Kirwan Articles 

"Don't Vote, America!" 

It Might Commit you to Something that Matters

October 27,  2002

You can also view this article at America Held Hostile

Come November in the year 2002, the nation will have one last chance to rebel against these lies that have shaped the people we have become.

Our society is one of blatant double standards. We have two-tiered systems for employment, for compensation, for criminal justice, for morality and for ethics; indeed for every area of our lives. Americans have come to accept the fact that this country is a nation of double standards.

In matters of politics, we have not kept faith with even the most basic precepts of our democratic form of government. How can such an outrageous thing be true? It's true because a democracy requires the involvement of all its citizens, at every level of government, and in all walks of life. That's just a fact, and it really doesn't depend on the very busy schedules of the self-involved who simply haven't the time to bother keeping up with what might be taking place in the nation or the world. Moreover, politics is not just something that 'happens' every couple of years- it's the base pattern for that fabric from which our very existence is woven.

The criminals who now run this nation know this. The lobbyists who direct our national and international policies know this. All those who benefit from the status quo of our current system know this for the fact that it is. Apparently, the only people who do not know this are the downtrodden wage-slaves and the imbeciles who blame the government instead of themselves for the situation that we're now in.

Politics is a contact sport. If one fails to participate, then one cannot expect to have any voice in what can happen because they failed to vote. Politics is complex and money-driven, and again those who will not get involved cannot complain when they lose their freedoms, their livelihood or their comfortable way of life.

The nation needs to have a smaller, leaner, more responsive and responsible government. Had this been the case, the last presidential election couldn't have been so easily stolen. Make no mistake- it was stolen openly and in full view of the entire nation. The Supreme Court violated one of the most sacred tenets of the Constitution, the Separation of Powers. The nation watched while 'journalists' sold us out by not covering that theft as a highjacking, preferring instead to cover the story as a simple dispute between candidates.

There were sub-plots within and beneath this theft; one example being the disenfranchisement of 175,000 voters in an election that was separated by only 537 votes. "Not a story" said those who are charged with passing along 'the news' to the rest of us. The fact that Congress has the legal responsibility for settling disputes of this nature within their own chambers was never touched upon. The losing candidate, who actually received the majority of votes, deserved to lose because he would not challenge this public farce - and, thereby, he and his party made meaningless the voting process itself.

The Congress of the United States of America is a grand title for a reputedly august body, responsible for making the laws of the land. However, the facts of this Congress's record show otherwise. This has been the worst congress on record in the last fifty years; and, this in a time of 'war' with everybody who does not support George W. Bush as our national pretender to a non-existent throne.

If Nixon had gone to jail, there would've been no Ronnie "get the government off your backs and make government smaller" - the same jerk that took us from the world's leading creditor nation to the world's leading debtor nation while tripling the size of the US government. This happened, coincidentally, at the same time that many decided for themselves that indeed, "Greed is GREAT!" (but only when it works for them and not to them).

When will we again find our voices and remember who we are, why we are and what happened to those wonderful opportunities that we're beginning to throw on the trash heap of history? What have we become? Are we a self-consumed nation of petty crooks and criminals that would bludgeon the rest of the planet for a few more drops of stolen oil? Or, are we that high-minded bastion of Freedom and Democracy that we claim to be? We are both and we are neither. America is adrift between poles of rhetoric; a bold bald eagle without a head, a world power without any purpose beyond that of acquisition at the expense of everyone else who seeks "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

We proudly claim all sorts of patriotic fervor. We speak of bravery and of heroes as though these were commonplace occurrences when nothing could be further from the truth. Our young do not protest our new 'wars upon the world' because we've wrapped all our causes in the flag. We have no home grown opposition to the government because too many who claim to hold opposing views have chosen to flee, rather than risk themselves by confronting the federal government.

Our settled citizens don't revolt because they'll lose their jobs if they oppose the power grab in Washington. The media, whose job is to 'tell the people' what's going on, have become a joke. Today's reporters are just another group of supplicants, sucking at the teat of those in pseudo-power - just another group who grovels at the stolen seat of what was once a government.

Finally, there are those who want to 'send a message' by not voting. This has been going on since Vietnam, and those in power love them dearly - because that leaves the playing field to those who paid for special interests from those they bought to do their bidding for them. But now the circle has run its course, and truth has shown its ugly head. Does anyone care about the government's collusion in the fraud, the corruption, the perversion of laws and the manipulation of investigations that continue to thwart the statutes of ethics and of settled law?

Neither freedom nor democracy can be given to anyone because these ideals have to be fought for by each person who would claim them. Those who fought for ours have been dead for many years.

Americans who are eligible to vote in November have a unique opportunity. It is within our power to fire the criminals who claim to represent us. You can throw the pretenders from their pompous pedestals and hurl them back into the mean streets that they have done so little to eliminate. If people don't rebuke this dangerous tyranny at the heart of American government, then we'll be saying to the world that there are indeed 'no consequences' for breaking all the laws, and there are no consequences for stealing this nation from its people.

Our first band of rebels who took on the British Crown in the colonies knew that "Taxation without representation is Tyranny!" How could we have forgotten this all too evident fact?

Come November 5, 2002 - the question is - will we celebrate the re-birth of a nation - or the death of a once glorious idea? That's the decision to be decided by those who choose to vote that day. And, unless a majority of incumbents are defeated nationwide on November 5th, we will have failed to keep the torch of liberty alive - just as we will have failed all those who fought and sometimes died to give each of us the chance to chose our future at the ballot box instead of in the streets.