Is anybody awake out there? I want to tell our Republican candidates that I have always believed that we have a moral and ethical obligation to vote for men as individuals and not because they belong to any party or organization. In the past the individuals I have voted for were for the most part members of the Republican Party. This may change in the future...
Our politicians have strayed so far from the principles established by our founding fathers that it often seems that our Constitution is little more than a quaint piece of antique memorabilia from days and lives long gone.
When I joined the Army some years ago, I swore an oath to defend that old piece of paper from all aggressors, both foreign and domestic, even to my death. I wonder if the common citizenry or even the offending politicians have any idea that the largest threat to our Constitution right now is our own elected officials.
I live in a city where the city council seems to have forgotten that they work for us. Instead they somehow believe that we hired them to rule us.
When I asked for some speed control on my street to protect out children, they wouldn't give me the time of day. Two months later my 2-year-old son was hit in front of my house. He wasn't seriously injured but still my street often seems like a race track.
At another time the same city council was willing to spend all kinds of time telling another citizen that his professionally and permanently installed satelite dish was too ugly on his hard-earned, private property and forced him to remove it.
Is it just me of has our government gone looney. I was brought up believing that we were free citizens. If we own our land we have the right to use it as we see fit, providing we do not impose on the rights or safety of others.
I have a constitutional right to protect my property and my privacy. If you don't like the looks of my yard then don't look. It's none of your business.
Recently some of our "esteemed" Republican lawmakers decided to use their power to re-arrange a few border lines to increase their already misused power. I wondered why the voters affected by this gross misconduct allowed it to happen, but honestly I know it was apathy and apathy is slowly but surely allowing these misguided individuals to kill our blood-stained Constitution.
It is my opinion that if we do not vote or if we do vote and still allow the people we elect to rule us unwisely then we are traitors. Unified in apathy against our Constitution, the men who wrote it and especially the men and women who have shed their blood and lives to protect it.
I am no longer in the Army. I have turned in my M-16 and my bayonet but you better believe I will still honor my oath. In place of weapons, I will use my pen, my voice and my vote to defend our Constitution even to the death...