The U.S. Anthem played in Midi as background. Firefox has no plugin for this Midi. Astronaut Ed Mitchell says: "Jason: Have not seen you nor heard from you in a while. But this is magnificent writing, absolutely true, and should be a major concern for all, Edgar Mitchell. State of the Union 2006 “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional Right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. If the founding fathers gave us anything, they gave us that.” Abraham Lincoln 1865 Honest Abe Lincoln’s profound statement from 1865 no longer holds true in this ‘future world’ of the 21st century, simply due to the fact that ‘the people’ are no longer on equal footing with their government as they were in 1865, 141 years ago. Think about it: it is our government that holds the power of nuclear weapons, bulletproof body amour, automatic weapons, jet fighters and helicopters, DNA tracking and control, telephone surveillance systems and other such clandestine weapons that ‘we the people’ can barely guess or even speculate at, which can and certainly would be used against its citizens, since the government is sworn to protect and to defend the Constitution, but not necessarily the ‘people.’ The government also would not defend us against itself if its rulers are the source of corruption now, would it? As Thomas Jefferson, the main author of the Constitution stated, "When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny." Our ‘right’ to protest is dubiously limited to only what the status quos government will allow, or what it will tolerate. Nonetheless, our ‘freedom of speech’ is supposed to be the very backbone of the U.S. Constitution! If our law enforcement and military are ordered to fire their weapons upon us and they should decline because one of the protestors is a family member, then that law person could be shot for disobeying orders! Recall the shootings at Kent State University in the early 1970s. A group of protestors were fired upon that resulted in the deaths of students who were carrying signs and holding flowers, all of whom were legally protesting a war in which they felt that innocent people were allegedly being killed. Think about that irony for just a moment. If we, as United States citizens are to survive and rise above the control through corruption of our prevailing government, which does nothing to prevent the oil companies, power companies, and event yet banking institutions from taking advantage of us and most certainly the poor among us, then we will continue to merely exist under such tyranny as the Founding Fathers warned us of, like lambs being led to the slaughter! Consider that banking interests continue to rise on loans that can be between 18 to 28% and more, while the interest on our savings accounts is at an all time low of below 2%! Shouldn’t there be equal footing on these outrageous rates? Is this not how 'deficits' are made? In all fairness, I submit of loans no higher than 15% over our savings rate. We could then have say, 12% return on our money that the banks are using to provide us with loans. They are making an illegal monopoly on interest monies garnered originally from our own money! It's a doubled-edged sword they wield, protected by the existing government! In the late 1970s, I recall my bank savings account was close to 18%. At present, it is 1.2%! After I complained in dismay to the bank officer, I was told, “Most people nowadays just use our savings accounts to protect their money.” Banks get robbed. Corrupted C.E.O.s steal the funds of stockholders and even from their own employees. The rich and famous hardly receive the same punishment as an unknown person for an identical crime and are then allowed to profit from their crimes as folk heroes, simply by virtue of their fame and fortune, coupled with their potential to contribute higher taxes, and to politics. Think about that for a long moment. FACT: The American people have not been on equal footing with their government since the development of the Atomic bomb. Prior to that scourge of humankind, ‘we the people’ seemingly had the power of liberty of which Thomas Jefferson spoke of, for nearly 176 years. Those years of liberty have sadly waned away into public apathy: the new National disease. Unless and until multitudes of citizens band together in such great numbers so as to totally bewilder the mighty power of the prevailing government (s), their strangle-hold upon us will only get tighter and the enslaving of the people who are kept pacified within the dreams of encouraged mass-entertainment will bloom into the truest form of evil this world has ever known: a nation of insensible zombies: the living dead. How much do you care about your family, friends and fellow citizens? Unless ‘we the people’ do something very soon in demanding our liberation from corrupted government, we will live to see these horrors come true. Remember this: 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 (the governed) shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. * * Excerpted from: The Declaration Of Independence of The United States of America Researched and written by, Jason Greywolf Leigh (Native born 24th generation American, U.S. Disabled Veteran, Registered voter) July 4, 2006 AD SYNOPSIS: I was asked by a Veterans Group that I belong to, if I would write and post a 'citizen's view' of the present government. Rather than making it a critique with Pros and Cons, I decided to write what I felt was a more compelling essay, as if I were addressing the People of America. Thus came 'The State of the Union,' from this humble citizen. There are many things, including corruptions and loathsome civic conditions that are utterly wrong in America, too many to address in one writing of two pages or less, and it is too easy to criticize these injustices when one is far removed from the midst of the governmental bodies, therefore, I wrote my address as a hopeful inspiration to and for those who may be in authority who would champion such changes for the betterment of the people, but moreover, for those who can and should make the real difference: the voters of The United States of America. Best regards for the future, JASON GREYWOLF LEIGH July 5, 2006 Media's Moral Decay Listen to Jason's song 'SOS Down in Waco' at GarageBand.com Jason Back Greywolf's new album Jason's Bio Page Poetry Section
Astronaut Ed Mitchell says: "Jason: Have not seen you nor heard from you in a while. But this is magnificent writing, absolutely true, and should be a major concern for all, Edgar Mitchell.
State of the Union 2006
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional Right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. If the founding fathers gave us anything, they gave us that.” Abraham Lincoln 1865
Honest Abe Lincoln’s profound statement from 1865 no longer holds true in this ‘future world’ of the 21st century, simply due to the fact that ‘the people’ are no longer on equal footing with their government as they were in 1865, 141 years ago.
Think about it: it is our government that holds the power of nuclear weapons, bulletproof body amour, automatic weapons, jet fighters and helicopters, DNA tracking and control, telephone surveillance systems and other such clandestine weapons that ‘we the people’ can barely guess or even speculate at, which can and certainly would be used against its citizens, since the government is sworn to protect and to defend the Constitution, but not necessarily the ‘people.’ The government also would not defend us against itself if its rulers are the source of corruption now, would it?
As Thomas Jefferson, the main author of the Constitution stated, "When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny."
Our ‘right’ to protest is dubiously limited to only what the status quos government will allow, or what it will tolerate. Nonetheless, our ‘freedom of speech’ is supposed to be the very backbone of the U.S. Constitution!
If our law enforcement and military are ordered to fire their weapons upon us and they should decline because one of the protestors is a family member, then that law person could be shot for disobeying orders!
Recall the shootings at Kent State University in the early 1970s. A group of protestors were fired upon that resulted in the deaths of students who were carrying signs and holding flowers, all of whom were legally protesting a war in which they felt that innocent people were allegedly being killed. Think about that irony for just a moment.
If we, as United States citizens are to survive and rise above the control through corruption of our prevailing government, which does nothing to prevent the oil companies, power companies, and event yet banking institutions from taking advantage of us and most certainly the poor among us, then we will continue to merely exist under such tyranny as the Founding Fathers warned us of, like lambs being led to the slaughter!
Consider that banking interests continue to rise on loans that can be between 18 to 28% and more, while the interest on our savings accounts is at an all time low of below 2%! Shouldn’t there be equal footing on these outrageous rates? Is this not how 'deficits' are made? In all fairness, I submit of loans no higher than 15% over our savings rate. We could then have say, 12% return on our money that the banks are using to provide us with loans. They are making an illegal monopoly on interest monies garnered originally from our own money! It's a doubled-edged sword they wield, protected by the existing government!
In the late 1970s, I recall my bank savings account was close to 18%. At present, it is 1.2%! After I complained in dismay to the bank officer, I was told, “Most people nowadays just use our savings accounts to protect their money.”
Banks get robbed. Corrupted C.E.O.s steal the funds of stockholders and even from their own employees. The rich and famous hardly receive the same punishment as an unknown person for an identical crime and are then allowed to profit from their crimes as folk heroes, simply by virtue of their fame and fortune, coupled with their potential to contribute higher taxes, and to politics. Think about that for a long moment.
FACT: The American people have not been on equal footing with their government since the development of the Atomic bomb. Prior to that scourge of humankind, ‘we the people’ seemingly had the power of liberty of which Thomas Jefferson spoke of, for nearly 176 years. Those years of liberty have sadly waned away into public apathy: the new National disease.
Unless and until multitudes of citizens band together in such great numbers so as to totally bewilder the mighty power of the prevailing government (s), their strangle-hold upon us will only get tighter and the enslaving of the people who are kept pacified within the dreams of encouraged mass-entertainment will bloom into the truest form of evil this world has ever known: a nation of insensible zombies: the living dead.
How much do you care about your family, friends and fellow citizens?
Unless ‘we the people’ do something very soon in demanding our liberation from corrupted government, we will live to see these horrors come true.
Remember this: 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 (the governed) shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. *
* Excerpted from: The Declaration Of Independence of The United States of America
Researched and written by,
Jason Greywolf Leigh
(Native born 24th generation American, U.S. Disabled Veteran, Registered voter)
July 4, 2006 AD
SYNOPSIS: I was asked by a Veterans Group that I belong to, if I would write and post a 'citizen's view' of the present government. Rather than making it a critique with Pros and Cons, I decided to write what I felt was a more compelling essay, as if I were addressing the People of America. Thus came 'The State of the Union,' from this humble citizen. There are many things, including corruptions and loathsome civic conditions that are utterly wrong in America, too many to address in one writing of two pages or less, and it is too easy to criticize these injustices when one is far removed from the midst of the governmental bodies, therefore, I wrote my address as a hopeful inspiration to and for those who may be in authority who would champion such changes for the betterment of the people, but moreover, for those who can and should make the real difference: the voters of The United States of America. Best regards for the future, JASON GREYWOLF LEIGH
July 5, 2006
Media's Moral Decay
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