Choice America Editorial

 

 

I would like to challenge both Houses of Congress to put the Constitution and our nation ahead of party interests. 

 

I would like to see all of the individuals who have accepted money from special interest lobbyists to return any funds they may have received, and to start taking their oath to defend the Constitution as seriously as they seem to take the liberty of ignoring their responsibility to our country's best interests. 

 

I see the basic freedoms and rights guaranteed to the American people being eroded by those who are turning their backs on their responsibility to our country and our Constitution.  I see them being sold to the highest bidder and that disappoints and angers me. 

 

The oath that I took, that everyone who serves in the Armed Services of the United States swore to, and  the ideals of "freedom, liberty and justice for all" are things that I take very seriously.  The sad thing is, it seems as though our government is intent on thumbing its collective nose at these very same ideals. 

 

The oath I swore to was to defend the Constitution before any other consideration against "all enemies" both "foreign and domestic."  This oath takes into account the very idea that "yes, there can be a domestic enemy of our Constitution."  Anything anyone does to curtail our freedoms under the Constitution, I see as a domestic threat to the liberties it guarantees, and there are some extremely apparent occurrences of this sort being perpetrated by certain individuals in our government at this very moment in our history. 

 

I want to know, how long are we, as Americans, going to keep accepting this type of unethical behavior from the people we hired to do the job of protecting the Constitution while representing us in our government? 

 

How much longer are we going to accept the fact that people we hired to represent us are selling our interests to the highest bidder? 

 

If "we, the people" don't start paying attention, and frankly, giving a damn about what is going on around us, then we should roll up the flag and our Constitution and start pledging allegiance to Texaco, Mobil, or any other mega-corporation in existence today.  

 

Personally, I would rather defend the ideals of freedom than the record profits of an oil conglomerate.  Which do you choose America?

 

 

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