Here we go again. The bastard children of the Republican Party
known as the Tea Party are at it again as they attempt to once again, shut down
the United States federal government, thus shutting down the lives of ordinary
citizens especially the most vulnerable.
They call themselves patriots but I think not!!!! Better, I know that
they are not. Why? Because they claim to be advocates of the
U.S. Constitution and even worse, Christians.
Follow me as I expand on who they really are albeit many of you already
know that they are wolves in sheep’s clothing but goodness maybe that is
sullying the wolf because we know wolves don’t pretend to be what they are
not. They are communal beast, dedicated
and loyal to their pack; not so these Tea Party folks, their heart desires are
grandiose for “their” political
climb, maybe up to the Oval Office.
Before I continue my ramble, I have to
point out one of the Tea Party’s golden boy, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Now, I don’t know about anyone else but when
someone who holds a position of power within our government heap praise upon a
former senator who exemplified all that is hateful within the human genome, yes
America, we have problems. Ted Cruz
lauded the very caricature of racism and bigotry, Jesse Helms, stating that
there should be “100 more like Jesse Helms”.[1] Now, I have three links because no one in
their right mind could even conceive that with the Republican Party attempting
to “broaden” their political tent that one of their own would even utter these
words. Grant it, it was a celebration of
sorts of Helms but one can acknowledge the life of a person without such
pontification; this was bonkers and boy will it haunt not only Cruz but
Republicans because no one in a leadership position even stood up and denounced
the words. Que sera sera!!!
Okay, back to the task at hand. If anarchy means a chaotic situation, a
situation in which there is a total lack of organization or control; that would
make those who pursue such measures anarchist.
While I do consider them dangerous for the good of the nation, I do not
consider them [nor would I] home grown terrorists, however, within the legal vernacular,
their “threat” to shut down the government yet again would be considered a “credible
threat” and “The term credible threat means a threat that is “ real and
immediate, not conjectural or hypothetical. Kegler v. United States DOJ, 436 F.
Supp. 2d 1204, 1212 (D. Wyo. 2006)”.[2] So my fellow citizens, I ask you, have we
become a bunch of lazy sit on our collective asses citizen pansies who will
allow these individuals to do this again!!?? These people take an oath and that
oath says, “I do solemnly swear (or
affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States
against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental
reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully
discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me
God.”[3]
This is not what they are doing. If any
group of peoples have the right to shut down the government, it is “we, the
people”; not elected officials. The
Framers of the Constitution must be writhing in their graves on the audacity of
these individuals to harm our great but imperfect Republic in this manner. For them: “Anarchism is founded on the
observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer
are wise enough to rule others” (Edward Abbey, 1928– 1989); and for the rest of
us “If I sit silently, I have sinned” (Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, (1882 – 1967).
