Reconstituted

I am continually astonished by how the masses seem to either turn a blind eye to or buy into such blatantly hypocritical deceptions. It seriously just blows my mind. These things seem to be so clear and simple — and yet, so many are oblivious to it. This government was in fact created “of the people and for the people”, with a constitution designed to protect the rights of the American citizens: meaning individuals. In other words, the constitution is for the people! Somehow, it seems that far too many ‘people’ are thoughtlessly willing to surrender this protection. Not only to yield, but to go so far as to transfer these rights from the body of individual citizens to the lawyers of corporate giants. It is as if David were to humbly surrender his slingshot and stone at the feet of Goliath.

Corporate lawyers, executives and a variety of other greed blinded people seem to suffer from such tunnel vision on the “what do I get out of it” aspect of everything, that they chronically fail to recognise that many things are designed for the benefit of the general public; not just the ruling class or your special interest group. For example let’s look at the original purpose of Separation of Church and State, and how it is so grossly twisted and misinterpreted.

It’s very simple. Freedom of religion. Freedom from religious persecution. The right to practice a religion of your choice: even if your religion is perceived to be outside of the mainstream. It is a law of the people, by the people to protect the people from being told by their government that any particular religious doctrines are the official doctrine of the state; and thus isolating other religions from acceptance. No one should be persecuted, ostracised or otherwise shunned for having a less than conventional spiritual path. That is the reason for separation of church and state.

But the conservatives have warped this. They paint advocates of the Constitutional Separation of Church and State as being “anti-God”. It seems that they would have that part of the constitution abolished, provided that the Christian Judea flavors of Church were the only ones allowed to commingle with State. But what is most troubling about this to me is that part where they portray separation of church and state as an attack on God. Here’s the news flash, Righty… The whole point of separation of church and state is the fact that there are many religions and spiritual philosophies. They all involve belief in some sort of Deity – just not necessarily your God. But just as you arrogant conservatives seem to believe that you own patriotism, you also think you own the word God. I’m pleased to be the one to tell you — The word God is rightfully used in reference to the “supreme beings” believed in by people of many other spiritual mindsets. You see, that wrathful God that you worship/fear… the one that supposedly hates fags… well, it may be the meanest God on the block, but in this country it does not own the block. Because our Constitutional Separation of Church and State says that my God has an equal place at the table. That’s the reality of it. That's what separates us from places like Iraq and Iran. The reality is that separation of church and state is very pro-God.
It's pro-everyone’s-God.

And while we’re on the subject, please stop imposing characters from your religion onto other people’s religions. In the self-righteous glory of your narcissistic ignorance, you righties seem determined to characterize all Pagans as “Satan Worshipers”. Well here’s some more information which I will turn sideways in hopes that I might squeeze it into your narrow mind; now focus: Satan is a character from YOUR book. Most Pagans don’t even believe in the existence of any such character, therefore it is not likely that they are worshiping it. Really. To most pagans, Satan is nothing more than a cartoon character. The Satan that you believe in is all yours. So do the rest of us a favor and keep him to yourself.

Now, to finally get to the point of this rant. On the news this morning, I heard a report about a legal case, in which a corporate restaurant chain is fighting compliance with ingredients disclosure regulations. Regulations which are designed to protect the health of you, me and our children. The lawyers representing this corporation are calling it a violation of their client’s constitutional freedom of speech rights. They argue that by being forced to post a list of ingredients, their client (a corporation, not an individual) is being forced to speak, thereby having their rights violated.

So here is an other classic example of a constitutional amendment, which was created to protect people, being hijacked by a corporate lawyer to empower a corporation to potentially harm people. Can’t you see it? They are not only rubbing salt in your wounds – but it’s your fucking salt!

I will stop flogging that horse when it is actually dead

Again, reality matters.

Regarding the 9-11 attacks. All of the empirical data that most sane people who don’t live in caves agree upon tells us that we were attacked by a (non-national) independent terrorist group based in Afghanistan.

In the real world realm of reality, the real evidence supports the FACT that we were NOT attacked by Iraq. No evidence has ever existed to support the idea that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with the 9-11 attacks.

Contrary to what so many right-wing lunatics would have us believe, Bin Ladin and Hussein are not the same person. This has got to be the most wide spread case of mass delusion in the history of our species. I can’t remember the number but I remember my horrifying feeling of astonishment when I heard the statistic of how many Americans actually believe that on 9/11 we were attacked by Iraq.

This is perhaps the most relentless, full blown, nation wide rejection of reality in American history. Hundreds of thousands of Fox News fans looking at the moon and insisting that it is the sun. And this disdain for what is factual is by no means limited to ignorant hicks. Very well educated presidential candidates also seem to be afflicted with this inability to accept what is real.

During the last republican debate, Mitt Romney’s remarks about President Bush’s Iraq policy started with comments about the 9-11 attacks. He very blatantly and directly related 9-11 to the Iraq war, referring to our invasion of Iraq as a message to terrorists that if you attack us we will respond.

Hey Mitt! Got a little secret for you… Since you’re running for president and all – and you should like, know stuff… Iraq has never attacked the US. I know that you’re a republican. So you have fun making your little wise cracks against democrats by deliberately confusing Barak Obama's name with Osama Bin Ladin's… Yeah, that was pretty cute Mitt. Come up with that one all by your self? Anyhow, that’s all fun and games. But you really should know the difference between Osama Bin Ladin and Saddam Hussein. Bin Ladin is the one who was actually responsible for 9-11… Husain is the one who had nothing to do with it. Nor did he have WMD. Don’t get me wrong. Saddam Hussein was a serious fucking asshole. And he did need to go. But not at the cost of the lives of THOUSANDS of American soldiers and nearly a TRILLION DOLLARS of debt, which may contribute to the devastation of the American and global economy.

Really! Let’s put these matters on the scale.

Like many tyrants around the world, Saddam Hussein was guilty of human rights atrocities and other really bad stuff.

Now look at the cost of going after him.

• We let Osama Bin Ladin get away


• We annihilated every infrastructure of Iraq


• We turned Iraq into the official global mecca for anti-American terror groups


• We had the power and support of the free world totally behind us after 9-11. It was a massive world-wide spike in pro-Americanism. Until with our unilateral determination to invade Iraq we told the rest of the world to fuck off.


• We sacrificed THOUSANDS of American soldiers.


• We’ve created a national debt that is devastating our economy, while it turns China into the next superpower.


• And did I mention that Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11


• And Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11


• And the list goes on.

So, when comparing the horrible deeds of Saddam Hussein to the horrible deeds of George W. Bush – I can say with absolute certainty, that despite the fact that Saddam Hussein was one of the most sadistic mother fuckers running a country, if bringing that piece of shit back from the grave would be the price to pay for erasing George W. Bush from ever existing, the world would be a much better place.