Intervention is a term normally reserved for our foreign policy. Since intervention is the word aligned with abuses of all sorts and our government, lets stay with that term.
Intervention is also the term used when friends, relatives, coworkers and neighbors have to deal with an addict who is destroying their lives.
We are not victims. We do not "hate" our government. However, our lives as citizens is no longer manageable. We all have a very big problem. We are all friends, relatives, children and enablers of unchecked power addicts.
You may have heard one or more of these greatest hits:
"I can handle it!", "I can stop the war any time I want!", "I'm in control!"
We've all heard it time after time. And the lies. It all started with minor decisions and exchanges for the illusion of unlimited job security from PAC contributions.Until now, where corporations are allowed to buy us out of our unalienable rights and our civil liberty.
Then the abuses started: the controlling surveillance behavior, the public beatings, the illegal activity, CIA thugs being allowed to run kidnapping operations and killing whomever they want. Then they attacked the students and passersby. They bought the cops. Then they started neglecting the ledgers, writing check after check as if there was no end to the money.
Wall Street slipped and crashed. Then they started stealing from us. They came begging for a bailout. They lied to us to get the money so they could keep up their habit. Businesses shuttered their doors and people lost their jobs.
Congress just keeps partying like rock stars.
It continues until the time we get them to stop.
It's called an Intervention. Why not domestic intervention with our own government? Why not? Why don't we get a grip of constituents get them to understand they have a problem.
That's exactly how it happens. A consensus is reached about where and when to confront the addict as a community to say, "You've got a problem." They can try to pass the buck all they want onto their other addict buddies who are high on whatever came from the pharma lobbys and the oil lobbys or whatever.
It's their fault. They need to own that.
It's time for a literal confrontation about their substance abuse. Drug of choice? Unchecked power.
When you do an intervention with an addict, the number of people must be significant enough to cause the addict to understand they are outnumbered by people they know well and a place they can't really run from, but that they feel safe. It's a very simple thing to get a number constituents in an office to take turns sitting there until an agreement is made about their next decision - which is to stop abusing.
The citizen qualifications are a willingness to confront the addict, to get the addict to acknowledge that their lives are unmanageable, they cannot continue do the things they normally do, and that their actions are destructive to themselves, their country and the lives and livelihoods of others.
Constituents reserve the right to confront their elected offices.Elected officials are accountable to the constituents. There are enough people who know what's wrong with their legislators, who put them there, who can tell them, "get help today or get out." We should have some method to recuse or overturn what they do while they are under the influence of lobbys.
TOUGH LOVE
Intervention is the morally sane thing to do. Our congress has proven they cannot perform their normal regulatory duties as administrators. There must be an intervention. The Democrats need to recognize and deal with their own addict party leaders and their sick role as neo-con war machine enablers. The Liberty caucuses need to get strong and overcome the rationalizing and the shame of being shut down and coerced into compliance.
We are not hurting this government. They are hurting us. They have drug us to the bottom and are now "overpowering" disaster stricken nations like Haiti who have nothing, not from vain deciet or spite. They do it from habit. It's not that calculated anymore.
The future of our children deserves an intervention of the people, for the people and by the people. We need to be strong for ourselves and for our future as a nation.
So let's get together. Let's decide when and where to do it. Go get the legal deposition, the FOIA and open records request, the subpoena and tell them: the party is over.
Time to get clean or get out. That's the option.
