I Regard Them and I Think

I regard them and I think,
As they snicker and smirk,
Snaking down our corridors of power
And going about their slimy work.
How has it come to this?
I wonder, my mouth agape.
Our great nation is victimized;
The crimes: pillage, plunder and rape.
We vote them into power,
Time and again the election is bought;
We vote each as he thinks,
But their media programs our thought.
If we say this we are extremists,
Partisanship and conflict they decry;
So meekly we approve their agenda
And seldom do we ask "Why?"

They have seized our schools;
They say "Education is a must!"
Teaching "Neither parents nor God,
But in government do trust."
The motto on our coins is
Not "in government", but "in God";
But I am a dolt they say,
Uneducated; backwards; a clod!
Why then, I wonder,
Is the same thing not true
Of jihadists who seek the death
Of Hindus, Christians and Jews?
"Racist" I am called,
But Islam is not a race;
No matter, not logic,
But shouts put me in my place.

The tax law they give us
Numbers easily a thousand pages;
Ten times that of regulations,
Enforce these official outrages.
To navigate this labyrinth
Accountants and attorneys we need;
If we dare to object,
We are then accused of greed.
But is it not they
Who benefit from this welter?
Those many pages hide loopholes
For them and their cronies a shelter.
To struggle with this outrage
The rest of us are left,
And civil penalties await
Anyone who is not deft.

Our thriving financial sector
They are supposed to regulate
Spotting trouble, minimizing its impact,
Before it becomes too late.
This, as so much else,
They fail miserably to do;
Worse even than all that,
I see corruption, too.
The problems were spotted,
Early, by the regulators;
The only people alerted
Were unscrupulous speculators.
They took over their competition
As fortunes were made and lost;
Government giveaways, leveraged buy-outs --
And taxpayers bear the final cost.

Under circumstances that were dubious,
They marched us off to battle.
Lives lost or ruined, trillions in debt;
"More, more," like sheep they prattle.
Much trouble from Saudi Arabia,
But hatred's kingdom they won't touch:
That source of jihadis and money,
A hateful ideology and such.
The terrorists came from Arabia,
So we attack Iraq!
In Tora Bora Bin Laden slips away,
For another trip around the block....
The real reason found
In heroin smuggled amidst a war
And cost-plus contracts to buddies,
As they loot Iraq, America and more.

Stability, we are told,
Is what we must seek.
Partisanship to be avoided;
Agreeing, we remain meek.
They have been there in power,
Some of them for many years,
Yet tolerate them we do
Though, more than money, they cost tears.
Racketeering, narcotics, espionage,
Corruption, kickbacks and more;
Trafficking women as forced prostitutes,
But they themselves are treasonous whores.
I regard them and I think,
As they trample our Constitution,
Stability be damned --
I want REVOLUTION!

Redress can still be peaceful,
As our nation is still great;
Let's take back our country,
Before it gets too late!

Change Has Come to America

Our government, to whom we were loyal, was changing. It was becoming increasingly oppressive of us, the governed.

Some of us lived in a city on the coast. One day, they tricked those of us there out of our arms -- and then their elite troops emerged from that city to seize the arms from the rest of us.

We knew that, once we were disarmed, there would be no end to their tyranny. So, reluctantly and apprehensively, yet with indignation and righteous anger, we picked up our arms, determined that our weapons would not be taken from us while we were still able to use them.

That decisive day, a series of events was set in motion, the results of which reverberate around the world, even to this day, now well more than two centuries later.

In the aftermath of the struggle that began that day, a new nation was born -- a nation that was conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the ideal that we are all created equal in the eyes of Him Who created us, and that we should all be equal before the law.

Our ideal, summarized in the document in which we declared our Independence from our oppressors, soon became codified in a new document, which was to be the supreme law of our great land.

While preserving our right to keep and bear arms, with an eye to defending all our rights against future tyrannies, our new Constitution was written by those who had endured struggle and oppression, and it was written to ensure that future struggles would be as peaceful as possible; so, our rights to freedom of speech and of assembly, our rights to be secure in our persons and our properties against unreasonable searches and seizures, our rights to participate democratically in a Republican form of government which is charged to guarantee those rights to all of our citizens -- these rights are backed up by one more right: the right to alter or abolish any government that becomes destructive of these, our rights, which were assigned to us by our Creator, and not by any earthly power.