Let's face it. The Bush Administration is in short supply of a lot of things. Honesty doesn't dwell there. Forthrightness doesn't make itself home as well. Generosity has danced a jig out of there. And of course, empathy is all but non-existent.
What of justice? It is long coming, slowly dripping out of the fountain of transparency. And on its precipice, the public awaits some relief from the long train of offenses that have occurred without any type of redress.
It makes one wonder whether this is nothing but dark times in America where hubris is king and arrogance is his scepter.
Whether it's lies about the Iraq War, the prepping for hostilities against Iran, or even the question of torture, the concept of justice is fleeting on winged heels. It seems as we hear about pardon after pardon, political scapegoating after scapegoating, that nothing seems to get done. And when that happens, we're left with a sort of bad taste in our mouths. Cynicism trots right behind.
What is one to do in this climate? Should we just let the malaise pour right over us with the smirking faces of the politicians giving speeches and telling us the same old double-speak that we are accustomed to hearing day after day? Is it easier to give up when it seems the MSM continues on its daily dirge of skating over and blocking out much needed news that should be covered?
Or should we work for how we want the government to conduct its business domestically and abroad?
It seems at times when there are many voices telling us that we "can't do something" or "it is impossible" for social change to happen, that justice is hard to come by. But at this time, we ought to be, in the words of Fannie Lou Hamer, "sick and tired of being sick and tired". The numbness and the fear has to be done away with.
This country has reached the breaking point. It sorely needs our help for things to get better in order for that justice to come.
--politicalceci