A Progressive Blog and Common Sense
More than twenty and three decades ago, Thomas Paine wrote to his countrymen in the new nation called America:
With a perspective bent heavily toward the preservation of the natural right of the people to govern - not corporations or moneyed special interests - I will periodically, using no particular schedule, offer my own ideas and reactions to current affairs with the hope that they may encourage critical thought, and perhaps influence any who might read them toward the cause of justice and progress for all.
"A government of our own is our natural right, and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance."It is with this sentiment that I inaugurate this blog. In 2007, I believe the natural, inalienable right to self-governance is being jeopardized by forces that most Americans don't recognize, or worse, don't care to learn of or acknowledge. We owe a great deal to those who came before us and created a constitution as Paine suggested, and yet we in our own time do not realize that it was the forethought, hard work, and sacrifice of our fore bearers that won us our civil liberties and helped put American society on a path toward justice. The pursuit of justice for all is both our birthright and responsibility as Americans. The pervasive crime of apathy threatens the hard won rights many of us cherish dearly.
With a perspective bent heavily toward the preservation of the natural right of the people to govern - not corporations or moneyed special interests - I will periodically, using no particular schedule, offer my own ideas and reactions to current affairs with the hope that they may encourage critical thought, and perhaps influence any who might read them toward the cause of justice and progress for all.
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