"constitution is OVERLY POLITICAL"

[CitizenPatriot]

A friend of mine was working on requesting a flag to fly over the Capital. You buy the flag and you can have it stand for things...You know, patriotism? We were going to bring local kids to Washington DC to see this flag fly this week, but our request was turned down. We were told that the language of the Constitution is OVERLY POLITICAL for our Govt to have WRITTEN on a FLAG.

Can you believe this? It is an outrage! Our fucking constitution is too political? WTF??? will they call us anarchists next for reading the damn thing?

Here are the details:

Intern Luke Moses tells me that the flag office would not accept a
certificate with an "overtly political message" even though I had sent
him a copy of the request before (obviously he didn't look at it or
something). He would let it through with the last sentence (its tooth)
removed.


"This flag flies in honor of the United States of America's citizens
rights to a representative government and Article
Two Section 4 of the United States Constitution. Let it be a reminder
to our representatives that they have sworn in
their oath of office, above everything else, to protect the higher
ideals of the American way of
life by vowing to "...support and defend the Constitution of the
United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic;..."

they ask us to remove this part:

------------- REMOVE BELOW SENTENCE -----------
and that Congress, failing to execute its duties in the
face of a clear, repeated abuse of power by the
Executive is a dereliction of duty and a betrayal of its representative's vows.

_____________________

His rant to local paper:

A Pledge of Allegiance

I'd like to take this break from my 3 part series on the robot
apocalypse to place my hand over my heart and pledge allegiance to the
flag of the United States of America and to the directives for which
it stands after 2 weeks of patriotastic fervor during the conventions.

On September 11th the day we have branded as infamy(R), the Liberal
Democrats of Savannah AKA Drinking Liberally of Savannah has requested
through John Barrow's office that a flag be flown over the US capitol
with the following words as its soul:

This flag flies in honor of the United States of America's citizens
rights to a representative government and Article
Two Section 4 of the United States Constitution. Let it be a reminder
to our representatives that they have sworn in
their oath of office, above everything else, to protect the higher
ideals of the American way of
life by vowing to "...support and defend the Constitution of the
United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic;..." and that Congress, failing to execute its duties in the
face of a clear, repeated abuse of power by the
Executive is a dereliction of duty and a betrayal of its representative's vows.

To which we quaff another and pour one on the floor for our homey the
Constitution, that old salt. What is with that archaic clause about
removing a sitting president? Keep in mind that the Constitution was
written at a time when our presidents could not hear directly from God
and it was a time when it was possible for them to make mistakes.
Today, with rare exceptions involving singing into a microphone, it
is unnecessary because our current president can never ever make a
mistake. He is perfect in all ways on earth and in heaven and is
immune from the laws of man and of this nation. For him the veto is a
blunt instrument wielded by the unenlightened neanderthals who
preceded him. His pen is much sharper with the signing statement. He
has issued more signing statements than all presidents since George
Washington combined. That is because he is more powerful than all
those presidents arranged in a giant, naked pyramid pile. Signing
statements sign away the authority of Congress and the Judiciary. Bush
is so powerful that he was able to commit the full force of the US
military into a war with anyone who is on the "other side" of the
"global war on terror". So powerful that he is able to spy on you at
any time without a warrant or even a need to demonstrate why he's
spying on you. He can throw anyone, including you, in jail, without
having to explain why, other than to say that you are an "enemy
combatant". That effectively does away with the pesky law thing those
parasite lawyers like to babble about that has something to do with
"having the body" in Latin. That's serious power to "fight terror".
That is presuming we all have the same idea of what "terror" might be.
Terror, to me, is being caught up in the middle of a fight that has no
meaning or defined resolution. At the national level, the nightmare of
having its resources drained and leadership foaming in the mouth about
a fight whose enemy is arbitrary and whose end is clearly never going
to happen should make clear to its citizens the meaning of terror. We
need to pre-empt the growth of this type of government before we have
our own soldiers in our own back yards stepping on our own necks at
4am to question our patriotism. Forget about Emmanuel Goldstein and
what Fox News tells you during its 24 hours of hate. Hate makes us
irrational and easy to exploit and to sell to. It makes us cheap.

Article Two Section 4 of the United States Constitution reminds us
that our presidents are not supposed to have monolithic and awesome
power. His decisions are to be checked by the bicameral Congress and
the Judiciary, neither of which appear to have the firepower to match.
Why? Because our government was built on the assumption that people of
this country had common interest in a balanced government. If the
government stops caring about balance of power it ceases to function
as the government conceived by the Framers. Impeachment is not about
hate or vengeance. It is about the law and carrying out the American
way of life.

But what can a group of drunken slobs do other than talk and then walk
away at the end of the night? Nothing. All we can do is fly a flag to
remind people what they said they would do. Best case they will honor
the flag and its soul. Worst case, we get a package with it folded up
in its own casket, silent.

"Do not forget that every people deserves the regime it is willing to
endure." - The White Rose Leaflets, Leaflet 1