Dispatches from Nowhere 01.03.06
First dispatch of the New Year. Interesting.
I don't put much stock in resolutions. Either I am going to do a thing or I am not. Take running for example. When I can breathe and am not sick - I run. I like it and I feel better for doing it. I didn't really notice that it had done wonders for me until people commented on it over Christmas. When I quit smoking it was the same deal. I just quit.
Human beings are really wonderful creatures. We possess the ability to decide to do something, and with nothing more than knowledge, willpower, and fortitude, we can and will do it. I think we don't continue to do great things because we get complacent. We quit striving to be more than we are. I don't me or you individually (or maybe I do) but I do mean us as a society. We quit striving to be great. We have settled for mediocre.
We have a president that is trying to convince us to give up some of the same freedoms that helped make America great. We don't have to buy it. We should not buy it. We had a goal once. We have a document that spells out the goals of our country. Maybe we should take the time to read it again. He keeps telling us that America is great, and yet, he keeps trying to remove the things that help make us great.
The government was designed with 3 branches to balance each other out. The executive branch is grabbing for what ever power it can get. I saw Bush on television last night. He was defending his “right” to use torture as an interrogation method. He was insisting that he had the “right” to spy on Americans without Judicial oversight.
Did I miss something?
I’m not hearing the legislative branch say anything more than “Well, we would have liked to have been better consulted” which is a far cry from the statements of “You do not have the authority. You have never had the authority. We made a Mistake with the War Powers act. We made another mistake with the Patriot Act.” that we should be hearing.
Why did we bother to fight a rebellion, to declare independence from what our founding fathers openly called a tyranny - if less than 250 years later we were going to willingly subject ourselves to another?
Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating rebellion or any other such idea. I am advocating a balanced government, with open and transparent processes that does not tread on the same ideals that it claims to be upholding.
We should not be hampered by some ham-fisted grab for power.
We can do better than this. We should do better than this. Let's talk about it. Let's be great again.
Technorati Tags: Politics, Power, Commentary.
I don't put much stock in resolutions. Either I am going to do a thing or I am not. Take running for example. When I can breathe and am not sick - I run. I like it and I feel better for doing it. I didn't really notice that it had done wonders for me until people commented on it over Christmas. When I quit smoking it was the same deal. I just quit.
Human beings are really wonderful creatures. We possess the ability to decide to do something, and with nothing more than knowledge, willpower, and fortitude, we can and will do it. I think we don't continue to do great things because we get complacent. We quit striving to be more than we are. I don't me or you individually (or maybe I do) but I do mean us as a society. We quit striving to be great. We have settled for mediocre.
We have a president that is trying to convince us to give up some of the same freedoms that helped make America great. We don't have to buy it. We should not buy it. We had a goal once. We have a document that spells out the goals of our country. Maybe we should take the time to read it again. He keeps telling us that America is great, and yet, he keeps trying to remove the things that help make us great.
The government was designed with 3 branches to balance each other out. The executive branch is grabbing for what ever power it can get. I saw Bush on television last night. He was defending his “right” to use torture as an interrogation method. He was insisting that he had the “right” to spy on Americans without Judicial oversight.
Did I miss something?
I’m not hearing the legislative branch say anything more than “Well, we would have liked to have been better consulted” which is a far cry from the statements of “You do not have the authority. You have never had the authority. We made a Mistake with the War Powers act. We made another mistake with the Patriot Act.” that we should be hearing.
Why did we bother to fight a rebellion, to declare independence from what our founding fathers openly called a tyranny - if less than 250 years later we were going to willingly subject ourselves to another?
Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating rebellion or any other such idea. I am advocating a balanced government, with open and transparent processes that does not tread on the same ideals that it claims to be upholding.
We should not be hampered by some ham-fisted grab for power.
We can do better than this. We should do better than this. Let's talk about it. Let's be great again.
Technorati Tags: Politics, Power, Commentary.
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