Sometimes a picture is worth a 1000 words. In today's political atmosphere this picture truly represents many Americans on how they feel they are being treated by our Government and those who aspire to higher office.
In this open thread let's keep it civil and discuss just how this picture represents what has happened in your area of the country.
Michael C. Morris has been involved in racing since the age of twelve (12) when he took a summer job working at Terry's Speed Shop located in Phoenixville PA.
With the help of his brother John Morris, they teamed up and joined Razzberry Racing. In the 90's, the team was building their own cars to complete in the Sports Car Club of
America's National Classes when in 1993 Michael joined Ed Arnold Racing with David
Donahue, son of the legendary Mark Donahue, to run in the 1993 IMSA Supercar.
Michael Morris is accredited and newly accepted journalist with the World Bank. Michael Morris as worked for ABC News Radio covering auto racing venues such as LeMans and SEMA.
His special interests in journalism are politics with special interest in the nation's court system, especially the Family Court System and the intentional use of children for profit by that system, and the special interest groups that control our nation's courts.
I cannot help but think that your photo can be interpreted in any way one wishes. This topic is a very serious one, and , in a way, is essential to the deterioration of our democracy, our freedoms and our nation's status in the world. If you wished to comment upon this quite essential topic I wished you would have taken the time to do so rather than this which, in my opinion, minimizes and trivialises instead of elucidating, and certainly doesnt provoke discussion..excepting from a known curmudgeon like me....
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2388 comments)
on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 10:40:20 AM
while you are right, I could have had an in depth discussion, why I did it this way is to get a Total open discussion of the many areas of issues facing Americans with the hope of maybe finding some answers.
To me the picture repesents this Governments, from the local to the Whitehouse, indifference to We the People views on any subject. We the People have just become something in the way of flushing the Constitution down the hopper. What we really need to do is ram a broom up to the second floor!
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Michael Morris (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 293 comments)
on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 11:03:00 AM
We hire them and rehire them repeatedly, and pay them to dump all over us, because the 'outs' can't afford to run against the 'ins.'
We're the numbnutz who continue to allow it to happen.
You asked for streaming, Mike; here's screaming streaming: Change the system...yesterday!
* Popular vote only.
* NO conventions.
* NO delegates, regular, large or x-tra large. I don't choose anyone to vote for me.
* NO electoral college. Ditto the above.
* NO donations. Take the money out of it, or we will continue to have the worst politicians money can buy. Fifty-cents a person deducted from income taxes to be split evenly.
* NO lobbyists.
* NO months & years of campaigning.
* NO electronic voting machines with NO paper trails, that aren't as tamper-proof as ATM machines.
* A primary in September, with instant run-offs to winnow down the crowd in each party.
* General election in November.
* Inauguration in December.
I'm sure I missed a few things, and it won't be perfect, but it's got to be better than what we have.
The last thing I can think of is stopping favortism by the press, who chose to ignore the Kucinichs, Bidens, Pauls, et al. Equal time? Equal coverage? I don't know.
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Sandy Sand (130 articles, 0 quicklinks, 153 diaries, 1174 comments)
on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 11:48:06 AM
That is a great list to start with...as the voting process in this country has become a joke that is minipulated by machines, electorial colleges, super delagates, donations and out right lies.
America has sat on the first floor with it mouth wide open swallowing the crap without so much as a wimper. It is about time we light a match and shed a bright light on the truth of what is really happening in America.
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Michael Morris (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 293 comments)
on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 12:00:35 PM
The system has been broken on purpose and will continue to function as so until the masses do something extraordinary to get the "elite's" attention. I continue to think that the only way for change is to treat our current leaders as misbehaving children.....cut off their allowances (ie income tax) for an entire year and put the "really bad" ones in time-out (prison). Any other options are simply "bandaids" with the same ol' results...and we're running out of time.
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Galen (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 32 comments)
on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 6:56:06 PM
"America is at a crossroads, and its people can either continue to be pushed backwards by those who like the political-economic status quo and yearn for the days when America virtually ruled the world, or they can progress forward toward the day when all human beings, nations, religions, races and cultures are respected as equal. It is the choice of the people, and I pray the people choose wisely."
"I believe we should hold these truths to be self-evident: that all human beings are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are the rights to life, liberty, equality, justice, safety, health care, education, fair and adequate compensation for their labor, and freedom in the pursuit of happiness."
"I believe that to secure these rights, the people should adopt a New Declaration of Independence based on those truths, and demand a Constitutional Convention to adopt constitutional amendments that will ensure those rights."
Those are the first three paragraphs in this article:
The problem is that it has been so twisted by activist courts and agenda mongers that it barely resembles what our founding fathers invisioned. FISA, the Patroit Act, warrentless wiretaps, police brutality daily, FEMA set up to institute marshall law.
We we need is to clear out all of the nonsense that has been attached though fear to the Constitution and America will be fine.
The courts in this country are one of the main violators of the Constitution. From the Supreme Court on down to the local level Judges and Lawyers have used the "law" to manipulate society into thing that because they were following the letter of the law, that they were doing "right".
While no one in a civilized society wants to outright disobey their Government and the law, when the Government operates and the laws are only written to profit some agenda, those laws and that form of Government have no place in our society.Just because it is the law does not make it right, ask the men hung at Nuremburg, including judges and prosecutors.
To quote from the transcript of United States of America v. Alstötter et al, ("The Justice Case") 3 T.W.C. 1 (1948), 6 L.R.T.W.C. 1 (1948), 14 Ann. Dig. 278 (1948), “No one contends, of course, that German judges and prosecutors destroyed as many lives as did the SS, Gestapo, or other agencies of the Nazi machine.”
Judges and prosecutors put forth as their defense for their actions at the death camps that they were just following orders and the German law (The Nuremburg Defense) in the prosecution and sentencing of 6 million plus Jews and Polls to death.
Today, the American government equivalent to the SS, Gestapo, etc., can be replaced with the words; special interest groups, lobbyists, the legal sector of corporate America and the courts, and in particular the family court system that I have been writing about for years.
It is time for America to draw it's own line in the sand.......
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Michael Morris (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 293 comments)
on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 5:29:07 PM
The article I referred you to submits that we should have a lawful Constitutional Convention to establish called-for amendments to reform our governemt and the way we choose our leaders and representatives.
The only thing missing in the upper chamber is a couple of rolls of toilet paper with the Bill Of Rights and the Constitution printed on them since all the government bodies from the Feds to locals seem to be using them for toilet paper these days. Of course for us the lowly voters a couple of newspapers (classifieds since we are going to be needing them if the economy keeps failing) should be stacked on the floor in the lower chamber.
With our rights in danger as never before, we need to take a close look at what if anything we as a people can do before it's too late, if it isn't already. Being older, (ok much older) I never thought I would think twice before saying what's on my mind. But now in the climate we are in today we all take our freedoms in our hands when we speak out.
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Pat Dazis (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 17 comments)
on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 12:48:36 PM
You probably missed that I am an advocate of the work of he who calls for a Constitutional Convention and a New (or Updated) Declaration of Independence.
"that among these are the rights to life, liberty, equality, justice, safety, health care, education, fair and adequate compensation for their labor, and freedom in the pursuit of happiness."
The extra "rights" are not rights, nor can they be guaranteed by the government. I am sorry, but our Creator didn't give us the rights to healthcare, education, or safety, etc.
We need to elect representatives that respect the original Declaration, the original Constitution, and we wouldn't have the infringements we have now.
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Highstreet (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 26 comments)
on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 11:38:12 PM
What a marvelous picture. In our house we have been saying ever since Reagan, "We are being trickled upon!"
I, too, never thought I would have to concentrate on whether, at my age, I should write what I do. At 78+ it is daunting, to say the least. Better me, however, who has lived a good long life, experienced enough to know how dangerous some in this administration are, and can type pretty fast, than someone who has everything to lose.
Never forget that the pen is mightier than than the sword. I sometimes feel like a broken record, but has anyone out there read all of Bush's Executive Orders and correlated them with the Legislation that has passed, or is being contemplated like SB 1959?
These are very dangerous times.
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Shirley Bianchi (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 82 comments)
on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 1:16:40 PM
