Which Way Today, USA?

By William L. Garvin

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” Cicero, circa 55 BC

Once again, it is the morning after the Election Day before and America’s course has been charted for the next two years…or has it? Will we continue down the path of decline as did the Roman Empire (with a couple of intermediate experimental stages in Euro socialism) or will we call a halt to the horrendous growth of government, central planning, and elitist rule? Will the President recognize that he is the servant of the American people and listen to their clarion call or will he continue his despotic reign through executive fiat and the strangling red tape of bureaucratic regulation and confiscation? Will the lame duck Congress try to continue their radical agenda or will they yield to their duly elected and more conservative successors? Will the President continue to “punish his enemies” by seizing their property in ever larger amounts and “redistributing” it to his friends and contributors? Given the political chicanery leading up to Election Day in early voting, some of these answers may be slow in coming.

In close races, will we find more boxes of ballots in the trunks of poll workers’ cars such as those that carried Al Franken to victory in Minnesota? Will we again recount ballots time after time until there are enough votes to carry Patty Murray to victory in Washington? Will the newly invented procedure of posting Lisa Murkowski’s name in the polling booths as a write-in candidate be enough to insure her victory? Did the CBS television station in Alaska find a child molester in the Republican candidate’s audience or did they have to hire one for their “story”? Will the main stream media EVER return to their rightful role as the “watchdog of the people” or will they continue to parrot the party line as a propaganda puppet of liberal causes? Will the 600 Democrat ballots in Buck County, Pennsylvania that have already been disqualified be magically reinstated? Will the 8,000 quarantined ballots in that same county receive a “fair and impartial” review?

Will the Department of Justice investigate why the voting machines in Nevada’s early voting that already had Harry Reid’s name checked? Since members of SEIU service and maintain these machines, will they be investigated and held accountable? Why were there reports out of Florida that ALL of the Democrat candidates already had their names checked on the electronic voting machines? Why do we already have reports of fraud in Texas?

In the biggest travesty of all, will our military men and women have their absentee ballots counted at all? The failure of 14 states to insure that these ballots were mailed to our service personnel in time for their votes to be cast and counted lies somewhere between bureaucratic incompetence deserving of termination and criminal malfeasance deserving of prosecution. Is it any surprise that Illinois is the most egregious offender in this category? Since Eric Holder would not pursue the Black Panther voter intimidation case even when additional corroborating testimony came forward, it is highly unlikely that he will see anything of merit in this injustice either.

Unless the integrity of our electoral process is zealously guarded, our constitutional republic will be on a perilous course. Unless our apathetic citizenry begins to educate themselves on the issues and the process, this great experiment in representational democracy will continue to erode and fade until we find ourselves on the ash heap of history. Any political “dirty tricks”, chicanery, or fraud on the part of any political party, affiliated organization, or independent entity that corrupts an open and honest election should be condemned by all and dealt with in the harshest of terms. If our election process continues to be contaminated, if the people lose faith in the selection of our leaders, if the ruling elite seek to maintain power at any cost, if corruption is the rule as opposed to the exception, then be afraid. Be very, very afraid.

This is a great and wonderful country built on extraordinary principles. It still shines as a beacon of freedom to the entire world. As Thomas Jefferson noted: “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” Be vigilant America…be very, very vigilant!