Collaborators

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Alonzo Fyfe aka Atheist Ethicist:

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A collaborator in this context is a person who assists any political faction who evidences a serious intent to destroy the principles of government written into the Constitution, other than through the accepted method of Constitutional amendment.
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The goals that I am referring to are his attempts to dismantle the Constitution. The Bush Administration has worked systematically to create a form of government where the Constitution is nothing but a figurehead. Its role in American politics would be reduced to something comparable to that of the Queen of England. Its only purpose is ceremonial. People bring it out every now and then so that the public can cheer in its general direction, while he government largely continues in total disregard to what is written there.
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I have not heard anything on whether any candidate believes that the President has the right to circumvent the legislative and judiciary branches, making these institutions as well the quaint relics of a bygone era – a type of “Colonial Williamsburg” where people dress up and pretend to fill roles once filled by real people with important jobs to do.

The second impetus to this request concerns a question of what we are going to teach our children about government and civic responsibility. Most children who were 12 years old on September 11, 2001 will be graduating from high school this year. They have spent the bulk of their formative years watching us, learning our values, learning what we can reasonably expect from a citizen of this great country.

What have we taught them?

Mostly, they have learned that, if any political faction should work to remove the Constitutional protections that I described above, the most important thing that they are to do with their lives is to wonder about the significance of things like Tom Cruise dancing on Oprah Winfrey’s couch exclaiming his love of Katie Holmes, or the identity of the father of Anne Nichole Smith’s baby. This is what a good citizen does with his day.
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Much much more at: http://atheistethicist.blogspot.com/2007/06/collaborators.html