It's time to move on
i've been struggling a bit lately with how i want to continue with this weblog... let me see if i can articulate my thoughts...
i started the blog in early march of 2005, out of a sense of helplessness and outrage at what i saw taking place in my country... my intent was to offer up pieces of what struck me as a puzzle, many seemingly separate events and incidents that, while individually bad enough, when they were assembled, i reasoned, could form an intelligible picture of what was really going on... in the first few months of posting, i discovered an unanticipated benefit to blogging, the maintenance of my sanity through giving voice to the deep concerns i had for the future of the united states and sharing similar concerns with fellow bloggers... and, although not paramount, i also hoped that, by tossing out what i considered to be important puzzle pieces, others would, along with me, help to piece together the overall pattern...
the good news...? this blog has offered up 5920 puzzle pieces over nearly 2 1/2 years, most of them from me, but also via the able assistance of several outstanding fellow bloggers, the most recent of whom have been jim, brother tim and mettle, whose serious talents and generous support i have greatly appreciated... and, not only have i retained my sanity (although some would dispute that claim), the even better news is that, for me at least, the full picture is now clear...
the big picture i now see is of many years of deliberate undermining of the u.s. constitution, extending back to at least the late 19th century, under a covert but deadly serious campaign by monied elites intent on establishing global control of power, money and resources, and guided by a complete absence of human values, first and foremost of which is any respect whatsoever for human life, except, of course, for their own... for the most part, these elites have operated in the shadows and have pursued their agenda without arousing too much suspicion from the masses, and labeling those that do question their motives as conspiracy theorists and wild-eyed fanatics... this has worked fairly well, although certainly with some ups and downs, taking us from woodrow wilson through two world wars, the depression, korea, vietnam, the first gulf war, and, now, iraq, punctuated with numerous smaller conflicts in between, all designed to keep accruing money, resources and, most definitely, more power, all the while using the poor bastards - us - unlucky enough to not belong to their elite circle, as cannon fodder...
this scenario might have continued unabated except for one thing - the internet... it is no longer possible to disguise the moves of this reprehensible shadow world government when millions of people have access to unparalleled amounts of information, unfiltered by the elites... so, what have we seen...? for one thing, we have seen that the elites have continued to move forward with their agenda, not fully realizing just how transparent it is becoming, and how exposed they now are to the eyes of a watching and slowly awakening world... but, interestingly enough, as that awareness has begun to dawn on the citizens of the world, it has also begun to dawn on the elites that a growing number of people now have their number, an awareness that has caused them to attempt to accelerate their agenda with bolder and increasingly desperate moves... what we are now seeing with the bush administration are the actions of people who will stop at nothing to maintain their privileged status by shutting down the last constitutional freedoms enjoyed by u.s. citizens... but, make no mistake, this is not unique to the united states... it is visible in countries across the globe, perhaps most recognizable to us in the other english-speaking countries, but clearly underway in other countries as well... fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you frame it, the united states, flanked by the united kingdom, is the pace-setter, the one that sets the norms for the rest of the world... and it is the united states, in particular, where the important and fundamental changes must be made...
for those of us who have been raised from infancy on the special place that the united states occupies in the world and the unique responsibility it has for respecting human dignity and for keeping the torch of freedom alive, it is a bitter pill to swallow when we finally accept that the elites control both of our political parties, and that both of those parties have been equally complicit in dismantling the very principles our parents and teachers, with all of the honesty and sincerity they could muster, swore were true... that is where i am right now...
the struggle i have been having is this... once the symptoms have been catalogued and the diagnosis made, what is there left to do...? i know what i HAVE been doing... for several months now, or perhaps longer, i have done nothing but repeat myself, pounding away on how serious a constitutional crisis the u.s. faces, how dangerous the bush administration is, how it must be removed, how the illegal and unconstitutional power grabs those criminals have put in place must be rolled back BEFORE the next inauguration, etc., etc., ad nauseam... but i've had it with that... i now know what i WANT to do, but i don't have a clue on how to go about it... after the diagnosis has been made and confirmed, the treatment must follow... this is the time for DOING, not TALKING... but what is it that i can DO...? what is it that WE can do...? that is what i would like to begin to seriously explore on this blog... i know that many people are out there, furiously working to get candidates of their choice elected... i applaud that in all seriousness... what i would like to discuss here, however, is how the head of the snake can be cut off... for me, that is the only thing i would like to devote my energy to... any thoughts...?
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i started the blog in early march of 2005, out of a sense of helplessness and outrage at what i saw taking place in my country... my intent was to offer up pieces of what struck me as a puzzle, many seemingly separate events and incidents that, while individually bad enough, when they were assembled, i reasoned, could form an intelligible picture of what was really going on... in the first few months of posting, i discovered an unanticipated benefit to blogging, the maintenance of my sanity through giving voice to the deep concerns i had for the future of the united states and sharing similar concerns with fellow bloggers... and, although not paramount, i also hoped that, by tossing out what i considered to be important puzzle pieces, others would, along with me, help to piece together the overall pattern...
the good news...? this blog has offered up 5920 puzzle pieces over nearly 2 1/2 years, most of them from me, but also via the able assistance of several outstanding fellow bloggers, the most recent of whom have been jim, brother tim and mettle, whose serious talents and generous support i have greatly appreciated... and, not only have i retained my sanity (although some would dispute that claim), the even better news is that, for me at least, the full picture is now clear...
the big picture i now see is of many years of deliberate undermining of the u.s. constitution, extending back to at least the late 19th century, under a covert but deadly serious campaign by monied elites intent on establishing global control of power, money and resources, and guided by a complete absence of human values, first and foremost of which is any respect whatsoever for human life, except, of course, for their own... for the most part, these elites have operated in the shadows and have pursued their agenda without arousing too much suspicion from the masses, and labeling those that do question their motives as conspiracy theorists and wild-eyed fanatics... this has worked fairly well, although certainly with some ups and downs, taking us from woodrow wilson through two world wars, the depression, korea, vietnam, the first gulf war, and, now, iraq, punctuated with numerous smaller conflicts in between, all designed to keep accruing money, resources and, most definitely, more power, all the while using the poor bastards - us - unlucky enough to not belong to their elite circle, as cannon fodder...
this scenario might have continued unabated except for one thing - the internet... it is no longer possible to disguise the moves of this reprehensible shadow world government when millions of people have access to unparalleled amounts of information, unfiltered by the elites... so, what have we seen...? for one thing, we have seen that the elites have continued to move forward with their agenda, not fully realizing just how transparent it is becoming, and how exposed they now are to the eyes of a watching and slowly awakening world... but, interestingly enough, as that awareness has begun to dawn on the citizens of the world, it has also begun to dawn on the elites that a growing number of people now have their number, an awareness that has caused them to attempt to accelerate their agenda with bolder and increasingly desperate moves... what we are now seeing with the bush administration are the actions of people who will stop at nothing to maintain their privileged status by shutting down the last constitutional freedoms enjoyed by u.s. citizens... but, make no mistake, this is not unique to the united states... it is visible in countries across the globe, perhaps most recognizable to us in the other english-speaking countries, but clearly underway in other countries as well... fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you frame it, the united states, flanked by the united kingdom, is the pace-setter, the one that sets the norms for the rest of the world... and it is the united states, in particular, where the important and fundamental changes must be made...
for those of us who have been raised from infancy on the special place that the united states occupies in the world and the unique responsibility it has for respecting human dignity and for keeping the torch of freedom alive, it is a bitter pill to swallow when we finally accept that the elites control both of our political parties, and that both of those parties have been equally complicit in dismantling the very principles our parents and teachers, with all of the honesty and sincerity they could muster, swore were true... that is where i am right now...
the struggle i have been having is this... once the symptoms have been catalogued and the diagnosis made, what is there left to do...? i know what i HAVE been doing... for several months now, or perhaps longer, i have done nothing but repeat myself, pounding away on how serious a constitutional crisis the u.s. faces, how dangerous the bush administration is, how it must be removed, how the illegal and unconstitutional power grabs those criminals have put in place must be rolled back BEFORE the next inauguration, etc., etc., ad nauseam... but i've had it with that... i now know what i WANT to do, but i don't have a clue on how to go about it... after the diagnosis has been made and confirmed, the treatment must follow... this is the time for DOING, not TALKING... but what is it that i can DO...? what is it that WE can do...? that is what i would like to begin to seriously explore on this blog... i know that many people are out there, furiously working to get candidates of their choice elected... i applaud that in all seriousness... what i would like to discuss here, however, is how the head of the snake can be cut off... for me, that is the only thing i would like to devote my energy to... any thoughts...?
Labels: Bush Administration, constitutional crisis, elites
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8/06/2007
