This passage from the Preamble gives me goosebumps.
(Shelby said, “If the gents who wrote these lines were around today, they’d not only be appalled but driven to action ~~ they were passionate that way. & THEY would change things via due process." Yeah…, perhaps we’re mired, chained to the turnstile by despots with a stronghold so powerful as to be fearless in their machinations, thereby creating mass fear in we, the people & our career-minded representatives holding down a good living and thinking about hanging on to their bona fide piece of a sweetie-pie situation: Play Ball & ride the gravy train baby; rock the boat and feel the sting. If so, then what a heady sorrow.)
But I digress. Read the passage, it is a good one, a meaningful lyric, and a means to liberty perfect; see if you feel it too:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
WOW!
Even THEN, they predicted that we might be stuck in this age of mordor, being effected by a deranged & besotted plutocracy; we, the plenty pissed but stagnant mist…in a state of awful flux and maligned magnitudes; …strings pulling at our joints as the puppeteers write their maudlin play. & what did they say? They, our writers of a rightness & terrific burgeoning American ideal? They said NO!!!! So? So…what? What is the next course of action if, yes IF, we are truly American People from sea to shining sea?
They thought of that too; those brilliant forefathers, husbands to spectacular foremothers.
They mandated us, and principally our elected representatives who have a sworn job to do (as plain as the knuckles on the pledge hand upon your heart), to do the following:
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
SO what the fuck are we waiting for?! Lets get busy. (We all stood by while the ironic republicans impeached President Clinton for being a groovy, sexual, slightly deviant cat with a powerful libido and poor taste; a late-night guy in an easy chair who was snared by a momentary lapse of reason with a willing adult woman of…uhm…perfected means; followed by a poor judgment call as to whether to face the music or not (not unlike thousands of gents before him and after.) There was a wrong done, okay, but did the consequences fit the crime? If so, then what should be the consequences for today’s abominations? The present cabinet have effectively pulled off Lady Liberty’s head & defecated down her kneck with 21st century impunity, and chuckled it off as a bookie shrugs off a fixed boxing match!
People. What is not certain here?
