A union of 50 we supposedly are, but somehow with the urging of bigoted, ill educated, hate filled, small minded white folk identified as Tea Baggers made up of white supremacist, Neo Cons, conservative evangelicals, John Birchers, this country of ours is becoming more and more a land of mine not ours, mine not yours, mine and mine alone.
If only we all could avoid hindsight and just look at the current political predicament we are in and stop the madness before we ring our fingers with regret and say if only we saw the clues. If only we all would stop blaming others for mistakes and take ownership of responsibility, if only we didn't look the other way when self liberties, civil rights and human rights are being denounced and fascism, fallacy and foolhardy are being announced.
With the passing into law of the new Arizona state immigration, by the Republican Governor, Jan Brewer which requires police to question anyone on their citizenship status if there is reason for suspect' America has stepped into the league of Nazi Germany when the Gestapo or SS could walk down a boulevard and at a whim ask for papers. Arizona has boldly and proudly decided that anti Hispanic fervor needs no checks and balances and the only check it needs is to question those who the police deem undesirable. You look brown or brownish, you speak with some kind of Un- American accent, you perform jobs at a wage most Americans would never work for, so by all means you must be illegal. Simple and right to the point.
But Arizona is not the first to promote states rights above national rights. it is not the first state to scream about those un-deserving of civil liberties. Nope it follows every other state in this country that has passed laws making marriage an institute that permits only one man and one woman to wed legally. Doesn't matter who many times you wed or divorce. But if you describe yourself as a heterosexual you can knock the Institution of Marriage to its knees and no one will shudder a sigh.
It is always about the rights of the self described majority. Its about the abuse the self appointed majority think they will subscribe to if anyone else who is not like them can get even an inkling of their freedoms. They deserve what the founding fathers of this nation carved out in the Constitution, you know the Constitution based on the New Testament.
If the elections of 2012 go as predicted and the Tea Party candidates run roughshod, elected by illiterate, uneducated, lemming like true blue Americans, supported by the Independent voter (or is that the idiot voter), then America the union will soon find that America the 50 individual states will be dictating laws and border crossings may be as tricky as the days of the Berlin Wall.
First on the list is the right of the state legislatures to refuse to accept the Health Care Reform Bill. No way a state like Indiana wants its citizens to stay healthy. And in Nevada ( R) Sue Lowden is running for senate against Harry Reed and her statement on health care is that it all should be bartered. (She told her constituents that if they need neurological care barter with your doctor he is sure to want something that you have). Why her grandparents (Sue Lowden) did it and look how well they lived.
Next thing you know the whole inter-racial marriage thing, as in Loving vs Virginia, which made it legal for races to intermarry, may be the next thing found offensive by the Tea Baggers. Feeling that the purity of the white race is diminished with anyone but a true white (except if they are Jewish and white, they are not white but Jewish) is tarnished then some states, home to the tribes of KKK, and the Aryan Nation may find that inter-marriages is a burden and one that particular state can not afford.
And then the whole church-state debate. Any true blooded American knows the forefathers saw this country as a Christian country. Anyone knows when we say "In God We Trust", it is the Jesus God we trust. (And not the Catholic Jesus either). It is the white gym looking guy who carries a gun and hates "gays". So some very evangelical states may find synagogues mosques, temples Un-American, Un-Christian and ban them from operation. (At one time the Nazi's had considered moving all the Jews to the island of Madagascar, wonder if they might be moved to new York City this time). (And you Mormons better watch out the real Jesus did not spend anytime in the Utah area as he was busy brandishing an Uzi and killing anyone bad in the Middle East.)
Sounds silly huh? Not to me. Once one civil liberty is chipped away, the tree starts to lose it bark. Once the bark goes so does a wave of protection. The hue and cry becomes we need to warm ourselves we need protection, so burn the tree down. Suddenly no forest and before you know anyone hiding in the woods is naked and noticed. Wonder who will be next?
Get ready to re-celebrate the good old days of the Confederacy. Get ready believe in one true religion. Get ready for the hounds to guard the hen house. Get ready for the dumb to inherit the Earth. Buckle those seat belts we are in for a bumpy ride.
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