Bending the laws – I’m sorry, this is bad for criminals but most certainly bad for politicians.

Here’s a quick story.  A middle-aged man, fresh from drowning his troubles gets behind the wheel of his SUV.  There were warning signs that those around him missed.  His wife who considered his drinking a bothersome, but untouchable vice.  The bartender who served this man drinks night after night knowing that he left the bar impaired but after so many nights, apparently not bad enough to cause any trouble.  The liquor store clerk who week after week watched as this already inebriated man comes in for his home stash just before entering the lion’s den.

But one night, something changed.  That bus of kids coming home from camp late at night was not usually there.  In fact, there was NEVER anybody at this annoying red-flashing light.  So he does what he normally does – blows through it.  But on this fatal night, he doesn’t make it.

The drunk driver’s t-bone was enough to kill 3 kids on impact, but the worst of the accident was when his SUV drove the bus into oncoming traffic in which a semi-truck cut straight down the middle of the school bus leaving all but 1 dead.  The lone survivor was the drunk driver whose SUV was peeled off the bus by the semi-truck and sent into a wild spin in which the SUV landed safely in a ditch.  That driver, in fact, would climb out of his SUV unscathed and disoriented by the spin, having no idea what even happened as he could not make sense of the wreckage and smoke 300 yards away.  There are no screams left to hear.  All he sees is the badly damaged front-end of his SUV buried in a ditch.  So he starts walking the last 1/2 mile home alone in his continued troubles.

In his wake, 24 kids, a retired bus driver and a semi-truck driving father of 3 all lost their lives because there was never enough alcohol to drown one man’s troubles.  And when the police trace the vehicle later that night and show up to arrest him, his wife has disbelief, but not surprise in her pained eyes.  When this drunk is awakened, the first thing the officer in charge does is READ HIM HIS RIGHTS.

You see John McCain, whether born here or naturalized, a citizen of the United States has unalienable rights.  And while it’s tempting to play to national fears about terrorism, you continue, as George W. Bush did, to walk along the slippery slope.

Government must NOT overstep our unalienable rights – good, bad or indifferent.  And I quote from Thomas Jefferson – ‘A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.’

You see, fear and terrorism tactics have worked in this country since perfected during the cold-war with Russia in which traveling salesmen did their best to put unnecessary bomb shelters in the back yards of Main Street USA.  And they justified their parasitic income and lives as a national duty.  In fact, more people will die EACH YEAR because of tobacco sales, car sales, alcohol sales, firearms sales and, let us not forget, medical malpractice and pharmaceuticals than would ever die in a crowded New York City car bomb attack.  But you and your lobbyist bedfellows will work tirelessly to promote your agenda and work to market and teach and manipulate Americans to believe that these all too common domestic/corporate deaths are part of life, while the rare terrorist deaths are outrageous and require reshaping our Constitution.  You are wrong.

And the worst part?  Is that every election cycle, you come begging to our doors, our televisions and our emails for more money to keep selling us this fear.  The fear we should have is of people like you who pander to the lowest common denominator in us all in hopes to maintain your lifestyle and the fear of people – like you – who prey on our collectively short memories.

Well, I don’t forget my history, not the history of this great nation, and certainly not the history of man in which there always has been and always will be strife, poverty and pain.  Nor will I forget those that will ignore the real threats and propagate the false.  For those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.

So go on, you non-Maverick you, tuck your tail between your legs and after you lose your upcoming election, go bunk up with W. and start touring the country with hate and fear-riddled speeches.  The rest of us are moving on – moving on to fight terrorism where needed, moving on to get our economy back on track and moving on to trying to protect ourselves from the enemies from within who surround us in the form of politicians, Wall Street executives, the hospital/insurance/pharmaceutical triad and lets not forget those OTHER lowly, cowards who ALSO take from unsuspecting families, parents and spouses what is not theirs to take – drunken drivers.

This low-life group, along with domestic, nationalized terrorists should be read their Miranda Rights.  Then, after a public trial by their peers, if found guilty, they should all be brought to a very public execution in which we place the fear where it should be.  The fear that any greedy, ignorant bastard who puts himself above the law or above society will pay the consequences of justice as created and guaranteed under our Constitution.