AMERICA IN REVIEW:

After the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to up hold the current ban on abortion and other poor decisions by differnt branches of our government, I have decied to respond to this caos by writing a review of the staus of the whole nation's government. Hopefully this review will show how much this nation has gone down heal and the need to act no in order to correct the matter.



AMERICA IN REVIEW:

-BY, MARQUELL GARRETT

“THE FUTURE LEADER OF AMERICA”:

DATED: April 20, 2007; Friday @ 12:26hrs



Introduction:

America has been around now for more than 200 years, the nation that is. The idea of America has been around a lot longer, long before the existence of the United States of America. America was created under the ideas of freedom, under the five rights and platforms of mankind, the five platforms of Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Such platforms that no longer governs and guides this nation. Such platforms like Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness should be the sole governor and guidance of all of mankind. It is the rights not of all Americans but all of mankind to have such guidelines. Such rights and guidelines must never be denied or limited to any human. America is currently spreading a so call democracy carrying these virtues. America is spreading false virtues and the opposite of the five platforms. America is no longer America. America has become the opposite of what it use to be and stood for. America is no longer worth the blood shed for it and sweat poured for it and lives sacrificed for it so many years ago. America has surrendered themselves to shame and destruction. America has become that tyrant and anti-liberty nation we have feared for so long. The worst part of the matter is that we do not see or understand this action and consequence. The most dangerous prejudice and racial person is one that does not realize nor accept that they are in fact a racist and/or prejudice against innocent and great citizens of humanity. Such people are adherent to inequality and injustice and should be stricken from not America the nation, but from America the idea. Such people should be stricken from society it self. Such citizens should be stricken from the very fabric of humanity and never looked upon with the same eye again. The ultimate question is not has America failed? America the idea can never fail, because there is nothing greater that the idea of freedom. The question is can America be saved and restored back to its original ideas. The answer to this question is obvious, but the obvious answer is not always the easiest answer, nor the wanted answer. America the nation, the land, can be saved and restored to these ideas but not without time and great sacrifice and efforts from all of humanity. This will not be an easy task, especially because time is not on our side. However, let us remember these words, “the most dangerous man in any society is the one with nothing to loose, you do not need ten such men, one will do”. These words are as powerful and as true today as ever. Let us, the future leaders of this world be that man. Let us change this world and restore the five platforms to this nation call America and spread such ideas across the universe. We must unite as humanity behind the ideas and platforms of Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We must never surrender nor become astray from such ideas. So, ultimately, how deterred is America the land from such ideas? The best way to demonstrate and express this is to review the government branch by branch and the rights of the people of the government individually.



Judicial Branch:

It was decided by our founding fathers that this nation will not become a dictated nation where one branch or form of government can see an idea that should be placed into law, set it as law, and then interpret this upon the citizens of this nation. In order to avoid this they created three separate branches of our government to govern this nation in an attempt to illuminate bias, immature decisions and to protect the American people. The American people no longer hold such protection. The United States of America Court Houses, both federal and state, has ruled repeatedly to deny such protection. The United States of America Court Houses, both federal and state, has ruled repeatedly against the American People. Many states’ court houses have ruled to up hold a limitation to the rights for an individual to marry another person in which they love and share their happiness. To up hold limiting the same rights and liberties as any other American. Many states have ruled on the judicial level that a person should be limited to their right to decide whether or not they want to have a child or not, to choice, a right that was granted to them not because they are Americans, but because they are human beings. Court houses abroad have ruled to limit the rights of the people. The United States Supreme Court who is suppose to protect the people’s constitutional rights have ruled to limit there constitution rights. The judicial branch, a branch created to protect the people and stop the government from limiting the rights of the people has ruled the opposite. The judicial branch has ruled to limit the rights of the woman. The right of the woman to choose based upon her own virtues and beliefs and not that of the majority or the religious community. Neither the government nor religious communities have the right to stick their hands into an individual’s life and take their happiness and rights granted to them not only by the constitution but an unalienable right that must be held by all of mankind. The rights of the majority must never come in conflict with the rights of the minority. It is the responsibility of the government to protect the individual person’s rights and not tradition or religious ideas. The rights of the individual person far out weights the rights of the State and federal government. The judicial branch must never be bias or religiously based, yet a great open-minded Supreme Court Justice was replaced with a not so open minded and religious based Justice. This is unacceptable. America must be very careful at who we allow to represent us in this government. It is my affirmed belief that we as individual citizens should have the right and obligation to directly vote for our Supreme Court Justices. This means amending our constitution to grant such obligation. This means extending the rights of the American people which must never be limited to the five platforms in the first place. The Supreme Court of many States, and the U.S. Supreme Court have failed to take several cases involving the right of homosexual marriages saying there is no grounds to allow such marriage to take place. I call upon the Supreme Court to overturn all decisions in this government of the judicial branch, legislative branch, and executive branch banning and limiting the rights of the American people on the grounds of the constitution of the United States of America, or does that not mean anything anymore. It is not the decision of the local government, State government or federal government whether or not some one has the right to marry the same sex. It is the right and decision of the individual person and no other. It has recently come to light that the executive branch has fried some members of the judicial branch, which is legal and acceptable. It has also come to light that some of these members of the judicial branch fired were fired for reasons such as failure to prosecute specific cases upon the request of the executive branch in order to benefit to leaders of the executive branch. This is not legal and unacceptable. Such actions are un-constitutional and un-American. Such actions should lead to the impeach of the personnels behind the actions and the bringing up of criminal charges. This has not been the case though. The judicial branch out of a three branch government has failed. This means one third of our government has failed causing the protection of the American people to begin to disappear altogether and making America that feared dictated land. This is not the America our founding fathers had in mind when they signed the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States of America.



Legislative Branch:Our founding fathers had in mind a notion that this government would have a separate branch to pass laws governing the government and American people. Such laws that should never come in conflict with the rights of the individual people. This branch would not be a branch to interpret the laws of the land in which it created. This was to again avoid having a dictated nation. Today Congress is doing the total opposite. Today Congress has ignored the many concerns of the American people and has devoted their focus not on the concerns and wellbeing of the American people but that of political gain and distractions away from the concerns of the American people. Today there are many scandals in Congress and too many so call bargains with members of the executive branch in order to benefit the congressman/congresswoman vs. the American people. Congress has decided to devote its focus on things such as banning the burning of the American flag and abortion, fundamentally limiting the rights of the individuals that they have indeed failed to serve, the American people. Congress fails to protect the concerns and ideas of the American people and most of all fails to protect the five platforms that built this nation. It unacceptable when a President fails to get the majority vote of the American people and still becomes the President-Elect, and the President of the United States of America. It is even more unacceptable when the legislative branch makes no efforts or suggestions that such statement in the constitution should be amended at once, that allowed such a terrible disaster to take place from the beginning. It is only obvious that such statement should be amended. When the votes of the American people fails to be considered in a Presidential election, or any other elections, steps must be taken at once to amend the disaster. When the legislative branch allows a President to remain in office after a clear understanding that he or she no longer represents the concerns of the American people, and no longer capable of making intelligent decisions that are of grave benefit to the American people, such congress has become incapable of up holding their own duties and thus making the legislative branch in this nation a failing branch. This is unacceptable and a disaster. When the legislative branch is no longer operational, this means that this nation is no longer operational as the great democracy it once was. It is apparent today that the legislative branch has failed on a variety of basis and primary on its chief purpose. This means that America has now only one third of the nation’s government functional, or does it. The legislative branch has failed us all. It is time to amend this problem and boot out the adherents to inequality and injustice and vote in those leaders who will stand bold and represent the American people. It is time for us as citizens of this nation to vote in the leaders who will fight to up hold the five platforms of Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness because if we fail to do so the consequences will be the disappearance of the American nation.



Executive Branch:

The executive branch was created by our founding fathers in order to represent the ideas and concerns of the American people and to take these concerns and ideas to Congress and to allow such concerns and ideas to be the agenda of this nation. This is truly the only branch of our government that we can do without. Members of Congress have the responsibility and right to this very same thing. Also the American people have the authority, and obligation to take their concerns directly to members of Congress if they so see it fit. However, the executive branch still has the obligation and right to speak on the behalf of the American people as long as such ideas being spoken represent the ideas and concerns of the American people and the five platforms of Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness. This does not describe our current executive branch, however. The American President has ruled without regards to the American people and the concerns and ideas of the American people. Majority of the American population, and both houses of Congress, joined with many members of the executive branch and military leaders has decided and demanded that we pull out of Iraq at once. The President has decided to go against the best interest, ideas, and concerns of the American people and continues to send troops to Iraq. This means he is no longer doing the job of the executive branch and now the job only of that of a dictator. America must not have a dictator under the false name of “President”. The President has decided to propose a ban on the rights of individual people by proposing such ideas as in to ban same sex marriages, cloning for any reason, abortion, flag burning, and other rights of individual people. Just because a President has an opinion about something doesn’t mean he should deny another the right to an opinion on the matter and the right of choice. When such things of this matter happens the American President becomes the American Tyrant. The executive branch has ignored the American people altogether and is ruling as if they are KING. This is unacceptable. The executive branch has terminated members of the judicial branch for illicit reasons and un-American reasons. It is clear the executive branch no longer represents the American people and is ruling with an iron fist. The executive branch has failed wretchedly. The executive branch has become something far worst than an executive branch. The executive branch has become a sole government and dictator to the American people. The executive branch does not have the right to dictate to the American people how things are going to go. It is the job of the American people to dictate to the government and executive branch of how things are going to go. The executive branch has failed to serve the American people and thus has become useless. The executive branch has become an adherent to inequality and injustice. The executive branch no longer represents the ideas of Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness. This means that 100% of the American government has became non functional and represent not the platforms of Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness but only the platforms of Death, Slavery, Injustice, Inequality, and the Pursuit of Evil and Unhappiness. This must be rooted out of this nation at once and as American citizens we must restore the five platforms of Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness back in this nation.



Individual Rights:

Our founding fathers understood that nothing is greater than the rights of the individual person. When the initial final draft of the constitution was completed it was refused to be ratified due to the rights of the individual being nonexistent in such document. The American people wanted independent freedom and rights more than what the State and federal government would hold. The Bill of Rights was then added to the constitution to grant individual rights and protection to the people. This was the only way for the constitution to be ratified. Today Americans no longer have some of these individual rights granted to them by the Bill of Rights and no longer have fair and equal rights. Today TV shows and movies are actually censored. Today some students in public schools are actually forbidened to bring and read certain books such as “Harry Potter”. This is outrageous. There is a couple that are great friends of mine living in the State of South Carolina who has been dating for more than six years. They are high school sweet hearts. Usually I’m not a big fan of high school sweet heart marriages but in this case they really do love each other and is mature enough to be wed. So the ultimate question is why aren’t they married? This couple is not married because the government has told them that they do not have the right to pursue their happiness and the American dream. The government, which is supposed to be protecting their rights, has limited their rights and denied them their civil liberties. America has thus failed this couple. Today in the State of Georgia it is illegal for me to smoke a cigarette outside my own café. How is this protecting my civil liberties? It is a crime for me to exercise my first amendment right in some places. It is considered slander and a crime if I give my honest opinion about the current President while serving in the U.S. military. This is unacceptable. The constitution is not limited to those that do not serve in the military. The constitution applies to all Americans, everywhere. If I was to exercise my 2nd amendment right and purchase a gun for my safety I would be arrested. In order to avoid this I would have to register my weapon and practically never have my weapon on me or near me. This is unacceptable and unconstitutional. The legislative branch has no right to interpret the 2nd amendment or set laws to govern the 2nd amendment. It is the job of the judicial branch to interpret the 2nd amendment. There is something out now called the Patriot Act. I like to call it the Invasion of Privacy Act. It is against the fourth amendment for the government to tap into my bank account, my work, and my life in general without the proper measures and due process of law. Just because someone said I was caught going to the movies with a person known for criminal behavior does not give the government permission to spy on me. I have only one thing to say to a government that does this. “Get away from me or I will retaliate with the force of Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” The rights of the individual people in this nation are nonexistent. The people no longer have the basic right to life; the people of this government no longer have the basic medical right to be treated for a disorder or disease because the treatment or cure goes against a religious belief. The American woman no longer has the right to choice because the American government thinks it goes against morals. The only moral it goes against is that of a religious person. What if I am not religious and not of the same morals as you? Isn’t it an American moral that we should all obtain Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness? The rights of the individual people are the supreme rights, and the government and no person should have the right to limit such rights or terminate such rights.



Summary:

Our founding fathers envisioned a nation of peace, where everyone would be free and equal and the people would hold the power, not the government. Today this envisioned nation does not describe the United States of America but instead the total opposite. Today the American people have little influence on the government and very little individual rights. Today the people only have the rights the government allows them to have. The judicial branch no longer represents and protects the American people. The legislative branch no longer represents and votes on the behalf of the American people. The executive branch no longer represents the American people and no longer focus on the ideas and concerns of the American people. The American people have been failed not just by one branch of our government, but Americans have been failed by all three branches of our government. This is a disaster. It has finally come to past when we can no longer say “America is the leader of the free world”. There isn’t a single branch of this government working properly. Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness has failed to be demonstrated in this nation. It is way past time for this nation to correct its’ actions and restore the five platforms back in this nation. It is way past time for Americans to get off of the side lines and vote and coerce the five platforms back in this nation’s government. This will not be an easy task. But I am a firm believer that if the task isn’t hard, it is not working doing. We, a united America, shall be able to cross the finish line where Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness will be waiting on the other side. It will be some tough and long roads ahead of us. But let us remember that if our founding fathers would have given up over 200 years ago, there would be no such thing as America, the nation and America the idea would have never came across this land once more. Let us remember that we are not fighting for land, but for something far greater. We are fighting for the right to life, and the right to live it as we see it fit, and not as the government sees it fit. However, giving all the data on the failure of the government on all branches and nonexistence of individual rights in this nation I still must profess my conviction and dedication to changing this nation for the better. I must believe that there is still hope for America. I vow that as long as there is breath in my lungs and a fraction of an ounce of this idea in my veins I will not settle until there is total equality in America and the five platforms rules America once more. Some people may feel this is stupid or worthless. There is nothing greater than the idea of freedom. If I have to sacrifice my on life, I shall do so proudly. If I have to sacrifice my own liberty, I shall do so expeditiously, because I have no liberty until all have liberty. If I have to sacrifice my justice, I shall do so in honor, knowing that true justice can never be achieved without equality. If I have to sacrifice my equality, I shall do so willingly, knowing that I truly shall not be equal until all are equal. If I have to surrender my right to pursue my happiness, I shall do so smiling, knowing my true happiness is securing the rights and spreading the rights of others. I shall never surrender to Death, Slavery, Injustice, Inequality, and the Pursuit of Evil and Unhappiness. I shall not rest until Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, and the Pursuit of Happiness controls the world abroad.