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September 27, 2008 at 16:18:33     Permalink He's Going To Kill Her Constitutionally Diary Entry by Mark E. Smith (about the author)

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Americans love their country and their Constitution the way a battered wife loves her husband.

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No matter that their country was founded by means of the genocide of 95% of the Native Americans who lived here, and is still persecuting indigenous people both here and abroad.

No matter that their country has never abolished slavery. Sure, it was abolished "except as punishment for a crime," but what is and isn't a crime and who is and isn't convicted of it, depends on the color of your skin and how much money you have.

No matter that their Constitution never gave them a federal right to vote and prohibited them from voting for President or Vice-President.

No matter that their Constitution gave the final say in all federal elections to Congress, not to the people.

No matter that their Constitution established an unelected and therefore undemocratic body, the Supreme Court, as the highest law of the land which must be obeyed and cannot be appealed.

No matter that their Constitution gave them no way to hold government officials accountable during their terms of office, their only Constitutional recourse being to endure whatever harm they may do to their country and then attempt to vote them out in the next rigged election after the damage has been done and cannot be undone.

Americans love their country and their Constitution and no matter how badly they have been abused thanks to the last two stolen Presidential elections and the last five stolen Congressional elections, they are determined to vote to elect a member of the most despised Congress in U.S. history, with a lower approval rating than Bush, to be our next President.

When I try to warn them, they say, "I know, I know. I don't like the wars. I don't like the fiscal irresponsibility. I don't like the loss of civil rights. I don't like job outsourcing. But it is my civic duty to vote for somebody who has voted for everything that I don't like, even though I know that my vote won't count."

But not all Americans are that dumb. I just spoke with my upstairs neighbor, a very intelligent and politically aware person. We talked about all the problems in America today and when I mentioned my election boycott advocacy, she just laughed and said, "I haven't voted in twenty-five years."

The majority, fifty-two percent of us, understand that our votes don't count, that Congress is a bureaucracy, and that nobody on the ballot will represent us anyway.

It is the minority, the forty-eight percent of the electorate who still vote, who are apathetic and ignorant. No matter how badly their country abuses them, they keep voting to allow it to abuse them some more. Or maybe they're like the woman who posted to opednews that she enjoys being whipped bloody and freely chooses a masochistic lifestyle.

But whether they are apathetic, ignorant, or just masochists, there are still too many of them voting to delegate their power to this illegitimate government, to allow the rest of us to take our country back.

Only an election boycott can clearly demonstrate that this government does not have the consent of the governed and is therefore not a legitimate government.

It wouldn't be so bad if it was a battered wife whose husband was going to kill her--it would be sad that she loved him so much that she wouldn't listen to anyone and kept going back until he killed her, but it happens a lot. The problem is that this is a nation and when our government kills this nation, we all die, even those of us in the majority who did not consent.

The minority, the ignorant, apathetic, or masochistic voters who love their country and their Constitution so much that they keep going back to it no matter how much it abuses them, are going to get us all killed right along with them.

And there doesn't seem to be any way to stop them. Look at them here on opednews discussing the canned "debate" between the two pro-war candidates. Both candidates have virtually identical voting records (except on a few non-budget items like flag desecration and gay marriage), so what kind of debate can there be? Yes, we both vote for the same things and we both want the same things (except for non-budget items), but I want them and vote for them more sincerely than you do?

What can we do with a battered wife who loves her husband, believes he is going to change, and keeps going back to him? We can warn her, plead with her to leave him, but eventually (probably sooner than you may think) he is going to kill her. And since this is an entire country, not just one battered woman, we won't even be able to go to her funeral to mourn, as we're going to be buried right along with her.

We who do not consent to abuse are the majority. If we had majority rule, we could save ourselves. But we don't. We have rigged elections with pre-selected candidates where the ignorant, apathetic, masochistic minority are the only ones who vote, so they always carry the day and they don't care about us. They love their country, love their Constitution, love being abused, and they're killing us.

And we, the majority, keep trying to reason with them, knowing full well that they won't listen, just as they keep trying to reason with Congress, knowing full well that it won't listen, when our only possible salvation would probably be to shoot them and then shoot ourselves to put all of us out of our misery more quickly.

I don't advocate violence. I advocate a nonviolent election boycott. But the majority already agree with me and the minority are the faith-based people, whether they call themselves ultraconservative Republicans or progressive Democrats, who believe in and love their country and their Constitution too much to ever doubt their misplaced devotion. They're determined to kill us all.

 

I'm an anti-civilizationist and election boycott advocate in San Diego. For reasons not to vote in faith-based elections with secret vote counts for candidates you cannot hold accountable if they fail to represent you, check out the discussions, (more...)
 

 

 
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