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Published Brownsville Herald February 10, 2008

When incarcerated by illness one gets a lot of free time to observe and consider. Some of the more important appliances to sanity are the radio and television as they just keeps pumping the information at you.
If you have an avid interest in the political landscape, after a while even the entertainment shows take on a relationship.
Of late I have had a bunch of time to “observe and consider” and instead of bringing clarity the result has been more questions.
On the national front there appears to be a kind of revolution building that demands a change in how the government is perceived and administered; sort of a loud “I am not going to take it any more”.
The most obvious is Presidential Candidate Dr. Ron Paul’s passionate and growing support for his freedom message of smaller less intrusive government that is also shared by Candidate Huckabee such as a more literal interpretation of the Constitution, less intrusion by the government in the daily life, less or no use of imminent domain, the importance of second amendment rights, health freedom, fulfilling the promises to our veterans that were called to protect us, as well as many other freedoms that are being forced upon us because “we the people” are viewed as victims of one thing or another, by the elites as incapable of making decisions for ourselves.
The people seem to be saying: I am responsible for the education of my children and I don’t want the federal government mandating what is to be taught and how. People also want “Congress or the Courts not to make any laws respecting religion” and quit advancing the religion of the state. People also want to be able to make decisions for themselves about there own health. If the government becomes the provider, we can expect laws like one recently suggested hat would prohibit obese folks from eating at fast food restaurants. More »