Foosis’ Blog!

I had a typo on the word “Reconciliation” but other than that… I suspect I got my point across… Enjoy and feel free to comment… Good or bad. 

British Petroleum’s Carl-Henric Svanberg’s contempt sadly is all too common among his ilk. Mere attitudes of others like this clown never bothered me. Like most I learned early on jerks are everywhere.

What I DO mind is we have evolved as a country where we allow these clowns to go from free speech to free and often irresponsible action without fear of reprisal.

The United States of America was founded, contrary to what the uninformed believe, not as a Democracy but as a Representative Republic. While many say the differences are slight the two forms of government are light years apart but that is a different subject for a different day. For the sake of this essay suffice it to say one BIG difference is in a Democracy the majority can sway from right to wrong or any other extreme as long as the majority agrees that particular day. Tomorrow the decision well could be, and often is, different depending on nothing more than some smooth talking politician swooning “CHANGE” from a podium. In a Representative Republic the “Representatives” are elected by a group majority with the understanding and command from the people they will act and make decisions based on the rule of law. Rule of law is paramount if this type of government is to survive. In a Representative Republic mob rule is outlawed and criminal. In a Representative Republic the people are much more responsible to their nation’s success because the responsibility of monitoring their elected servants fall squarely in their lap.

Now we come to where the rubber meets the road. Once the responsibility is realized by We the People each citizen has a choice. The individual citizen can shrug when confronted with an elected official’s illegal action or they can stand up and make their mark of disapproval. If the majority of citizens choose to shrug we find ourselves in the situation we are mired within today. Apathy is the one cancer our nation may well not survive.

We see people like Carl-Henric Svanberg blubber his indifference with mere words like “small people” as we scream in disgust only because it hits an emotional chord deep within. We the People then lick our wounds and whimper all the way back to our personal mental safe-place in serfdom as we watch the same destroyer pull cash out of his endlessly deep pocket because he knows it will appease the small people within his reach. Hundreds of years ago the “big people,” or self proclaimed kings of this world, realized just how much a little candy puts We the People, who they consider serfs, back in our place. We watch as Carl-Henric Svanberg and his cohort in crime Tony Hayward from BP blather in front of our equally culpable Reps on the Hill. We then stop our efforts once again as we vent our disapproval over the coffee pot in the morning back at the J O B. Once again we return to our safe place in serfdom. Once again we continue allowing the self proclaimed kings and queens on the hill to make decree after decree. All the while they watch with amusement as our neck muscles become the strongest muscles in our body due to nothing more than our constant never ending shrug of submission also known as apathy.

I have news for you folks… Suzy or Johnny in the next cubicle at work can do nothing to solve these issues. As scary and sometimes overwhelming as it seems from time to time YOU are the only one that can make a difference. Imagine if we, who are presently practicing serfdom, choose to act as “big” citizens of these United States as was intended! We citizens need to buck up if we are to prevail as a free nation. We need to stop acting like small people and start acting like BIG Americans. IT is the reason you are a citizen of these United States!

The National Center for Constitutional Studies is a great place to start… it’s even free! Take an hour as a true American and begin learning what YOUR country is about. Stop being a serf! Begin to learn that YOU are a BIG American! Begin to learn it truly is the self proclaimed big people of this world who are subservient to us… We the People of the United States of America.

This country will only survive if you peacefully begin acting as a Big American instead of a small serf.

Learn, teach, act and begin again…. Fight the good fight!

~Foosis