THE POLITICAL SYMPTOMS OF A NATIONAL DISEASE
This morning I fired up my computer and was greeted by the
following headlines. In some regards the computer is not unlike those
twenty-four hour TV newscasts, which beat one over the head with bad news
events every minute of every hour of every day. The headlines below are typical
of the news menu, which confronts the viewing and reading public perpetually
these days.
Teenager Kills 5 in Mall Rampage
Investor Kills 3, Self in Pa. Meeting
Ex-CIA Employee Jailed in Beating Case
Bookkeeper Admits Stealing $6.9 million
Pastor Steals Church From Flock
First Degree Murder – Seven Police Officers Indicted in
the Murder of Refugees
Fleeing Aftermath of Katrina
Death of Centerfold - Drugs Suspected
Immigrant Smugglers Could Be Behind Arizona Killings
Every day a new set of lurid headlines is presented, and
every new set heralds equally, bad, sad, and tragic events. Now multiply these
shocking daily events by three hundred sixty-five – in the leap year we get a
bonus of a dozen or so more news items involving grief, death, and destruction
– and the graphic and vivid cumulative affect of the degradation of our society
hits one like a brick. Americans are up to their necks in perversion, mayhem,
murder, decadence and filth, the tide is coming in, and no one is standing by
with a life preserver. We have come a long way baby, and all of it in the wrong
direction.
Like the other columnists who write for News with views I
have pointed up in past articles the increasing rottenness of our system of governance
and the perversity of many of our institutions. Our president, our congress,
our activist judges and the greedy and predatory internationalists who infest
the country provide ample pickings for an endless supply of articles. Indeed
there is no dearth of evidence that those who are supposed to be representing
our best interests have sold us down the river. It is common knowledge that our
so-called legislative voices are the political pawns of the corporations and
the industrialists who rule over this nation. They have been rewarded
handsomely for their treachery and their sell out of the people for money and
the good life.
Likewise there is
ample proof that our judiciary is not concerned with justice, but is rather
engaged in aggrandizement through judicial activism. The continual stream of
laws, which emanates from the courts have all but strangled the cause of
personal freedom in this country. Militant secularists occupy the benches of
our judiciary, and this seizure of powers, never intended by the framers of the
constitution, has allowed the debased among us to capitalize on vice and
immorality and has provided a market for life-sucking perversions such as
pornography, baby killing, and a host of other vile and despicable practices,
which are carried out, with court approval, under the guise of free speech and
equal rights.
The cretins in judicial robes have forced upon us a
system of political correctness, which stifles individualism and personal
initiative and forbids a healthy expression of thoughts and feelings. This contrivance of forced
political correctness is conducive to an unhealthy level of rage in those who
have been inhibited as to personal freedom and individual expression and often
leads to serious consequences. I believe that injustice at the hands of
activist judges and the repression of personal freedoms by the same have
provoked more explosive social events than just about any other identifiable
cause.
One could expend a bucket of ink and write miles of
words, in regard to the degeneracy of our governmental institutions and the
venality of those who occupy the offices thereof, and never get to the heart of
the problem. All of the inalterable facts, which prove the corruption and
perfidy, do not point up the real reason for such a state of affairs. They just
identify the symptoms emanating from the actual cause of the problem, a descent
into national turpitude, which is leading us rapidly to the dismemberment and
destruction of a once great Constitutional Republic.
Military power and might is not the true indicator of the
greatness of a nation. The soul of the nation is its people. We have been
concentrating our attention on the symptoms, rather than focusing on the
disease. And therein lies the problem.
Our political leaders are just a reflection of the
society from whence they came and continue to be a part of. Corrupt societies
breed corrupt leaders. Whose fault is it that this nation has been commandeered
by bandits, thieves, liars and moral degenerates? In the enduring words of
Pogo, offered here in an entirely different context, “I have met the enemy and
he is us.”
Apathy lies across this nation like a blanket. It
smothers the righteous indignation that one would expect given the dictatorial
machinations of a run-a-way government. Little sparks of dissent arising here
and there in response to incursions by government tormentors upon individual
rights and freedoms are put down by the stupid majority in this country who
purse their lips and admonish, “tsk tsk remember the rule of law.” This is just
silly drivel. The law is no longer of the people, by the people, or for the
people. The law is what the government and its courts want it to be. And by the
governments definition the rule of law applies only to the people, the
government is exempt from the law as is evidenced daily by the flaunting of
unbridled power and disregard of constitutional strictures by the
administration of George W. Bush.
Our law is no longer grounded in the Constitution. The
law is what tyrannical un-elected bureaucrats and pompous activist judges say
it is. When we the people allow the law to be predicated upon the subjective
whims and caprices of individuals such as this it follows that the fruits of
such stupidity will cause us great grief.
To speak of truth causes great unease and is
disconcerting to many today. Many question the ability of those who claim to
speak the truth to be able to discern the truth, or at least question their
right to give their version of the truth. This is more especially the case when
one addresses morality, particularly national morality. Those who address such
matters are written off as fundamentalists and accused of moralizing. This is
silly; one doesn’t have to be either religious or a puritan to recognize the
consequences of moral decadence. Our news agencies highlight for us the
consequences daily. We would have to be blind and deaf not to recognize these
effects. The truth is that our society crossed the threshold of moral
relativism some time ago. Those who contend for moral absolutes are ridiculed
and maligned as busy bodies and prudes. We are paying a high price in human
misery for this slide into national degeneracy.
It has often been stated that the people get the
government that they deserve. It is pretty difficult not to subscribe to this
theory. When dishonorable and morally reprehensible individuals are given, by
the electorate, a political office, and then kept in that office despite a
record of corruption and debauchery it has to be for one of two reasons. Either
that person reflects the morals of those who elected him, or her, or they
simply don’t care as long as he, or she, delivers the pork.
It comes down to this. Either we are a hedonistic people
who deserve to be served by moral degenerates because they reflect our believe
systems and we are comfortable with their theft of our freedoms, or we simply
don’t care so long as our quest for the good life is not disrupted. If we don’t
have the guts to stand up and rid this nation of every last one of the usurpers
of our freedoms and stealers of our constitutional guarantees, then we should
expect no sympathy when we are totally and irrevocably enslaved by a
totalitarian regime.
*** This commentary is relevant to most
western democracies, including Australia. Freedoms vanishing, awash in an ever growing sea of
enforceable and non-enforceable regulations, attacks on
Judeo Christian
values, the embracing of lifestyles and religions with clearly demonstrable
dangers and flaws, the pre-occupation of the general media with trivia and
mindless dribble and politicians daily being caught with their grubby fingers
in all sorts of grubby pies. There are almost as many government officials
being asked/forced to resign each day as there are those being elected. Sports
and entertainment heroes and icons are out of control, involved in one scandal
after another, addicted to drugs, women, money, violence and lying, but being
forgiven by the public and the media as just victims of their own success.
Parents afraid of their kids, police afraid of the newspapers, teachers afraid
of the pupils, pastors afraid of their congregations, …citizens no longer
afraid of GOD. That fear of God is coming, involuntarily!! ***
-------Keygar