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.

Passionate Moderates

It is time that we in our right minds, meaning all those who are not out on the fanatical fringes of issues became more passionate about demanding attention be paid to the center. There is so much babble about red states and blue states, the right-wing and left-wing, and virtually no one paying attention to those who are intelligent enough and reasonable enough to listen to both sides of an issue, and make up their minds not based on a label, but based on the facts of the particular case.

Moderate has come to be synonymous with dispassionate; and that has to stop. It is unreasonable to disregard the wishes of the majority. It is also unreasonable to simply cast minorities, the weak, the elderly, out to sea because they do not have numbers to speak for themselves.

I remember hearing Harry Brown, the Libertarian candidate for President, repeatedly state in previous election years that were he elected, he would get rid of the IRS, get rid of the Public Schools, that he would get rid of our drug laws, then take a break for lunch. That kind of rhetoric doesn't take into account that the President must govern all of the country. You don't get to just implement whatever those who voted for you want; you must go through the appropriate checks and balances, and Congress (Democrats and Republicans) would never approve those sweeping changes, nor should they.

Worst of all such statements betray a simplistic idealism, as do most fanatics, that do not take into account the incredibly complex layering of our economy, the inter-dependent nature of our laws, our fiscal policy, and the businesses and families which plan their expenditures and adventures around existing laws and public structures.