Broken Government, America in Trouble

William Penn said: “Government, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too.”

Thomas Jefferson said: “The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. …The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the federal judiciary.”

Jefferson went on to say: “On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”

Our modern day leaders in government are sadly far removed from the selfless spirit of the Founding Fathers. Supreme Court justices seek to advance their ideological agenda. Politicians curry favor with multi-national corporations and foreign states funding their campaigns and return favors by drafting legislation and policy intended to benefit their constituents. The Commander in Chief uses national intelligence bureaus to collect bogus information on regimes such as Sadaam’s in Iraq to create charges and allegations about weapons of mass destruction. Then once our American troops are in Iraq we turn around and use white phosphorus (a chemical agent) on the Iraqis in Jalalabad. Meanwhile soldiers with good intentions die for what our leaders tell us is necessary to secure the homeland. Nothing is farther from the truth, as our militaristic bulldozing of Iraq and inhumane treatment of prisoners in Cuba has only further incited militant Muslims throughout the world against us.

America’s government is broken and its leaders corrupt. Our homeland security is being jeopardized as is our economy due to poor border control and unwillingness to tackle tough issues on our own soil. Before going abroad to police the world, we should get our own nation in order.

The U.S. government should take the 9/11 Commission report and declassify all information pertinent to Saudi Arabia and everything else that has been covered up by the Bush administration. President Clinton went public with his administration’s failures in regard to Bin Laden. It is time we do what is best for the nation, not our political party or our personal pocket book.