47 Acts of Treason

We live at a difficult time. I understand that. What I do not understand is the willingness of people and the media to overlook the 47 Republican Senators who are undermining the President of the United States of America. Going over the head of the President to attempt to threaten Iran is treason. Simply put, the powers of the President have been delineated and include the ability to negotiate treaties and agreements with foreign nations. Whatever led nearly half of that Senate to take negotiations into their own hands with regard to Iran, as well as whatever led the speaker of the House of Representatives to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to our Congressional leaders, in direct violation of the laws of our land, these treasonous acts were designed to elicit attention through morally bankrupt and illegal acts against the United States of America, world peace and security and the destabilization of world affairs. In my understanding, the punishment for treason is death, yet there has not even been a call for removing these thugs and traitors from office. As a group of people who have taken an oath to uphold and defend the laws of our United States, one would expect better behavior. We live in a Brave New World that has trusted hooligans with running Congress, that has allowed corporate lawyers to take the majority in the Supreme Court and that allows the fourth estate to turn a blind eye to their corruption and lawlessness.

I do not care if the majority of Americans want to continue to backslide, but as I continue to talk about these issues and ask questions of people I meet, I do not believe that is the case. The silent majority is frustrated and feels cut out of discussions at every step. We have voiced our dissatisfaction with gerrymandering, changing political boundaries for the purpose of securing seats in future elections. Our protests and concerns went unheeded. We worked for over two decades to get high speed rail in Wisconsin and the current leadership eliminated the possibility of that with the swipe of a pen held by just one man. We protested for months and now years over the continued privatization of education and the busting of teachers unions and now all unions have been assaulted by rule and deed. In half the states, it is illegal to require workers to pay for their representation in the workplace. It seems that the public is being cut out of the democratic process by a death from a thousand cuts. The illegal actions of a tiny number of people have had massive and long-lasting effects on the majority and it may take decades to undo the things that have come about as a result of our new crop of "Representatives" and "Senators".

Junior representatives are supposed to learn the ropes in their first few years in Congress, but these new guys are doing the opposite. If they are unable to drive policy (which legally they are not allowed to do)they just step outside the law. If their ideas and proposals are outside the realm of reason, they just claim Biblical prerogative. When people look forward to Armageddon as a final solution, they need to be understood to be psychopaths hell bent on destroying the planet and her people, not held up as our nation's leaders. Many are claiming that to prosecute the 47 Senators would ruin the Democratic party, but I feel that the opposite is true.

The reason that only 49% of Americans usually turn out to vote is because for decades we have been told that there is no difference between the two majority parties, that "they" (our political leaders)are all "crooks". We have written hundreds of thousands of letters to our political leaders that have been "answered" with form letters that prove to us that our original letters were not even read, much less understood. more and more questions go unanswered. more and more of our ideas are overlooked and more and more of our money flows to corporate welfare whores. All of these things are taking place at the same time that our rights to representation and routes for having input into the political process are being eroded or confiscated by those who are securely out of reach for the people who are supposedly the most important part of our nation.

Something is terribly wrong in our nation when the ideas of the few override the health, welfare and safety of the many. Execution is not something I take lightly. In virtually every case I oppose the state taking the lives of human beings to "teach" them that killing is "bad". However, acts of treason are given special weight because they have the power to result in mass killing and potentially the death of our entire nation. As my regular readers know and understand, I will never advocate the violent overthrow of our nation, nor do I believe that the death penalty is acceptable for the vast majority of crimes. I am a pacifist. However, when war comes to our doorstep, we must be willing to meet it with whatever tools are available to us. Treason in the halls of congress needs to be dealt with immediately and with enough harshness that future generations will understand the need for following the laws of our nation and acting responsibly with the fate of our nation in their hands. we entrust our leaders with great power, but for this trust, we must demand commensurate responsibility.