Sorrow

29 September 2006, 0340 EDT


All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.Matthew 7:12

What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.Talmud, Shabbat 3id

I have little to add to the cogent analysis of those who still believe in the bedrock principles of the United States.

The bill that passed the Senate, by definition, establishes tyranny.

Not the kind of tyranny that settles like a haze over our daily lives or leaves us, like subjects in a totalitarian state, afraid to speak our minds.

This is the kind of tyranny the vast majority of us can safely ignore, knowing full well that we will never be declared “enemy combatants” and, in an instant, stripped of all our rights and protections.

But if that sense of security leads us to do nothing — or worse, to declare this abomination “just” and “good” because it might make us every so slightly safer — then we must confront the fact that we are complicit; that we are morally culpable.

We have sold the soul of our once-great nation (let it be great again) at the altars of greed, power, and fear.

(image source: https://www.kent.edu/photoessays/Sep2002/images/Photo2.jpg)

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