Posted on 03/30/2004 9:01:40 PM PST by Kudsman
Today's affairs have me scared
By Ron VanNostrand
Recently, I have been doing some serious thinking about moving from this space. My occupancy on this page has forced an awareness of current affairs that I sometimes find quite troubling on mental, emotional and spiritual levels.
I love my country and the ideals of its foundation. In my lifetime, it has been very painful to watch our image go from a democracy once emulated by people around the world to the most despised nation on the planet. Perhaps Roger Hare was correct last week when he stated we are not a democracy but a republic.
If this is so, it is not democracy we are spreading, but global capitalism for the benefit of multi-national corporations. Even the left's standard bearer, Hillary Clinton, has declared we need a bigger army.
I'd like to pretend it would be to protect us from terrorism, but I'm sure the military increase would only serve to support dictatorships that protect the interests of these corporate giants as they pillage the resources of indigenous peoples around the world.
One only has to look as close as Haiti where a duly elected leader was overthrown with the support of our administration and in Aristide's own words, kidnapped and removed from his country by our forces.
Presently, Jamaica is being pressured by our policy makers to have him vacate that island due to its proximity to his homeland.
Other nations have condemned the Israeli assassination of the leader of Hamas and declared it a violation of international law. We find it "troubling."
When the wall came down between East and West Berlin everyone celebrated, yet another wall is being built in Palestine.
With the bombing in Madrid, the face of international politics forever changed. Protesters flooded the streets resulting in the election of a Socialist regime that promised to remove Spanish troops from Iraq.
Of course we will not have to worry about unpopular views leading to our government's electoral downfall once electronic voting is in place.
If the outcome is not favorable, the results will be able to be manipulated much easier and without a trace.
Our current administration still claims global warming to be "junk" science, yet down the street, the Pentagon prepares strategies to combat the catastrophically environmental and social repercussions of the steady increase in global temperatures.
Perhaps I just need more time to focus on the positive. More time to publish my poetry magazine, play music, garden, enjoy what's left of nature and pray for a miracle to save our planet from its current exploitation. Quite frankly I see little hope for a peaceful political resolution in the future and I find other options quite distasteful.
Hehehehe. He can't sell what he already drank.
Please FReep on all. I'm calling it a night.
Groucho: What do you get an hour?
Chico: For playing, we get-a ten dollars an hour.
Groucho: I see. What do you get for not playing?
Chico: Twelve dollars an hour. Now for rehearsing we make special rates. That's-a fifteen dollars an hour.
Groucho: And what do you get for not rehearsing?
Chico: You couldn't afford it. You see, if we don't rehearse, and if we don't-a play, that runs into money.
Hey, dummy, in my lifetime, I have seen this "democracy emulated by people around the world" slowly sink toward complete socialism. So, they depise us because they are sinking faster than we are, and we're not keeping up with them? Genius?
That's the way the Founding Father's intended it. You won't find the word "democracy" anywhere in the Constitution, but you will find the word "repubilican" (little "r"). In a democracy 50% plus one can vote to oppresse the other 50% less one. They can vote away their rights, and tax others to support their wants. None of this is allowed in a Constitutional republic. Rights are beyond the reach of the mob de jure. The people retain all rights, and those powers not specifically granted to government.
Of course, Roger Hare was wrong, we no longer are a Republic. Judges make law, the Congress makes laws specifically forbidden, never mind not authorized. The President makes law too, via "executive order". Thousands of beaurcrats also make law, in spite of never having been elected. No, we are no longer a Republic and are fast approaching a mobocracy.
Isn't that exactly what this piece is, beer that he already drank?
Why bother? You know it's going to be filled with nothing but personal attacks on Ms. Van Nostrand, and that will be how she characterizes the criticism on this thread. When an article is written how a hyperventilating, liberal fag talks, you know that person only listens to one side, anyway.
Putting aside the obvious fact that the author exhibits all the mental acuity and political sophistication of your average stoned college sophomore, has anyone else noticed that the whole "electronic voting" issue has already become this pre-emptive self-justification for the Left's refusal to ever acknowledge the legitimacy of the Bush administration? Even if he wins in a landslide, 60-40, and coattails a dozen new Senators, they'll still be shrieking about how "Whistle Ass" "stole the election."
So no matter what happens, a Bush win = four more years of the same. Half the Supreme Court could retire or die of old age, and they'll still be trotting out every parliamentary procedure and smelly, ancient communist protestor they can find to gridlock the system. Great, huh? At all unexpected?
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