just another vet

It's Primary Day

Go vote, then go caucus. And if any HRC supporters give you lip, lay down some smack.

Another Perspective

If we must accept the system of government that our Founding Fathers created at the birth of this nation, then let us hold our current elected officials to the standards set fourth by the creators. Also, if this system, the Constitutional Republic, is to succeed, then the citizens of this nation must be active participants.

Those citizens elected to serve as public officials must never forget that their duty is to serve the people; that each and every action be for the benefit of the Republic as a whole. A contract between those elected and the citizens must be made that if broken, leads to the timely removal of these officials.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to monitor the elected, to provide them with support when needed and to call for their resignation if need arise. At no time can this system be changed for the benefit of the few over the many lest the Republic be put in peril.

Violence shall be the last resort, but shall exist as a legal defense of the Republic by the citizens against the elected. Likewise, the citizens must continually police themselves to ensure that radical idealists do not endanger the Republic by spreading fallacies.

The freedoms enshrined in the Constitution do not override common sense or the laws of nature. Their purpose is to ensure that the citizens of this Republic be free from tyranny but not personnal responsibility.

It is of the utmost importance that each citizen monitor their own actions, and that compromises must be made to reduce the threat of internal strife. If we are to succeed as a unified Republic, then we must make individual sacrifices at times, each and every one of us, even to the extent of death.

Long live the Republic.

the man speaks

go read george washington's farwell address to the nation. it is amazing. and he fortold what the political parties would and have done to our people.

The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.

For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

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There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.

my moment in the sun

today at my college there was a protest rally. basically it was the republicans protesting the democrats and the democrats protesting the republicans. instead of joining in the great protest circle jerk, i gave this speech:

I have a phrase to share with you.
United we stand, divided we fall.
And in case you haven�t been paying attention,
We are divided!
I am sick and tired of hearing Americans
question the patriotism of other Americans.
I am sick and tired of Republicans
calling Democrats communists and faggots.
And I am sick and tired of Democrats
calling Republicans Nazis and Fascists.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
We are one people, united under one flag,
our strength comes from our diversity and our unity.
This is not a country of Republicans or Democrats.
This is a country of Americans.
Where the rich and the poor, black and white,
straight and gay, Christian and non-Christian can live together.
We have let the extreme ends of the political
spectrum hijack our national dialogue.
The political parties exist to perpetuate themselves.
They thrive off our division, and it is ripping us apart.
It doesn�t matter which asshole gets elected tomorrow.
Half of you will spend all your time and energy
making sure the other half gets nothing done.
Our politicians have failed us, our media has failed us,
and we are failing America
when neighbors hate each other because of who they
want to vote for. We are in trouble!
How can we spread the dream of Democracy around the world
when we can�t even make it work here?
Our election process is a disaster. Our country is divided.
What are we showing the world, what are we teaching our children?
Everyone here loves America. Everyone here is fighting
for what they believe is best.
We are all in this together!
You want to support our troops? Give them a country
worth fighting and sacrificing for.
Give them a country worth coming home to
that is not at war with itself!
We are one people, united under one flag or we are nothing!
God help us all if this is the best we can do!

i gave this speech because i still believe in this country. i thank barack obama for the inspiration.