The Liberty Tree vol5 #1

The Alberton Papers Vol V, # I
By Dick Darne 9-11-07
The Liberty Tree
"Where’s Dick today?" one of the thinkers asked.
"He’s working on his new best seller, ‘Albertville’." someone replied.
A booming voice from the rear said, "Viggie had to go back for now, but we’ll keep it going. Anything to add anyone?"
" I do. It was Nemi. "None of the perps of the present day mess has had to pay up yet. No one was fired, some were promoted, some received medals and most got richer. Especially old number two. He came close once, but had ‘scooter’ take the fall with his silence signed, sealed and delivered with a presidential pardon. I doubt he’ll ever be applying for food stamps."
"But can’t you do something yourself, I mean isn’t that your job to see that the bad guys get what’s coming to them?" someone asked.
" No, that’s not to say they won’t do themselves in eventually, which is too late to recover their ill gotten gains, but rather it is your job as citizens to do it. Your founding fathers anticipated most of this and provided remedies such as impeachment. Of course it all depends on a functioning legislative and judicial branches and to some extent on a functioning ‘fourth branch’. They are all either broken or badly bent and a lot of it falls squarely on the shoulders of the citizenry. Almost everybody agrees that we have a real mess, high crimes and misdemeanors, wholesale looting of the treasury, erosion of our precious liberties, private armies running amok and the evermore concentration of power in a very few dangerous men. But who voted them in to begin with? A lot of stupid decisions on the part of the citizenry. I can only try to raise awareness. You must do the job." said Nemi.
"What if we can’t get the votes to impeach?" someone asked.
"Remember the words of one of your founding fathers: ‘The tree of liberty must
be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.’ answered the Lady. "and don’t forget the oldest of the founders who said: ‘any society who would give up a little liberty to gain a little security, will deserve neither and lose both.’ look at what we have given up already just to be less safe."
"What in the world has ‘Albertville’ got to do with this, has Dick gone off his rocker?" One of the regulars asked
"Not really, he’s got a theory that Liberty, Truth and Justice begins at home. If people can’t take care of things at the local level, then things will get worse at the national level" answered the Lady. Pay attention. Ask questions. Think! dd