I hope you are well in the day that is now and with that being said it is this day that I wish to take a step back for a moment, to review, comment and remember the past eight years of our American lives. While I do not wish this blog to become a place where "President Bush" is the only thing discussed, I do realize that he must and should be a part of the conversation. May this be a venue where you can discuss your world and how the past eight years has changed the view of America from your eyes. I will be posting a series of thoughts that I have had over these years, some while I was in the Military and some not, and I will also be posting a letter I wrote to Senator Feingold in 2006. These are my thoughts and I ask for yours...and so BenTwig rewinds America...
Eight Years of Quoted Thoughts
"Bigotry is nothing more than a hatred supplied selfishness, born of one's own insecurities. Fanned by social and cultural ideologies, bigotry is but a child to nationalism."
"Let not your fear and biases disclaim truths that are clearly evident in the world around you. Hold strong to FREEDOM, JUSTICE and the AMERICAN WAY, for they are being guised before your widening eyes."
"The most frightening thing about "today's" America is the scarcity of unity as a people. In that, while most average Americans truly believe they hold different views than most others, the commonality of the human condition binds us all together within the grasp of survival, procreation and death. It is only in politics where we are divided by ambiguous ideologies and personal decisions that no one person can claim an all encompassing solution..........but when one side of that political spectrum attempt to make these ambiguities law, democracy is immediately veiled and hidden from the people's view insuring that division over unity is dominant."
"Power atop an understructure of deceit, exclaiming purity and righteousness, can not be explained away by simply defining it as hypocrisy. For never before in history has hypocrisy carried with it so much blood IN AMERICA! It is the false prophet. It is the unadulterated depravity of a few men's lust to have will over the world. The conquest of the new empire has begun and we are but pawns to the slaughter, unless we finally realize that WE ARE THE MASSES, WE ARE THE PEOPLE, WE ARE AMERICA and tell the world."
"Fear propagates profit in any capitalist Democracy where it is the dominant political tool. National Security is nothing more than the ATM of the new, post 9/11 world with only one percent of the population holding the pin number."
"Learning is never as much about just knowing something, but that the knowledge you have and its place in your own future is undeniably tied to a past that was never your own. We must take with us a great responsibility and an awareness of our own presence in the here and now for it will one day become another's past to learn and live."
"Everything in this country that is 'free' has already been paid for, including one's one will. The will to fight against oppression, within all its guises, is inherently birthed with freedom. Freedom without tolerance is fascism."
"The invisible and translucent line between the definitions of a terrorist and a patriot are being wiped away by an administration that either does not know the difference or does not care. For it is within both these groups that they find all the enemies against them. So I say let me be a terrorist against the terror for I am a patriot against a president that sees me as an enemy, for I love my country and constitution more than his power!"
"The one that needs torture defined, has never suffered a day in their life!!!!!"
BenTwig © 2001 - 2008
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Letter to Senator Feingold
Senator Feingold,
If this country, it's standing representatives and citizens alike, do not hold the President of these United States of America and his appointed representatives accountable for the transgressions made against the constitution and it's people; whether well intended or nay, then this standard of Government will not stand, it will not last and it begs the ultimate question of any Democracy and its people; that of, do we need another revolution to once again define what it means to be Free? For one could rightly say that a Government that performs it's duties without consent and in direct conflict with the motto, creed and will of the people is NOT a democracy. While to compromise is to be representatively democratic, we can not allow any compromise on the issue of responsibility, ever, whether Republican, Democrat or Independent, responsibility must be upheld as the cornerstone of our civilization. For to rule without question or fear of punishment is to be representative of ultimate power upon itself. Do not let this stand, for we are no longer united!
Benjamin T.
SGT, United States Army, Military Police, Retired, Disabled
Concerned Citizen of These United States © 2006
Let us remember so we may never forget,
Benjamin Twig
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