Just can't stay silent anymore!
Well, I just can't keep silent anymore. I treasure my freedom and my country's legacy of providing freedom and liberty for all and as I see it being destroyed by self-serving, so-called conservatives I find I must speak out. So, as promised in the heading of this missive it is time to start talking politics.
Here we are in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century and instead of the larger freedom many of us thought would be available to us as we reached the age of power in America we find an almost facist state with power mongers even worse than those we faced in the 60's and 70's.
How have we Americans allowed this to happen? How have we allowed ourselves to be lied to again and again and just swallowed the lies and gone on as if the truth no longer matters? How have we allowed a government that had planned to go to war in Iraq long before it even became appointed by the Supreme Court as the government of the land to tell us the big lie and send our children and grandchildren into a war that was unecessary and has made things much worse in the Middle East than they were before we decided we knew what was best for a people who did not want our help, did not want their freedom and were not willing to help us get if for them.
In the 90's the so-called conservatives were incensed by the fact that President Clinton got a bj from an intern and tried to hide it for the obvious reasons. They were so outraged that they sought to impeach a sitting President for a personal act which had absolutely no impact on National Secuirty or our place in the world. Now those same super patriots stand idly by while our entire Executive Branch hijacks the country, tells blatant lies, terrorizes us daily with its selective release of 'terrorist' threats, puts us into a war with an enemy that, while vile and profane, was no direct threat to the American people.
Now, I am not going to suggest that 9-11 was planned by our current leaders and their cronies, but I will say that 9-11 played directly into the hands of our current leadership and has allowed them to advance their goal of instituting a one world government which they and their descendents will control.
We must start thinking for ourselves again before we can no longer think. I am not going to try and convert anybody, but I do ask that you think about things and what is really happening. If you look past the political crap and the diversions put forth you cannot help but come to the conclusion that something is going on and that things are not right in America today.
When I was kid in school and taking typing they gave us this little phrase to use to practice. Now, I hate POLITICAL CORRECTNESS but I will rephrase it just a bit, so here it is: 'Now is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of their country.' This statement could not be more appropriate today. If you are truly a good citizen of these Untied States of America it is time for YOU to come to the aid of YOUR country!
Since 9-11 our governement has used that tragedy to restrict our freedoms more than at any other time in our history. They have done and are continuing to do this all in the name of protecting us from harm. Well to that I say crap! My fellow citizens if you don't know this fundmental truth about freedom you need to go back to school and relearn your history lessons. Freedom is dangerous, even our so-called leader says this over and over again, just before he says we need to be protected and only the government can do that. Granted, it is the government's responsibility to keep us safe from some threats and I am all for them doing that. However, I am not in favor of giving up my dometstic freedoms because of some ethereal threat from some unknown source. I am not in favor of my government being able to access my library card to see what I am reading so they can determine if I am a terrorist. This missive right here could very well get me investigated. After all, I am not toeing the line of the big lie and wosrt of all I am putting the dissenting thoughts out for others to see and that might change a mind and in the wisdom of those who control things that might represent a threat to their rule. I don't care, I am a good American and I can support war if it makes sense and our security is truly threatened. I can support assisting others in their wars if they are truly fighting for their freedom and willing to die themselves for the freedom of their grandhchildren.
What I can't support is a government that lies to its citizens in order to pursue a course that is imprudent, unecessary and exacerbates a problem with no solution in mind. For that reason I cannot support this government and its actions. I am 100% behind the troops in the field as they are just pawns in this and must use whatever means necessary to do the job they are assigned while the rest of us figure out how to get rid of the General's and their bossses who have lead us down this path.
While I know the war in Iraq was wrong and a terrible mistake that will take generations to solve we cannot abandon our troops who are there doing a job they were told to do by those they and we entrusted with the decision making process. They must have all the tools necessary to do their jobs and that includes our support while they are there and when they return home. The prudent thing to have done was not to have gone to war. Since this government never does the prudent thing, only the expedient thing, we are left with the prospect of several more years of conflict in which our sons and daughters, grandsons and grandaughters will give the ultimate sacrifice. This sacrifice must not be in vain so I find myself supporting the misson while we find a strategy that will best serve the American people. Not that I want to abandon the Iraqi people, but there is really little influence we can exert on the ultimate outcome in Iraq. All we can do is patrol, shoot back, and expend huge sums of money and lives until somebody figures out how to bring the troops home.
We cannot stop a civil war from erupting, we have actually caused it to happen. Had it happened before we came into the picture and the point of the war been the Iraqi people gaining their freedom from a dispicable despot I and all of us could have been proud to support it. But it did not and it is not and as it happens we cannot run from the fact that our actions in Iraq caused it and it is not for the freeedom of the Iraqi people but for the dominance of one sect over another. This is not democracy or freedom and no matter how often our leaders tell us the lie that it is it never will be.
We, the citizens of the Untied States of America still have the opportunity to take our country back from those who would steal the wealth we create, the freedoms we cherish and the lives we live from us and give, sell and transfer them to their cronies in the big corporations and oil rich countries of the Middle East. Now, we probably cannot do it at the barrel of a gun but we can still do it at the ballot box.
It is YOUR DUTY as an American to go to the polls and vote. Even if you think you can have no effect on the outcome your DUTY is to VOTE. If you don't see anyone you can suport then write some one in. Even if it is your dog. This will not effect the outcome but it will register your displeasure with things as they are. You must ask your self if those in your city hall, your county courthouse, your state capital, and Washington D.C. are representing you and the American values of freedom, respect, loyalty and tolerance and if they are not you MUST vote against them no matter what party they represent.
Today we find ourselves at a crossroads. There are at least two distinct paths we can choose to follow. I call them safety and freedom. I will always choose freedom as my path as I cherish that more than most anything I have. I can do things to increase my personal safety just as you can. I don't need the government to put a gendarme at my door to make sure nothing bad happens to me. Homeland security begins at home. The government has no place deciding what I can read, who I can e-mail, what I can think or say and it has no business terrorizing the citizens in order to advance its Orwellian goal of total control.
There are more of us than there are of them. The only reason they have control is because we have abdicated our responsibility and duty as citizens to make sure they don't get control. Our Founding Fathers called it the tyranny of the minority. You see, when a country reaches the point where its citizens are so comfortable and lazy that they wish the government to do everything for them so they don't have any responsiblity for themselves anymore then the minority who are more vocal and usually on the fringe of the true thinking of the people can gain control. Just for arguments sake let's say that in any given election only 40% of those eligible to vote actually do so. Right off the bat you have a minority controlling things. So those who get a majority of the votes were elected by a majority of the minority and the majority is no longer in control. It is not hard to understand if you think about it. It is our duty as citizens to make sure that those who get a majority of the votes get them from the majority of the people not a majority of a small minority of the people.
So, this year it is your duty to get back in the game and start controlling what your government does by controlling those who control it. If you can vote and do not you are an idiot! If you vote for some one just because they belong to a party you support and not for what they believe then you too are an idiot! It is YOUR DUTY to think and act as if your freedom depended on ever decision you make, BECAUSE IT DOES!
You can no longer set in your recliner and watch CNN and Fox and let the government take care of it. YOU are the government and if you don't take care of it at the ballot box they will take care of you . I guarantee you there is more where this came from and I will put it here from time to time.
It is my duty as a citizen to speak out when I see wrong being done and it is my legacy as a child of the 60's to stand up and tell our government that enough is enough. I love my country, I cherish my freedom and I will not let any politician take it from me even in the name of safey! It is YOUR DUTY too! We all know they WILL shoot us, but we must take that chance if we wish our grandchildren to live in a free society where they too can express their opinion even if they are not those of the government and its minions! It is our grandchildren that I worry about and so should you.
Until next time, wishing you success in all you do.
Joe Massey
ATD Marketing
posted by Joe @ 8:51 AM
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