Time For Revolution?
This is no time for moderation.
"To secure these [inalienable] rights [to life, liberty, and thepursuit of happiness], governments are instituted among men,deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government."
These are the words of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.
This government has clearly shown that it is no longer answerable to the people or to the Constitution.
Are you furious?
Are you furious that Congress called a special session to tend to the needs of ONE American, at great expense, in complete contravention of their authority, trampling on the Constitution and the will of the judiciary?
Are you furious that thousands of others languish in the horror of similar circumstance of vegetative states, and are specifically omitted from any consideration, as our wise lawgivers state, "This is not a precedent."
I look at Bill Frist and I say, this is not a President.
This is a man who allows the power of his religious conviction to override the good of the people. This is a man who calls a special session to tend to the needs of one individual while hundreds die of malnutrition, of neglect, of preventable mistakes (7000 a year due to being given the wrong medication); all things Congress MIGHT actually be able to do something about, all within their over-extended authority.
Are you furious enough to overcome the power of incumbancy?
I don't think so. I think Americans are just going to sit back in their relative safety and continue to allow their liberties to be infringed upon.
I think we're going to allow murders in L.A. County to remain unsolved because the murderers are escaping over the border; and the President and the Congress think it is more important to come up with legislation that reaches yet another tendril into our lives, driving their non-precedent setting stake into the heart of marriage at the same time touting the "Defense of Marriage Act," instead of securing our general welfare or any of the other portions of our rights which we have ceded them the authority to tend to.
Labels: Bill Frist, congress, defense of marriage act, moderate, Politics, revolutions
