Constitution is Dead

While I am absolutely outraged and flabbergasted by the gestapo tactics employed by politicians, and by a university in "America?!", I can tell you that generation X doesn't believe they can live up to the level of activism and righteous indignation of the baby boomer/vietnam generation. There were battles that were fought, and enough of a difference was made that there now is an overriding question before each battle: Is this something worth fighting for, and is there another way to accomplish stated goals. The end result is a lot of wrangling inactivity, and the Patriot Act. I imagine that sooner or later there will have to be another revolution, when it is realized that the bill of rights and the constitution was diluted and reduced to a utopian idea years ago. I think the idea that you can challenge authority figures is lost on many people; they might even consider it wrong. They may say to you "well let the police take him away, he is innocent and that will come out in the end." Never actually considering that the thought of taking someone away and using deadly force against them for using unpopular speech is itself Unamerican. Then again most Americans don't know that the people in those audiences are pre-screened, invited, and told what to say; in essence the agenda of the town hall meeting is not set by the people but by the guests themselves. They tell us what is important to us, and we oblige them.

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