Back to Basics -- A Rant

[silverweb]

It's human nature to look for the "silver lining" in everything that goes wrong in life. Our situation after Hurricane Katrina is no different. We need the stories of individual heroism and generosity towards those whose lives were devastated. However, if the spinmeisters in the current administration have their way, we will soon be focused on the latter to the point that they can make us forget or ignore the incredible malfeasance of this administration, which made the disaster far worse than it had to be.

I'm thoroughly disgusted and heartbroken by what our government has become. America is gravely wounded -- not by enemies from afar, but from within.

It's time to get back to basics.

It's time to remember our national identity and purpose.

Every government official, elected or appointed, takes basically the same oath of office -- and that is to uphold and defend our Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Our current "leaders" have broken their oaths over and over and over again. They have become America's enemies.

If the ONLY good that comes out of this disaster and national travesty is a new mobilization of The People as a community against the bushbots and neocons and corporate oligarchy, we can turn our country around and reverse the disastrous course we have been on for the last five years. We have allowed the elite power mongers -- the "haves, the have mores, and the want-yours-too's" -- to corrupt our true national purpose.

We desperately need to get back to it:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

That's it. That's all of it -- our national identity and purpose in a nutshell. Everything our government does or proposes to do should be measured against the six simple goals stated above. It's as pure and simple as true Christian identity and purpose being summarized in Matthew 5:1-12 and 22:36-40.

What part of the above have we actually been doing in recent years? Absolutely none! We must reassess and renew our purpose -- which is not ignoring the needs of our own people while we impose domination and devastation on other nations.

There are always those who want to complicate and corrupt matters for their own nefarious purposes and it's up to We The People to stop them.

It's time to get back to basics. Together.

:rant:

[back2basics909]

1. I totally agree..

:)

We built our current system as evolution does. By adding on to what we already have, patching things up. We know evolution is not a perfect system, created by something intellegent ;)

Sometimes you have to take these things and start again.

We do this in business every day.

[firefox]

3. You might want to read this

This CounterPunch article from last weekend is titled "The U.S. Needs to Start Over"- http://www.counterpunch.org/labotz09032005.html

[silverweb]

5. Thanks!

An excellent article.

[silverweb]

4. I can see that you agree.

Your name is a clue. :D

[firefox]

2. The Preamble is the mission statement of the USG

I do not regard this a legitimate government because it has abandoned the mission statement it was given by the nation states that created it. The government that was to carry out that mission statement was overthrown by the wealthy for the benefit of the wealthy. I may have well said this a hundred times but in fact "We are ruled by treason." And like I have said before, I am serious when I say it.

I agree with what you say. We are not governed by laws as the fascists like to say. We are ruled by power and the laws are only to keep "the herd" in their place and continue the treasonous rule we now experience. And the thing is it is not stagnant. The rulers are only tightening their grip and a key event is going to be the definition of terrorist in the new Patriot act. What the rulers would have their servants in Congress do is to make the definition of a terrorist anyone that breaks a law. Upon breaking a law, you become a terrorist and have then been "legally" stripped of both unalienable and Constitutional rights. Some definition of terrorist along those lines has already passed the House and now the Senate is to take up the legislation.

What do you call the permafrost once it melts and what do you call an unalienable right once it has been taken away?

[silverweb]

6. Bingo.

The Preamble is the mission statement of the USG."

That's exactly right. I didn't think of it in exactly those terms, but you're exactly right.