A Happy 4th of July to America. I am not normally given to political sentiment, but today is a time more than usual in which I’d feel like an absolute SWINE if I didn’t stand up and observe: There is Something Greatly Amiss In This Country.
I do not enjoy politics and generally don’t speak of political issues. This is my one annual moral observation of the governmental scene. If you usually love what I write, are rightward-leaning and prefer not to delve further than those topics, then please, I urge you to click through to your next destination as YOU MAY BE OFFENDED at what I write below. If you’d like a piece of my mind that I don’t often share, then by all means, pray do keep reading.
When I read through the Declaration of Independance as I do every year on this day (don’t know it? stay tuned), come to the list of crimes of British King George against the people, contrast the current President George II’s behavior with that of the King George III…and can see precious little contrast, I have to speak up and say:
"AMERICA IS A GREAT COUNTRY. BUT WE ARE BEING SOLD OUT, SCREWED AND LIED TO. AND NOT BY ANY FOREIGN POWER, BUT FROM WITHIN."
A cursory comparison of George III’s list of crimes with the track record of the current administration will provide entertaining reading.
Example: Many people feel George II stole the election. "Spoiled" ballots and hanging chads, my Aunt Fanny. Those voters lost their legal right to fair representation. And they were almost uniformly people of color. Similar to George III in his injustice as listed in the original Declaration of Independance:
"He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large
districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of
Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and
formidable to tyrants only."
And topically, in a week that has seen friends die in arms overseas: "He has affected to render the Military
independent of and superior to the Civil Power." If this isn’t the case
in your sector of the States, fear not, we’re getting there fast. Ditto: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies…" Nevermind sending them out into the world to wreak havoc in other countries who did not ask for our help (for which read, interference).
We are still in the Middle East with no plan for withdrawal. This situation is wasteful, regrettable and not constructive to the Greater Good of anyone, Iraqi, Afghani or American. (yes, Afghani – remember them? The other country we recently went in and ‘helped’?)
In my mind I wonder what if any good can come out of the Middle Eastern wars the American government has begun. In a spiritual sense, I can see that this
situation is catalyzing great change in many who are awakening, but the
great toll in terms of loss of life and suffering saddens me. (I wonder
if humans will ever truly be able to transcend our brutish natures…)
These decisions do not represent me, my vote nor my preferences. I disagree with what my government is doing and register complaint at every possible opportunity. I write my congresspeople and senators regularly. I call their offices. I call the White House on particularly irksome matters, and log-in with my preferences. I receive polite, mass-marketed thank-you emails and know my voice has not been truly heard. And so far, in forty odd years of pacifist activism by hundreds of thousands if not millions of people of good conscience, I don’t see that it’s actually doing much good….at least not with those in office.
Activism ignites those whose hearts are ready for a change. It is not my observation that people in public office are of that persuasion or if so, only rarely. And those who do make positive changes tend to get assassinated fairly often – it’s a high risk job, being a public official with a heart and guiding conscience that acts for the absolute best for all concerned.
For me on this day of Independance, it is an act of great political activism to be in the world with an open heart, with love for all and extra love towards even the tyrants that rule our lands. Because in the words of my mother, my spiritual mentor, d, the Dalai Lama, Wayne Dyer and most recently, Dan Millman in his Peaceful Warrior book and movie, "those that are the hardest to love are the ones who need love the most"
Now a moment of silence please, and then read aloud, what so many have come to take for granted, on this day of celebration of Freedom. And reflect what Freedom truly means, REALLY truly means, and the fact we do not have complete Freedom anymore, in the United States of America. And if you’re really, really, really into making This Day count (and not repeating history), think hard about what you’re going to do about it. Then, with profound love in your heart, do it.
A Happy, Healthy and FREE 4th of July to you
Blessings of Awareness, and of That Which Is Aware… Maryam
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with
another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.
- That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed,
- That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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.
- Such has been the patient sufferance of these
Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter
their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of
Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all
having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over
these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world…
Click continue to read the long list of terrible crimes of the British King George. And when you read them, reflect that these crimes are still being perpetrated today ON American soil, BY those in charge of our political freedoms…
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