November 16 - November 29, 2007

Vol. 43, No. 4

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A call to arms

PHOTO ILLUS. BY DAVID KASNIC

Are the waves or Orwellian nightmare about to capsize America?


by Jordan McGill
Contributing Writer


“Nobody but a total fraud could applaud what we have come to politically.” –Gore Vidal.

America is under attack. The Institutions of Democracy have long been corrupt. Isn’t it time for our generation to

stand up and say something? Political Activity has dwindled on the student front, but it’s the young who can inquire. It is the young who determine change.

If you want to shut up and be a slave, then fine, so be it. But not me—I’m under the impression that something is very wrong in this country. Distracted by bureaucracies, we blindly flail from one routine to the next.

Choose your own destiny, I say. Don’t fall into place.

Sleep is for the lazy. Drugs and video games are not the answer. Romantic ideals can come true. I run red lights and stop signs because nobody is watching.

But they’ll be watching all of us soon. I fear Liberty will be deprived of our persons in the years to come. We need to become a united voice not willing to flee from the face of despotism. America needs a homemade slice of fervent zealotry with support dished up on the side.

Let’s bring the Founding Fathers view of Republic back to the table. We need to stamp out the flames of tyrannical evil and bring humanity to a level we can all understand. We need to do something before it’s too late and we can’t. There are 301,139,947 people in the United States (and counting)—only half of them vote.

Shouldn’t we be beating the crap out of the bullies who have so blatantly perverted our Habeas Corpus, right to Due Process, Constitution and Bill of Rights?

What happened to political activists of the people, for the people and by the people? Where are the protest marches and federal insurance claims against the fraudulent, treasonous group that has wronged our country?

What does it mean to be an American when we can’t even hold our, “truths to be self-evident and know in our hearts, minds and souls that all men are created equal? We are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, that among those rights are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness—that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed—that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them that shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness,” as stated in the Bill of Rights?

Can we not do this anymore?

It is time for a Revolution. It is time to bark at our Media Outlets, “Enough with the bull, give us some truth!” It is time for change my friends, fellow students and counterpart educated. They want us to do anything but open our mouths in protest. So stand up, I say. I’m only one voice, and so are you. Banded together, we can deafen the lies.

Want to do something altruistic? Let’s save our nation from a dictatorship. The minds capable of doing this are in college libraries all across this great continent of ours. It’s time for an upheaval, slaughtering policy and beginning anew.

Let’s define ourselves and have some fun in the process. Let’s liberate our country and spark a national debate. Our voices are powerful.

The student radicals and political activists of the past have shown us the blueprints for how to battle totalitarianism. Our voices can be proud to shout loud and clear, “Away with the Administration and their cronies!”

If we want change within this country, the first place to start is within ourselves. We’ve got to believe in one another and organize if we’re going to accomplish anything.

The facilities that monitor us are afraid. They are afraid of what we can do. They are afraid of free minds and arguments. They are afraid to let us rise up. There are no differences between you or them or me, my life or yours—we are all in this together. We are all human, and that’s about as family as you can get.

So I ask to you, my brothers and sisters, are you willing to stand up and fight to preserve your Freedom?

The time for change has arrived. I urge you to pursue Civil Disobedience.