Diana West sums up our national predicament quite well. She was writing about the pathetic organized fireworks displays last July 4, with their attendant high security, but with a few strategic ellipses, her comments are more generally applicable:
“By too many measures, we are no longer a self-governing people. Our president dictates law from the Rose Garden, as when he recently bestowed amnesty on more than 1 million illegal aliens (unconstitutional).
“Our Supreme Court rewrites law from the bench, as with the cataclysmic ruling on Obamacare (also unconstitutional).
“Ask Arizona, which the president and the Supreme Court both recently told, as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer succinctly put it, to ‘drop dead.’ Meanwhile…the heavy security apparatus — security checkpoints, baggage searches, ‘eye in the sky’ surveillance, police armed with [automatic rifles] — belie any notion of living in ‘the land of the free.’
“Whether we admit it — and we don’t — we are a nation under siege by Islamic jihad even as our individual autonomy falls to the encroaching superstate.”
Worth reading all of it. But try to ignore the last sentence of the piece. It will only make you feel worse.
And this proposed new law: to let the feds read your email without a warrant, even if you don’t work for the CIA like Petraeus did.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 