Today’s Topic: Stop Trying to Scare us. We Are Americans And Aren’t Afraid
I’m more than sick and tired of the use of fear to intimidate the American people into supporting the brute force changes this administration has foisted upon us.
Americans are Americans and as such are guaranteed their rights to the thoughts in their heads and the thoughts they speak. There are no less true patriots in America unless they truly be traitors in the Constitutional definition.
The definition of insane is continuing to take the same actions expecting a different result. The definition shows a refinement of thought that cannot be overcome because the person having those thoughts cannot realize the futility of accomplishing their goals using the same actions.
Well, apparently only human beings can be insane because I’ve never seen a cow or a dog or a rabbit do the same thing over and over again and yet expecting to achieve the original goal. It only took my Australian Cattle Dog, Freckles, one time of trying to jump over a fence she knew she should have been able to jump after she had failed the first time and hurt herself. There were parameters present she had not taken into consideration the first time, but she learned on the first effort.
If you extrapolate the experience of continued failure and place the same onus on this president then you’ll easily see that my 5 year old dog is far smarter. Even further removed but still within the list of people receiving republican talking points are those idiots such as Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
The problem with both of the above is that they appear to declare the right to judge people without concern to whether their previous judgements were proven or not. Most times the judgements were far off base and yet their continued support by the religious right is unabashed.
Bill Maher said on a recent airing of Real Time "don’t you have to be right once in a while before you start calling people names?" Considering that this administration has failed miserably even in representing their religious right’s agenda, then one would have to say that the administration should probably shut its mouth. Please don’t let me hear another republican based diatribe about how the 80% of Americans who support ending the war and bringing our troops home healthy and unscathed as possible are Un-Patriotic. It’s not possible. By virtue of simple math and chaos principle it is far more likely that President Bush is sitting in the Oval Office dripping a drop of water on his hand expecting that drop to follow the path of the last drop. Apparently most of America realizes that each drop will go the way it goes, not the way one would wish.
And as my father used to tell me, you can shit in one hand and wish in the other. You don’t even have to wonder which hand will be full first.
But what I’m particularly mad at is that somehow the concept of the President protecting the Constitution of the United States has turned around to mean that the President must protect the people of the United States.
Well, the heck with that. I’m willing to have my rights intact and have the possibility that I may be within the next group of people attacked. And yes, that includes my wife and my children if that need be. At least that way I know I/we have died leaving something tangible of the freedoms 230 years of Americans have fought for. Otherwise, my death and the deaths of my family and those brothers in combat would truly have been lost in vain.
There is no victory in supplying Iraq with democracy when our own Constitution is laid to waste.
The concept of patriotism cannot come down to only supporting one side because the gentlemen who wrote the Constitution didn’t even have one single purpose.
But single purpose is the design of the Republican Party and its current executive branch administrator, George W. Bush. And the rhetoric is continually based on fear. Oh, not their fear. The fear represented here is the fear of the American people is that we will be attacked again and good Americans will die.
Given the situation based on the circumstances of this administration, I’d have to predict that indeed, more Americans would die. We can almost predict how many Americans will die in the next 5 years that both parties’ presidential candidates have been talking about. We’ll see about 50 to 60 American soldiers per month die in Iraq over the next year. This will happen simply because we are there. Both sides of the aisle are preparing us for at least another 3,000 dead American troops, and certainly another 20,000 wounded. If extrapolated for the Iraqi, then we can expect to see up to another 1 million dead innocent civilians. We can expect to see another 2 million refugees draining the resources of their neighboring countries, and we can expect to see another Diaspora such as the Palestinians have been forced to suffer since 1948 and the establishment of a reconstituted Israel.
And yet Americans seem to be totally fine with the numbers I’ve estimated because they don’t want to be considered unpatriotic. Well, I find them unpatriotic because they won’t stand up for their beliefs in the numbers the polls represent. I, in fact, find them wanting not in their desire to be patriots, but in the ability to accept the fact that being a patriot doesn’t mean you come out alive. There is no guarantee there. There is only the guarantee that you will have been able to hold your head high knowing in your heart that you are a true patriot because you didn’t allow events to occur in your name without your approval.
I live about 3 miles from DC. I live on the upper area that was previously used for the Washington intelligentsia to summer because it is greater in height than the swamps of which DC was cut. But I’m about 7 miles as the crow flies from the center of DC and both my wife and I decided that as much as DC would be a target for a nuclear bomb from terrorists, we were not going to allow the terrorists to determine where we live.
And just as importantly, we are not going to allow this administration to try to place the fear of God in our hearts because of the bullshit. Rather, we will continue to show our patriotism in defying this administration’s lies and ruses.
All of us will die. That is a fact of the universe. If you allow your freedoms to be vacated because you might die even just a day earlier than you could have died, you have bequeathed to your children and our nation a legacy of intimidation by people no more able to determine the future than you.
For you see, it is the Constitution that requires patriotism. This president, that president, it doesn’t make a whit of difference as long as you continue to support the Constitution and help maintain the document that made this country unique in the world.
Let’s face it. It is far more important for you to be a patriot because you support the Constitution (as is the oath sworn of the President of the United States) than to be worried that someone might deem you unpatriotic if you don’t follow those making the loudest protestations.
If you happen to believe that the current situation is truly in support of the Constitution then you are a patriot, even if you disagree with me. But if you choose to try to rally the American people through fear in order to maintain the status quo, you are the traitors to the spirit of the Constitution and thus to the rest of the American people.
2:13:30 PM 
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