- First it was the World Trade Center bombing.
Then it was the World Trade Center falling. Then it was the Patriot Act.
As if Patriots act in it. Of course, Patriots don't. Act. Which is why
they named it after Patriots. To make the name look patriotic.
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- I recently incorporated a business. I
borrowed some money, paid it back, then borrowed some more, then paid it
back. Each transaction was duly noted not only by the IRS, may their souls
remain forever black, but by Homeland Security and their cronies in the
various three letter agencies.
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- Used to be a time when the IRS was notified
whenever a transaction, most notably a deposit into your account, whenever
the amount exceeded about $10,000. Now, just about ANY loan is reported
or reportable. Borrowing money, any amount, is reportable. The bank will
tell you this on their paperwork or on the phone when the transaction is
made. So if you borrow money, pay attention to the questions.
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- I ask myself, "Why is a lousy loan
(alliteration) so damned important to the US Government? I mean, whadda
my gonna do with a few grand ... use it to by stuff to blow something up?
Huh?"
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- Seriously, what the hell possible value
does this information have to the Fuhrer? Sig (sour)! Frankly, I can't
think of any reason why this is important except one. That would be to
continue to "take down names" and make our Bill of Rights into
a Bill of Wrongs. And so, step by step, inch by inch, our rights are being
eroded until one day we'll wake up to reveille in some concentration camp.
Not because we're Jewish, but maybe because we're not. Or maybe because
not being Jewish implies being un-American.
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- Or maybe we'll wake up to prayers and
have to face Mecca.
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- Or face the South, where our leader has
moved. To Mexico City. Eh?
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- As a business person lo these many years,
I'm used to having my name taken down. But not to the extent that it is
today, not to the extent that almost every damned thing I do, including
my web site, my correspondence on the Internet and my phone calls are presently
monitored. God help us, but I do believe Abbot and Costello would be turning
over in their graves if they only knew just how much those words mean these
days.
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- What it means is, we've got no privacy
and ... our erected offialdumb is doing *nothing* about it. Time for a
change. And change does not mean same old, same old politician bulldingy.
It's now time to begin electing people for public office who will
represent US and us. Not them and themselves.
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- Politicians like to represent themselves
since in doing so they garner two major benefits. The first being reelection
to office and the second being filling their pockets with money and other
assorted lobby presents du jour. Free private airplane rides to who knows
where. Cars at the expense of the dealer who wants his license plate holder
with the dealer's name on it sitting right next to the plaque which says,
"US Senate" or other so-called *honorable* office.
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- There's no honor among thieves and Lord
knows, there is no honor among politicians. No. The honor is their own
and it's a pleasure to honor yourself. In'it? Uh huh. Used to be a time
when you were proud to meet a politician, when you respected the office
and the man. The time came however, when we realized that the man was nothing
more than a crook, a thief and a racketeer. Then we honored only the office.
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- The time then came when we began to notice
that the office was no longer honorable. Perhaps that last nail in the
cross of respectability and honor was when B J Clinton (Billy Jeff Clinton)
honored a Cuban in the oral office. Maybe. And We the Sheeple were still
We the People. The *Will of the People" has since taken on a new meaning.
The *will* is no longer. We've lost our will. Lost our will to fight the
tragic loss of freedom and rights, the tragic loss of the respectability
government used to have, the tragic loss of respect of both office and
official, the tragic loss of respect for any authority and last but not
at all least, the tragic loss of *self* respect.
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- It's the self respect that has been lost
which bothers me the most. Since we no longer respect ourselves, how may
we respect our erected officialdumb? Well, the answer is, 'we cannot.'
So, the same Democrat or Republican thieves get into office based on lies,
innuendo and the extant politics of the election system. Lie like
a rug and get away with it. And the masses, the Sheeple, do nothing about
the situation.
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- Let them eat cake. Only we can't afford
it these days. We eat crow instead.
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- Our society is fraught with corruption
at every level. It's approaching Mexico in it's grandeur as a way of life.
And it is *we* who are to blame for allowing it to happen and worst of
all, for allowing it to continue to happen. We are to blame. Mia cupla,
mia culpa, mia maxima culpa.
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- There is however, a way out. It'll take
some time. But it will work. And it's the only solution to an otherwise
nearly hopeless issue. Take control of our governance in whatever way we
can. Through the election process by electing people into office who will
do our bidding. By volunteering to serve in the party of our choice in
order to have a say in who is nominated for office. To volunteer to
serve or to serve in elected and appointed office locally.
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- It's in our best interest to do so. And
it's in the best interest of this once great nation of the United States
of America, the best darn place to live even today, even today. There is
no place on this earth better then the good ol' US of A. But it won't be
so much longer. Not unless We the Sheeple decide to become We the People
yet again. Not until we regain respect for ourselves and the culture we
were brought up with as Baby Boomers. Not until then. For those who do
not respect themselves cannot respect others. And therein lies one of our
greatest problems.
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- Stop saving trees and begin saving our
nation. And this is *NOT* the nation of Islam, or the nation of Jews, or
Italians or Mexicans. This is the nation of Americans. Which bring us to
another of our problems.
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- The Anti Civil Liberties Union problem.
Let there be peace in our time. Let us regain our great nation. Let us
become Patriots yet again and let us be righteous in our struggle.
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- James S. Mortellaro, Ph.D., AKA, Morty
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- Jim Mortellaro, AKA, Morty
- Email: Morty@MortysCabin.Net
- URL: www.MortysCabin.Net
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