American Revolution - Part II

Liberals are dancing in the streets of America today, shouting in ecstasy over their meager yet decisive victory in Tuesday's election against the Republican axis of evil.

I just don't get it.

How quickly people forget the ineptitude of Democratically-controlled governments. Bill Clinton? Intelligent, to be sure, but unwilling to take the bold steps and morally...well, haven't the jokes been made already? Think, people!! Has there ever been a look on a man's face that more closely resembled a question mark than the one Jimmy Carter sported during his Presidency? Can you say RECESSION? Can you say TERRORISM? Both of these wondrous terms fit nicely on the heads of the last two Democratically-controlled White Houses.

Frankly, these criticisms can apply equally to Republican governments. And that, my friends, is my point. NEITHER PARTY is the answer!!

Anyone with a keen eye and a manageable intellect can see the immobility of the current system of government in the United States. The two party system chokes the promise of America with squabbling and agenda. No longer can we have an Abraham Lincoln in the White House, gamely attempting to unify a fractured country with heartfelt logic and a strong moral backbone. If Lincoln existed today, more ink would spill over his sleeping arrangements with men rather than his Gettysburg Address. And, more importantly, Lincoln would be unable to get anything productive done in this environment, where his actions must appease his party's fortunes in the next election, rather than make decisions to benefit his people: the common citizens.

America has become an ugly place where people turn a blind eye to the suffering of others, yet expect their own suffering to gain national attention. A place where actual issues are swept aside for the sensational and the trivial. A place where liars and thieves and backstabbing leeches make profits on the grinding corpses of the common man. A place where freedom has a dollar amount attached to it. A place where those that govern serve not the people, but are served and grow fat off of the people. It is a cold, fractious, hollow place.

The wholesale corruption within all three branches of government, which were originally designed to check and balance one another, continues to shock. The stunning election fraud in 2000. The absolute lies forged in order to invade Iraq. Clinton pardoning everyone except me before he left office. Enron. Whitewater. Iran-Contra. The JFK assassination. In other countries, such behavior by a group of elected officials would be met with a coup d etat. Not here in America. Instead, we have partisan bickering and media sniping, followed by a puppet commission to assess the situation and pardon everyone. The sole benefit of such machinations is to preserve the power of America's leadership, Republican or Democrat. The power left the hands of the People a long, long time ago. Instead, they need to have a majority vote in order to give themselves a raise in minimum wage to a whopping $6.50 an hour! I wonder what the representatives of "the People" make an hour, and I wonder if they need to jump through a bunch of hoops to get a raise in their hourly wage. Hmmmm...

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are two of the greatest documents ever written about governmental theory, penned by thoughtful men who wanted to craft something unique and - gasp - noble. Unfortunately, these men also saw that such a government, so promising on paper, might eventually not function properly "for the People." Notice this dire warning, written into the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and much more relevant today:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, 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."

The time has come when Americans need to face a sobering reality: the government no longer works for them; instead, it works them over. Their votes, each individual one of insignificant size, have altogether become irrelevant in the face of electoral college frauds and the policies of those elected to lead who steadfastly refuse to heed what the People have commanded in those votes.

In 1776, men of courage broke away from the bonds of a corrupt and greedy form of government that had enslaved them. For many of those men, it took more than courage - it took their very lives.

The articles that founded this country themselves cry out for revolution under these circumstances. Who today will be the ones to take up a stand against tyranny?

We need another American Revolution.