Posted by
Frigglesnitz on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:10:19 PM
This little blog follows a reading of Thomas Sowell's October 11, 2006 Townhall column "Frivolous politics: Part II." It was difficult to choose a post topic. I would have chosen "Judges and Courts," but Mr. Thomas' column did refer to politics; therefore, "Campaigns & Elections" it is.
It's easier to cry these days than it used to be. It all started on September 11, 2001.
There are reminders every day, sometimes several times a day, of that day.
Years ago, it was always easy to cry at a movie everyone called a tearjerker. Somehow, though, the tears were transient until the next tearjerker came along, and they were tears that actually removed one from the real business of living. The movies, though tearjerkers, were enjoyable. People kept going back for more and more. Movies really did that to people then.
Sometimes things happen that are serious enough to make a body cry real tears for real reasons. Those tears are the ones that revisit unbidden, at sometimes surprising and inconvenient times. They are inconvenient tears.
Getting back to those reminders, there are too many that too often take advantage of an already wrung-out emotional system.
Frankly, I am rather tired of this.
I love my country. And I proudly pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
My country and my flag are being beaten down by too many people who are thoughtless of the Pledge of Allegiance.
My country and my flag are being beaten down by too many people who have no concept of history except perhaps that beginning at their own respective ages of, say, five years.
My country and my flag are being beaten down by too many people who have no concept of justice.
My country and my flag are being beaten down by too many people who have no concept of the magnitude -- or the magnificence -- of the U.S. Constitution.
My country and my flag are being beaten down by too many judges who have no concept of the magnitude – or the magnificence – of the U.S. Constitution. Judges have no excuse for such ignorance. If they are knowledgeable but attempt to subvert the Constitution, they should be disbarred and removed from the bench.
My country and my flag are being beaten down by too many people who refuse to register to vote, or by those who refuse to vote.
Of voting -- we cannot abstain from voting because we believe our neighbor's vote will effectively negate our own. We cannot know how the vote will go in the next house or next block or next town.
Of voting -- we must get to know the habits of those judges who become judges through our votes. For example, will they be lenient toward people who abuse others? If so, why will they? Are they ignorant? Are they prejudiced? Are they cavemen (or women) in robes?
My country and my flag are being worn down by countries whose leaders are more shortsighted than two-year-olds who scream for a toy now.
My country and my flag are being worn down by countries whose leaders put their own superabundantly inflated and distorted egos above anything.
My country and my flag are being beaten down by its own citizens who fail to see the folly of attempting to reason with madmen who have vowed to see a world without Israel and the United States.
I have no answers. I am but one person in this great nation, but I do know this: in November I will vote.
I will vote for those people I believe truly pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I will vote for those people I believe comprehend the magnitude of their service.
I am tired of weeping so often, and so easily, for my country.