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Why we challenge the government

By Randy Leer
May 16, 2008

Many apathetic and disaffected people ask me about my drive, dedication and determination to change those politics that are not right. They're going to do what they want regardless of what we say... How are you going to change these things... Washington is corrupt... These problems are too big

These are all things I hear. What our forefathers must be thinking. To see our own countrymen surrendering without having even fought. How can we take our country and hand it over to these corporations? Have we forgot what it is to be American? How did we get to this point were we handed it all over without any questions or accountability?

Executive privilege now takes the place of accountability to the people. Interest in being reelected trumps duty.

We have an executive branch that should be extradited to international war tribunals and we don't even impeach them. There are many safeguards written in the constitution and we either fail to use them or we support laws that take them away from us. I would like to remind all Americans, especially elected officials, there were some words written and signed by a group of men who risked their lives for what we now take advantage of.

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."- Thomas Jefferson, United States Declaration of Independence
Our right, our duty is to fix this problem and show that the rule of law still applies to our elected officials. We can not stand by and wait for someone else to do it. We all need to get out and vote. Write and call our congressmen. Let our voices be heard and stop this decay of what America is.

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Angelo Lopez Author Profile Page:

Great post. Many of us treat the Declaration of Independence with such reverence, we sometimes forget what's actually written in it.

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