They Came for the Chicken Farmer tells us of the Pakistani chicken farmer rounded up and imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay because his name is almost the same as someone they wanted ... and he's been in our custody since January, 2002, with no recourse to justice. His name is Abdur Sayed Rahman. The person they wanted was a Taliban official named Abdur Zahid Rahman.
What have we been doing? ... the citizens of the United States of America wherein our Declaration of Independence holds sway ... which reads in part:
We've been watching the Super Bowl, the Academy awards and ... (quoting SI.com)
And the call to righteousness is once again being heard ... growing louder and louder from the throats of the oppressed.
Esau sells his birthright for porridge in each epoch until the human race repeats the myth of Samson and brings the temple crashing down upon our heads, once and for all.
It need not be thus.
But, alas, as another taught us, "It is easier for the ladden camel to get through the narrow gate, than it is for the wealthy to get into heaven."
Once again, unless "we, the people" act, our civilization—spawned in Christianity and enriched by the Enlightenment—will end.
What have we been doing? ... the citizens of the United States of America wherein our Declaration of Independence holds sway ... which reads in part:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these 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 of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —"—IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration
of the thirteen united States of America
In an exclusive excerpt from Game of Shadows -- appearing in this week's SI -- authors Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams detail the extent to which Barry Bonds used steroids.our gladiators fall. The circuses are diverting our attention ... and our leaders think only of engorging themselves with wealth and power. Where has this happened before?
And the call to righteousness is once again being heard ... growing louder and louder from the throats of the oppressed.
Esau sells his birthright for porridge in each epoch until the human race repeats the myth of Samson and brings the temple crashing down upon our heads, once and for all.
It need not be thus.
But, alas, as another taught us, "It is easier for the ladden camel to get through the narrow gate, than it is for the wealthy to get into heaven."
Once again, unless "we, the people" act, our civilization—spawned in Christianity and enriched by the Enlightenment—will end.
"It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
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