So deaf are Washingtonian ears to reprimands and even pleas from the people — and so many years has it been this way, despite ostensible changes in leadership, always with Special Interests enjoying incredible government largesse — that a reasonable mind is obliged to presume that the deafness is selectively prejudicial.
Period.
Where are the Legal Eagles who will mount class-action discrimination actions on a cost-only basis? Which of our up and coming Jurists will “settle” for fame over fees, satisfied that when Reason finally prevails, their patriotic efforts will be remunerated manyfold? Think about it, really, who will selflessly bring expertise to bear when Reason may not prevail in their lifetime?
Believe me, I know. I am three years at this blogging about insane politics and corrupt government, my customary claim of “not having made one dime” being put to rest this past month by a nice man who very kindly sent a twenty-dollar bill. Lest he should be accused of befriending a Dissident, I’ll not say anything specific like “thank you Clark” but, rather, “thank you Hawaii.”
Hawaii has some American Patriots.
Hawaii also has some Hawaiian Nationalists. These would be people, Hawaiians, who want Hawaii to be restored as the sovereign nation that it WAS, right up until U.S. troops marched into the kingdom and declared that it WASN’T. To the untrained eye, their case is not without merit.
The question in MY mind is whether — while Bad Guys are at the helm and everything that anyone but the Select Few tries to do rolls like water off a duck’s back — do American Patriots in Hawaii and Hawaiian Nationalists consider themselves to be in the same foxhole?
War on Drugs, War on Terror, War in Iraq, War in Afghanistan, War on Poverty, War on Corruption . . . it couldn’t be any clearer that American citizens are AT WAR. Correct me if I’m wrong — for I have no soldiering experience beyond generalized fighting for my life — but it seems to me that people who are at war, if they would live to tell the tale, are obliged to consider themselves always to be under siege. Surely it is THAT level of watchfulness, competence and readiness that will effectively repel or, failing that, effectively reciprocate an attack. Attacks made by adults of adult capacity DO have to be reciprocated, but is a different swamp of political correctness.
Having earned $20 and having spent in the neighborhood of $150,000 at this racket, I confess that I would much prefer that the current rather than a future confederacy of dunces remunerate my labors. Posthumous praise is the stuff of Martyrdom. Martyrdom is the stuff of Last Resort. Let’s don’t go down that road if we don’t have to. That said, let us be WILLING to go down that road if need be. Willingness to die has very much to do with who “wins” a war.
Which brings me back to class-action discrimination suits. Generally speaking, which is to say leaving out the Silver Spoons and Whiz Kids, lawyers can’t lawyer for free anymore than writers can write for free. As a matter of political correctness and a measure of Faith — for evidence abounds to the contrary — I’ll concede that love makes the world go ’round, but money keeps it on its axis.
I advise Patriots to quit throwing their money at politicians and down the crapper that IS the American “political process.” Instead, pool it. Think small planes and fast boats, instead of small inroads and fast politicians. Think patriot chains and freedom franchises, instead of perpetual campaigning and entrenched interests.
Think American ingenuity, know-how, and stick-to-it-ive-ness.
Think venture capital.