If The Shoe Fits

From the Declaration of Independence:

... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The Bush administration and the entire federal government looks to be edging closer and closer to fit that particular government entity Jefferson was warning us all about.

Take a hard look at any federal government agency and you will see ample evidence of abuses and usurpations, or attempts to reduce us under total Depotism.

Whose right, and whose duty is the Declaration of Independence refering to?

Ours, fellow citizen, ours. Not the few self-serving cretins in Washington who have wormed themselves into the highest halls of government and turned it against us.

If by some miracle the American people do decide to throw out these few despicable life forms infesting our government, it would behoove us all to be far more careful in the future as to who we let vote, who we allow to become Americans, and who we choose to guard our security. We need to set up far better safeguards to ensure that the people we send to Washington operate strictly within Constitutional boundries, and provide a quick exit for those who attempt to overstep those boundries.

Remember that it is not the framework of our government that has failed us, it is the people in it. Get rid of those elitist fools and our government of the people, by the people and for the people will heal itself.

Or perhaps what some are saying is true, that the Great American Experiment has ended.

In that case, start learning how to exist in a world where your personel rights are non-existant, a world where any bureaucrat can destroy your life with the stroke of a pen, a world where any overly sensitive minority can have you jailed because you may have offended them in some way, a world where Big Brother will indeed be watching your every move, telling you where to go and what to do, a world where cameras will be found even in your bathroom--except that it won't be your bathroom--you'll be living in State provided quarters.

But hey! Many Americans will feel secure... finally. And it's the feeling that counts to them, not the reality.

Dang. I'm making myself feel bad. But damned if it doesn't look to me like the whole thing is unraveling... fast.