Funny how “sanitized” the government has made our news media or the powers that be anyway. With the General Petraeus hearings going on all we hear are the typical “buzzwords” that they have trained us so well to understand, here are a few:

• Radical extremists
• Islamic Fascists
• Insurgents
• Sectarian Violence
• Central Front
• Unlawful Enemy Combatant
• Al-Qaeda
• “Win”

We are bombarded daily by the administration with words just like these…..but what does it all mean? I personally have trained myself to ignore all of them or substitute them with the words that are truthful:

• Radical extremists = Those who do not buy in to the Bush Plan
• Islamic Fascists = Any person (predominantly male) that is Muslim
• Insurgents = People trying to take back where they live from occupiers
• Sectarian Violence = A way to blame locals for a escalating war and death count
• Central Front = WTF? Washington, D.C. ? That is where I see the problems
• Al-Qaeda = Group the CIA/Bush administration uses to spread panic and fear
• Unlawful Enemy Combatant = Again anyone that does not go along with the “plan”
• “Win” = Eliminate the middle class/Grow military industrial complex

Blah, screw it. I can only hope we have another rigged election and McCain wins. At least then I can see enough people in this country getting pissed enough to start a revolution.

Get angry, demand change, we are fortunate we are humans as we have brains…it is time to use them. Take a look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and you will notice that the current administration has violated at least 28 of the 30 articles. Now take a look at OUR Declaration of Independence, don’t you think that our government has gone against the values and morals of such said document? Does this not give US the right to invoke these powers and start making some changes? A small exerpt:

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.

I think it does but I am also a realist. I know that as soon as any movement towards this happens we would be a military/police state within hours, not days. In 2006 the Bush administration insured that this would not happen by suspending habeas corpus which grants the executive branch the power to determine when/how/why to use it. Here is a quote from the United States Constitution Article 1, section 9:

“The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it.”

In 2006, would anything warrant the administration to invoke this? I think not, not even 9-11 would qualify yet sadly we all go along like the sheep that we are with no more than a handful of people willing to stand up. Wake up, be prepared to take to the streets and voice your opinions as it is your constitutional right. A quick aside, remember that we are spending over 1/4 million dollars a minute on the war in Iraq (or 123.6 billion a year) not to mention the tragic cost of life.