have disgraced even your
legacy. You are a Judas who sold out the suffering servant of
democracy. Not since the Reichstag passed Hitler's enabling act has
their been such an outrageous and odious political performance, your
in fine company now!

To those who voted against the President, God Damn you all! You didn't
fight hard enough, you stand there mugging for the cameras shuffling
your feet kicking the carpet saying gee wiz we tried! In the dark days
of 1940 Churchill concluded one of his speeches "Arm yourselves, and
be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is
better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our
nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it
be." What would it take? If this principle isn't enough, what would it
take to overturn the tables and cry no more! To throw their damn tea
into the harbor!

When Moses walked down from Mount Sinai with the tablets of Ten
Commandments do you think he checked to see if there was room on the
back for corollaries? He was their leader wasn't he allowed to
interpret the law as he saw fit? No, because Moses was an honorable
man, if we learn nothing else from Nazi Germany we must remember
democracy requires honorable men. The Germans fell prey to the Fuehrer
principal,
let the leader decide, he knows what is best for us.

When disreputable people enter government democracy is easy prey, the
Nazis never gained a majority vote but through double-dealing and
conniving they obtained key posts including Vice Chancellor and
control of national elections. They made sure no one tampered with the
vote by having a Nazi official in the booth with you! Little wonder
they had such a low opinion of democracies, they brought knives to gun
fights. The Reichstag passed the Enabling act to give the leader
freedom of action from a supposed internal threat. Do you think the
act was passed to provide security for what had already happened? Or
what was it passed for what going to happen!

I have heard the crap the President is seeking to protect himself and
his administration from war crimes charges. Bullshit I'll ask again!
Your looking through the wrong side of the binoculars, do you think
the act was passed to provide security for what had already happened?
Or was it passed for what going to happen? The Patriot act defines the
term enemy combatants Patriot 2 redefined it. When the Presidents pen
touches parchment it's redefined again to mean any one he says. The
Fuehrer principal is alive and well. Think about that for a moment and
then ask yourself what is worth fighting for? The plans are already on
the board for Halliburton supplied camps. The ship won't right it's
self it's passed the tipping point.

If we look to history tyranny is always overthrown, eventually. Either
by war or the death of the tyrant that my friends is the good news.
The bad news is it almost always follows complete collapse, Napoleons
France Czarist Russia, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and the Eastern
Block or Argentina. Maybe not in our lifetime or perhaps I should say
our expected lifetime. History shows us only two roads back military
defeat and or bloody revolution. Our own American Revolution is due in
part to mental illness in England's highest office why do we think we
are immune? History's is like a song the verse may change but the
chorus is always the same

We are not the first to have had our government hijacked but we may be
the last. The madmen want their wars and won't be dissuaded. Like
children on the fourth of July the want to shoot off the big rockets,
they wanted to put conventional warheads on ICBM's
They've grown bored with the other toys and besides they've broken most of them.
To those monarchist who prononce "You just hate George Bush!" I
proudly say Your God Damn right I do! Every American who loves and
cherishes what this country is supposed to be will say the same thing.
I'm tried of arguing with morons, if they were to put Charles Manson
in a Santa suit they'd say you just hate Christmas don't you! Charles
Manson is the opposite of what Santa is supposed to be and Bush is the
opposite of what the President of the United States is supposed to be.

What would George Washington say of this? His idol was Cincinatus, or
Lincoln? His idol was Socrates, so he feared much about the death of
democracy. Thomas Jefferson expected this and predicted it, in his
genius of being a dreamer yet well grounded gave us the answer not at
the end of the debate but at it's inception, you cannot accept only
parts of the ideals set forth in the document it must be accepted in
total

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from
the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any form of Government
becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such form,
as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and
accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long
Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object,
evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their
Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide
new Guards for their future Security.

They abuse you because they don't respect you and they will continue
to abuse you because they don't fear you!