the revolution

can you hear the drums of revolution beating? when i was home, the sound was deafening. the tea parties; the news obviously avoiding stories they don't want to cover; the daily health care reform debate; freedomwatch on fox; the plethora of non-politician candidates running for office; the 12 sep march on washington the state run news tried to ignore; the siege of philadelphia during the g-20 summit....

but here there are only whispers. out here, isolated from the american media; cut off from friends; where afghani events drown out what's going on in the states.

so far from home with the best trained, best outfitted, and best funded military in the world you'd think i'd feel like i was fighting for freedom. and sure, i guess we are fighting for afghani freedom from the taliban, but who will replace them? the strong central government we're installing? the same system of governance the people back home are revolting against? have we learned nothing?

the afghans have had a system of local governance in place for millennia. and it worked. sure there were issues, but they're surely a smaller evil than the rampant corruption inherent in any large scale system of governance. let us not forget large, powerful, central governments have brought about nazi germany, the union of soviet socialist republics, the people's republic if china, the mess now known as great britain, the beast we're fighting in our own land.

how do the sayings go? a government large enough to give you everything you ever wanted it powerful enough to take everything you have. and. absolute power corrupts absolutely.

our founding fathers believed there would need to be a revolution in every generation. well, we haven't had one of those in quite some time. so here it comes. ironically, it's a revolution intent on returning to something resembling what the founders initiated. back to a system of local governance. where the people have firearms to protect themselves from the government; the biggest crook of all.

way out here, i feel like i'm on the sidelines of this fight. just a distraction to try and get the public to fight someone else. how i long to be home. i want to exercise my right to assemble peacefully and petition my government for a redress of grievances. my friends, my countrymen, their freedoms are being snatched away, and i'm stuck all the way out here.

will you fight for me? will you demand the power be given back to the people? will you help tie the hands of big brother? will i return to a country that's better or worse than i left it?