60 Minutes

Watching 60 Minutes tonite and they devoted 1 segment to the struggling Americans in or around Orlando, FL. Then the next 2 segments were on the brilliant Wynton Marsalis. While the first story is sad and a reality to what is happening here in America it really is not "cutting edge" journalism getting to the heart of the cause.

Following Wynton Marsalis to Cuba is entertaining but it too is not "newsworthy" nor is it "journalism." Mean while we are prosecuting 3 or 4 wars simultaneously, the economy is going to hell and the Americans have been looted, the dollar is going to hell, our food is being poisoned and cancer rates have doubled in the past 2 dozen years.


Meanwhile the sheeple in America vote in the same two parties hoping for a different result. I tell you what let's put some "hope" into our gas tanks and see how far that gets us! Our heads are so far up our asses it amazes me.

Let us too give this experiment fair play, and get rid, while we may, of those tyrannical laws. It is true, we are as yet secured against them by the spirit of the times. I doubt whether the people of this country would suffer an execution for heresy, or a three years imprisonment for not comprehending the mysteries of the Trinity. But is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? Is it government? Is this the kind of protection we receive in return for the rights we give up? Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion. -- Thomas Jefferson