I must ask. What did it take for our Revolutionary Fathers and Mothers, Daughters and Sons, Brothers and Sisters, to do what it took to establish the United States of America?
What did it take for those who found slavery abhorrent, to take up arms and fight their brother, to ensure it wouldn't happen again?
How is it that, after so many thousand of our own dead, at the hands of friends and relatives, do we find ourselves at the same crossroads...only seemingly, worse?
For those of us who are history buffs, the situation we find ourselves in as a country, should never have happened. The re-establishment of the racial divide, the worsening of monetary inequality to an extent which hasn't been seen since before the crash of 1929?
How, how did this all come to pass?
In the 1960's many of us demonstrated, which sounds like such a pacifistic word but, allow me to guarantee to you it was not. Many of my friends were hurt in these demonstrations. Many of us were arrested, many were hurt, some were shot and...some were killed.
Even so, not to the extent that we are now seeing and not in the context of a demonstration AGAINST anything. The injuries, arrests and irreparable harm we now witness we now see are only in the context of people walking down the street...people living their lives, as they can. As, the powers that be are allowing us to.
To insinuate that, because of how much money one earns or has, or where one lives, or the level of one's education OR that due to the color of one's skin that one's behavior is NOW suspect and that THESE factors are enough to allow the police to run rampant over us ALL, in one way or another, is not only ludicrous, it is antithesis to not only the concept of our country, but to the Constitution itself.
The actions performed by our Revolutionary Soldiers was treason. Yet, we not only as a nation revere their actions, we celebrate them every July 4th. However, anybody now who may express an opinion opposite that of our newly formed GOPTP, is now labeled either a "thug" or a "criminal" (these two words are used interchangeably and depended on color of skin), or...and I find this funny, "a traitor".
While the Conservative movement is anxious to take us into war, they are anxious to fight a "war" against any American who objects to having their "rights" infringed upon.
I can only attribute this to the fact that "war at home" is no where near as profitable as "war abroad".
This will boil down to a "war" of sorts. While those factions who are against freedom, our right to vote, and the liberty our forefathers had envisioned keep on twisting the system which was created to give "Liberty to All", we must NOT lose sight of the big picture.
We must also call those who are the true purveyors of a type of "slavery" for us all, who wish to "own" everything within their sight, who haven't a clue about the worth of our environment, our children and their education and who bastardize "religion" as another club to beat back liberty; what they are. Fascists!
This Earth has seen many different incarnations of the totalitarian rule but, in the United States of America? Not until the last forty years have these closet...Yes! Nazi's...thought that we were subservient enough to let them get away with this. Let us stand up, protect our children and grandchildren.
Are we going to let the Koch's, the Bachmann's, the Haliburton's the Cheney's and all of the other Rip-Off's...win? I certainly hope not!
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