As the country prepares to release a sigh of relief at the prospect of George W Bush finally leaving office, I think I will continue to hold my breath. This has been, by almost all accounts the worst presidency in our history but few of us were willing to stand up and demand that he be removed from office. By now, we have all realized that congress has neither the will nor the courage to impeach and then prosecute this entire administration.
So what did our laziness and inattention buy us? As a nation we stand poised on the edge of losing our sovereignty to the North American Union. Our own government is working actively to dismantle our Republic and replace it with a dictatorship, replete with internment camps for dissenters. We have stood by while one law after another has been passed that directly infringed on our civil liberties and rights, and have been compliant accomplices in wars of aggression against other sovereign nations.
We have become a nation of cowards. Even when we, as a nation, have been shown the lies and deceptions used to promote these wars we cowered in fear: better to fight them “over there” than here. The problem is that the people we are warring with never attacked us. So just who is it that we are so fearful of in Iraq? We don’t know. The government either can’t or won’t identify who this enemy was in Iraq that made us attack them.
We are threatened continually with another attack if we don’t allow the government to illegally spy on us, to detain us without charges, to rifle through our personal business and to compile dossiers on each of us as they prepare for martial law. And, like the dutiful sheeple we are, many of us exclaim, “Well! If you haven’t done anything wrong you shouldn’t mind if they do that”. Its precisely because I haven’t done anything wrong that I do mind.
I find it strange that the only place threats of attacks ever come from are from our own government. Could it be that in some perverse way they are telling us that they will attack us if we don’t comply? After all, these threats are always so vague and even when they do claim to thwart an attempted attack, we never really quite know who, where, how or when. We’re only told that the attack was thwarted……..only no one seems to know anything about it but them!
I would like to think that the election of a new president from any quarter would bring relief and a restoration of our constitution and bill of rights. It won’t. We are given choices of whom to vote for, but only choices based on pre-selected candidates that will continue the destruction of our country. Which should give you a clue as to why Ron Paul is misrepresented in the polls and why his name was crossed off the ballots in New York.
In the end, we have no real choices. No matter who is elected, that person will simply continue with the plans to merge us with Mexico and Canada, and life as we have known will change forever. Not one of the candidates who will appear on the ballot will do one thing to restore our government to one governed by the people.
In the end, the fact that we have no real choices is our own fault. It was our apathy and laziness, our inattention to the monster that our government had become that allowed any of this to happen. We have only ourselves to blame.
Marti Oakley copyright 2008
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