Justice In Fact for a Change?

Our detractors–those whose constituency hail from the capital of garment manufacturing between New York and California–and others whose political careers are bankrolled by labor unions will muster every iota of their energies under the guise of reform to deny the people of these isles their rights to self-government.

They will do so with the usual waving of a paper tiger–propped up figures–of too many foreign workers here grandly neglecting the fact that our country is a nation of immigrants. They will recite the same old tired arguments only to neglect the very composition of the most powerful chambers on earth–national lawmakers comprised of descendants of immigrants from the old country.

It is a warpedly convenient agenda that runs contrary to the vast accomplishments of our country in the last half of the 20th century which has its genesis and roots in rugged individualism. It runs contrary to our claim of the moment–the world’s most economically powerful–a moment that warrants encouraging every community throughout the country to create more wealth to give every American a sense of greater hope and role in availing of the vast world of opportunities that lie ahead.

It’s troubling in the sense that while the lame duck Clinton administration speaks of the “economic good times” highlighting 30-years of low unemployment, its very agenda is diametrically contrary to protecting the wealth that we have created for ourselves over the past 22 years. It illustrates the inconsistency of what it says against what it does in turning hope into hopelessness. It confirms, once and for all, the smallness and apparent inconsequence of our livelihood amidst a myriad of more pressing national agenda in both Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill.
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How sad that the Covenant Agreement is shoved aside in order to make way for the whimsical wishes of textile labor unions. Such political pandering puts into focus the immoral nature of vicious special interest groups who have bankrolled the political careers of liberal social democrats who warpedly have the gall to claim the trophy of staunch human rights advocates. Is it really the protection of human rights when our detractors’ agenda would deny both citizens and non-citizens the opportunity to earn a living? Where’s the moral value in this agenda?
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It was only last week that local Marine Scouts’ lifetime dreams of being accorded justice for standing in harms way with fellow soldiers were given the honor and recognition that they rightfully deserve. However it came over 50 years later, their heroic courage is a testament of their blind though firm belief in freedom and all that our country stands for.

The event (recognition of indigenous Marine Scouts) brings into focus an even more important query: What is justice and is it dished-out sparingly way after the pioneers of, i.e., freedom fighters have vanished from our midst? When would justice be given to this group of unrepresented US Citizens in fact? What will it take to ascertain and firm up our conviction to attain justice from our detractors whose special economic interest now puts our livelihood on the verge of ruination?
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For once in our lifetime, let us give prominence and dignity to the blood that our young men and women shed on the shores of these islands more than 50 years ago in the name of freedom. This, after all, is very American. Political stampeding and economic annihilation have the equivalence of history’s dark side in the Nuremberg case. Please, let us not repeat this ugly chapter in world history. Enough is enough! We are Americans too!