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Enough already
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
Oct. 11, 2005
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Some of the more socially-challenged among us might say to those participating in the cacophonous ranting over the litany of "discoveries" of gross corruption, massive malfeasance, incalculable incompetence, and puerile amorality that emanates from that dung heap in DC, "ENOUGH ALREADY. What did you expect from nearly a hundred years of tolerating one increment of underhanded gangster-like activity after another and never demanding that these criminals pay any significant price for their crime spree?"
But that would be gratuitously cruel, as well as sublimely
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The wreckage of the past lives on in our lives.
It is not in the past until we set about to clean it up and make the necessary sacrifices to restore a lawful order.
The good news is that we can use our Constitution as a guide to the necessary clean up.
It is a good Constitution.
We ought to consider using it.
Liberty and justice for ALL.
Nothing less.
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smug, so I don't expect anyone other than myself to say something like that. Besides, it was our parents' fault. They, and their parents, tolerated every crime and abuse of power that the robber barons and slave masters threw at them.
It was no great secret what these organized criminals like Rockefeller and his ilk were up to. Once they got a firm foothold, it was reasonable to think that opposing them wouldn't do any good.
So the rest of us, the children, and the children's children out to no one knows how many generations, are condemned to suffer passively in the maw of this lawless society till it burns itself out from self-indulgence or until ecological catastrophe ensues, whichever comes first?
The wreckage of the past lives on in our lives. It is not in the past until we set about to clean it up and make the necessary sacrifices to restore a lawful order. The good news is that we can use our Constitution as a guide to the necessary clean up. It is a good Constitution. We ought to consider using it. Liberty and justice for ALL. Nothing less.
Our parents put up with it because the main victims were the poor, the huddled masses, waiting to be exploited by the established citizens or, at least, no one bothered to identify with the victims because they were seen as different -- not really Americans. The laborers, the small businessmen, the family farmers, the tradesmen, and a host of others who were destroyed by these thugs must have done something wrong to have deserved their fate. Otherwise we would have to identify with their plight and that would be frightening. Better to believe in the myth and ignore the evidence. Be a booster, not a booer.
So we cultivated a ruling class made up of aristocrats who murdered and stole their way into power. No-one was ever held to account for enjoying the benefits of wealth tainted by crime.
If bothered by this or if you were yourself a victim of crime, you were encouraged to go West and scarf up the land and wealth stolen from the Spanish, who in turn stole it from the Native People.
So we lived on, generation after generation, like a great circle jerk where everyone had a chance to enrich themselves at the expense of someone else. And the spell continues.
We gave up slaves but got the poor, the illegal aliens, the despised and desperate, to exploit instead. We abandoned our working people so we could buy cheap goods from slave factories in other countries. We invested our wealth in weapons of mass terror so that others would not want to steal from us and we would be free to steal from them.
How in God's name did anyone think that this would turn out any differently than it has?
I am ready to listen to the whining as soon as I see a change of heart. As soon as I see a willingness to sacrifice in the sake of good. As soon as I see the subtext of American superiority deleted from the laments. Until then I will smirk smugly as I welcome more of my brethren into the bed of suffering that we have made for others and is now ours to lie in. If I had a better character, I suspect that I would be more understanding.
Since our country has been so effective in raping the rest of the world, don't you think that when our rapist class turns on us it might be considered poetic justice?
© by the author.
What do you think?
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Dr. Herb Ruhs & grandson
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