THE REAL PATRIOTS

Who are the real patriots here?

We live in a different world.
Today, we are ready to put labels on people whether deserved or not.
If you weren’t for the war in Iraq, you weren’t a patriot….and you were enabling the terrorists!
It’s as simple as that.

And the people supported the government that uttered such nonsense.

That’s what fear will do. And make no mistake about it, this is a government that operates on fear.

But let’s get down to basics: Who are the real patriots here?


Are they the people who listen in on other Americans without them knowing …

Are these the people who seem to think that they can hold other Americans on suspicion without placing charges so that they can literally hold them forever…
Does being a patriot mean dispensing with habeas corpus?

These patriots also want to make sure that Americans “held on suspicion” never receive counsel from their lawyers because that was a privilege guaranteed by the Constitution…

Are the people who do these sort of things really patriots? Or do we have our wires crossed?

Are the real patriots those who view our personal records?

Are they the one’s leak the names of secret files so that everyone associated with the leaked name or names will be hunted down and killed by the real terrorists?

Is that what makes a real patriot?

Are the real patriots those who don’t want to listen to the truth? Are the patriots the only ones who know what is right or wrong? Clearly, that wasn’t the case when it came to making war in Iraq when they were warned long before that the Iraqis did not harbor WMD or the ability to make them.

Are the real patriots those who seem to know all there is to know about values?

Are the real patriots those who have a one on one dialogue with God?

Who are the real patriots?

My definition is somewhat different. To me, the real patriots are those who defend the Constitution. They are the ones who will stand up to authority and say, “You are wrong!” when they are wrong… My patriots are the ones will stand up to the popular tide that swallows the prevailing rhetoric without discussion or investigation…

To me, we have heroes but they are not the same one’s the government would have us believe.

They are the mothers of the dead soldiers who defy the convention of a grieving mother to say that their children have died in vain…

They are the ones who are against the War and state forthrightly that Saddam Hussein and bin Laden had no dealings!

They are the ones who said that the documents that claimed that yellowcake, the ingredients for nuclear weapons, were not purchased by Iraq…

They are the ones who know that saber rattling against those who don’t please us accomplishes little but further alienates us from the rest of the world…

They are the ones who speak out against the military industrial complex.

They are the ones who bring to the attention of the rest of us that American jobs are being sent overseas….

Who find it troubling to know that the control of our ports is in foreign hands…

Who speak up about the notes placed on Bush’s legislation that allows him and his cadre to avoid abiding by that legislation…

Who stand up against a smokescreen posing as legislation to defeat those “illegals” from violating our borders…

These are the kind of things our real heroes do despite what the government would have you think….

Our real patriots are not those guys who stand at the lectern and think that they are holier than thou! Our heroes are not those who lie to our faces and insult our intelligence.

These patriots who send people into harm’s way go home to a good meal and a warm bed and sleep the sleep of those who have never known hard times or being shot at or falling down sick and being unable to go to work to pay the mortgage. No, they never know any of these things.

But despite it all, in the end, the people will prevail. Already, they are losing faith in a failed policy and tactics that would have us continue in debt virtually forever while the already rich get richer under some poorly conceived idea of trickle down economics that has never worked in the real world.

These are the real heroes and they are the people who in the end will restore our Constitution and our way of government and unseat the Monarch and dispose of the Royal boot-lickers… And they are what I live for.

Les Aaron