"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
- The Preamble to the Constitution

"WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation."
- The first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence

"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
- From the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence

"President Bush states, that he 'welcomes the fact that we are a democracy' -- and that people in the US, 'unlike Iraq,' are free to protest.'"
- From Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer regarding American Protesters

June 28th, 2004

Okay, you may be wondering why I have decided to write such an essay. Well, let me tell you.

After thoroughly viewing some of the more radical opinions stated in the recent past, like controvertible pieces of information as The Rock Against Bush CD, The Truth Uncovered DVD, Fahrenheight 9/11, and, believe it or not, The Unabomber's Manifesto, I have decided to declare my political beliefs to you, my readers and as well as anyone else who may be watching this site. Initially, I was going to entitle this "I Believe", but that really did not encompass everything I wanted to say.

I want to come clean to all of you as a responsible ranter. I want to tell you who I am.

I am an natural born American.

What does that mean? It means that I grew up believing in a dream that anyone, ANYONE, despite race, creed, or color could live freely and believe what they wished to. That he or she could strive to become whatever they wished and so long as they did not incumber another human being that liberty would always be theirs.

I believed in our government. I believed in a fair and impartial electoral process to choose a leader that would steer, protect, and lead the American people to greater pastures and world peace. I believed that the president of the United States, as leader of the free world, has probably the most power on the planet and as such he shoulders the responsiblity to use it wisely.

Such is his mission.

As an American, I believe I have the right to choose how I should worship the Divine. This is part of the fundemental freedoms our forefathers established and the reason they came to this land. I believe it is none of this government's business how I worship so long as I do no harm to anyone or anything. It is not up to our government what I worship as well. It is my right, as an American, to NOT be a fundementalist Christian... if I wish it. While on the US Dollar Bill, it does state "In GOD we trust" it also says "Novus Ordo Seclorum" - latin for "new world or secular order". I believe my government should not ever allow religion to be part of its law making or enforcing doctrines.

As the author of my site I believe in freedom of speech. I exercise this right responsibly as a law abiding citizen. I have no criminal record and am an outstanding member of my community. I have no known enemies. I own no arms. I own no handgun. I am not a terrorist. I can not join the armed forces as I have a disability that would prevent me from doing so but I have spent time in the Reserved Officers Training Corp.

I believe that there is a time for civil disobedience. I believe that most issues can be worked out on a debating floor rather than a battle field. We are a people who stand for reason most of the time. If we are attacked, we shall anger. And in each loss we shall suffer in sadness.

As an American, I applauded when the Berlin Wall came down. As an American, I stood in shock in New York when two towers that stood to inspire and beautify were brought down low in ruin and now represent a monument to terrorism. As an American, I grieve as I watch the thousand points of light shown by a father snuffed out just as quickly from a son. As an American, I love my home land and as an American I am ashamed that "home land" has come to be recognized as a poor excuse to oppress the common people. I say so candidly.

I can say these things but I am not wise enough to rule. The American People deserve better than me.

They deserve a man of integrity who has run for the highest office of this land as a calling, not as an another means to line his pockets from war profits. They deserve a leader. They deserve someone that we, as Americans, can be proud to say, "He's a man who can get the job done." Not someone who promises to bring a mass murderer in "Dead or Alive" and not only fall short on that promise but has led us toward global ostracism in his pursuit of a conquering a country that never attacked us or had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks. I say this as my parents are currently traveling in France. I fear for them and have advised my father to pretend he is a Canadian so he may travel unmolested.

Such is the danger of him being an American.

I believe in the spirit of the Geneva Convention. While under the letter of its law, our country has done nothing wrong. Those in power have thought nothing of treating prisoners we have captured inhumanely. I believe that the Geneva Convention was made not only for their protection but for ours. It is not only a matter of diplomacy, it is matter of human respect. The letter of the law matters little as masked men decapitate innocent civilians who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. No lawyer can appeal that decision.

Why do I state these things?

I state them because, as an American, today, in 2004, I am afraid of my own government. I state this here because for the first time ever, I believe that my gifts of freedom of speech and freedom of religion are in danger from an act that has nothing to do with patriotism. Passed by a congress that did not care enough to exercise their responsiblity to read an act that gave the police near unlimited power. And should the police knock on my door and take me away without reading me my rights or tell me what crime I am accused of, I want you, my readers, to know that I am an innocent man who had done nothing more than exercise his rights from a dream that came about 200 years ago not violate the act that came from a man who lost an election against a corpse.