For instance, I have become convinced that evil simply, as a SOLID entity, simply does NOT exist.  What has come to be called evil is simple GREED and SELF-INTEREST.  Think about what I have said and you will SOON come to accept the validity of my words.  Even the Biblical character of Satan has only his own self-interests at heart.  Evil in the world only exist BECAUSE of GREED and ‘looking out for number one’.

I have also become convinced that the GOP is evilfor this very reason.  The GOP politicians exist because well off (read that greedy) people help them to BUY their way into office so that they (these GOP politicians) can pay them back by passing laws and DEregulating things that ALLOW the greedy to ACQUIRE still MORE.

I have become convinced, based on a comment by George Bush (the Constitution is ONLY a piece of paper) and the ACTIONS of the GOP-DOMINATED Congress, that my, your, OUR Constitution is in SERIOUS danger should We the PEOPLE be so STUPID and brain-dead as to EVER allow the Republican Party to DOMINATE OUR government again.  The most GLARING example of how the GOP is seeking to UNDERMINE the Constitution is the so-called Patriot Act.  There is NOTHING patriotic about the government being allowed, BY LAW, to ABRIDGE our civil liberties, liberties GUARANTED to us by the CONSTITUTION.  For those of you who do NOT know, and based on some ofthe postings I have read there seems to be many out there, Posse Cummatius was put into law to PREVENT any President from USING the US Military as a DOMESTIC POLICE force.  Have you not heard that Bush has SUSPENDED this law and ORDERED the ARMY to QUELL PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY, another of the RIGHTS granted We the PEOPLE by the Constitution.

I am 60 years old and have a LOOOOOOOOONG memory.  I remember when the Democrats (WALLACE of Alabama, Lester Maddox of Georgia AND STROM THURMOND of South Carolina) fought tooth and nail to keep black AMERICANS out of public schools, to keep public restrooms labeled ‘White’ and ‘Colored’, to MAINTAIN separate PUBLIC drinking fountains, and to PREVENT blacks from eating at a lunch counter side by side with whites.  I was there, I saw it all happening.  Then Lester Maddox, and other Democrats, finally awakened to one simple, undeniable fact that ‘We the PEOPLE’ is ALL inclusive, there are NO (except for the several places where it says “…except for Indians who do not vote.” exclusionary clauses or phrases to be found ANYWHERE in OUR Constitution.  Guess what folks, the Constitutional GUARANTEES apply to ALL and this includes all those who appreciate sexual partners of the same gender.  What this means that, under the law, a man and woman may marry then so may a man and a man or a woman and a woman.  TOO many, NON-thinking Americans have ALLOWED religious beliefs to cloud political realities out of their minds.  The Bible and the Constitution are two SEPARATE and DISTINCTLY different documents.  Remember “Render unto Caesar the THINGS that are Caesar’s and unto God the THINGS that are God’s”?  Too many people, includinf ministers, have CONFUSED this with tithes and offerings.  The word translated as ‘things’ has NO connection or connotation to ANYTHING monetary.  Even Jesus wanted, nay DEMANDED, that church and state remain SEPARATE.

I heard Lyndon B. Johnson tell the nation that the US had been attacked by the North Vietnamese navy.  Supposedly an NVA gunboat had fired on a US Navy destroyer in the Gulf of Ton Kien. This NEVER happened and FIFTY-EIGHT THOUSAND of MY generation died for this LIE.  Bush told America that Saddam had ‘weapons of mass destruction’, that he was trying to acquire ‘yellow cake’ from Nigeria and that Iraq was somehow involved with the 9/11 attack so, America, for the FIRST time in our history, invaded a nation that posed NO threat to us.  Remember how we had bin Ladin pushed into the northern mountains of Afghanistan?  Remember how, for NO reason EVER given, bin Ladin suddenly became irrelevant?  Remember all the flak the first Bush got over the fact that he did NOT allow US forces to go into Baghdad?  Why?  Because the US was in Iraq, as a PART of a United Nations sanctioned move to OUST Iraqi forces from Kuwait.  Now remember Bush, “The UN is IRRELEVANT”?  Junior, I believe, in an effort to UNbesmirch the family name, LIED our way BACK to IRAQ.  I admit, the world is better off WITHOUT Saddam but he was NO worse than a DOZEN other dictators we have propped up over the years.  Do you not remember Donald Rumsfeld, in Baghdad, SHAKING hands with Saddam, while a member of the staff of the FIRST George Bush?  Incidentally, does anyone remember WHY Rumsfeld was in Iraq?  He was there to seal the deal that traded chemical weapons precursors to Saddam for OIL concessions.  WAKE up folks.  The GOP is NOT America’s friend and have NOT been since Dwight David Eisenhower.