Independence Day
Celebrating American Independence or Free Passes for Trump? Headlined on OpEdNews.com & PoliticusUSA Feature
Unlike the carelessness of the thoughtless abuse of constitutionally guaranteed, Free Speech, there have been shining moments of Exceptionalism. However, it only takes a few Members ignoring to death, the future of seniors — willing those under 40, demise by Opioid addiction, second class education, crushing debt, self-doubt induced suicide and a planet in the throes of being overwhelmed.
It only takes a few short-sighted, self-serving, knee jerk choices to seek and destroy a nation – for every secret thought & spoken word; each decision & vote cast; full-throated cover ups — whether choosing weapons of vile, despicable behavior or willingly playing games with team of Grovels – we are settling for the summit of the worst in ourselves.
Even as a congressional few ignore foreign disregard for our national sovereignty, trumpet puppets are, State by State, instituting institutional theft of personal data, voting information – a colossal invasion of millions of Americans.
A helter-skelter nation needs to embrace unity to reestablish its Gettysburg Address vision of civic responsibility. However, it will likely be governors and Secretaries of Red States, who will profane Lincoln’s example, by relinquishing unmitigated exposure of its citizens’ privacy.
To reaffirm our Independence, it is for us, on July 4, 2017, to recapture the essence of The Golden Rule, for it is never too late for the Exceptionalism of self-rule, mutual respect and living lives that practice what we preach.
For our Independence, let us proclaim, there is no last time for war when it is declared endless; no last time for violence when we’re married to it, acquitting both mass murder in public places, while good men with guns shoot good men of color; no last time for Arlington ball-field, when Little Rock shots ring out in echo of a Bronx Hospital.
When the proudly despicable violate the honor of the highest office in the land, clearly The Home of the Brave is being run by the cowardly. Regardless of Party, all Americans are being mocked with a smirk having no more depth than 140 characters.
Yet, this is not a nationwide choice, nor a national great divide. It’s the sum of people who can be fooled most of the time by the few repetitiously casting a bait and switch, and gossip dominating investigative reporting with hyperbole, seeking ratings.
Nonetheless, like heroic first responders, it is on us, to get out in front of stampeding mob rule, with sheer numbers, votes and boycotts proving we mean business, to the business of Koch heads owning politicians and government at every level.
The challenge is not too many fires to put out, but too little Independence thinking, to resist false prophets and puppets of industry currently occupying too many State Houses, Legislatures and our current three branches of federal government.
If the super poor will always be with us, it is not because the bible told me so, but rather, since ushering in the second Gilded Age in 1980, the super-rich have perpetuated it so.
America survived Valley Forge, Lincoln/JFK/MLK/RFK assassinations and The Red Scare because of dreamers & the young at heart, farmers & lawyers, students & educators, preachers and sinners – and again, America needs human decency to overcome the small minded and hateful – especially elected leaders who are the greatest dangers to our national security and international integrity.
Like Paul Revere, women road to warn of invasion and The Greatest Generation included females, African-Americans, Latino and LGBTQ.
However, where there are narrow-minded men, there are abused women & minorities; where easy access to guns, mass shootings; and when We the People act like kittens chasing a laser of a Fourth Estate led around by a Pinocchio nosed President, we are accessories after the fact.
Yes, Donald Trump’s behavior is not presidential, but more importantly, his conduct is unbecoming a Commander-in-Chief, and absolutely, an unacceptable example for fathers, husbands and children.
So, we can choose to be responsible for continually giving free passes to someone intellectually, psychologically and mentally unfit to be President, or like 1776 American wannabees, pick up the gauntlet of reason and be Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All.
Murrieta: Celebrating Independence with Uncivil War
From whichever side of the street we do the Murrieta shout, we affirm America the Beautiful to the world, as a nation that values the sanctity of human life or betrays our Founding Fathers, by crushing the hope of children of a lesser God.
Like people and causes, war comes in all sizes, and is more than deliverer of victory or defeat. War is aggrandizement through plunder or division humiliation. As game changer war allows those who declare it to control those who fight it.
What we war for and when; how we war and why; on whom we war and for whom we commit war – as nation, citizen, neighbor, parent, or self-righteous vigilante, our choice of location, target and antagonists defines us.
Celebrating 1812 rockets red glare, true Americans answer the call to lift every voice and sing in harmony our Statue of Liberty’s promise. Real Americans suffer the little children as the least of these, and give them rest and refuge. Otherwise narrow Murrieta views might white out the principals for which we’ve fought on buses, in marches, on battlefields and in peace to bring me your tired your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
America’s promise is tested for proof beyond parchment words, so we must bare our hearts, open our minds and lift up all souls, in order to qualify as recipients and representatives of the American Dream.
As for those uncompromisingly expressing their First Amendment Rights, at the expense of children, you are a credit to the conservative mindset so fearful of change and evolution. Every person, hooded or not, who shouted racial slurs at the 1961 Freedom Riders, is beaming with pride as your screams turn away our little brown brothers. Heaven forbid we should save them from drug lords and sex traffickers. So hold your heads as high as those who burned down black churches and buried equality in a 1964 Mississippi swamp.
As Americans we can aspire to personify the trinity of The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution & its Bill of Rights and the Gettysburg Address or declare war for darker reasons, bleeding out for some master race — our legacy, the emptiness of unacceptable unacceptance of fellow human beings. Protesting against those who cannot defend themselves is the lowest form of war.
There are few good wars, arguably so few we can name them in a moment of peace:
- Our Revolutionary War for Independence (1775—1783) absolving us from all Allegiance to the British Crown
- Our Civil War (1860—1865) to preserve our nation indivisible where all could eventually live free
- World War Two (1941—1945) to protect the world and ourselves from a maniacal political movement attempting a thousand year Reich, murdering millions because of their religion and heredity
- To the degree the Afghanistan war leads to the dissemination and destruction of those responsible for our September 11, 2001 devastation, it makes the good war list
However, since most non-Native Americans, living in the fantasy of a fabricated Thanksgiving, are the descendants of immigrants, with various degrees of legality, isn’t it possible that those who have sacrificed so much in wars, did so with an inkling that with each new American comes the possibility of a new birth of freedom?
Honor July 4th by declaring our Independence from an America of Internment camps for Japanese Americans, Wall Street destruction of the Middle Class and wars for corporate profits.
In America’s historical timeline, legally and not, millions came from over there to be over here. Now, we can help the less fortunate by mutually pledging to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor, or we can shame Old Glory by shouting, not my children, not my problem!
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