Sure it wasn’t rape of the union?

I like to think of myself as a fairly open-minded person. I like to think that as long as someone has a semi-rational reason for believing what they do, they have a complete and inalienable right to express that view (Fuck it, anyone has a right to express any opinion they’ve got, don’t they?), thanks to a little piece of paper we nostalgically refer to as “The Constitution” here in America.

What I don’t like to think is the man we’ve elected to lead us through eight years would willfully ignore this piece of paper, this harbinger of rights, in the name of anything.

It’s happened. You don’t need a goddamned newspaper to realize it either. It’s as simple as a basic logic game: If all rights not explicitly afforded to the federal government in the constitution are given to the states and people, and the federal government is the one creating such monolothic “security” laws as the PATRIOT
act and other such laws, at what point do we reach parity with the states who don’t defend a “continued march towards liberty” that Bush references?

I’m just a layman idiot, but it seems to me he describes us while pretending we’re someone else.

I don’t even know anymore. I watched an hour of our supposed commander in chief blow smoke up our collective asses with specious excuses about why we should support what he wants, but when I take a look at what his wants have created for us, I can’t help but be overwhelmed with a desire to oppose W’s goals for the simple reason that they’ve lead us to where we are.

The strong do what they will. The weak suffer what they must. We’re along for the ride, if for no other reason than we had a side picked for us by birth.

Good luck to you all.