I originally wrote this article as the closing editorial for December 2007, for what was then an email version of the PPJ Gazette.  It seems very relevant considering the state we are in as a country today. Current count has 33 Republicans from both the House and Senate voluntarily leaving office.  As I predicted in this editorial….something big was coming down the pipe and these rats knew what was coming.

The End of a Nightmare Year and a 2008 Forecast

The year 2007 will most likely go down as one of the most stressful for all Americans. It seems that at every turn we have been battling an ever increasing separation between “We The People” and our government.

My instincts tell me that something big and awful is coming down the pipe and those in the inner circles of D.C. are fully aware of what that is. Career politicians are resigning, or not seeking re-election in record numbers from the Republican party. This is the same party that rubber-stamped every rights robbing piece of legislation they could find; that still blocks any attempts to end the war; and created one of the worst economic disasters ever in our history. We are now, thanks to those neo-cons, the largest debtor nation ever in the history of the world.

My suspicions actually began after (R) Conrad Burns lost his Montana senatorial seat to (D) John Tester in 2006. Burns, a virulent neo-con did something totally out of character after losing by a slim margin. He conceded and walked away. In fact, in every instance where a Republican was unseated there was no objection or protestation. In fact, these former office holders couldn’t get out of town fast enough.

After the 2006 election several other strange things happened. Nancy Pelosi, the new and first female speaker of the house, immediately announced that impeachment was off the table. This announcement came with the full knowledge that the Democrats had won both houses at least in part because voters expected them to impeach Bush. This was perceived, and is, a massive betrayal of voters.

Next, Jon Conyers who had been waging an internet war for impeachment and who had built an extensive site dedicated to this very thing, suddenly decided that he would not move forward with his initiative.

In this last year we have had to fight off repeated attempts to give amnesty to illegal immigrants even though the majority of Americans have made it very clear that they are against amnesty and want our laws enforced. Although this issue in particular, crossed party lines, it was inevitably portrayed as “ALL Republicans are against it, and ALL Democrats are for it”. Considering that 78% of Americans are opposed to amnesty in any form, I think we could safely say it is not a matter of party affiliation.

The Democrats have not moved to repeal or rescind even one of the Executive Orders or legislative slights of hand that expanded the power of the presidency. Instead they are busy throwing their support behind yet another piece of legislation S. 1959 that will quickly be converted to use against those of us who opt to exercise our constitutional right to dissent.

We have had one investigation after another and the only positive thing that came from that to this point is that Alberto Gonzales, one of the most corrupt AG’s we’ve ever suffered, resigned.

We have endured countless hours wasted in both houses passing non-binding (meaning nonsensical) resolutions against the war, and voting to declare the Iranian Guard as a terrorist group. Considering that we are using our precious military to attack non threatening countries in an effort to gain control of their oil, what is to stop other countries from declaring our military a terrorist organization and a threat to world peace?

We stood by silently as yet another attorney general was sworn in who claims not to know weather water boarding is torture or not. The committee vote that allowed his nomination to go forward was facilitated by all Republicans on the committee and two Democrats who caved in and decided that since they themselves stood little chance of being strapped to a board and tortured, what difference did it make?

Few of us stood up and spoke out when two of our border agents, Ramos and Compean, were sentenced to ten years or more in prison for shooting a drug smuggler in the butt. And fewer of us said a word when Homeland Security had to admit that they lied in order to procure a conviction and that the Mexican government was instrumental in their prosecution of the agents.

We watched in disbelief as Scooter Libby’s sentence was commuted before it was even passed down. Not one Democrat or Republican stood up to make any real objection.

Karl Rove left the White House when the possibility of being prosecuted on any number of issues looked as though it could become a reality. Leaving as he did, allowed him to legally delete more than three million emails associated with his office. In other words, evidence was destroyed. And there isn’t a thing we can do about it.

It is said that just prior to a major tsunami animals in the area will start running to higher ground seeming to know instinctively what is coming and that they must flee in order to survive. My advice is to look at the rats running from our government. If it isn’t high level cabinet members, its senators and representatives who are taking flight.

Dick Cheney is divesting himself of American investments and currency and moving into foreign markets. The Bush’s have the Crawford ranch up for sale (along with that high tech command center that taxpayers paid for so Bush could run the country from the ranch) and the Bush clan is looking at buying 22,000 acres in Argentina.

There is a tsunami coming for America but those who created it will be safely on higher ground when it hits. Maybe when we are embroiled in a battle for survival for our own nation we will finally dispense with the right vs. left paradigm and realize that we are all in this together and that what religion we are or aren’t, who says they have more morals or better values, who is more patriotic, will cease to be part of the dialogue. Maybe then we can get down to being fully engaged Americans with only one goal in mind: Preserving our sovereignty and re-establishing our nation as the once great country it was.

Marti Oakley

Original printing December 2007

Reprinted February, 2008

Reprinted November 1, 2008