Michael Patrick Rooney's Recent Activity

To sit and say our government has failed us is to idly condone what perpetually transpires. What law has given us, in the American sense, is the protection of sovereignty, both over ourselves and our communities, and the right to exercise rebellion when that sovereignty is greatly trespassed upon. What some may say is treason others will view as necessary, comparable to the axiom of one man's terrorist being another man's freedom fighter, and the venture of guessing has transformed into a small step when we consider whether or not we the people are duly being served. I adjure now that we are not being duly served; we are being servilely dueled.

The dilemma of our nation, above other nations, is the disparity of our citizenry. That my discernible necessity is your overt treason is as hotly contested between the Western and Eastern shores as is any other issue in any other region of the globe. The wedge being the profiteering of this disparity hastens our decline into dissension and fractured nations, not in the contiguous landmass sense; no, more in the sense of our ideals being presented as wholly irreconcilable. Our religions, politics, morals, social consciousnesses, responsibilities, pay classes and industries are used as a tool to divide us and a powerful tool it is; strong enough in its wedging that it splinters the collective, uniformed truth that the most important thing remains freedom in and of itself, that the ideal of our nation is the disparity of our citizenry. I curiously jest that our politicians have learned this and that our prosperity has so been our downfall in that we have forgotten what it is to struggle together, to fight together to maintain that one indissolvable truth -- that freedom remains our highest ideal, regardless.

Where I suggest that politicians have long known of the power of division, we Americans were buoyed and protected for a half-century more by the fourth, inherent branch of Americanism -- the media. However, the media too has found prosperity and the corruptive nature of power has mutated a once pristine institution into an ugly and dirtied temple of mud-slinging, yellow journalism and divisive language. Fact has been replaced by hate speech and fear mongering on both sides of the media spectrum, and the truest casualty of honest journalism has been the unifying power of freedom, and therefore a united American people.

We have lost our protection against the carnivorous hounds of government, the media themselves becoming a Cerberus of carnage feasting on the wounds of the tattered and split American hide. And I wonder now, with politician and media acting as pack predators, what hope is there for the citizenry? We are like rabbits chased by the pack. I sit idly by and so I understand that so do others, but my wits have grown restless and I wonder if yours do to. Our sovereignty, in the least as a free people, is being greatly trespassed upon and I only wish I knew the right way to exercise a proper rebellion, because we are due. I sit and think long and hard each night how we can improve our situation, how we can incite what needs to catch fire, and in those moments... in those darkest hours I am distracted by the clock as it ticks away, stealing the time we have to make a change, closing the window for our needed revolution, taking the hours that we give it to take by the idle sitting and thinking and talking...

None are to blame for this more than me. Me, and the others who know that burning the forest floor creates new life, but can't find a way to start the fire. Should I ever find a spark, brothers and sisters, I shall not hesitate. This is my pledge to the ideal and the cause, this is my pledge to my land and my compatriots.