This morning I fired up my computer and was greeted by the
following headlines. In some regards the computer is not unlike those
twenty-four hour TV newscasts, which beat one over the head with bad news events
every minute of every hour of every day. The headlines below are typical of the
news menu, which confronts the viewing and reading public perpetually these
days.
Teenager Kills 5 in Mall Rampage
Investor Kills 3, Self in Pa. Meeting
Ex-CIA Employee Jailed in Beating Case
Bookkeeper Admits Stealing $6.9 million
Pastor Steals Church From Flock
First Degree Murder – Seven Police Officers Indicted in the Murder of Refugees
Fleeing Aftermath of Katrina
Death of Centerfold - Drugs Suspected
Immigrant Smugglers Could Be Behind Arizona Killings
Every day a new set of lurid headlines is presented, and every new set heralds
equally, bad, sad, and tragic events. Now multiply these shocking daily events
by three hundred sixty-five – in the leap year we get a bonus of a dozen or so
more news items involving grief, death, and destruction – and the graphic and
vivid cumulative affect of the degradation of our society hits one like a brick.
Americans are up to their necks in perversion, mayhem, murder, decadence and
filth, the tide is coming in, and no one is standing by with a life preserver.
We have come a long way baby, and all of it in the wrong direction.
Like the other columnists who write for News with views I have pointed up in
past articles the increasing rottenness of our system of governance and the
perversity of many of our institutions. Our president, our congress, our
activist judges and the greedy and predatory internationalists who infest the
country provide ample pickings for an endless supply of articles. Indeed there
is no dearth of evidence that those who are supposed to be representing our best
interests have sold us down the river. It is common knowledge that our so-called
legislative voices are the political pawns of the corporations and the
industrialists who rule over this nation. They have been rewarded handsomely for
their treachery and their sell out of the people for money and the good life.
Likewise there is ample proof that our judiciary is not concerned with justice,
but is rather engaged in aggrandizement through judicial activism. The continual
stream of laws, which emanates from the courts have all but strangled the cause
of personal freedom in this country. Militant secularists occupy the benches of
our judiciary, and this seizure of powers, never intended by the framers of the
constitution, has allowed the debased among us to capitalize on vice and
immorality and has provided a market for life-sucking perversions such as
pornography, baby killing, and a host of other vile and despicable practices,
which are carried out, with court approval, under the guise of free speech and
equal rights.
The cretins in judicial robes have forced upon us a system of political
correctness, which stifles individualism and personal initiative and forbids a
healthy expression of thoughts and feelings. This contrivance of forced
political correctness is conducive to an unhealthy level of rage in those who
have been inhibited as to personal freedom and individual expression and often
leads to serious consequences. I believe that injustice at the hands of activist
judges and the repression of personal freedoms by the same have provoked more
explosive social events than just about any other identifiable cause.
One could expend a bucket of ink and write miles of words, in regard to the
degeneracy of our governmental institutions and the venality of those who occupy
the offices thereof, and never get to the heart of the problem. All of the
inalterable facts, which prove the corruption and perfidy, do not point up the
real reason for such a state of affairs. They just identify the symptoms
emanating from the actual cause of the problem, a descent into national
turpitude, which is leading us rapidly to the dismemberment and destruction of a
once great Constitutional Republic.
Military power and might is not the true indicator of the greatness of a nation.
The soul of the nation is its people. We have been concentrating our attention
on the symptoms, rather than focusing on the disease. And therein lies the
problem.
Our political leaders are just a reflection of the society from whence they came
and continue to be a part of. Corrupt societies breed corrupt leaders. Whose
fault is it that this nation has been commandeered by bandits, thieves, liars
and moral degenerates? In the enduring words of Pogo, offered here in an
entirely different context, “I have met the enemy and he is us.”
Apathy lies across this nation like a blanket. It smothers the righteous
indignation that one would expect given the dictatorial machinations of a
run-a-way government. Little sparks of dissent arising here and there in
response to incursions by government tormentors upon individual rights and
freedoms are put down by the stupid majority in this country who purse their
lips and admonish, “tsk tsk remember the rule of law.” This is just silly
drivel. The law is no longer of the people, by the people, or for the people.
The law is what the government and its courts want it to be. And by the
governments definition the rule of law applies only to the people, the
government is exempt from the law as is evidenced daily by the flaunting of
unbridled power and disregard of constitutional strictures by the administration
of George W. Bush.
Our law is no longer grounded in the Constitution. The law is what tyrannical
un-elected bureaucrats and pompous activist judges say it is. When we the people
allow the law to be predicated upon the subjective whims and caprices of
individuals such as this it follows that the fruits of such stupidity will cause
us great grief.
To speak of truth causes great unease and is disconcerting to many today. Many
question the ability of those who claim to speak the truth to be able to discern
the truth, or at least question their right to give their version of the truth.
This is more especially the case when one addresses morality, particularly
national morality. Those who address such matters are written off as
fundamentalists and accused of moralizing. This is silly; one doesn’t have to be
either religious or a puritan to recognize the consequences of moral decadence.
Our news agencies highlight for us the consequences daily. We would have to be
blind and deaf not to recognize these effects. The truth is that our society
crossed the threshold of moral relativism some time ago. Those who contend for
moral absolutes are ridiculed and maligned as busy bodies and prudes. We are
paying a high price in human misery for this slide into national degeneracy.
It has often been stated that the people get the government that they deserve.
It is pretty difficult not to subscribe to this theory. When dishonorable and
morally reprehensible individuals are given, by the electorate, a political
office, and then kept in that office despite a record of corruption and
debauchery it has to be for one of two reasons. Either that person reflects the
morals of those who elected him, or her, or they simply don’t care as long as
he, or she, delivers the pork.
It comes down to this. Either we are a hedonistic people who deserve to be
served by moral degenerates because they reflect our believe systems and we are
comfortable with their theft of our freedoms, or we simply don’t care so long as
our quest for the good life is not disrupted. If we don’t have the guts to stand
up and rid this nation of every last one of the usurpers of our freedoms and
stealers of our constitutional guarantees, then we should expect no sympathy
when we are totally and irrevocably enslaved by a totalitarian regime.
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*** This commentary is relevant to most western democracies, including
Australia. Freedoms vanishing, awash in an ever growing sea of enforceable and
non-enforceable regulations, attacks on Judeo Christian values, the embracing of
lifestyles and religions with clearly demonstrable dangers and flaws, the
pre-occupation of the general media with trivia and mindless dribble and
politicians daily being caught with their grubby fingers in all sorts of grubby
pies. There are almost as many government officials being asked/forced to resign
each day as there are those being elected. Sports and entertainment heroes and
icons are out of control, involved in one scandal after another, addicted to
drugs, women, money, violence and lying, but being forgiven by the public and
the media as just victims of their own success. Parents afraid of their kids,
police afraid of the newspapers, teachers afraid of the pupils, pastors afraid
of their congregations, …citizens no longer afraid of GOD. That fear of God is
coming, involuntarily!! ***
-------Keygar