I now ask everyone, anyone, why in the face of behavior that civilized people deplore, do we permit these abominable actions by our government to proceed? I, we do not need to be reminded that one heroic individual or another has stood up against these crimes, or that such and such group of activist-hobbyists paraded down the Mall just last Saturday, for the twelfth time in the past six years, nor do we need to be schooled yet again in one finely nuanced special-interest message above all others, or that one group or another has persevered for six years, thereby proving the fecklessness of them all.
What I, we need to know now is NOT for what unfathomably inexcusable reasons the American electorate permitted a license to its own government to slaughter and a charter for treachery. What we need to know is what prevents us, the American electorate, from now coming to grips with our government's despicable behavior.
We know now that we were lied into war, and yet we permit that slaughter to continue. We can also well imagine that the deep stone foundations of the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg must tremble at the notion that American torturers will not be tried for their atrocities because they were "following their orders," and those order-givers are somehow superior and immune to any law, any standard of human decency. Then each day we witness the charade of representative government, its spokesmen flagrantly ranging from coy to furtive, from smart-alecky to smarmy, and announcing their "closed session" where only beyond our senses the truth is managed.
It time for us, the people, to cancel the license to slaughter, to burn the charter for treachery. It is time to toss the rascals out. It is time to rescue America. Time to install decency in our governance.
Tomorrow would be satisfactory. Today is preferable. Next week may be too late.
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