We the People

Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
--Little Lies, Fleetwood Mac

Lies lies
Thats all I ever get from you
--Lies, Styx

There's deceivers an' believers an' old in-betweeners,
That seem to have no place to go
--Hands on the Wheel, Willie Nelson
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In yesterday's State of the (dis)Union address, George W. Bush emphasized numerous times the concept that the American people should be trusted. This hogwash doesn't square with the way Mr. President has treated corpus Americanus. In today's America it is not We the People, it is them, and us.

If the government trusts us so much, then why so many Federal laws to keep us in line? In fact, why not make the Federal income Tax voluntary if we are so trusted? It seems that trust is only useful as an applause line. If it is "We the People," let us plug in a few rejoinders of our own:

1. We the People are tired of these phony wars. End them now.
2. We the People are tired of warrantless intrusions into our private lives.
3. We the People are tired of a politics of divisiveness.
4. We the People are tired of national policy that claims to be fiscally conservative, yet squanders money prodigiously.
5. We the People are tired of secret courts, secret police, secret prisons, secret interrogation techniques and secret White House visitor logs.
6. We the People are tired of weekly escalating grocery bills and medical costs.
7. We the People are tired of daily increases in the cost of petroleum products.
8. We the People want a government free of liturgical entanglements.

No, this is not currently a government of, by and for the People. That is a lie. The only thing the "We the People" get is socked by taxes and the chance to vote to sustain a deceit called "democracy." That is the State of the Union, 2008-style.

We the People are pissed.