| "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."- Margaret Mead |
| "Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once. But in Politics, many times." Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Politicians, in my mind, have the values of average men. They strive for the same goals and ideologies, only they are the ones who are expected to make things happen for the rest of the society that claims them as a representative. They legislate law for the collective expectations of civil people with a goodwill intention. At this level, not all people will agree with all terms or conditions. It is a game of majority and mandate. To gain popular support, you must echo popular belief under general terms that all people can understand; which derives a simplistic and slightly ideological preach in most cases. They then claim a moral savor and propose law as the means to which will curb the wily and set the standard of protection of liberty and the American dream. Cops simply enforce, but it is the politician who creates and the judge who re-adjust and set the particulars of definition in his or her own value of interpretation. Politicians and judges. The philosophies of old American patriots are dead in D.C., and kindle only in the hearts of people like you and I. Now, this law (all law, no matter how trivial), which all good people abide by, is set for the most in good standing with good old fashioned common decency, as it should be. To install rule is needed to certain extent. No society or organization should be without its principles. Of course, we all know law is not the function at the stern of prevention. It is the individual who chooses right and wrong, and no mechanism short of full control of the individual's capable whim will change that. Let me put my point simply. In order for a machine to function, you must be able to compose it of all the correct parts, and to build it, you must have all the parts and know what each and all of the parts do. Government is an incomplete machine that is building itself, and the more law (parts) and information (fuel) it has, the more efficient and proper it can run. It is a natural expansion of informational gorge. It will continue to grow and consume and devise rules and be left to the philosophies of lawyer's perspectives for each and all possible scenarios in the name of virtue and fair justice. Every law, every policy of information collection is a mark of higher government efficiency, and this medium of creation will continue to bury individualistic privacies. Every law passed is an expansion to the realm of government reach and reason for voicing concern for action, thus more law. Only the constitution can restrain it, but even that can be changed, eventually, slowly and sly with the rightly mutated causes, even those of good nature. Red tape policies are the coffin nails to basic freedom. And there are those who still believe the progressive intrusion of technological advance will cure this grave, national disease of lawlessness; that lessons will be learned and fear installed into the criminal minds to come. But, if you can tie someone upside down to an wooden X and saw them in half, as they use to punish criminals in medieviel times, and still have to deal with crime because that didn't do the trick, then a lethal injection or a few seconds of "juice" won't do it either, let alone a few legal clauses. The ever increasing probe of technology at the whim of the over-ideological, preach-like virtue of politicians will end freedom soon enough, though not intentionally and not in our lifetime, but all in the name of crime prevention and the message of rightfully deserved freedom from fear for all law abiding citizens to come. Children hardly question information policies in adulthood if it has been active and accepted for lifetimes (how many of us protest drivers licenses or birth certificates or Social Security numbers?). We must not only fight against each over-reaching law proposed, but all laws of government prod into our social privacies, habits of any nature and choice, no matter how trivial. It will only be a matter of time, should the process of political legislation continue unhampered, as it obviously will without action, that the function of preventing crime, or what other cause, will not be the moral conscious decision of the person, but the fear that big brother knows all and controls all. In this perspective, a criminal mind can be far more worthy than we think it is. Fret not so fast and easy, for the day may come when the "criminal mind" will be the pride of the real patriot. Mark my words. --Ziggy Duttlinger |
| " I was that which others cared not be. I went where others feared to go and did what others failed to do. I asked nothing from those who gave nothing. And, reluctantly, accepted the thought of eternal loneliness should I fail. I have seen the face of terror, felt the chill of fear. and warmed to the touch of love. I have hoped, pained and cried. But, foremost, lived in times others would say best forgotten. At the very least, in later days, I will be able to say with greatest pride, That I was indeed, A Soldier". |
| The Men Of Liberty |
| STRANGE BUT TRUE The Democrats & Republicans worked hard to get out the vote last election. They will work even harder next election to get out the vote. Both parties are evenly split. Because of this, the Independent voters that sometimes vote Democratic, or sometimes vote Republican will be the ones who decide our next President. As most of you know, Politicians chase votes. The smart ones will realize that the fate of their next campaign lies not in hands of their party alone, but in the hands of the small segment of fringe voters that aren't Republican or Democrat. You've heard the term 'tie-breaker' or 'king-maker', well in this case, we Independents will cast the deciding votes that will elect the next President. When writing your Congressman, make them aware of this fact, that we are watching their decisions on policies we think are important to us. Who knows, if they were to get involved in efforts to back policies we agree with, they could tilt the scales in their favor next election. Talk to your Congressman about issues you are intersested in, issues that affect our culture. OUR CIVIL RIGHTS, Drug Policy reform, Campaign Finance reform, Mandatory Minimum Sentencing reform, even Helmet Laws. Let them know we are watching & listening. Let them know OUR VOTES will decide who wins. And one other thing, if you think you're too cool to vote, then don't bitch when you feel the pinch of our eroding Civil Rights. If you haven't felt it yet, you must be locked in a closet. RUSTY |
| Gun Control is Effective It's Worked Before. "This year will go down in History. For the first time, a Civilized Nation has Full Gun Registration! Our streets will be Safer, our Police more Efficient, and the World will Follow our Lead into the Future!"� Adolf Hitler 1938 |
| Political Parties & Candidates Worth Checking Into: These Parties and Candidates represent the Views of the "Silent Majority" of the American Population, the 2 out of 3 voters that don't vote. Don't waste your vote on the status quo. Make your vote count by voting in a New Guard. |
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| "As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, we will never lay down for Britain." "unknown Irish soldier" |
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| How to Strip a Citizenry of it's Liberty Does this strategy seem vaguely familiar? "Let us consider that arbitrary power has seldom or ever been introduced into any country all at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as if it were step by step, lest the people should see it approach. The barriers and fences of the people's liberty must be plucked one by one, and some plausible pretenses must be found for removing or hoodwinking, one after another, those sentries who are posted by the constitution of a free country for warning the people of their danger. When these preparatory steps are once made, the people may then indeed, with regret, see slavery and arbitrary power making long strides over the land, but it will be to late to think of preventing or avoiding the impending ruin." Lord Chesterfield, English writer and statesman (1694-1773) |
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