Prime's Worm Hole : Payback Time For AIG? Or Pay Up Time For America

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Payback Time For AIG? Or Pay Up Time For America

Shepherd Smith was the only person yesterday (short of myself and and many others on the sidelines and absent a public means of addressing the people) who saw this congressional ploy and abject drama for precisely what it was and what it is as it concerns the AIG bonuses and congress' actions. Both before and subsequent to the AIG revfelations.

Today the headlines are blaring the question of whether it is time for AIG to pay up. I say....is it time for the American people to pay up. I say it is time for the American people to get a crash course and an expensive lesson in their history and in American civics and the constitutional law that applies to this epic error of conciousness and legislative irresponsibility.

It has been a known fact for quite some time that the average American is and has been lacking in the requisite knowledge of their own history and how the government is supposed to function. And now the truth has finally caught up with the dire reality IMO.

The US Constitution is the governing foundation of all law that exists in this country. Without it we as a nation are nothing and our laws mean absolutely nothing. It is absolutely amazing to me, that the founding fathers could have crafted so rich and deep of a document in a time when quill pens and candles were the standard of creative thinking brought forth to craft such a document.

Jefferson and Payne and Franklin and the rest knew all too well what would happen if two things were allowed to come to pass in this fledgling nation. The first danger being the creation of a federal bank and the second being the danger of a mob rule democracy. And to those ends and very real dangers, the founding fathers crafted the first two and most important amendments to the "peoples bill of rights" in the US Constitution.

The right to speak, the right to religious faith and freedom, the right to redress and petition the government and probably more important than the other three combined, the right of the people to resist and oppose any tyranical government that arose as a result of future generational apathy.

IMO, we have now come full circle from the time that the document and it's authors first envisioned what this nation would be and what it would become. We now stand at the precipice of abject failure and we do so for no other reason than apathy, fear and purposely instilled ignorance and stupidity.

What congress has proposed as it concerns the present created debacle with AIG, is nothing short of ex post facto legislation to attempt to cover the tracks of a failed legislative body. But combined with that are the clear and easily recognized foundations for what is nothing less than a bill of attainder.

Now here is the reality my friends. Here is the lesson to be relearned. "bills of attainder are specifically forbidden by Article I, section 9, clause 3 of the United States Constitution." As are ex post facto legislation of any kind, that attempt to rewrite the law after the fact! Yet that is precisely what Madamn Pelosi and the rogue band of socialist democrats in congress are attempting before our eyes!

Perhaps this is what it takes for the people of this country to be awakened from their ignorance and their decades of sleep while their rights and heritage have been stolen from them. I for one sincerely hope that if nothing else comes of this crisis, that Americans are finally forced to look at the nitty gritty and the inner workings of this country and who has been elected to represent it.

Heaven help us all if the present lunacy is allowed to stand and the people simply accept it as a means to expedite and satiate their individual and personal craven desires. If that happens and if this travesty of congress is allowed to pass as constitutional legality? Then IMO we are already past any point of reclaimation and we deserve what we have brought forth upon ourselves.

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Prime's Worm hole

This is a place for me to muse about the issues that affect our world. My world and my country and my life in particular. I can say what I want to here and those who may stumble across my musings, are welcome to comment,or not. America is under siege. Everything this nation has ever represented, is now being torn asunder and crushed by the onslaught of egalitarian socialism. All morals and social values have been devolved into the belief that systemic racism, is the only underlying cause or reason for any societal ills in America. And that representation, is nothing but a Trojan Horse argument. A means of getting the egalitarian camel's nose into the tent. And now that it has been inserted? There is mayhem and anarchy and burning and looting all across America. And the only questions that remains to be asked and answered? Are these. When is enough enough and when will the American people call full stop and take the law into their own hands, to repel this socialist based attack on the Constitution and our personal freedoms.

Thinking

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up and be a part of the crowd.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone -- "to relax", I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't help myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."

"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver.

"You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make that much money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.

"I'm going to the library," I snarled
I headed for the library, in the mood for some John Locke. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.

They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Emerson, a poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

Today I took the final step...I joined the Democratic Party

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If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Captain Michael O'Donnell was lost in Cambodia on March 24 1970, while flying a UH1 rescue helicopter, trying to rescue an eight man LRRP team under attack in Cambodia. He was listed as MIA along with the eight he had attempted to rescue after his UH1 Huey was shot down by enemy fire. The official military report listed the eight as shot down 'non survivable' and 'non recoverable.'

Michael O'Donnell was submitted for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions that day. He was awarded the Distinguished flying cross, the Bronze Star, The Air Medal and The Purple Heart and he was promoted to the rank of Major (posthumously).

In 1978 he was officially listed as KIA by the Department of Defense.

A little about the philosophy of the author

The Borg Conspiracy is one man's purely pedestrian thoughts, independent musings and frequently cheeky commentaries...Mixed with an abundance of patriotism, love of God, and love of country.

My thoughts?

In my opinion........in another generation, all that will remain of our once great republic, may be little more than what is left to weather the passage of time in the form of a few obscure and forgotten monuments to the great American experiment.

If America should fail....let it be written as her epitaph.....died by her own hand. The greatest experiment in freedom ever undertaken, lost in the end to the pursuit of the illusion that egalitarian tolerance was more valuable than individual freedom.

Let us be warned.
Franklin, Payne, Jefferson. They all knew the consequences of the lack of vigilance and they tried to warn us. They gave us a document as our guide post. We were to guard it and revere it and use it to guide and govern our future and our posterity.

No one listened.