Sad State of America

I am preparing a post with a little different take, but it is not ready yet. So, I am going to throw this in, given the events of 4/6/06.

I was traveling yesterday when I received a phone call from an investigator who told me that Boosh, through Cheney, had authorized Scooter Libby to virtually eliminate Valerie Plame, ruining her life along with the life of her husband, Joseph Wilson. For that to be true, of course, you must believe what Scooter Libby told the Grand Jury, and I know of no reason to doubt this information. I was listening to CNN on my satellite radio, and kept switching it back and forth from there to MSNBC and heard nothing on the subject for about 2 hours. Then they both jumped on the story, and carried it most of the rest of the day. I was not terribly surprised by this news, but found something else that “kinda sorta” ties into all of this. Bear with me, please.

When I first got in the car, I heard the tail end of a conversation with a Senator discussing the immigration deal that they were allegedly about to cut on the floor of the Senate. Unfortunately, as I picked up the interview late, I did not pick up on which Senator it was. I did not recognize his voice. I found what he said astonishing, but it reflects on the apathy which has infected the American populace. I can’t quote him directly, but can summarize what he had to say.

He essentially said that the main reason that the Senate decided to move was because of the mass demonstrations of the Hispanic community, demonstrations occuring in the streets of America. It is clear that they have a true mission, that they care deeply about this issue, and that the Senate needed to do their best to create a compromise that would satisfy all.

For the most part, this is BS. We all know that. Satisfy all? Hardly. They are satisfying the big business lobby, and defying the will of the American people. They are ignoring our will, plus ignoring the will of the people who have been working hard through legal means to enter this country. All polls overwhelmingly show that we want secure borders, and this mish mash of proposed legislation doesn’t even address that issue. But, that’s not really what I want to talk about.

What interested me about what this unidentified Senator had to say was the part about the demonstrations having an effect on the actions of the Senate. I have said before that we should have 50 million people with their butt’s planted on Pennsylvania Avenue until the entire cast of Booshco are run out of town and placed back under a rock or in Gitmo. Wherever, I don't care. Just get them gone and off of my television set and out of my face. If it took a month, so be it. If it took some people going to jail, so be it. How many can they possibly lock up? Of course, for that to occur, it would require said Americans to get off of said butt’s and do something, which (by the way) will not happen. It won’t happen because we are a comatose society, and believe it when we are told that things are just peachy. I doubt that the average American sees the significance of what was revealed yesterday about Boosh himself authorizing the Plame leak. But, we can learn something here.

The Hispanic community reminded us of something that occurred during the Viet Nam War. They reminded us that civil disobedience can have an impact on what happens
in Washington. When you think about it, the numbers of Hispanics involved were not all that large. But they were certainly much larger than anything that 300 million Americans have been able to piece together so far during various "protests."
I doubt that we have the collective will to get 100,000 people to attend an organized rally, much less the estimated 500,000 Hispanics that rallied across the nation. And that, my friends, is a sad state of affairs.

I am not a fool, and don’t believe for a second that if the exact same number of American citizens did what the Hispanic community managed to accomplish, that the attention of the US Senate would be garnered. I say this for a couple of reasons. One, the percentage of Americans versus the percentage of Hispanics in this
country is tilted heavily to the side of the Americans. So, we would need a whole lot more people. Two, the Senate, those who were elected to represent American citizens, have determined that Americans are way down on the food chain in contrast to the Hispanic community and others, regardless of whether they are here legally or illegally. American public opinion is virtually ignored, evidenced by
the lack of action taken despite the clear opposition to the war in Iraq. This also
will hold true with the upcoming nuke battles in Iran, Syria and wherever else the idiot stick decides to stick his nose. This is all assuming, of course, that we can prop the economy up long enough to act in other areas, but that's a different animal. So, back to the point at hand. The numbers of Americans involved would need to be much, much larger to have any impact.

But it could be done, if the collective will of the American people reached the point which most of the rest of the world has already reached. To the point of saying that we’ve had enough of an outlaw regime, one operating without any apparent oversight, one that has turned our country into nothing other than a dictatorship. To the point where we the people say that we are not going to take it any more. For that to happen, a massive demonstration needs to occur in Washington D.C., a demonstration that will not be turned back nor deterred regardless of the reaction of those in power to such an event. Sadly, it won’thappen.

Maybe the Hispanics are correct. They seem to care a hell of a lot more about what is happening in this country than the American people do, and are clearly able to organize and act in what they feel is their best interest. And, they managed to do it in a short time and in an effective fashion. Maybe we should just turn this country over to them, be they legal immigrants or illegal workers. Until we show ourselves and the world that we care as much about this place as they do, we have no right to question their actions when it comes to flying Mexican flags, speaking Spanish, or whatever agenda they propose. We just don’t have the gumption to stand up for anything anymore. Quite frankly, we get what we deserve, and this is a microcosm of what we have created for ourselves. Created by slumbering through our lives while allowing those in power to have the unfettered ability to destroy what once was America.

One unknown Senator, one line that may or may not be true. I think that his comment is probably not true; he is more likely pointing out the demonstrations as an excuse for the reprehensible actions of the Senate. But, at the very least, it should act as a wake up call to every apathetic American, showing what could be done if the numbers demonstrating were 50 Million Americans instead of 500,000 Hispanics. Unfortunately, it won't happen and it is likely way too late anyway. But, to go down without a fight, without even a whimper, makes me ashamed to be an American. So, I leave you with a question.

How much longer are we going to take this?

Cyclone


“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”

George W. Boosh; La Crosse, Wisconsin; October 18, 2000