Courage -- a word often bandied about during the Reagan Era
-- means
different things to different people.
Was it courage -- or cowardice -- for this
Administration to set-up an offshore government, dealing with
terrorists, running guns, and hoarding millions from the sale of
federal property, in secret from and in opposition to the will
of us people?
Was it courage -- or cowardice -- for this
Administration to promise a foreign nation that we would re-flag
and defend its ships and, thus, commit our military to side with
the forces of one dictatorial government against another in the
world's bloodiest war and to only afterwards consult
with our congressional representatives and then only to coerce
them into agreement, by claiming we would lose face if we
didn't follow through?
Was it courage -- or cowardice -- for this
Administration to nominate for the Supreme Court someone who
time and again has sided with the powerful against the powerless
and, thus, has violated the original intent of all just law, as
first expressed by Hammurabi ("That the strong might not
oppress the weak...")?
Was it courage -- or cowardice -- for this
Administration to lead our nation into as much indebtedness as
all previous Administrations taken together had amassed and,
then, to put the blame solely on Congress and the fiscal
responsibility on present and future taxpayers and on future
Administrations, whom this Administration tries to bind by a
wishful-thinking "Balanced Budget Amendment"?
And is it courage -- or simply "politics" -- for those of us dissatisfied with the current course of
events, affecting our life, liberty, and property, to dissent
and, thus, try to preserve what is democratic in our republic?
You be the judge.