- 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.
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- This debate has been actively simmering for decades,
and in her article of October 6, 2005 http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1010-31.htm
"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?"
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- 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."
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- "What attracted such hatred? It was their freedom,
their sense of equality, and their joys."
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- ". . . 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."
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 nation'l 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."
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- 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."
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- 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."
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- "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."
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- " 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."
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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- kirwan
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