A few folks have commented to me that yesterday’s blog was more angry and emotional than they normally expect in my work. Okay, mea culpa. I was angry. Many readers know that my work focuses on the long term damage to and healing of the body politic in America. I am far more deeply concerned about the system and its base of principles than I am about the specific outcomes. Given the right information and the ability to act, the American people have repeatedly demonstrated that we will figure it out. It might take us a while, and we might make some mistakes, but eventually we will get there. That’s the source of my trust.
So, I do get outraged when the principles of the system itself are being attacked. Why? Because they are attacks on our very right to deliberate and decide through self-government. The Bush-Gonzalez Justice Department is becoming a mockery of justice. The politicization of the department by any official is profoundly dangerous to the country. This administration is undermining the Rule of Law, which is one of the most basic principles of a free people.
Here’s my concern: Are we so jaded as to not even recognize the severity of this problem? One news story, and it is gone. Then another, and it is gone. We aren’t putting it together, and no one seems to be doing it for us. This is why I ask the question again: When do we say, “Enough?”
Anthony Signorelli is the author of Call to Liberty: Bridging the Divide Between Liberals and Conservatives. www.calltoliberty.org
