Cluster Jokes?

Political satire has been with us from the beginning in cartoon and parody form since the Revolution. George Washington, the Father of Our Country, was also labeled the "stepfather of our country" as well, a harmless bit of opposition humor. It expressed the view of a segment of the population that did not agree with Washington's policies. The same is true today but in a more apparent form, and one more widely available. We see Jay Leno, Steve Colbert, and other funny men poking fun at Bush and his gang of thugs, and we take comfort in the illusion that free speech is alive and well. This is not free speech; it is entertainment pretending to be free speech.

It is, but what good is it in practical terms? Were the police in Portland, Oregon, trading one-liners with the anti-war demonstrators a couple of years back. Were the high school security guards who attacked the sixteen year-old girl in the school cafeteria, and broke her arm, just kidding around? No, friends, we are only kidding ourselves if we believe that joking about the evil political cancer that has stricken our nation will cure the malady: it going to take a lot of positive, definitive, and relentless action to recover the democratic principles that we have always held so dear, even though we may have sometimes been remiss in living up them to the fullest. As Thomas Jefferson said it, "When the government is afraid of the people, that is democracy; when the people are afraid of the government, that is tyranny."

It appears that we have both in America today. The tyranny of power corrupted beyond redemption contends with the deeply-ingrained love of liberty that is the hallmark of our society. There is no question as to who will win in the long run, history is replete with tales of empires that rose and fell, and the American Empire will fall in due course. But we the people have to wake up and start taking action.

What can we do?

First of all we can come to the understanding that the people have all the power. The lying, conniving, duplicitous, and cowardly, people who infest the highest offices in the land are scavengers. like rats who feed on unguarded, unsecured goods. They work behind the scenes, in secrecy; are we to suppose that that are proud of what they are doing? Let me ask some pointed questions and let us see how our leaders stack up.

Do you teach your children to lie? They do.
Do you teach your children to cheat? They do.
Do you teach your children to say hurtful things about others? They do.
Do you teach your children to cover up their misdeeds? They do.

Oh, I could go on. but you get the idea. Children learn from what they see, not just at home, not just at school, or in church - but everywhere! What good are all your moral teachings when they see deviant pond scum like Bush, Cheney, Perle, Rice, and the rest of the menagerie of megalomania, lie like troupers, often contradicting themselves on videos. YouTube has many examples of Bush, Cheney, and now McCain, denying that they had ever made such-and-such statement, followed by a video showing them clearly making that very same statement. Do you need a house to fall on you?

The Democratic National Convention is due to start tomorrow, the Republican to have theirs later on. Are you actually expecting an honest election? Nothing has changed since 2004; the same hackable voting machines are still out there, the local boards of the respective parties will still try to disqualify voters who oppose their party using every dirty trick in the book. And the candidates? They look different but with either one in the White House it will be business-as-usual; the money men will still call the shots, and we will still support Israel, something we should have stopped doing forty years ago.

John McCain is a certifiable nut case; just look at his videos on YouTube; he changes positions more often than I change socks. Remember the "Keating Five": he hopes you have forgotten about that little scandal. His fellow POWs in Viet Nam tell us that he was given special favors by the enemy in exchange for making propaganda films, for them and for informing on his fellow prisoners. Now he wants to be president? Bush was enough of a disaster, we can live very well without the likes of Mr. McCain.

What can we do as citizens to return our nation to constitutional principles, sound moral values, and the sovereign citizenship that the Constitution of the Unites States guarantees for us all. It is the supreme law of the land and we need leaders, and we need leaders who will uphold the Constitution, not trash it, who will put the interests of the American people first, and who will lead this nation to a new world of peace and prosperity, not the Hitlerian New World Order that the nepcom crazies have been trying to introduce. They have taken action, we therefore must also tke action.

Demonstrations do not work! All they accomplish is to give the bully boys another excuse to hurt people. They even plant agitators among the demonstrators to incite violence, and give the police an excuse to brutalize people who are just exercising their Constitutional right of free assembly. What good has ever come of protesting? Sure, we have seen videos of people being clubbed, tear gassed, knocked down, handcuffed, and arrested - but that changes nothing. And what good are protests at political gatherings when the protesters are herded into cages a hundred yards away from any cameras, candidates, or anyone else except the police that guard them. No, friends; they play rough, we must play even rougher; they work in secret, so must we; they are dedicated to their cause, we must be even more dedicated to ours. So what can we do?

Stop demonstrating! Start taking effective positive action. Got a computer, a printer, and the Internet? Good! Search out articles about the abuses of government, about the voting records of local representatives; then print these out as fliers and tack them up everywhere, place them under the windshield wipers of cars in parking lots. Email and telephone your congressmen and senators on all issues pertaining to our civil liberties: insist that they Vote American, that is, in the best interests of our nation and its people. These include jobs, affordable health care, the abolition of the Federal Reserve; separation of church and state: stop passing laws based on religious dogma; abortion, same sex marriage, Blue Laws, birth control, and anything else that gives the government a right to meddle in the private lives of people or curb their right to free expression.

Liberty is the name of this game. We enjoy freedoms that has been passed down to us by truly brave, principled men who put their very lives on the line. We are stewards of that liberty, entrusted with the holy mission of passing it on to future generations, whole and complete, not to squander it on the fantasies of cowards who see terrorists behind every bush, around every corner,and are so paranoid that their infamous Watch Lists contain children as young as five years old.

The Second American Revolution has begun; join it and together we can bring sanity back to our cherished land, before the shooting starts!