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June 14,
2005 Newspaper circulation is down. Well doo-dah! When there's no competition among the papers other than to see who digs up the most garbage, as to themes, all the major papers (owned by a few giant corporations) beat the same drums. One pretends to be liberal, the other pretends to be conservative, and out comes support for a totalitarian America we never knew. They expect people to buy that rubbish? I wouldn't. And I don't. Likewise, the internet is a wide open field for the writers, ranging from the erudite who support their contentions to the whacks who are focused on alien planets whizzing toward our solar system unseen. Some supposed "former political operatives" spout off sci-fi as though they had a bug in every conference room and bedroom in Washington, D.C. and a few at Camp David. The people are not quieted by this deluge of supposed news. Real news isn't popular and exposes aren't what they seem to be, but if it makes a quick buck, then that's what we're being served for intellectual dinner. The people are restive because there is an impatience in the world. What is the other shoe? When is it likely to drop? Too many warnings, too much coverup, too many lies, and far too much government intervention in personal affairs has our American public on edge. For all of the above, the pharmaceutical houses advertise some pill and then give a scroll full of potential side effects. Perhaps the threat of litigation has affected this nation more than any other single commercial endeavor, surpassing technology and advances in medical science. With the courts in control of public policy, no one can rest on the assurance of America as a land where there is the rule of law. That gave us a stability and like most other things (such as the strong home and family), the rug has been pulled out from under the collective public confidence. Uneasy, impatient, and uncertain people either turn on one another or turn on their leaders. Our founders warned that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, not achievement and a long vacation in paradise on earth. It is not the nature of man to stay still anyway. Early tribes were generally nomadic and at times preyed upon the produce of those who attempted to establish a more stable agrarian economy. We aren't different now, simply more advanced in our techniques and somewhat restrained by the overbearing weight of the laws, those that are enforced and those that are not. Rage generally builds until something happens that vents it, rather like the buildup of magma under the surface of the earth or within the core of a volcanic cone, until the pressure becomes so great there is an explosion of the accumulated gases, liquids and molten rock. When it comes to earth sciences, there is little we can do other than study and try to forewarn, but with social and political affairs, things should be obvious enough on the surface that people change them before the exits are barred and the tyranny takes center stage. However, if a people are otherwise comfortable enough, they are more than reluctant to engage in any civil uprisings to regain liberties that will only be lost again by a subsequent generation. Is it that man loves slavery? Or simply that he is fearful of breaking out? That seems to be a function of the power of government. In a small banana republic, the uprising(s) might be successful. In a huge industrialized nation with eyes, ears and noses everywhere in our lives, the government has a technological advantage that pushes individual effort back into the shadows. Nor is it accidental that the crusade by the government to take away private gun ownership has continued all these years. What is puzzling is why a gun-owning public has been so docile with a government that has betrayed its best interests for decades. Perhaps it is well to remember that a federal republic "of, by and for the people" was not a guaranteed success, but an experiment. It is not a theocracy guaranteed by God on conditions of obedience, but a form of self-rule based on biblical principles of private property, social order and moral uprightness. Fortunately not all homes have caved in when it comes to following the renegade government agenda of making children wards of the state and relegating parents to the position of conditional guardians. Some people still know and believe in the Constitution as written (not as a living document that changes with man's fads) and in the Bill of Rights as a citizen's guarantee against governmental abuses. Nonetheless, government has continued to abuse its power, and is far from finished with its agenda. While rage and senseless crimes are rampant in a once quiet nation, the crime is somewhat our own fault for seeking out those things that are criminal, whether heroin or embezzled funds. Other crime, such as car theft, is based on unrestrained greed, pure and simple. Moral rectitude is impossible to maintain if the government's position is relativistic, that "right" and "wrong" vary with changing social norms. Some are prosecuted, some are not. Everything seems to "depend" on some mitigating condition, high celebrity, and/or the skill of the lawyers. But with a government that has instituted a law that violates every protection guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, whether it be truly free speech, truly free expression of religion, or privacy in one's own life and home unless there is sufficient reason and due process to invade that privacy, the American people fall far short in calling a halt to government abuse of power. Every private citizen knows they cannot take on the government by themselves, it will result in useless incarceration and citizen disdain for gross stupidity. Such exercises in futility serve not to make martyrs but to reinforce the impression of government's power. Collective effort to make a "regime change" can result in imprisonment, and has. Rulers without integrity have no intention of giving up their rulership, and they have no compunction about discarding any semblance of integrity. So the rage grows. The question is whether it can ever be directed at the root cause, or whether it will be manipulated by the government to support more tyranny. The latter is winning the battle at the present time and shows no sign of weakening. But then, America was an experiment. Not all experiments are successful. Ours may ultimately fail too, and the nation would then return to the norm for human government, which is tyranny. We're on the brink now. Perhaps the paradox of America is well demonstrated on television commercials, where the women are emaciated and barely clothed, while restaurants advertise plates of high-fat foods that used to serve six. If this doesn't make any sense, it does show our devotion to our appetites and lusts rather than to thoughtful observations, balanced behavior and the uncommonly rare "common sense." © 2005 Dorothy A. Seese - All Rights Reserved
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