Are we really wimps?

[Tags: Nazi, Policy, Police, wimp, constitution,
nanny]

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I have been on hiatus for a while from blogging, but something that I read recently on another blog When did America become a nation of frightened wimps started me thinking. Steve Olsen makes a damn good argument: Since when did we start accepting this stuff? Did we accept it or are we simply too busy to bother bitching about it? Do we want to bitch but to politically correct to want to rock the boat or are we IN the boat but sinking because we cannot or do not know how to assemble and support each other?

Why it's not the governments fault:


I'm not big on pushing blame or responsibility for my life others - I have that oh so Western mentality that says "You are the master of your own destiny" though I sometimes think the Buddhist view of "You have your own destiny but it has not yet been revealed" is kinda sexy in a way. Yes we're a representative government not a direct Democracy - we the citizens still hire and fire our politicians locally and at the State level... they represent us at the Federal level and if they do a lousy job it's OUR job (yours and mine) to boot them and get someone better. Government my design is NOT supposed to involve themselves in your life directly which is why I tend to like less government. Yet as Steve identifies we really are in a nanny state of being... I think it's fear that got us some of the way, it's socialism that got us the rest of the way. Freedom of Choice and Free Will both are Western values that are highly esteemed. If I want to kill myself on Chocolate shakes and 2lbs. of McDonalds fries eaten every day for 20 years that's my prerogative. If I LIKE lard and want to eat it, no one should tell me I cannot. Yet, the "public good" is the most common reason used to relieve us stupid cattle of citizenry of the "bad" things in life. so what's worse? Democrats creating a socialistic country where every decision is made for the "common good" (read: The BORG), or is it reactionary militarists like the Republicans - who claim strip searching old ladies at air ports and warrantless SWAT team entries in teachers homes is a laughing matter...

Police:
"Oops! Haha! Sorry - didn't know you guys WEREN'T making bathtub X in and selling it to minors! Haha! Wrong address don't you know - Bill there misread that GPS map and thought it was Maple Drive instead of Maple Ave. haha! Would you like to buy some PBA tickets and support our Police Athletic League ball this year?"
Teacher: "Go *bleep* yourself."

Is there a reason ... a REAL reason to have warrantless searches or is it Nazi type stuff? Well look at yourself in the mirror folks - YOU let it happen. That's right - it's YOUR fault - all of you. You can sit there and say "BS pal - I didn't vote for ________". So what. You're responsibility doesn't END with voting, it STARTS with voting. The last thing we need is more partisan misinformation - I don't care what political party or non-political party you aspire to. Republicans have good points and bad as do Democrats. Extremists on either side are the problem not the solution. Pelosi, Waxman, Murtha and the rest of the "leadership" of Congress are no better than Bush, Gonzales, Cheney and the rest. Everyone in between these idiots gets screwed unless we do something about it AFTER the voting is done. The circle jerk of partisan backslapping found on the Internet isn't the solution it's again, part of the problem. We need someone who will do the right thing no matter WHO or WHAT position it supports.


So are we wimps? Cowards? Ambivalent is more like it. I agree that these things in Steve's blog post have to be corrected - they're crap. It reminds me of the Amish shootings last year - I was so pissed and outraged but the Amish who lost their children weren't. They forgave the killer and his family, tore down the school and built a new one and moved on. We need to do the same - we need someone with character to tear down the monstrosity that is currently residing on either side of the political spectrum's... both left and right... and tear it down to what our founders saw was the strength in our system, in our country and in our people. We don't have to ditch the constitution - we need to ditch the people who are failing to follow and lead in the spirit of that constitution. Tear it down, burn it... WE moderates are the majority, not the loud mouths, the cynics and the whiners. It's time we grow a set of balls and start acting like it.