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"Bush
lied, people died!"
"Cheney
gets richer off the war!"
"Rumsfeld
sacrifices your sons and daughters to the God of
Greed!"
"Bush
bypasses court to spy on you!"
"Bush
says Constitution is " just a piece of paper!"
These
are actual headlines, not from the mainstream media but from
'blogs' across the internet. Unfortunately, most Americans
still get their 'news' from mainstream media sources and its
only the headlines and sound bites that attract their
attention -- you know, the important news: "Brad to
adopt Angelina's children"
It's
not that the important stories have not been covered by
mainstream media, they have; but they have been presented in
a low key, non-emphatic sort of way that fails to stir up
the outrage every American should be feeling at this time.
HOW
DARE Bush & Co. get richer off the bodies of our
soldiers in an endless war they created? HOW DARE Cheney
attempt to justify the use of torture? HOW DARE Bush
authorize the use of warrantless wiretaps and do a
run-around the Constitution and the courts? HOW DARE he say
the Constitution is just "a piece of paper?" HOW
DARE he state that because he's 'commander-in-chief' the
laws do not apply to him?
HOW
DARE? Because we DON'T CARE!
If
we cared, the switchboard at Congress would be jammed with
irate callers. Furious e-mails and faxes would have filled
the rooms and bags of letters demanding the impeachment of
President Bush would be pouring into every Senator and
Representative office.
If
we cared, newspapers would have to print extra editions to
contain the outrage expressed in letters to the editor
demanding action against those who would destroy our
freedoms with impunity.
Bolstered
by our collective silence, Bush & Co. continue on with
new and more egregious behavior -- daring us to care and
confident we won't.
Instead,
ignorance and apathy have combined to the point that only a
few voices in the wilderness can be heard, and then only if
one cares enough to listen.
On
departing the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin
was asked, "what have you created?" He replied,
"a republic, if you can keep it."
If
we at last fail to keep our republic, we will not be able to
blame the British, or the Confederacy, or the Germans, or
the Nazis, or the Communist hoardes, or terrorists. If we
fail to keep our republic it will be because we quit caring
about it. We allowed ourselves to become ignorant and
complacent, trusting fools -- totally willing to allow the
government to do our thinking for us and carry us along from
cradle to grave on false entitlements and pretty promises.
The
2004 election was a sham. Do we care? Apparently not. The
2008 election was a fraud. Do we care? Apparently not. Bush
is a lying, meglamaniac who has surrounded himself with
lying meglamaniacs. Do we care? Apparently not. Our Congress
is filled with bribe takers, selling their souls to the
highest bidder. Do we care? Apparently not. Our Supreme
Court cares no more for our Constitution than does the
President. Do we care? Apparently not.
Pogo
was right. We have met the real enemy of our republic, and
it is us!
God
save this republic -- because it's clear we won't even try.
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