I want to appreciate that Sarah Palin is not a coward, I really do. If there’s one surplus my MAN-FORSAKEN country runs, it’s Cowardice. As it sadly happens, my man-forsaken-not-to-be-confused-with-God-forsaken country runs a number of surpluses. Tom Foolery, Tin Foil Hattery, Cloak & Daggery, Chicanery, Secrecy, Larceny, Scam Artistry. Frankly, it’s a wonder we’re broke. The importance of being Earnest, yes? Candidly, it’s enough to make a reasonable mind suppose that not everyone IS broke. More like, masses of humanity are one accident, illness or calamity away from Destitution while a Sinister Few are rich as, well, Rockefeller.
I categorically reject all law-I-use-the-term-loosely that serves to protect the Governors from the discontented speech of the Governed. I reject it on Constitutional grounds — y’know, the LEGAL CONTRACT THAT EXPRESSLY AND ESPECIALLY protects the People’s right to speak and assemble in dissent. I reject it on the grounds of SEVERAL KEY DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES — egalitarianism, good faith and justice, off the top of my head. I reject it on ethical grounds — it is blatant cheating. I reject it on moral grounds — God does NOT approve of corrupt self-service.
I will continue to speak freely that which I feel compelled to say while my country hovers on the brink of a deep, dark. MANMADE abyss. I answer to Divinity with an eye on Eternity, not expediency with an eye on public office. I have no moral leeway here. Not quite Blanche DuBois relying upon the kindness of strangers, I shall prevail upon bona fide Americans to support and protect me. Bona fide Americans will find me no stranger than usual . . . I am an American Original. Me and bona fide Americans don’t always want to be best friends or even live next door to each other, but we generally see eye-to-eye on the main points and the big picture. We GET IT, about principles over personalities.
My government has nothing to fear from me unless it has everything to fear from someone other than me. I am NOT obliged to tiptoe around toxic relationships that have been cultivated as though I do not exist or as though I am a human punching bag. It is cowardice beneath contempt, that sitting officials seek to legislate themselves above criticism and complaint. It is unmitigated chutzpah, that CORRUPT sitting officials seek to silence the governed WHILE taxing them at every turn.
Ahem . . . Fellow Citizens? Are you there? It is LUDICROUS to suggest that privileged people and idiosyncratic groups are so at odds with one another and/or the world that those of us who NOT special — those of us who are rendered increasingly Disadvantaged BY the Advantaged — shall no longer be free to speak our minds lest it incite or offend the Hatfields or the McCoys.
Can I get an Amen on a resounding FUCK YOU?
Yes, I CAN use the word Fuck in my writing.
I oughtn’t to use the word FUCK, as a rule. I am making a conscientious effort to swear less for several valid reasons, NONE of which are related to Government. Nowhere in the social contract defined by our Constitution is government granted the power to order me to quit swearing.
More than quitting cussing, it behooves me to quit smoking cigarettes. It benefits Others more, too. What of it? Do I see the heavy hand of government outlawing the Moneymaker Extraordinaire, for my own good and the good of others? Or do they sanction the unbridled production and worldwide distribution of cigarettes with one heavy hand and levy vice taxes on them with the other? Hypocrites. Connivers. Schemers. Thieves.
Tax lying, and we’ll be outta debt lickety split.
And if we would let them, Hypocrites, Connivers, Schemers and Thieves would issue laws forbidding us to say hateful or hurtful things about them. Out. Of. The. Question. I digress, but fuck ‘em just the same.
I would LIKE to believe that Sarah Palin is not a coward. Right now, even as I type, all the time, I look for inspired Leadership to rise like a phoenix out of the labyrinth of centralization before it will be incensed Laborers rising out of the ashes of authoritarianism. In other words, sooner rather than later. This waltz is SO over, if only the delirious dancers would sit or fall down instead of staggering around, holding each other up. We don’t need CZARS, fer cryin’ out loud. We need a Master of Ceremonies, to weave unobtrusively among the marathoners, giving a discreet but nevertheless disqualifying tap on the shoulder to shufflers, leaners and hangers-on. Faaantastic.
Legislating With The Stars. I spy a FORTUNE in Reality TV. People can call in to say who should get the axe. Like Sentaor Ben Nelson of Nebraska, who blocked South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint’s proposed amendment for audit and oversight of The Fed, Cruella de Ville of the Financial Crisis, on a technicality that is openly and repeatedly accommodated elsewhere in the same legislation. Ixnay on audit and oversight of The Fed, Cruella de Ville of the Financial Crisis, but the proposed legislation WILL include a here-ya-go earmark of $200,000 for a museum in . . . lo and behold . . . Omaha, Nebraska.
What is that, if not Treason? A soap opera plot twist? MudOpera is in my inventory of domain names. Anyone wanna buy it? I’m not greedy. For me, on this, 100 times my purchase price is Enough. I see “premium” names for sale at thousands and even tens of thousands of dollars. Preposterous. Come up with a different name. But hundreds, for a fresh idea? $7.95 x 100 = $795 . . . SOLD.
I feel a hard sell coming on with Sarah Palin, a full-court press. See, while I’d LIKE to believe that Sarah Palin is courageous . . . splashing through the surf to meet mainstream media field hands face to face . . . then, this happened during the campaign ALSO, Sarah Palin started talking. Blah, blah, blah = I do not command sufficient respect to rise above the double whammy of a lame duck session under media scrutiny. She’s quittin’ ‘cuz she can’t get nuthin’ done, and she ain’t plannin’ to run again anyhoo.
What, pray tell, would happen if every public official who did not plan to run again threw in the towel on the last leg of their term? No matter which way you slice this unforced resignation pie, it’s Quitting. Quitting is Quitting. I’m not saying Winston Churchill was right across the board with “Never, never, never quit.” I think we should quit the Middle East, tout de suite. But quit the last year of a term . . . as in, perform for only three of the four agreed upon years?
It would be an interesting case study if the Alaskan citizenry would sue Sarah Palin for breach of contract. Alaskans might perform a great public service by trailblazing the way for millions of incredulous Americans to admit that Congress and the Administration are in breach of contract ALSO.
Otherwise, what? When the going gets tough, the Principled Tough step aside? When the going gets tough, the Principled Tough jockey for higher office? When the going gets tough, the Principled Tough write my-side-of-the-story books? Hop on the speaking circuit? Join the fundraising racket? WHAT? What IS it about this touchy-feely-but-strict-and-punitive new world order that has catapulted protection and promotion of politicians into Bigger Than Big Business? Money.
“Money to get power, power to protect money.” ~House of Medici
Politicians and executives who are too big to fail — that’s where we’re headed if we don’t rise to the twin threats of Federal Falderal and International Intrigue.