An op-ed from the Constitution Party
As a conservative, I find myself frequently drawn to this party. In so many ways, its ideas mirror my own. The concept of returning the judiciary to a strict interpretation of The Constitution. And others. And then I see how they have dedicated themselves "to restore our government to its Constitutional limits and our law to its Biblical foundation."
I am *not* a religious conservative. And it bugs me that I can't engage my right-leaning ideology without bumping into that.
Still, their chairman has a few things to say about Bush's inauguration speech that are worth noting:
I was reminded of two books I read far too long ago which I need to dust off and read again, George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984. In fact, I believe it’s time for us all to give these classics a reread to remind us of how we can be fooled and manipulated on the road to tyranny. Just like “All animals are created equal” gets unobtrusively changed to “All animals are created equal but some are more equal than others”, so freedom and liberty become hallmarks of an administration that has people passively taking off their shoes at airport security checks, allowing Big Brother to snoop into their homes, their bank accounts their emails and their irises, and even sending our troops to die in the desert all to protect us from the big bad enemy. Remember how there always had to be an enemy in both those books? Ah, the prescience of George Orwell.
Interesting. And:
Of course Bush also breaks his oath with his policies that deny Americans the right “to be secure in our persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures”, and “the right to keep and bear arms” as well as when he promotes the prohibiting of “the free exercise “ of religion and speech through his tolerance of tyrannical federal judges.
I'm not sure I understand what he means by that last. But it's an interesting read nonetheless.
-RØß-
