The year 2006 may be recorded in history as the year of the sheeple.

The year our government made its first moves to quiet dissent, outlaw protest, assure compliance with any government policy regardless of its constitutionality.

The year we, as a nation, decided freedom was too risky to be practiced any longer, though we would continue to give the concept lip service as an ideal.

The year 2006 marks the beginning of the end of our constitutional republic, of free democracy, of individual liberties, of our non-theocratic administration.

The United States has taken steps down a dark path headed toward a frightening destination. The fact that more citizens are not alarmed by this is evidence of the government’s success at selling this future to the sheeple as a positive thing.

Loss of privacy is a positive, loss of freedom is positive, lack of security is a positive, a government free from oversight and without a need to answer to the people is a positive. Being critical of the government has become equated with treason. The fact we’ve let our national standards become so loose, the fact we’ve allowed those in power to sidetrack our attention with bogus issues like gay marriage and steriod use in sports, the fact we don’t even care enough anymore to vote…that is our national shame. We’ve become sheeple, willing to be lead wherever we’re told we should be going, asking no questions.

If this experiment in democracy fails, if our republic ruptures from within, if we become like those nations we claim to oppose, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

[tags]politics, democracy, republic, sheeple, freedom, government[/tags]