State of the Union 2006
Astronaut Ed Mitchell says: "Jason: Have not seen you nor heard from you in a while. But this is magnificent writing, absolutely true, and should be a major concern for all, Edgar Mitchell.
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional Right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. If the founding fathers gave us anything, they gave us that.” Abraham Lincoln 1865
Honest Abe Lincoln’s profound statement from 1865 no longer holds true in this ‘future world’ of the 21st century, simply due to the fact that ‘the people’ are no longer on equal footing with their government as they were in 1865, 141 years ago.
Think about it: it is our government that holds the power of nuclear weapons, bulletproof body amour, automatic weapons, jet fighters and helicopters, DNA tracking and control, telephone surveillance systems and other such clandestine weapons that ‘we the people’ can barely guess or even speculate at, which can and certainly would be used against its citizens, since the government is sworn to protect and to defend the Constitution, but not necessarily the ‘people.’ The government also would not defend us against itself if its rulers are the source of corruption now, would it?
As Thomas Jefferson, the main author of the Constitution stated, "When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny."
Think about it: it is our government that holds the power of nuclear weapons, bulletproof body amour, automatic weapons, jet fighters and helicopters, DNA tracking and control, telephone surveillance systems and other such clandestine weapons that ‘we the people’ can barely guess or even speculate at, which can and certainly would be used against its citizens, since the government is sworn to protect and to defend the Constitution, but not necessarily the ‘people.’ The government also would not defend us against itself if its rulers are the source of corruption now, would it?
As Thomas Jefferson, the main author of the Constitution stated, "When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny."
Our ‘right’ to protest is dubiously limited to only what the status quos government will allow, or what it will tolerate. Nonetheless, our ‘freedom of speech’ is supposed to be the very backbone of the U.S. Constitution!
If our law enforcement and military are ordered to fire their weapons upon us and they should decline because one of the protestors is a family member, then that law person could be shot for disobeying orders!
Recall the shootings at Kent State University in the early 1970s. A group of protestors were fired upon that resulted in the deaths of students who were carrying signs and holding flowers, all of whom were legally protesting a war in which innocent people were allegedly being killed. Think about that irony for just a moment.
If we, as United States citizens are to survive and rise above the control through corruption of our prevailing government which does nothing to prevent the oil companies, power companies, and event yet banking institutions from taking advantage of us and most certainly the poor, then we will continue to exist under such tyranny as the Founding Fathers warned us of, like lambs being led to the slaughter!
If our law enforcement and military are ordered to fire their weapons upon us and they should decline because one of the protestors is a family member, then that law person could be shot for disobeying orders!
Recall the shootings at Kent State University in the early 1970s. A group of protestors were fired upon that resulted in the deaths of students who were carrying signs and holding flowers, all of whom were legally protesting a war in which innocent people were allegedly being killed. Think about that irony for just a moment.
If we, as United States citizens are to survive and rise above the control through corruption of our prevailing government which does nothing to prevent the oil companies, power companies, and event yet banking institutions from taking advantage of us and most certainly the poor, then we will continue to exist under such tyranny as the Founding Fathers warned us of, like lambs being led to the slaughter!
Consider that banking interests continue to rise on loans that can be between 18 to 28% and more, while the interest on our savings accounts is at an all time low of below 2 cents! That’s 2%! Shouldn’t there be equal footing on these outrageous rates?
In the late 1970s, I recall my bank savings account was close to 18%. At present, it is 1.2%! After I complained in dismay, the bank officer told me that, “Most people nowadays just use our savings accounts to protect their money.”Banks get robbed. Corrupted C.E.O.s steal the funds of stockholders and even their own employees. The rich and famous hardly receive the same punishment as an unknown person for an identical crime, simply by virtue of their fame and fortune, coupled with their potential to contribute to politics. Think about that for a moment.
In the late 1970s, I recall my bank savings account was close to 18%. At present, it is 1.2%! After I complained in dismay, the bank officer told me that, “Most people nowadays just use our savings accounts to protect their money.”Banks get robbed. Corrupted C.E.O.s steal the funds of stockholders and even their own employees. The rich and famous hardly receive the same punishment as an unknown person for an identical crime, simply by virtue of their fame and fortune, coupled with their potential to contribute to politics. Think about that for a moment.
The American people have not been on equal footing with their government since the development of the Atomic bomb. Prior to that scourge of humankind, ‘we the people’ had the power of liberty of which Thomas Jefferson spoke of for nearly 176 years. Those years of liberty have sadly waned away into public apathy; the new National disease.
Unless and until multitudes of citizens band together in such great numbers so as to totally bewilder the mighty power of the prevailing governments, their strangle-hold upon us will only get worse, and the enslaving of the people who are pacified within the dreams of mass-entertainment will bloom into the truest form of evil this world has ever known: a nation of zombies; the living dead.
How much to do you care about your family, friends and fellow citizens?
Unless ‘we the people’ do something soon, we will live to see the horrors come true.
Researched and written by,
Jason Greywolf Leigh
(Native born 24th generation American, U.S. Disabled Veteran, Registered voter)
July 4, 2006 AD
Unless and until multitudes of citizens band together in such great numbers so as to totally bewilder the mighty power of the prevailing governments, their strangle-hold upon us will only get worse, and the enslaving of the people who are pacified within the dreams of mass-entertainment will bloom into the truest form of evil this world has ever known: a nation of zombies; the living dead.
How much to do you care about your family, friends and fellow citizens?
Unless ‘we the people’ do something soon, we will live to see the horrors come true.
Researched and written by,
Jason Greywolf Leigh
(Native born 24th generation American, U.S. Disabled Veteran, Registered voter)
July 4, 2006 AD
SYNOPSIS:
I was asked by a Veterans Group that I belong to, if I would write and post a 'citizen's view' of the present government. Rather than making it a critique with Pros and Cons, I decided to write what I felt was a more compelling essay, as if I were addressing the People of America. Thus came 'The State of the Union,' which I wrote more as a speech than an essay, as you might gather in reading it. There are many things and conditions that are utterly wrong in America, too many to address in one writing of two pages or less, and it is too easy to criticize these injustices when one is far removed from the midst of the government, therefore, I wrote my address as an inspiration to and for those who may be in authority, but moreover, for those who can and should make a difference: the voters of The United States of America.
Best regards for a New USA,
JASON GREYWOLF LEIGH
posted by Jason Greywolf Leigh at 1:25 PM
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