December 31, 2009
The power is ours for the taking, so shut the eff up and watch us take it!

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And so it was…

Tonight will end a decade. And what a decade it has been. I remember where I was ten years ago. Where I went for New Year’s Eve and what I did (yes, it involved a lot of drinking!). So much has happened and changed since then (although, tonight will still involve a lot of drinking!).

I went from being a liberal, apathetic 18-year-old who didn’t care about the world to who I am today (which, I’m not quite sure what I am today. Conservative? A little. Libertarian? I wrestle with that. An ordinary American who just wants the government off of my back? Definitely!). What an amazing transformation! Ten years ago they told me school wasn’t for everyone and encouraged me to drop out. Two weeks ago I finished my Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. Yup, what a decade it has been!

I have a friend who is in a rough spot. He keeps asking how I got past the bad times in my life, and there were some really bad times. I don’t know how. I just got up every day and did the best I could and now here I am. I can’t say I set out to become who I am today. I just took it one day at a time. First, I signed up for community college. Then, after doing well there, I applied to Roger Williams. I guess that’s when fate stepped in. Little did I realize that attending that small college up in Rhode Island would lead me out of the cave. RWU is where I fell in love…with politics!

So, here we are. I’ve read a couple of articles in the past couple of days all predicting that this is the end for America. That we can’t come back. That this great nation is in a downfall that can’t be stopped. Amittedly, I have those moments, too. When this absurdity that is the health care bill passed the Senate, I had one of those moments. The truth is, though, I still have hope because I believe in America and I believe in Americans. We can get back to where we are supposed to be. It’s not going to be easy, but it can happen.

It’s like I tell my friend, it will get better. Remember the saying, it is always darkest right before dawn. I see a new dawn in America, but right now we are consumed by the darkness. The election of Barack Obama and the shenanigans the Democrats have been pulling are finally waking Americans up from their slumber. All of a sudden, politics aren’t just for the junkies (like me). Everyone wants to get involved. Absolute power has corrupted these politicians absolutely. Americans–not just conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, but AMERICANS–are standing up and fighting back. As my boy Lil’ Wayne would say, “This is history in the making so shut the eff up and let us make it!”

Nothing is permanent and there is nothing these idiots are doing that can’t be undone. It won’t be easy, but we can make it happen. It wasn’t easy to get the British off of our backs, either, but those brave men we refer to as our Founding Fathers didn’t let that stop them. They had a lot more on the line than we do and they risked everything to give us the greatest nation on the planet.

 The politicians have tried to distract us. They created a public school system that left too much of the public misinformed and uninformed about what makes this country great: the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Citizens start wising up to that and the people in power won’t be in power for long. We’re America. A nation of fighters, which is a good thing. The public was sleeping, but they’ve been kicked one too many times and they are starting to wake up. They are starting to remember what was stated in the Declaration of Independence. It is our job, our civic duty, our right to alter or abolish any government that becomes destructive to our unalienable rights. Why paraphrase when they said it so well?

“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.”

We have suffered at the hands of our elected officials long enough and the current situation makes it necessary for us to alter the current system of government. A lot can happen in a decade. Look at what has happened in the past year, alone. America has a choice to make. We can stay true to our founding principles and honor those who risked and lost their lives to establish and protect this great nation, or we can let her fall. Americans are fighters. I don’t see us just letting her fall. There is a reason America is number one and if you listen to the rumblings I think you’ll see that the politicians and the rest of the world are about to be reminded why.

So, with that said, I wish everyone a very happy and safe New Year’s Eve! I hope that the rumblings we have been hearing over the past year turn into action and that average citizens take this country back from these power hungry elite who think they can buy us off with our neighbors’ money. Not all of us are for sale; not all of us can be bought. The cost is too high and can’t be sustained. It’s time we let these politicians know the cost of their decisions is too high and their careers can’t be sustained. The power is ours for the taking, so shut the eff up and watch us take it!