Referendum to Independence
I want my Government back! Our Government is no longer of the people, by the people and for the people of America. In the course of our short 230 year history we the people have stood up for great change in our Government. First, being our Independence for the English Crown which we celebrate today. Then came our Civil War which tested our belief in our Constitution and that all Men are created equal. This came to head again during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950-1970's. In many ways it is still being fought today. In these times of great change we had leaders willing to put the cause before oneself.
In our quest of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness I expect and do not request any hand outs. I do expect our Government to protect the rights given to all American citizens by our Constitution. I ask for leadership and responsibility at all levels of Government. Both of which are hard pressed to find in any branch of Government. Money is free speech, money is power and money corrupts. In the 230 years of our history money has slowly taken away the power of the voice of the average American. By far this has been the number one crime of our Government. The fact our Government has waged wars based on lies and those of us without the power of money have paid for these lies in blood. While there seems to be little, if any, sacrifice by those of us at home and in our Government. How has any of this made us Americans safer here at home and abroad? Who has taken the responsibility for these lies and failure of duty? No longer are we willing to swallow empty rhetoric from our leaders. Actions speak louder the words. Our Governments actions have shown little to no improvement in the past several years.
Let the Facts below speak for themselves of the crimes of our Congress, Judicial, Executive and what many now call our fourth branch of Government, the Press/Media.
Congress
Guilty of putting yourselves before the American people. The very definition of civil servant is lost. Tap my phone, read my emails, and track my bank records without warrants, this is ok. To search an office of a Congressman without asking first, but having a warrant, this has gone too far.
Guilty of spending just as much time, if not more, campaigning and fund raising for re-election as they do law making or in debate.
Guilty of pushing hot button issues before an election, like gay marriage, flag burning, immigration, and energy prices. Then after the election does nothing on those issues and goes back to pushing bills by lobbyist and earmarking for campaign donors.
Guilty of not doing anything about the millions of uninsured Americans.
Guilty of irresponsible spending of American tax dollars.
Guilty of continuing dirty politics. Regularly taking ones opponent's words out of context, then neither party finds it necessary to explain either side.
Guilty of slogans run a muck politics. When disagreeing with someone's view, stop adding negative slogans to it, like "cut and run" and "death tax". It demeans the debate and yourselves.
Guilty of third grader name calling. When disagreeing with how the War on Terror is being fought, you resort to names like, "un-American", "On the side of al-Qaida", defeatist", "war monger" and worse of all, "Have forgotten 9/11", or "Still live in a pre-9/11 world".
Guilty of continuing to compare WWII to the War on Terror. They are both different kind of wars, in different times. Follow some of you own name calling, stop living in a pre-9/11 world.
Guilty of a failing grade, with a job approval rating of 25%. The sad truth is hat 98% of Congress will be re-elected. Of the 435 seats in the House in 2004 only 10 seats were decided by less then 5%. 23 seats were decided by only 10%. The rest of the house seats were decided by more the 40%, the winner being the incumbent. If you or I had only a 25% job approval rating in our job we'd be looking for a new one. So why are they trying to be re-elected instead of finding a new job?
Judicial
Guilty of preaching from the bench. Different faiths play different roles in everyone's lives. If a judge bases his judge solely on his faith and not the law we come one step closer to a theocracy.
Guilty of allowing the party in power to pick its voters. This would be another loss for the declining American voter. What is next? Another side effect of being able to re-district every two years is that voters will be more confused on where to vote. This would cause more votes to not be counted due to voter confusion. This is just another step to eliminating the American voter.
Guilty of the declining independence of our courts. When the selection of judges to all courts has more to do with party politics then who is the best qualified jurist. Our courts were to be separate from the politics of the other two branches.
The President
Guilty of declaring a false victory. It has been 1,160 days since declaring victory in Iraq. Yet we still have soldiers dying everyday, 2,500 and growing. The cost of the war is reaching 1.7 trillion dollars. So much for the oil revenues in Iraq paying for this war.
Guilty of the continuing mismanagement of the war in Iraq. The only plan you give us, "Stay the course", and "When they stand up, we'll stand down".
Guilty of blaming the media for only reporting only the bad news in Iraq. If there are so many good things going on in Iraq, then you tell us. We may even believe you. That is if you have any creditability with the American people left or with the world. So much for all you political capital you had.
Guilty of not taking the War on Terror to places where there are not U.S. interests. How long will you stand and do nothing about the slaughter in the Sudan?
Guilty of doing little to secure the energy needs of the future of America.
Katrina.
Guilty of playing the politics of fear. Is it me or as soon as the Presidential elections were over, so were the raising and lowering of the terror alerts.
Guilty of not securing the borders to our south and north in you first 5 years in office. Then when the media took hold of the story you still do little.
The Press/Media
Guilty of having a political agenda which does the public a disservice. Be it the Liberal media or the so called "fair and balanced" media.
Guilty of a sound-bite media. Give us the whole story.
Guilty of not having the number one concern of the press being giving us the news, instead of the bottom-line. This does both our Government and public a disservice. Our news should not be for sale.
Guilty of selling out to tabloid stories to boost your rating. Stories like Holloway, the Duke rape case and the Michael Jackson trial.
Guilty of deciding that instead of giving us just the facts of the news, you find it necessary to tell us what is right a wrong about it. How many times has a criminal case been triad in the Media before the courts? I'd call it the "Guilty till proven innocent media".
Many may agree or disagree with my list of crimes. This does not make them any less true. I write this with the intent to spur debate, a real debate, not just a joint press conference about our state of Government and the role it should and should not play in our lives. I wish to once again engage my fellow Americans back into politics. To once again to be the jewel of Democracy, instead of a mockery of it as we are today. The fact that fewer then half of the voting population actually votes and in the last few Presidential elections we have seen the courts decide one election and the other also end in debate of who won and whose votes were counted. With the increase of technology, why is it harder to track votes and count them? It's in this that the heart of trust in our Government has broken. Ultimately, if we feel as if our vote does not count, then why vote at all? I say to you, make it count! Stand up and be heard until it is. If we are to have a Government of the people, by the people and for the people of America, then we must rise up and be counted. We must be accountable, where as our elected officials have not. The time is once more here that we ask not what our country will do for us, for they no longer listen, but what we will do for our country. If they can not hear us, then we shall vote you out. We will take our government back.
