Power, and the abuse of it.

Okay folks, wake up.

You may be complacent with the state of affairs when it comes to crime. If so, you are helping cause the abuses of power that are happening with alarming frequency. Police brutality, eminent domain, families torn apart by idiotic government workers who are charged with PROTECTING them, and many others exist because of your apathy. All of these situations are caused by the poorly chosen and poorly executed powers that you have ceded to the government in the hopes of finding security. There is no security when the police crash through your door and kill you for trying to protect your home, all because a search warrant was granted based on bad information given by an informant who is high on drugs. It has happened. It can happen to you.

Don't take my word for it. Use the search facilities of the internet to read about these issues. You will be frightened at the sheer number of times innocent people have been harmed or killed for no legal reason - by people who are supposed to follow the law. YOU REALLY WILL!

Don't say you didn't know, when it happens to you or your loved ones. The information is there in black and white. Ask the Duke lacrosse players, Amadou Diallo, Abbate's 110 lb female victim or even some officers who have been victimized by bad cops. Ask Elian Gonzalez and all the children that CANNOT BE FOUND in Florida's child "protective" system. Ask homeowners who have been stripped of their family homes for "development" - just a way to increase tax revenues. Ask people who have seen a fifty dollar tax bill become hundreds then thousands of dollars, because the IRS didn't have their address correct. Ask people who have lost their property because of the tax burden on land that was once undesirable, but became useful due to encroachment of suburbs, and the taxes on this unused land became onerous.

You say, these people were unlucky, this doesn't happen very often. WRONG. It happens a lot. It can and will happen to you and people you know. It probably already has, but you don't recognize it for what it is, abuse of power by the government, because you don't love freedom as much as you love security. It is sad that so many of you just want to work, drink beer and watch your football games - and you pay no attention to what the politicians are doing to you - and you don't care, as long as it doesn't take away the beer or the football.

It is stunning that Michael Vick is a bigger story than the process of choosing our next president. I bet most of you can't even name 6 of the candidates for that office. I am dead certain that most of you can't name more than 4 of the parties that will have candidates - and there are more than four. You probably think that health care is a big issue, but you can't name three countries that have a well run system and explain why they work. You don't even know the names of your representatives - and you think they work for you. Stupid. And ignorant. You are giving away the most precious of our rights and freedoms because you are lazy. Not physically lazy - mentally lazy. It's too much trouble, it's too confusing, it takes too much time - I hear all of these excuses and it makes me sick. You wimps, you lazy insufferable idiots.

This is why I have no children. I can't trust my fellow citizens to make intelligent choices about things that will affect them for the duration of their own lives, much less protect my offspring. Instead, the arguments are Bud vs. Miller, Cowboys or Vikings. How pathetic.

Go ahead and laugh at me. Go ahead and call me a kook. Just don't let me hear you say you didn't know, when it happens to you. I will laugh at you and call you a kook, and I will be right.