Today, a guest blog submitted by the honorable Bob Smith of Minimum Wage Art. Bob is an artist who pretty much uses life and work as his canvas and lump of clay. Today, he shares his analytical wit and wisdom. Enjoy.
On the first day of 2012
Who would have guessed that on the first day of 2012 an almost unanimous vote would have passed both houses of congress and be signed into law by President Obama?
What wonderful advancement of service to the people of the United States was so agreed upon by a government that has shown nothing but total contempt at governing for the welfare of the nation's people?
It is shocking that they agreed on anything, but more shocking is that now any citizen or non-citizen in the United States can be denied constitutional protection from arrest and incarceration forever.
Now you, I, or whole masses of people can be targeted, arrested, and held incommunicado from friends, family, and lawyer if and when we are considered a threat to the government. Unknown, and all the more disturbing is that we do not know whom decides who is and is not a threat.
So, all this talk of the Mayans and the end of their calendar in 2012 has diverted our attention and on the first day of 2012 there was the most incredibly quiet, subversion of the rights of man in the history of a free country. The congress of the United States of America passed a law, most sadly signed by a man we had trusted to end the injustices of torture and unaccountable tyranny; a law that has made each and every one of us a suspect without rights.
As I go out today to repair a fence a song came to mind........."if my thought dreams could be seen, they'd probably put my head in a guillotine, but its all right ma, I'm only sighing." ~ Bob Dylan (Quoted without permission.)
Bob Smith
"Minimum Wage Art"
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