e-mails, corruption, accountability, revolution

For too long ignorance has been an acceptable "excuse" within Washington, where an environment has been fostered where wrongdoers are not held accountable for their actions, or little guys take the fall for the big ones. We as citizens of the United States hold on to the deluded hope that our system of checks and balances actually holds violators in check, but when was the last time a wealthy criminal served any hard time? As long as Americans remain pacified by their televisions and their false sense of security, the politicians of this country will continue driving this once proud nation into the ground, and it's going to be a hell of an awakening when this country gets it.

Today I happen to be talking about the "faulty" archival system in place in the White House, in which legally required documentation of the President's actions and conversations "may have been lost". Tomorrow it will more than likely be some completely new form of corruption we'll be talking about with the same distanced cynicism.

For those unaware, the White House is required to document official dialogue for historical and legal reasons by law, meaning all official forms of communication need to be archived, and now it has come to light that administration officials recorded over backup tapes during the run up to the wars in the middle east, and that numerous e-mails may have been lost in the process, coinciding with several other key time periods of political doubt within this administration. A similar breach of conduct during the Clinton administration landed those officials in legal trouble, but apparently not enough legal trouble for the Bush administration to be thwarted from repeating history. This is a huge issue, but where does one begin to file it away among the many corruptions emanating from Washington over the past several years? We're talking about documentation which would reveal what was being said in Washington during the run up to the wars, wars which have since proven to be illegitimately driven. The fact that this evidence is missing is too convenient to be anything other than a conspiracy, that is if you're a reasoning cynic like myself. What to do?

So I say to the American people, Washington has failed us, corruption is the norm, and we as the ununified powerless peasants that we are continue to call for heads to spin, while little is done. We continue to show our displeasure in polls, but no reform is ever realized. Asking for change is not enough. Change will only come when the people unite, all displeased people of this country, who believe in a democracy and want to see justice actually served in this land. This is not a talking point, it's a real call to action. If such corruption is not enough to bring about a revolution, than I don't know if one can be had in a democratically civilized manner, which is a better alternative than the revolutions written in blood. And there will be a revolution, hopefully internally, because such breaches of ethics and illegal actions will eventually piss off the wrong person(s), or right person(s) depending how you look at it, as for too lopng the masses have been taken by the few. We have been had by fascists and the only way to gain any legitimacy among the global community is to hold these criminals accountable. If the current structure of power cannot rectify the problem, then it needs to be seen that this structure is the problem. Talking is not enough, we must begin to agitate. The time is now to become politically incorrect.

The revolution will not be televised!