When caring no longer matters

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There comes a time when you simply don’t care anymore.  It is the time when you simply say, “let it burn.”  

This is the point I am at…

Let’s start with my own state; South Carolina.  Governor Mark Sanford goes on a tryst to Argentina to meet his mistress, uses public funds (that he had to repay) to do it, leaves the state leaderless, and what happens?  NOTHING.  Sure, some politicians from both sides called for his resignation, but, impeach him?  Not happening.  Since the Governor has no honor, no self-respect, and no respect for his citizenry or his state, he has decided that it is “time to move forward.”  The State newspaper in South Carolina?  It simply states in an editorial that it really doesn’t matter if the Governor is there or not.  Really, it is time for the state of South Carolina to be allowed to burned to the ground by Republican rule.  That is what it is going to take before the media, which can’t get its head out of the GOP’s ass, and the citizenry, which feels that electing Democratic politicians is akin to dealing with the devil, to finally understand what they both have promoted.

Let the damn state burn.  Maybe once the state is broke, unemployment is in the 20% margin, and the state is in ruins, things will finally change.

Who really cares if a Republican that preached family values couldn’t be faithful to his wife and family.  Much less the fact that this Republican, like others who preach abstinence to teenagers, couldn’t keep his dick in his pants.  Who cares.  Let’s move forward.  And really, it’s not like we needed him to run the state and provide leadership anyway.  Who cares if he’s just another GOP hypocrite politician that preaches one thing to the masses while doing the opposite, we can start looking forward to the next GOP hypocrite politician!

Let it burn.  Let the paper business burn, too.  The State newspaper just had layoff’s.  Let’s hope there is another round of layoff’s at The State coming so McClatchy Holdings can make their profit margin.  Obviously seeing their co-workers hitting the unemployment line didn’t affect the editorial board at The State newspaper.

And politics?  How about Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) thumping his chest about dealing President Obama his “Waterloo” if the GOP can but kill healthcare reform.  Here is the mentality to this statement:  “We at the GOP don’t give a damn about the average person.  We don’t care if you have insurance, if you don’t, if you can afford it, if you are denied claims — we simply don’t care.  We are getting millions from the ‘industry’, so screw everyone else.  As long as we win politically, who cares if the masses lose, we consider it a win.”

Fuck the GOP.  Let that Party of racist, idiotic, lunatics burn.  Let the Party get to the point where the only people who still identify with them are the lunatics who believe President Obama isn’t an American citizen, that the American government should torture anyone and everyone it deems to be a threat to it, and that God speaks to their leadership personally.

Let it burn.  Let it go the way of the Whig Party.  Let it finally be known, in its ashes, as the Party that finally succumbed to the crazies.  You only need watch the townhall meeting with Rep. Castle, where the crazies were out in force, to see just how close the Party is to that already.

Let it burn.  Who cares?  The GOP has no say, no power, no leverage, no bargaining power.  Let the crazies have it.  Let the GOP politicians claim God spoke to them.  Let them claim that their lies, infidelities, and hypocrisy, will suddenly be cured because they prayed to God.  It isn’t like only 20% of those polled still identify as Republicans.  It won’t be long now that the crazies rule the roost.

The Democratic Party?  Let it burn, too.  

60 Senate voting members in the Senate.  Unprecedented.  Get things DONE?  Not a chance.  Fuck that Party, as well.  Cowards.  

President “I’m here to change things” Obama?  Fuck him, too.  He’s protecting Dick Cheney, George W., and every illegal act they ever committed.  Change is here?  Since when!  Read Glenn Greenwald’s latest, “First steps taken to implement preventive detention, military commissions.”  If you aren’t ready to light the fire yourself after reading it, well, I am.  President Obama is truly taking George W. Bush’s illegal actions to the next level.  You are guilty.  You will be imprisoned indefinitely.  

Screw it.  Let it all burn.  Nobody cares, anyway.

The Constitution.  The rule of law.  Innocent until proven guilty.  Due Process.  It’s gone.  All of it.  Once the government deems you guilty, it is merely how you are convicted and in what court.  If we can convict you in a federal court, great, if not, you get a military commission trial, and if we can’t even have that, well, fuck you, you still rot in a prison.

When I enlisted in 1986, 23 years ago, I swore an oath, that I would defend the CONSTITUTION.  Our goverment, whether under George W. Bush or Barack Obama?  Fuck the Constitution.  Fuck Due Process.  Fuck innocent until proven guilty.  You are simply guilty because we say so, and, we will try you in a court where that verdict is assured.  If we can’t try you, then fuck you anyway, we’ll just imprison you because we want to do it.

That is what I swore my life to give America.  That is what I sat in a foxhole, waiting to be overrun, not knowing if I was going to live or not, so I could guarantee this to the citizens of America.  So that our government, no matter which political party is in power, could toss out our Constitution.  Our very RIGHTS as Americans.  Rights that our founding fathers gave their lives to give to our nation and its citizens.

And does anyone care?

Is the media involved?  Are politicians involved?  Is anyone, but you, me, and those here on the blog involved, speaking out?  No.  Because nobody CARES.

Let it burn.

The last reporter who gave a shit just died; Walter Cronkite.  Every other reporter only cares if they are doing the stories given to them, if they have access to a story, a politician, regardless of what it takes to get it.  In case you haven’t figured it out, it is their soul.  As a person.  As an AMERICAN.  That is the price they pay.  And how willing they are to pay it and give it up.

When Walter Cronkite personally turned against the Vietnam War, the President knew the war was lost in the minds of America.  Fact.  Today?  Reporters sell their souls just to have access to two-bit Governors who can’t keep their dicks in their pants.

Let it all burn.

The Constitution?  The Bill of Rights?  Innocent until proven guilty?  Due process?  Nobody cares anymore and our government takes each right away one step at a time.  The media is too worried about getting an exclusive with a Governor, even if they have to give that Governor the forum to frame the story, to do anything more than be stenographers.

I remember Edward Murrow.  I remember how he took on the McCarthy machine, and, WON.  What courage he had.  Today?  No courage is allowed.  Simply sell your soul, print what is allowed, don’t rock the boat.

Let it burn to the ground.

Almost 5,000 American servicemembers have died in Iraq, a war that George W. Bush chose, and pushed, with lies.  Almost 5,000 men and women.  Does anyone CARE?  Not if you watch the news.  That’s yesterday’s story.  Not news.

Almost 5,000 of our best, our brightest.  All for a bunch of lies, pushed by a bunch who couldn’t care less if they sent other people to die for those lies.

And, for voting for President Obama, we are rewarded with him trying to make a system of justice where if the government deems you guilty, you will be imprisoned, your trial will be in a venue where you will be found guilty, and, if there is no venue where they can find you guilty of a crime, they will simply imprison you, indefinitely, because they want to do it.

Screw it.  Let it burn.  We are now Rome, and, we NEED to simply BURN.