Would you like to see how disgusting we as a nation have gotten? Would you like to see how terrible we as a people have become? We are no longer a just society. We are no longer good people; we are no longer the great country that was once “governed by its people”. If anything we are a shadow what was once a great dream of our forefathers. We have become so repugnant in our apathy we have willingly given up our basic freedoms for a false sense of security. Not only have we been spoon fed the same lies, over and over and over again, but we basically just said “thank you sir, may I have another?” And While we sit here, contemplating what to do with the rest of our lives, innocent people are dying, innocent people are suffering, innocent people are rotting in some small cell, not allowed a fair trial, or even meet with their family or even a defense lawyer!
When I think of the people that have fought for this nation, nay, I always wonder was going through the minds of our nation’s first leaders, when they were signing the declaration of independence, and then when they were signing the Constitution. Just close your eyes for a moment, breathe, and think for a moment; what do you think was going through their minds when they wrote the preamble to the declaration of independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |
Nobody really does talk like that these days. But do you know what I think was going through their minds? They were tired, they had finally tried every other possible solution they could think of with the King and they couldn’t find common ground. And just like now, the British were stomping on their freedoms as well; infringing on their privacy, and putting too much on military spending whilst taxing them and giving it all to the rich. Now am I saying we should start a revolution? God no, but I am also tired, I’m tired that we are easily swayed by biased media. I’m tired of the fact that in this nation, you are either democrat or republican, conservative or liberal, red or blue, I am tired of the fact that we have given the biggest voice in our government to the enterprises. But what I’m MOST tired of is that when someone tries to speak out against the policies that are being run in government these days they are deemed unpatriotic.
Are you kidding me? That is insane! That is the purpose of the people, to always keep the government in check, and to make sure that it is doing its job correctly. Not to walk around like a mindless drone and to put complete faith in the government. And you know what happens when you do that? David Hicks is what happens. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and he was arrested and detained for five years, without meeting with a lawyer, or his family. Now, as the first person to be charged under the new laws in the military commissions act (that means that he was arrested for a law that wasn’t even around at the time, as in they made up a law to charge him with, constitutional fucking no no), and charge him with “providing terrorist material”. Whether they deem it unlawful for him to be charged under these laws or not, the administration will most likely then find another law to charge him under, and he is back to square one. Do you know what this means? That under the Military Commissions act, the United States Government, can deem you an enemy combatant, whether you are a foreign national or an American citizen, hold you for however long they want, and place some bogus charge on you like “providing terrorist material”. Just reading that article made my stomach curl. And it should make yours too, these are the kind of things that you read in history books, or you see in movies, these shouldn’t be the kind of things that happen in our “great nation”. But they do, they are real, and they are apparent, and we have to do something about it.
Edit: David Hicks has actually met with his lawyers, although his lawyers don't have full access to the the military case file.
