There have been so many signs that Demcracy is dead in America that no one who seriously thinks about these issues can doubt it. What is particularly disheartening is that the tyranny now in place has never even bother to disguise their moves. From the gitgo they have stood up and told the American people, "Fuck You, we will do what we like, when we like, and how we like because you people don't count for shit." That is the state of Politics in America today.

George W. Bush has been voiding the U.S. Constitution and breaking American Laws for close to five years now, and there has been no serious challenges to this illegal activity. None. Oh, an insipid whine arises occasionally from the cowering mutts along the Democratic side of the Congressional aisle but this hardly qualifies as robust opposition party activity.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a demonstrably illegal move, cancelled the recount of votes in Florida during the 2000 Selection, and the swing state of Ohio was the scene of rampant voter fraud and political arm breaking to give the GOP another Presidential victory in 2005.

From the Patriot Act to the NSA wiretapping the United States of America has become a gulag. Granted it is still a pretty gulag, with incredible technological goodies to distract the stupid, but it is in fact a gulag. With every passing hour the perfidious whores in Congress toil to nail and weld the prison doors shut on the American people. Wrapping us in legal and financial trappings of razor wire.

When a form of Government becomes predatory, citizens no longer owe it alligence.

When a form of Government eliminates all semblance of fairness and destroys all means of redress for legitimate greviences, then there is no other recourse for citizens to follow but violence.

When a form of Government ceases to be neutral, but is working against the will of the people, then this form of Government must be resisted. It is ironic in no small measure that we now find ourselves, in 2006, facing the same tyranny as the colonists faced in 1776. Only this time it is our own Government that is imposing tyrannical rule.

I cling to the fading hope that somehow, saner people will step in and stop this horrendous death march to despotism. But with every day, I read news like the following, and I realize that hope is fading.

With new legislation, Ohio Republicans plan holiday burial for American Democracy
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
December 6, 2005

"A law that will make democracy all but moot in Ohio is about to pass the state legislature and to be signed by its Republican governor. Despite massive corruption scandals besieging the Ohio GOP, any hope that the Democratic party could win this most crucial swing state in future presidential elections, or carry its pivotal US Senate seat in 2006, are about to end.

House Bill 3 has already passed the Ohio House of Representatives and is about to be approved by the Republican-dominated Senate..."

"...HB3's most publicized provision will require positive identification before casting a vote. But it also opens voter registration activists to partisan prosecution, exempts electronic voting machines from public scrutiny, quintuples the cost of citizen-requested statewide recounts and makes it illegal to challenge a presidential vote count or, indeed, any federal election result in Ohio. When added to the recently passed HB1, which allows campaign financing to be dominated by the wealthy and by corporations, and along with a Rovian wish list of GOP attacks on the ballot box, democracy in Ohio could be all but over.

The GOP is ramming similar bills through state legislatures around the US, starting with Georgia and Indiana...".

The answer, if there is such a creature, is to become involved in local politics and to conduct local resistence to illegal and immoral federal laws. Tip O'Neil once said that 'All politics is local". I take this to mean that it is at the local level that our power lies. the Race for Sheriff, County Commisioner, Mayor, School Board, Water Commission, what ever are the elections that we may have some control over. Forget about Federal Elections, they are now moot. The right people in these local offices are the last hope for a transformation of America to democracy. It is a long shot, and will take awhile, but, beyond armed rebellion, it may be the only shot we have.

Be at peace, and take it slow.