miscellany

YouthAgainstBush emailed me today, inviting me to stop by his new blog: Empires Fall. This fellow has an active blog with numerous posts already, even though the blog is only 23 days old. I look forward to perusing it further.

The above video is also on his site with several comments. I have to agree with him in questioning why this film has been retired in schools. (I don't know for a fact that it has, but I surely didn't see it when I was in school in the 80's.) Though it's a little longer than most videos I watch online, it was definitely worth my time for the civics lesson. Yes, I know we are not a democracy; we are a republic. Still, our republic is in great danger. If a voter backlash doesn't happen soon, our nation will continue moving down the scale to despotism. Now is the time to address this, for soon it will be too late for the citizenry to regain full control of our country. The rich and powerful people, corporations and politicians are in control of too much. When public servants do not serve the public, they must be removed from power. Their positions are not God-given, are not for self-serving purposes, and are not equivalent to winning a lottery. Their positions are priveleges and they hold these postions at our leisure. Many of them apparently want us to forget that or never even to know it.

Thanks for reading samiam, YouthAgainstBush, and for emailing me. You've an interesting blog. Keep up the good work!

Also, over at BuyBlue, there's a lot of new content, including a post that relates to our decline into despotism. The post is here. Here's a snippet of it:

On this day, April 19th 100 years ago Teddy Roosevelt said:

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.