Madison had it right. Why don’t we?
Honestly, it’s things like this that make me wonder if it’s worth getting out of bed in the morning. A new idealogue as our Chief Justice (which term has suddenly become an oxymoron) and another anti-choice zealot about to be confirmed. I have no hope that Miers will be rejected by the Senate, and no hope that even if she was, the alternative offered wouldn’t be worse. Reading this quote:
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
- attributed to James Madison, I feel a chill, and I wonder if “conservatives” remember that. Or if they’re only about pushing their dogma onto the rest of us, by any means necessary. Seems like they’re all about states rights until states rights interfere with?their religious doctrine.?I am scared. I am scared for my own future, for the freedoms I now enjoy over my home and my body. I am scared that the people in power will take those things from me, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it because the majority of my fellow citizens are too lazy or stupid or lost in this hateful “Christian” world themselves to see what’s happening and help change the government by participation and activism. And?I think that Madison was eerily prescient in some of his other statements as well, particularly these two:
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
New Orleans isn’t the only part of America that won’t ever be the same after GWB’s reign. Our political and cultural lanscape, the makeup of the court we trust as our last refuge from the oppression of the government, our rights to own our homes, and our rights to own our bodies – these things are forever changed by what these men have done. And it’s wrong.
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