Hannelore Morton 1 min · Moments after being sworn in as the first president of these States United under the new Constitution, George Washington stated, “The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” I’m going to be blunt, does that mean anything at all to you, or as Andy Dufresne asks the warden in The Shawshank Redemption, “Are you obtuse?” In case you’re not aware, obtuse means slow to understand something. For nearly two decades now I have been writing these little missives, [articles], and I have yet to see that they have had any real affect on the way people think. I don’t do this for pleasure, and I certainly am not profiting from it. I do it because for some reason I am able to see beyond the lies that I have been told by everyone from my school teachers to the news media and our elected public servants. For some reason I have been blessed, or cursed depending upon how you look at it, with the ability to think for myself. I can listen to a news broadcast, or a speech delivered by some two bit hack politician, and detect the lies and bullshit that others readily accept as truth, without ever stopping to think about it. I also do this because, even though our country is in a shitty state right now, I still love it. I write these missives because, aside from a few others I know, most people can’t see the end result of their ignorance and apathy when it comes to how much power they allow their government to amass, and the resulting loss of their rights and liberty. I write these missives, repeating the same basic premises over and over, trying different approaches, in the hopes of rekindling that spirit of resistance to tyranny that led our Founders to seek independence from England and establish a system of government which would best prevent that same tyranny from ever happening here in America........... federalobserver/…/ross-what-else-can-i-say…/…
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:14:15 +0000