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The American people have no one
leading the charge for the restoration of the Constitution and
the rule of law.
My point is not that few
Americans are engaged and energized in doing good things, but
simply that there is no individual who is leading… no one with whom you and a great many others
are willing stand and fight in order to defend your country
and your heritage.
Vying for political leadership
are the two principal nominees hoping to be the Democratic
candidate for President of the United States. And
there’s also the Presidential candidate for the Republicans.
But none of these candidates have made the ongoing
perpetration of crimes — against our Constitution and the American people — an issue or a cause
worth fighting for.
I'm not going to recount here
all the ways that the Constitution and the rule of law have
been trampled upon in recent years. A Google search on
"Bush crimes" might be time well spent for anyone
who needs a review.
Apparently most citizens have
been talked out of their patriotism by the mainstream media,
the two main political parties, and our elected officials
— those traitors who conveniently forgot their
oath of office while the Constitution was being so
denigrated.
One issue in the upcoming election
under discussion is the ending of the war in Iraq. But
on close inspection we see that that, in and of itself, would
be a
bogus issue. The real issue is whether we are going to
recognize the illegitimacy of the war, the crimes that were
committed to instigate the war, and the ongoing crimes against
the Constitution and innocent people in the
administration of the war. The war itself was a direct attack on
the Constitution and the American people... and of course on
the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The real issue is whether
we are a nation of laws… i.e., do we believe in the rule of
law… or have we simply given up on the American Experiment
and the Constitution itself. If we acknowledge that the war was
illegal — that egregious crimes were committed in its
execution — then it will follow that we must end the war. But
what follows is much more
than that.
Just talking about ending the
war and bringing our troops home, without addressing the shredding
of the Constitution, is a betrayal of
every American and every soldier who ever fought in this war
or any other. Are we going to reclaim ourselves as a
Constitutional republic or have we given up trying to be the
America that was originally conceived into being by the
Framers?
Beyond the war and its
illegality, are the following travesties that need to be
addressed:
- the illegitimate elections
that fraudulently put criminals in charge of our
government and kept them there.
- the ongoing destruction of
government itself by the purposeful evisceration of nearly
every oversight function of government. Lies permeate
government offices everywhere. That’s why the economy is
failing, why we have no energy policy, why our educational
system is behind the rest of the developed world, why all citizens
do not have access to affordable health care, why our food
supply is at risk, why our children are at risk even when
they play with toys, why our infrastructure is in a state
of decay, why inflation is stealing from every paycheck,
why the over-bloated military industrial complex is
bankrupting our country, why Congress no longer works as a
body representing real people… and the list goes on and
on.
- when and how are we going to
recognize and take
responsibility for the crimes we have committed against
other members of our human family?
If we refuse to acknowledge the
crimes, and if we refuse to find and stand with a leader who is willing and able
to honorably seek justice in their resolution, we will be surrendering
our rights, our freedoms, and our heritage to the true enemies
of our republic — we will be surrendering to ignorance,
arrogance, cowardice, and greed. I invite you to review the
following links as you consider your response.
http://www.gpln.com/howiseeit.htm
http://www.gpln.com/citizen.htm
http://www.gpln.com/oneissue.htm
http://www.gpln.com/resolution.htm
http://www.counterpunch.org/cohn05062008.html
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