Would You Stay In An Abusive, Forcibly Arranged Marriage?

Because that's exactly what we have in the United State of America. Please follow along and let see if this analogy does not fit the current political climate in our country.

I wrote the following in response to a good friend, whose name I shall refrain from printing to protect the innocence of, but that I felt was worthy of posting for [hopefully] the benefit of others.

Seems to me it's been more and more downs as we continue to spread the "American way" throughout the globe, even despite the objections of other nations and our own citizenry.

Never mind the continued abuses of Presidential power by executive order and squandering of billions of taxpayer dollars a day on the "war on terror", an analogous, ambiguous abstract concept.

Putting Down the "Confederate" Flag

Much like the blind fanatical nationalism on display across the country today as we remember and relive the horrors of 9/11 another event has been forever etched into the public consciousness, but with far greater implication and revisionism.

Let's forget for a minute that slavery was practiced in the North and the South. Let's forget that Lincoln offered the Southern states a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT protecting the practice of slavery if they would remain in the Union rather than secede. Let's ignore the fact that the Constitutional government of the United States was formed by the separate states, each of whom reserved the right to withdraw at any time.

Let's forget that secession, as a form of political resistance, was taught to cadets at West Point. Let's ignore that several Northern states wanted also to secede from the Union at some point, but were lured back into the fold with false promises and compromises.

Let's ignore the FACT that the Union government of the '50s and '60s were the ones that instigated segregation, forced busing and created a landslide of "victim" classes by stripping basic civil rights and liberties from all citizens.

The Standing Army of the United State

Why does the United State maintain a standing army? Under what jurisdiction or paranoid fear of aggression does the [federal Marxist] government justify the continued and unabated enlistment, provisioning and garrisoning of the Union army?

Article I, §8 of the United States Constitution provides Congress the power:

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

The United State Army (Marines included) has been continuously staffed and armed for over a century-and-a-half. In that time there has been no attack on legitimate sovereign U.S. territory. Every action of the United State military colossus has been a police action or act of war undertaken in the interest of globalization.

What Would It Take?

Let's assume that everything is A-OK in America. Let's assume that the actions and legislation of the past handful of federal administrations haven't essentially undermined not only the spirit, but the letter of the law of our land, The Constitution of The United States.

I ask in all seriousness, what would it take for you to rally behind a movement, ANY MOVEMENT, to secure your liberty?

A List of Things You Didn’t Know You’d Lost

It won't matter to most of you until they come and PHYSICALLY imprison you because, apparently, that is the only "liberty" you hold dear. So long as you are not imprisoned, they're not infringing on your rights, eh? In the immortal of Earl Pitts: Wake up AMERICA!

The following are examples of rights that the President and congress have already expunged (as reported by the Associated Press):

Freedom of Association - government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigations.

Freedom of Information - government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records requests.

Freedom of Speech - government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.

Right to Legal Representation - government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.

Freedom from Unreasonable Searches - government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigations

Right to a Speedy and Public Trial - government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.

Right to Liberty - Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.

The Bush administration has done more to dismantle Constitutional protections of our liberties than any other President in modern memory. It seems the people believe that until federal Storm Troopers knock down the doors of their homes and drag them off to the gulags, they have lost no freedoms. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Like lemmings, the vast majority of you are willing to follow the immoral, illegitimate leadership of this DOOMED EXPERIMENT in democracy because "it's better than the alternative". You have no fear of loss so long as it's not your own. They've destroyed the dollar, they've ruined the name "America" and they have implicated every one of us along with them. There is a reckoning coming and I've chosen to be on the side of liberty.

It's time for you to choose what you believe in. You'd better be sure you're willing to meet your maker once you've made your decision.