Our Representatives Consider Us to Be Collateral Damage

Our forefathers fought a Revolution for taxable without representation. They stood up and asserted their rights under God:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, 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 shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Today we cower in fear hoping for someone else to save us. As the House vote above shows, no one is coming to save us from those who only “represent” their own interests. I had hoped for a peaceful solution. I had hoped that a French style revolution would be avoided. I had hoped for many things but I never considered that our “leaders” want us to rise up so that we will be crushed. There is evil all around us but it should never be considered to be omnipotent.

David DeGerolamo