We are facing a
"When in times of human events" moment. The present current
"form of government" has
"become destructive" of
"deriving [its] just powers from the consent of the governed". In cases like this, which are not
light and transient causes, "It is the right of the people to alter or abolish it." Alter significantly we must.
Many actions of the Bush administration are intentionally designed to be nearly irreversible. Consider the appointment of partisan operatives to the judicial bench, driving the treasury into debt as a means of weakening federal agencies that protect the environment and the rights of the common people, shifting our national treasure and power to transnational corporations that are in alliance with the Bush administration. The Congress is similarly captured by the influence of the consolidated wealth leaving them impotent to reverse course.
Our nation has become corrupted by an small elite class of people, some operatives and some are simply lucky relatives going along for the ride, probably oblivious to the crimes being committed as they live in luxury, traveling freely and enjoying all the best that money can buy. They do this in the face of a failing empire, which can no longer hold the index finger high and say "USA, We're #1".
The following rankings are evidence of US decline in the world:
- Number 37 on the Healthcare Quality Index (World Health Organization).
- Number 32 in infant mortality rate (Save the Children).
- Both of which are a result is number 29 on life expectancy.
- Number 9 on Adult Literacy Scale (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)).
- Number 12 on student reading ability (OECD).
- Number 48 on the Journalistic Press Freedom Index (Reporters Without Boarders).
- Number 17 on women's rights (World Economic Forum).
- Number 13 on a quality of life survey by Economist magazine.
- Number 45 on the Environmental Sustainability Index (Yale and Columbia universities).
Reversing this corrupt course is no
light and transient cause. Our
inalienable rights to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are threatened by increasing evidence of a tightening police state. Consolidated corporate power, including the mass media, is used by a small group of people who enter and exit the government at will to secure largess for themselves and their adherents. This intertwining of corporate and unitary executive power, used to consolidate ever more power, is a hallmark of fascism; Actually, fascism isn't an "ism." It doesn't push a doctrine. It does anything necessary to expand its power, even if that means pretending to promote a doctrine. Fascism is by its nature corrupt.
The situation is reaching a tipping point, evidenced by the
revelations of Ron Suskind that the Bush administration ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to forge a letter linking Iraq to 9/11 and the CIA's compliance. The CIA crossed a bright legal line when it used the forged Habbush letter to influence domestic opinion; the CIA is strictly limited to
foreign intelligence matters. This restriction is a keystone to the freedoms of democracy we hold so dear.
Will the people of the United States simply accept this blatant abuse of power, which was intentionally targeted at them by the Bush administration?
The Declaration of Independence says:
all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
It also says,
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.Yes. We are living one of those
When in times of human events moments.
Sources:Statistics on American rankings are from page 244 of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder," Vincent Bugliosi, Vangaurd Press, 2008.
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