Let's Pretend

When I was a child, growing up in America, there was a nationwide radio program that I used to listen to sometimes called Let's Pretend. It was obviously very popular, or it wouldn't have made it to nationwide programming.* And now that I have grown up, my adult generation is still 'listening' to it; in many ways. And the younger generations - not knowing anything different, from the influence of their parents - are doing exactly the same thing.

Let's Pretend. Let's pretend that the Constitution doesn't say what it says, but what we want it to say. Let's say that we want it to say that we have 'a constitutional right' to - oh, say: privacy. There's a good one. Almost as good as motherhood and apple pie. Just kidding. On the 'motherhood' part. Because if we can persuade at least five members of the Supreme Court to believe in a constitutional 'right to privacy' (however we use sophistry to accomplish our purpose), we can get all of the States, in one fell swoop, to have to allow abortion. Because we Americans then have a constitutional right to privacy, and no State - let alone the federal government - can 'invade our bedrooms'. Or the local abortion 'clinic'.

I'll cut to the chase of my thought here. There is nothing in the Constitution that gives the federal government the right or power to rule on the issue of abortion (for example). That power came from a liberal interpretation of the Constitution - and an extremely liberal one at that. And anyone who accepts that - that, on the one hand, words mean (like Humpty Dumpty intoned from his lofty perch) 'what I say they mean', and on the other, in general, that the end justifies the means - is acting unethically.

But no wonder why so many American citizens seem not to care unduly about - oh, say, the illegality of the man who is currently occupying the office of the presidency of the United States, to do so. It is just one more illegal act, in a long train of such abuses - in a veritable sea of illegalities. A sea of fudge.

Who really cares about a little fudging? Everyone does it. On their income tax returns; and so forth and so on. Being a little 'economical with the truth'. All the way up, now, to the level of the Constitution. Which is getting into extremely dangerous territory. Because it represents an assault on the very rule of law in the country. And 'there lie dragons'. To say: there lie the likes of tyranny.

The American people should be saying a big NO to specific such examples of lawbreaking; let alone to that direction that the American Republic is heading in.

Make no mistake: the Wars on Drugs and Terror, and in the Middle East, have been excuses to wage war actually on the American people and take away their civil liberties, guaranteed by their state and federal constitutions. In the name of 'security', Americans are succumbing to tyranny, step by lethal step. Into a police-state trap TPTB call their New World Order.

It must not stand.

There is a different New World Order to bring in, and inherit, now. One of the Light. Not of the Dark.

The one of the Dark has been a stepping stone, for humanity to see what can happen, if we lose sight of The Light; and wander further into the darkness, off our path.

We have the potential to go either way.

It's called free will.

Let's Pretend that we can take our consciousnesses in hand, and think for ourselves, and wake up to the illusion that we have been living in. And break free from it.

Let's pretend.

Powerful stuff, that.


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* We had now way of knowing relative popularity, at the time. Advertisers did; because it was in their interests to. And then the public at large began being sold all kinds of things, in what amounted to popularity contests. And times changed.
There was the likes, say, of cigarettes. ('More doctors smoke Chesterfields than any other brand.') And fluoridation. ('Drinking water + fluoride = strong teeth.') And oh, a whole bunch of stuff. Including, like, wars. (The Tonkin Gulf Incident, say. 9/11, say - the latter "a new Pearl Harbor," in the 'prescient' words of the Neocons in their manifesto titled Project for a New American Century.)
Advertising. Powerful stuff.