Never before have I found myself so awake to what I see happening around me. So awake, alert and yet somewhat dumbfounded that there are those around me that walk, talk, eat, move and shit, yet are so fast asleep.
How can this be you ask? Ok, maybe not in such a Shakespearean prose. "Oh what light doth yonder window break" Who's breaking windows? My god, I'm ranting. What I'm talking about is Ron Paul, and the media black out, the disrespect from otherwise intelligent (seemingly) news agencies that should be reporting the news unbiasedly, but now...doesn't.
I can't even fathom this. I mean, this IS a free country...right? Freedom of speech? Religion and all that hoopla? Right? You believe in it don't you? Why aren't you pissed?
Even if Ron Paul isn't your candidate, doesn't it get you just a bit pissed off seeing someone getting bullied by a system that was designed to spread the message (er...news)?
Oh and before you label me some bias wackjob Ron Paul supported, let me tell you this. I've been a wackjob long before I even heard of the man, and until this pass year, I didn't even know who he was!
I was a Obama fan! Who wasn't? After the fiasco that was the Bush administration, and the idiotic ways Bush would step over his words, who didn't long for a President that exulted charm, charisma and wit! I swear, now..that my eyes are open, I say that's how Obama won!
So here we are, 2012, we wanted change, we didn't get it. We're worse off then we should of been and I'm willing to give Obama the benefit of doubt that its not all his fault. I think the man got swallowed up by the political machine.
Now you have this old man, doctor, who has been trying to voice out his concern for years, has held steadfast to his beliefs while many of his contemporaries flow to the whim of the political machine. I ask...why?
What the hell is wrong with us? How is it not obvious to see all the types of sensationalism that plagues the news of this country? News stories that have more to do with entertainment, then education. Why have we bought into that? Why is it that no one questions it? If sensationalism is what the press wants, why continue to ignore Ron Paul?
Is it because with Ron Paul, its not sensationalism, but admittance that something is wrong with the "system"? That by allowing the man to speak and be heard, he would "OUT" the media for what it is?
A soapbox/manipulative cog in the political machine? How it is far better for the News to feed us fluff then to "upset" us with truth? That we are not #1 in the eyes of the world? That we are NOT living up to our founding fathers ideals? That we are continually getting stripped of all our rights, while they continue to treat us as mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed on shit?
Oh bother! I know at this point I'm ranting. I'm tired, its 2:18 in the morning and I have to get up at 6am to tend to my 1 year old son. Its going to be a long day.
Yet I look at him and wonder...what kind of country and I going to leave for him? What kind of ideas will go unnoticed when his voice will be made silent by the powers that be?
I love this country, but right now we need to wake up. Our forefathers gave us a liberty that shouldn't be taken for granted. But we have become lazy.
Educate yourselves damn it. Ask, why is Ron Paul being silenced? Why do they take what he says out of context. Go look at the arguments they have against him and then ask if they are valid.
Maybe you can come to a better conclusion then I did. Ether way, at least you're being active.
