What Will The Republicans Do To Maintain Control...

Why do I find myself so preoccupied putting out fires. That's not the way it should be. But on the other hand, people are looking for relief for their concerns.....

In reading the comments of people on the Internet, I can understand why everyone is worried. We are worried that the democrats may not win. We are worried that the National Guard will put us behind barriers and who knows where else. We are worried that a republican win may give them the false courage needed to make some of us disappear. We see what has already happened with our notions pertaining to the Geneva conventions.... Years from now, we shall hear about the innocent people kept in camps around the world and tortured. Citizens of a free land treated like so much vermin!

We are worried that in order to stay in control, they will play the ultimate power card: They will bomb Iran!...It is a scary thought and I wonder what now separates us from communist or tyrant lands? what makes us different? Now that citizens have lost their rights to privacy and independence, who can be ferried off one night and never seen again. It is no longer speculation. It is happening. And who shall decide who is a traitor and who is not. Is the Internet writer a traitor? Is the person who makes calls to Iraq regularly a possible threat?

This kind of government that governs through paranoia and rules through the use of fear is something new to us. What did the president mean about nationalizing the National Guard in case of the need to 'protect' the people? Why is America throwing away its reputation by indulging in torture? Why did we eliminate the protections of habeas corpus? Or end the laws pertaining to Posse Comitatus? These are not some things that we dare be frivolous about... Nor have we seen a government so opaque, so interested in obfuscating and camouflaging the truth so that none of us will recognize it.

Many of us are worried that the republican voting machines will guarantee another win for the other side. And what will that mean? Will that mean the complete end of democracy and the democratic party? Will it mean civil war? Reprisals? NOne of us know....so we are on tenterhooks....Those of us with half a brain realize that if our government wins, they will do nothing about global warming, the environment, the clean air act, drugs and health care, they will further steal from the fund for Social Security; they will ignore the public school system, they will further intrude on women's rights-- It will morph into science fiction and we will become mind controlled blobs which many of us are already. No wonder the serious among us are worried.

We never thought it would happen. Those of us brought up in the tradition of Roosevelt and Truman could never imagine that we would find ourselves brought down to such fundamental issues but we are and we have been. What is particularly worrisome is that outside our little coterie people seem anaesthetized as if none of this is really happening; and if it is, it isn't touching them or their lives. They don't do government is replacing windows as the mantra of the day. And we are all the poorer for it. So, where do we go from here. Do we tumble further into chaos or police control. Or do we shout out that as long as there is breath in our lungs, we will not allow others to define us?

Think about it.

Les Aaron
The committee for positive changewww.lesaaron.blogspot.com