IT WAS SAID:
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~ Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Congress,
There is no challenge greater to a Nation than that which requires one to become the truest patriot; Fight to defend, protect, and preserve the Constitution of the United States of America from enemies, not just from abroad but especially so from those within. This is where that challenge does lay.
As we approach MLK jr. day, let us not forget those challenges of the past that we, as Americans, have risen up to face. Like shadows of our former selves, they will always be following us, clinging to our every move. Let us not stop that progress and allow those shadows to overtake us but instead keep moving into the light.
We, as a Nation, are facing once again a great challenge. A test of our moral resolve. Let us accept this test. Let us rise to this occasion. Let us show the people of the world that what it means to be an American is to bravely face the forces that have corrupted Her image.
The ills of this Administration have blighted the meanings of Freedom, Liberty, and Justice through the systematic removal of the core components from which bore this Nation a great Document; The Constitution of the United States of America. It is not enough to place band-aids upon Her wounds and call it a day.
NO! Ineptitude and hesitance is not a defense for one's malpractice as the patient dies upon the table. Great surgeons can not heal the dead!
What ills this Nation is not only an Administration that believes it is above the conventions of the law but also a Congress, a coequal branch of the Government, that has fallen into the belief that they are subordinate to will of this Administration.
YES! This Nation has suffered a great tragedy and it pales to 9/11 for that was a foreshadowing of what we have become today. The former right to peaceably assemble versus the meaning of "
No Protest Zones" - The former principle of innocent until proven guilty versus "
Suspected as...until proven otherwise" - The former right that one was safe and secure in one's home and property from undue search and seizure versus "
A Disregard of FISA" - The former right to have and hold council and be afforded the ability to review the evidence that is to be used against you versus "
The Suspension of Habeas Corpus".
This list grows long and the grievances grow many and the brave grow fewer.
We must ask ourselves; Is this what it means to be an American? To live in a country where one is afraid to stand up for principles that were granted to us as Americans by our forefathers; The Founders of these Fifty United States of America. To shrink away from an ever growing tyrant that manipulates the masses with tactics that elicit fear and coercion? To kowtow
to the derision flaunted about by a cabal that expresses such hubris that all others fail in comparison in their eyes?
The pride of America is found in the principle of doing the right thing especially in the face of adversity. Nobel causes rise with Just reasons. Let not(!) those causes that have lacked to rise to the measure of true Justice stand in the way of those that must rise to clear a path for Truth and Justice. There is no more noble a reason now, more than ever, to be that patriot and begin down that path of Truth and Justice and begin doing what is right.
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