Steve Olson expresses outrage at the sorry state of the United States of America, asking ”When did America become a nation of frightened wimps?. I think he correctly pins it on the fact that we chose security over freedom, which is a fool’s bargain, because there is no such thing as security in this uncertain world.

But why the outrage now at this late hour, when the Constitution is already ripped to shreds? The Republic fell a while ago, and it’s only now that we’re realizing its rotting corpse is stinking up our backyard?

I’m even more disgusted that I already was.

You know when would’ve been a good time to be outraged about this? Probably when the Supreme Court decided that it knew better than the People of the United States and proclaimed a truly incompetent, corrupt, brain-dead ass-monkey as the Ruler of the Free World Or how about when our nation was attacked by cowardly bastards (whom, by the way, we happened to give a lot of money and weapons to during the Cold War)? That would’ve been a good time to stand up and not be afraid, but we lost that battle too. Another good time to fight to save the American Republic would’ve been when we invaded Iraq on some trumped-up charges about weapons of-mass-destruction which have long-ago been proven to be a complete lie. But we didn’t do that either.

Despite the fact that the administration has been lying to us from day one, it took the American public six years to figure out that they were being made fools of. (At least we actually did something about it, though.)

As they say, the shit is out of the cow. Good luck trying to stick it back in.

In any case, I’m still voting for Barack Obama anyway, even though I know the fix is in.