Nope, apparently not.  The Campaign For Creative America is no other than our “friends” the big names in Hollywood and the Entertainment Industry trying to garner public support for the almost-dead House and Senate bills.   These of course  were the pieces of legislation targeted by the January 18th blackout of Wikipedia, Google, Reddit and others.

Don’t be fooled friends.  These are companies dressing in sheep’s clothing trying to rekindle any support for their dead bills.   While I’m all for earning a profit in a free market, you’re not allowed to threaten free speech and suspend due-process with unconstitutional Federal laws in order to guarantee it.

Continue to write your senators and representatives to vehemently oppose these pieces of bad legislation.

But I won’t fly any more, at least commercially.   This past winter I needed to travel from my hometown, Redding, to Detroit, Michigan… and I drove.   It took me six weeks, and I enjoyed every minute of it.    As you’ve probably figured out by now,  I won’t fly because I won’t give in to the TSA.

I’m a fiercely independent fellow anyway, but the scanning fiasco was the last straw.  You have to understand me first:  I’d rather not eat and live in a box than get welfare help from Uncle Sam.  They can keep it–I don’t want their help because I never asked for it, nor wanted it.   That’s just how I am.

Because of these things I’ve been called silly and unrealistic, but I don’t care.   The stakes underlying this whole thing are too important to shrug off.   This year, 2011, it will have been ten years since September 11th, 2001.   In that time, under the guise of security,  I personally believe we Americans have given up more liberties in the past ten years than the prior one hundred.   Powers that be are listening to your telephone calls, reading your emails, and now looking at your body–all without a warrant.    Sounds great huh?

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
-Benjamin Franklin

Sit back and think about that for a minute… really think about it.  Remember folks, once you give up a liberty to do something it is extremely hard to get it back.   Need proof?  It has been ten years and we’re still scanning the airport gates like it is 9/12/2001.   The powers that control our government are eager to jump at any chance to increase to their power over the people.    Those powers are cunning, and are driven by greed and money.   They will not hesitate to use a tragedy to further their control–and history has shown this to be true time and time again.   Yet we’re allowing them to do it again, and most appallingly; we’re doing it willingly.

The irony of it all is that this is precisely what the terrorists want.   They want us to be miserable.  They want us to be afraid and to submit to their whims.    If the terrorists wanted us to be afraid to use subways,  they’ll bomb a subway next.   Swooping in to save us all, our government would then install an overbearing dose of “security”.    The terrorists have hired our own government through its ineptitude to do their work for them.   More sinister, the moment it became convenient for that same government that “saved us”  to use that additional control & security against us, it will happen.   Don’t even pretend for a second that it wouldn’t.

The shocking thing is that our government doesn’t care–this single fact alone is the most convincing part about its subversive nature:  If our government was really concerned about defeating terrorists, why are they doing what the terrorists want?   Wouldn’t being defiant and doing the opposite be the approach to success?   Instead of locking down the airports, allow them to open up.    Open them completely up.

Would terrorists have a field day?   Probably, at first.   Would innocent people get hurt?  Probably.

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
-Thomas Jefferson

But dear reader, this is the price of liberty.   Liberty doesn’t come with a guarantee of happiness, or even life.   It’s the conduit to happiness in life.   To maintain liberty through our lives people will get hurt and even die, and there is a good reason Jefferson used the word “patriot” instead of “soldiers”.   Sound cold?  It isn’t.   It’s the tax of freedom, and like it or not that is how it works–and has worked throughout history.   Our country’s inventors understood this because they too lived (and died) through it.   The umbrella of safety will always block the sun.

The generations before us didn’t hesitate when that tree of liberty needed blood.  It is because of them that we enjoy the liberties what we now have.   My generation has become selfish and complacent–and in the name of convenience, we willingly surrender our liberties to the government

“Give me convenience or give me death.”
-Jello Biafra

Who are we to deny future generations their liberty?   We’re doing it right now by making excuses.   We do it in the name of convenience and haste.   Our fathers and dead soldiers are rolling in the grave.

“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
-George Mason

I don’t propose going  right winger-crazy tomorrow waving guns around in one hand and a Bible in the other.   I suggest doing what you can, and for me and most others that is refusing to submit to what I’ve been told is good and safe for me–especially when I know it is a lie.

THAT is what being an American is about, and if you don’t understand that, I’m pretty sure you really don’t understand how or why the country you share with me was built.

Remember we’re the United States of America.   One nation of individual states.   A local government works for you and with you due to vested interest in its outcome, distant does not.    Support these bills!

Take a moment to consider this somewhat famous pattern of previous societies in history, which is quoted by many (now including myself):

1. From Bondage to Spiritual Faith
2. From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage
3. From Great Courage to Liberty
4. From Liberty to Abundance
5. From Abundance to Excess and Selfishness
6. From Selfishness to Complacency
7. From Complacency to Apathy
8. From Apathy to Moral Decay
9. From Moral Decay to Dependence
10. Finally, from Dependence to Bondage

Though somewhat general in terms it is easy to apply the history of the United States to this list. Phases one, two, and three are the process of being repressed, separating, and finally declaring freedom from Britian. Three and four describe our nation’s path through growth in financial as well as industrial sectors in the 1800′s. Five and beyond easily describe the final apex and slow decline we’ve begun to see in the latter half of the last century.

Which brings me to why I’m so frustrated with movies like “SiCKO”. Yes, there is a problem. Yes, it needs fixing. However the solution Michael Moore will attempt to bring to the forefront of everyone’s mind is foolish. I’m certain his “solution” involves yet more dependence on the Federal government, not less. The very same Federal Government he claims is corrupt and is responsible for “Fahrenheit 9/11″, by the way. (Way to go with consistency, Mike. Yea, you can go through all the effort of making a feature film about a problem–but do absolutely nothing yourself actually try and fix it. What a waste of time …but not money!)

People, if you do not want to see the United States slowly destroy itself action must be taken. We could quite possibly be the first country in history to actually know our history and change it before it happens.

This involves a simple notion: Stop whining, being lazy, and complacent, and just fix it. Get up from your couch and start doing things. Don’t expect the government or anyone else to come and save the day. You do it. In fact, you have the right and obligation to do it.

In a conversation I recently replied to someone candidly, “Well, The government works for you, after all; you’re the boss.”

What I heard back still stuns me:

“I never really thought about it that way.”

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

-George Santayana, 1905

http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/272-36.htm

Chapter 272: Section 36. Blasphemy

Section 36. Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior.

Sounds like medieval Europe to me. Isn’t that why we started this country in the first place?

Also, should it not be “whomever”? These guys are running the state?