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For the last five years this nation has been breaking records for turning
back the societal clock in a twisted attempt to rewrite history. The battle has
been on-going between two very different views of how authority ought to be
applied when it comes to governing this nation and by extension the rest of the
planet.
This debate has been actively simmering for decades, and in her article of
October 6, 2005 www.commondreams.org
'Granny D'
has described the stakes this way. "Is the heat and danger we feel not the
old conflict between those who believe that authority comes from above: from an
Old Testament God delivered through husbands, presidents, preachers, ayatollahs
and plantation overseers to people arranged in layers according to their worth,
is it not a conflict between those authoritarians and those others who believe
that all men are created equal, and that the authority to govern issues forth
from them, upward to their government - their common vessel of community - and
not downward? Is this not the divide of 1860 and also of our own time?"
And: "Where authority and power flow down from above, from heaven to the
White House to husbands and ayatollahs, the free and joyful living of people can
be quite the enemy. If you remember the free spirit of those flower children who
grew up in the 1960s, or example, you will remember the harsh attitudes that
attended to their joys from the more traditional, often more rural, elements of
our society."
"What attracted such hatred? It was their freedom, their sense of
equality, and their joys."
". . . those in the clan of authority are not given the privilege
-- the natural right -- of living their own lives. They do as they are told, say and
think what they are told. Smothered is their curiosity and their healthy
criticism, and also their imagination, joy, freedom, and lust for life itself.
When they see others actually living lives, they react with anger, as if someone
had cut to the front of a line that, for them, never moves."
When one looks hard at what this administration has been playing at for the
entirety of their years in office, the differences between this unsettled choice
about the source of true authority in a free and democratically arranged society
is evident. What we now face is a Rogue Government that is completely
out-of-control, and one that goes well beyond their constitutionally designed
offices; especially when they arbitrarily fail to fund the social programs they
are bound to fund and administer, while at the same time they are diverting
federal funds to faith-based organizations and creating no bid secret contracts
to rebuild what our military illegally has destroyed, in our international wars
of aggression. The role of Congress in all of this has been overlooked in the
extreme, because the executive could have done none of this without
congressional approval and complicity.
The same is true of the "Advise and Consent" clause in the
constitution when it comes to candidates for the US Supreme Court. Candidates
have to be appropriately skilled to serve all the people of this land, and not
just the twisted aspirations of this imposter who pretends to be the president
of this country. Given that the nine justices on that court are appointed for
life terms, their ascension to office needs to be a carefully thought out
selection process - not merely a watered-down popularity contest to be
manipulated by whatever passing political fancy might be sitting in the White
House.
The McCarthy era in the 1950s underscored what happens when petty tyrants are
allowed to go too far in playing at being judge, jury and executioner for the
nation at large. George W. Bush has taken McCarthyism to a whole new level,
seeking to blacklist anyone who has questions about his administrations methods
for national security, for illegal wars or for any of the other egregious
governmental transgressions committed by this gang of Outlaws who claim to be
the legitimate government of this country. The Bush administration under the
leadership of the current Attorney General Gonzalez has reinstated Star Chamber
proceedings, secret trials without charges, unfounded accusations from un-named
accusers, torture and prison camps without end - all of this created under the
totally false pretense for the bogus attack upon the United States on 9-11-01.
Under the Bushwhackers, secrecy is inviolate, illicit profits are the goal
and damage to the planet or the environment are of no consequence when measured
against the bottomless pit of their personal greed under their self-ordained
"authority" None of this has anything to do with a legally constituted
government, but rather represents the use and abuse of all our national assets
and resources. In other times and places this would have been considered treason
against the people of this country: but since the imposition of the events of
911, all of this continues to be shoved beneath the stench of lies and deception
that masquerades as "National Security."
Granny D goes on to say: "If you wonder why the other side of the
political aisle seems so resistant to the facts, it is because they are not
interested in what works, what is pragmatic, they are interested in obedience to
authority. It is nothing less than mental bondage to the cult of authority. ~
Better leaders can make great differences in the life of a society, but we
cannot elect them if we do not change from electoral organizing to social
organizing."
And in summation she says: "We must help people see through the mental
traps that they are victim to, and we must do this by telling it like we see it,
by asking them to see that the pro-life, pro-war movement is really a cult of
death, that fundamental Christianity represents the opposite of Christ's
teachings, that authoritarian control and elite profiteering are only the
strings of the far right's puppet show."
"Let us return to real politics in the neighborhoods - especially those
neighborhoods where we are most needed. As it stands now people who do not
receive the support they need from an ever-receding community are turning to the
very churches that are politically killing those needed government services.
This is a dangerous tailspin that we can only arrest with a political return to
the neighborhoods. Let us demand of our party leaders that we move from
electoral to social organizing so that there is more rock and less hot air under
our candidates as we move into the future."
" we must bring the light of consciousness to people who are enslaved by
the darkness. We must show them - make them see - the clear links between the
Taliban and the American fundamentalists. It is about power, male power, and
subservience. Why can't a young girl in trouble get an abortion in the preferred
world of the fundamentalists? It isn't because of the sanctity of life, or the
fundamentalist would be acting to preserve life by getting medicine to Africa
instead of impeding it. They would be halting executions and building up our
institutions of peace."
The criminals in our midst have come for our rights and for our freedoms, if
we continue to yield to their demands unchallenged, then we shall soon perish
under the weight of their fascist tyrannies. We have said that we stand for
civil rights and for the rights of women around the world, yet what we tolerate
from this administration is unspeakable.
Political rhetoric has been overflowing from the sewers that continue to spin
the lies of the mass media - yet we do not demand more by way of an accounting
for what passes for national and international news. Freedom can only breathe
when people are willing to defend their right to those freedoms. Without a
willingness to risk life, there can be no real freedom for anyone. Having these
"rights" written down on yellowing parchment is nothing at all, unless
there is access to the promised protections. The protections of the Bill of
Rights are accessible to the elite who have the money to file their cases in
federal court but to no one else. Democracy is only an empty political concept
unless it is practiced.
For decades we have become evermore distant from politics and from those who
literally have our lives in their hands - the time has come to make congress
accountable and to change the direction that the Bandits have charted for us
all, but at some point we must redress the problems of the 1860s and clearly
choose which line of authority we want to govern over the people of this nation.
The question of this day is whether we shall choose life, or the death by a
thousand cuts of this 12th century insanity that is now trying to dominate us
all. This is one choice that must be ratified by the actions of what we choose
to do as people and as citizens of this country.
Under the current status quo, just as the real Bandits are incapable of
managing to cope with natural disasters of mega proportions, the nation cannot
actually handle an attack from beyond our shores, or from within our borders.
These predatory people have no respect for the lives of the working poor, for
people of color, for women or for anyone not directly a member of their elite
little group of thieves. Is this what you thought America was ever really all
about?
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