Although I generally refrain these days from participating in the political distress created by the blogosphere, I wanted to ramble a bit on some thoughts I’ve had of late.
We Americans have lost much in recent years. No longer are we free to speak our minds. No longer are we guaranteed our day in court. No longer are we safe from police-state tactics.
Regrettably, we now represent the very enemy we claimed to abhor throughout the Cold War.
Persons being deported are drugged against their will with powerful medications that are unwarranted and dangerous.
Anyone fingered as a “person of interest” finds that we no longer enjoy any constitutional rights.
Every phone call, every e-mail, every fax, every communiqué is monitored. Warrantless searches are now all too common. Judicial review and protection are things of the past.
Torture, that boundary America swore never to cross, is standard practice. Humans represent nothing more than fodder for the cannons and canons of violence.
The separation of powers exists only in history books. The inherent protection of three branches has been subjugated by the overgrown executive’s successful theft of authority.
I fear this could be the last presidency peacefully obtained. In fact, I fear this could be the last presidency of America as we know it. If my worst fears are realized, our nation will succumb to civil war and domestic mayhem within two years—especially when the time comes for power to be taken from the vile creature now occupying the Oval Office. I fear he won’t give it up now that he’s tasted dictatorship and rule without constitutional restraint.
Let me finish with this, for I think it describes the situation perfectly:
“A rich enemy excites their cupidity; a poor one, their lust for power. East and West alike have failed to satisfy them. They are the only people on earth to whose covetousness both riches and poverty are equally tempting. To robbery, butchery and rapine, they give the lying name of ‘government’; they create a desolation and call it peace.”
— Tacitus