The Committee of One

The Last Safeguard!....

Nothing worthwhile comes without risk!

If nothing is worth dying for; then nothing is worth living for!

All Great Happenings Engender Risk...

Something To Think About As Far Too Many of Us Try to Avoid Have Anything Touch Our Lives As We Slide Inexorably From Day to Day.

Is This The Life Worth Living For?

In the final analysis, it seems that there are two kinds of people those who do and those who “don't want to know about it.” The bad news is that when you can be witness to events that run counter to our laws, that violate the precepts of our democracy and our notions of privacy and freedom, and then do nothing about it, you are in effect an "enabler."

Those of us on the Internet, tend to be part of the community that does.
We find that we have to do something when confronted with such displays of self-interest, greed and personal ambition that all of the safeguards, all of the grand ideas that support our democracy and our freedoms are simply tossed out the window...

That is the way America should work. If things don't work, if our representatives are not fulfilling their obligations as they are obliged to do, and if the system of checks and balances does not perform, then we are without too many options; in effect, we become the court of last resort--we constitute the only available instrument for change…and if we fail in our moral in democratic obligations, then we failed in our obligation to carry on the greatest tradition of mankind--a kind of tradition that many have fought and died for.

But the sad fact is that too many of us shirk that responsibility; or tend to trivialize that responsibility suggesting that “the other guy do it.” We’ll, my friends, we are the other guy.

And we face a cabal of those who understand how they can use the system for their own selfish ends.

And that's where we are. This relationship between the elected officials and the ordinary citizen are in reality quite new. In the past, the citizen had his compact with the state and Federal government to fall back on. As a result, an average citizen was shielded from such involvement by the layers of bureaucratic authority and a plethora of watch-dogs including the Fourth Estate, the traditional media….

Money and TV have decimated our regulators, our watchdogs. The result: None of this really exists anymore so we find ourselves cast into the role of policeman.

To be a policeman however you have to be willing to take on the hard work that goes with the job.

That question often arises: “What can I do as a private citizen? “ The answer is plenty.

You can alert your representatives to let them know that you are watching their every movement and it is their obligation to fulfill their responsibilities to the electorate.

You can write letters to the editor until they beg for mercy.

You can build up a little network of people who think the way you do and demonstrate collective strength through your actions.

You can write to the directors of the large organizations that focus on your concerns, whether they be environmental, species related, civil rights, or privacy related and let them know precisely how you feel.

You can act as an individual to host meetings, get voters engaged, raise money, apply pressure to your party. (For a more comprehensive list of what you may do, please review my list of the Power of One...which appears on my Blog: www.lesaaron.blogspot.com

Some have bemoaned the fact that they are powerless. But never forget that most great decisions are the product of one person; one person acting in a vacuum. It did not take a committee to set up Christianity. It did not involve a committee to create the Magna Carta. It did not take a committee to create an army that beat the most disciplined army in the world, the British. It did not take a committee to draft the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. It took individuals with a willingness
To do the right thing. You, too, can do the right thing.

Get involved emotionally, spiritually and every other way in what is happening and do something is the simple mantra that will hopefully save this great land.

As an individual, you personally can bring about fundamental change that can restore this country to the rule of law and the power of the Constitution.

Remember, if you don’t do it, who will?

I am not doing this just to lecture, you, my friends, without setting an example.
I have set up my own Committee of One… and judging from the volume of responses that our committee gets, we are having some impact. And we are stirring up those in hibernation and that is good!

Can we link up? Can we multiply our efforts? Can we change the world?

We’ll never know unless we try!

The committtee of One...

Les Aaron