Misc. Ramblings

You've probably had this dream (some might call it a nightmare). You know, the one where you are yelling as loud as you can but no one seems to hear you. Sometimes, I feel like that when a survey finds that more people know the names of the cartoon Simpsons family than the freedoms protected in the US Constitution. Marge? Yes. The First Amendment? What's that?

I don't know how reliable this survey is and I don't know who/what is the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum. But if the survey is accurate, what does this say about us? What does it say that people know the names of the American Idol judges but can't name a single US Supreme Court justice or their state's justices?

I wonder if you don't know what your freedoms are, why would you get upset about loosing them? I mean, if you don't know what they are, you won't miss them. Right? Until you want to express your opinion on a subject and the government arrests you and puts you in jail without charge, for as long as they want. Until you want to go to church but you find that it is now illegal to worship in any way other that the One True Way the government orders you to. Until you no longer know how your tax money is being spent because the government is no longer required to tell you and the press because of, you know, September 11th.

I hope people wake up soon. At least, before we no longer have the freedoms most people apparently don't know they have.

Aloha!