The Winner Is…
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Alana. No, I didn’t write in her name. She wins the pot, because only she guessed whom I voted for.
Disclaimer: This publication should not be construed as an official support for any particular candidate by the United States Navy. It is a memoir of how I voted as a private citizen.
I voted for Michael Peroutka, the Constitution Party candidate. I believe that the most foundational problem afflicting our Republic is a constitutional crisis. When I was looking at my icons, I kept thinking of these words: “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic…,” the oath I swore when I joined the ranks of U. S. Navy Sailors.
The Constitution has been slowly worn away since the War Between the States, so that there is barely anything left from the erosion. The answer is a return to constitutionally limited, republican government. Repeal the amendments that undercut the republican form of government (17th, Popular Election of Senators), support the unrestricted growth of the Federal government (16th, Income Tax).
At this point, I really despair that the freedom guaranteed by the Constitution can last, because the Constitution is being stripped of the very genius that made it so great. The Patriot Act — which, to anyone who loves freedom and the Constitution of our country, is anything but patriotic — and “Homeland Security” will test whether freedom will continue to ring from sea to shining sea. They trample the constitutionally protected rights of every citizen and guest of this great nation; dear reader, you will not be safe because you are white and don’t wear the hijab. “First they came for the Jews….”
To be honest, I hope Bush wins, and I don’t know if I would have voted my heart if Kentucky had not been so clearly a red state. But, as I have said before, I voted for Bush last time because I was frightened into voting with the odds. This time — when the Department of Homeland Security gets more power, and the people and the states get less, contravening the forgotten 10th Amendment, when the Patriot Act is strengthened by more legislation meant to “protect our way of life from the terrorists,” though it is freedom itself that is our way of life, when I remember why I did not vote for Bush — this time my conscience will be absolutely clear.
This time I will not be ashamed. This time I will not have to say, “This is the man I said I wanted, but I lied.” This time, I spoke the truth.