Abuse of the public’s trust is not limited to president Bush, although he and his administration have committed their fair share of abuse. The Patriot Act, which the Senate just extended (as anyone with knowledge of Politics 101 might have guessed), isn’t necessary for the defense of this country, as Bush inaccurately asserts. It is necessary to legalize the current and past illegal and immoral activities conducted by the government and agents of the government despite lacking the public’s permission or lawful authority.

Elected authority trumps all other authority, it seems.

Could you have imagined in your wildest dreams that our government would argue the cases for torture, secret prisons, secret courts, invasion of non-threatening nations for pre-emptive purposes, regime changes of targeted nations through military invasion, and the authority for our government to spy on the people of THIS nation?

Today, our government maintains that it needs support for a variety of powers, not the least of which is the power to transform Iraq into a democracy. But the American public has been kept in the dark about the government’s actual motives, versus the pretextual stated motives regarding the Middle East.

If we ask ourselves just a couple of simple questions, we can readily see that our government is lying to us about many things regarding its intentions in the Middle East, where American men and women are asked to kill and potentially die fighting for bogus causes:

When the U.S. liberated Kuwait in 1991, why didn’t we demand that a democracy be formed there?

Since Saudi Arabia is our friend and next door to Iraq, why didn’t we place the Saudis in charge of Iraq? After all, Saudi Arabia is the very seat of Islam and Iraq is a Muslim nation subject to the same Quran that stands as the constitution of Saudi Arabia. We could have saved American lives by leaving one of our “friends” in charge.

The reason these questions have never been asked nor likely ever will be, is because they tend to lead to a revelation of the true reason why the U.S. invaded Iraq. No one will ask the questions I will ask (and answer) because very few people are in search of the WHOLE TRUTH.

The debate over the Patriot Act is a smokescreen. It is merely a debate over whether or not the government will obtain some legal authority to do the things it has already been doing long before you and I ever began asking  the question …”Can they really do that?”

Don’t buy into the hype. The most important issue today is not the Patriot Act, but rather why are there literally thousands of elected leaders in the state legislatures and hundreds in the congress that have yet to band together and galvanize enough political muscle to force the president to bring our troops home … or force him out of office?

Why do we hold our breath day by day wondering when we will hear the name of someone we know read in the news as the next American casualty in the war in Iraq? We have the power as a public to motivate our elected leaders, yet here we are today wondering if one side or the other will win in a debate over nothing. Meanwhile, another life will be lost tomorrow … or maybe even today.

All the answers are in my book. Send it to your elected leaders. After reading it, they will have no excuse. It is time to stop fearing the enemy and worry about the government we’ve empowered, which places us at risk daily … and will someday soon regard you and I as its enemy.

If there is a regime change necessary, it is in Washington D. C., and it must be achieved by the American public at the polls. But then, who shall we put into power if both sides have abused the public’s trust for many years?

The answer is in my book … along with numerous other answers to questions the public has yet to even ask.

Posted on December 22nd, 2005 by admin
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