after the gathering

So I went to a party tonight and had a good time though I'll probably pay for it when I wake up.  It was a mixed assortment of people who knew about each other mostly from work but there were a few other outsiders floating around like myself. 

Right here was true America, What This Country Is All About: ordinary folk trying to get through their day, raise their families and, if lucky, to celebrate and have a good time.  We all need to let off a little steam sometimes and here I was seeing good people do just that.  No one was hurting anyone, nobody fought, it was all peace, harmony and light (though some lover's drama happened in the background).

It surprised me when a few of them told me that they feared their government.  Not all at once mind you, but individually over the course of the evening. 

I suppose that's kind of how some Tea partiers feel because they certainly say that about the the federal government (though they said nothing when Bush initiated many of the pogroms that oppress America today).  To the peoples of the Tea party's eternal shame they were silent when the federal government was taken over illegally by Bush and his cronies.  Had the Tea party started then, I would have been on board (sorta; they are racists after all).  Instead the Tea party waited for a black man to be President before they got all upset.  Here's a newsflash for you Tea people: Obama is playing with the rule book the criminal George Bush left him.  Where was your anger then when our phone calls were monitored, or your e-mails read or even when the federal government decided it had to know what library books you bloody read!?

Americans should fear their government.  We have fed it too much power and it wants more still. We Americans were once raised to know that no one man, even the President, is to have too much power.  We had a king once, King George, but it didn't work out so well for many of the same socio-economic reasons we see happening today.  We Americans have allowed soulless politicians to make our President into a king.  He has a king's power to execute his citizens, arrest them on a whim, send American troops into fool's wars, spy on them, whatever he damn well pleases.