"I've Always Wanted To Be A Subversive..."

Now I Am One!!

According to the April 7th, 2009 Intelligence and Analysis Assessment report released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security - http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?=490506 - the thousands of our fellow Americans who participated in the estimated 3,000 Tea Parties on April 15th or who express sympathetic support of the targeted dissatisfactions expressed at these rallies are considered to be "rightwing extremist" who could be dangerous and thus pose a potential threat to the domestic security and tranquility of these United States. Hum-m-m... Apparently it is, according to Vice President Joe Biden, one's "patriotic duty to pay taxes," but some how unpatriotic to peacefully assemble and dare bring the light of scrutiny to bear on the unchecked tax and spend crowd in Washington. Pogo is right...Apparently "We have met the enemy and (according to Homeland Security) he is us."

My previous April 13th post ["Bend Over Children...It's That Time Of Year Again"] elicited a well-reasoned email response from my daughter Megan (she having recently established her own blog: http://www.truthbetoldlikeitornot.blogspot.com/), in which she lovingly chastised me for my inflamed rhetoric (read: name calling) and the conspiratorial nature of my denunciations of the presently entrenched partisan leadership. One count one...guilty. Tagging individuals with whom I vehemently disagree with disparaging and slanderous names brings nothing of productive benefit to the table of reasoned dialogue, but rather serves only to further widen the chasm of competing ideologies. Therefore, I will henceforth attempt to temper my expressed discontent with such individuals with whom I disagree with a deliberate degree of decorum and respect for which I would wish also to be accorded.

As for count two, I portend that the jury is still out. I readily admit that the probability of some clandestine and nefarious government sponsored conspiracy to deliberately under mind the constitutional dictates of our republic is highly unlikely...basically because I do not believe that the present administrative and legislative branches of our government possess the requisite acuity to deliberately formulate such a diverse and intricate plan. What I do believe is that the historic inability of these government bodies to co-exist in a spirit of unity for the betterment of our country has lead and continues to lead to a sense of distrust and fear of the American citizenry, mostly in part, but too often in whole. It was the now Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who invoked an unfounded and ludicrous pronouncement that there existed a "vast right wing conspiracy" to denigrate her then President husband's conduct during the turmoil that surrounded Bill's inability to exercise extra-marital abstinence in the Oval Office. Her feeble attempts to deflect such reticule only served to portray her as a thoroughly scorned woman who was married to a man that unsuccessfully attempted to indeed conspire to keep his despicable affair with Monica Lewinsky a secret.

We now have that published Department of Homeland Security Intelligence and Analysis Assessment suggesting the possibility that there exists in some elements of our society a collection of citizens that openly assemble to question the direction that their government is pursuing and thus attribute this grass roots display of self-government as being somehow - by some far stretch of common sense - to constitute a possible conspiratorial precursor to a mass march on Washington to overthrow the government. I'd be personally wary of these folks too, fore this targeted rabble is comprised of fathers, mothers, their children, aunts and uncles, their neighbors and fellow citizens of every walk of life who raise nothing more threatening than their united voices and their protest placards, who stand by each other in quest of fair representation for their conservative ideology. Yes, these people are to be feared and placed on a watch list. After all, our government always knows best. It is unpatriotic to think otherwise.

Another wave of conspiratorial Tea Parties is being organized for July 4th. Also being considered is a million person citizen march on September 12th to Washington, D.C. It will be interesting to see how the leadership in our nation's capital shall react to this continual onslaught of citizen discontent. Will their tea bags be greeted by our government representatives genuinely willing to listen to their citizen bosses, or will these potential terrorist be confronted by National Guard troops? Personally I don't think either will happen...but I could be wrong. After all, we subversives are a dangerous breed. Just ask Secretary Janet Napolitano.