Revolution, from the Latin revolutio (a turn around), is defined as a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that occurs over a short or rapid period of time.  Mechanically the action of a body or object in movement that ends back at the beginning would also qualify in definition.  The political understanding is perhaps the most famous use of the term and is generally summed up in relation to reshaping a political social structure by the means of :

   1.  Abolishing one constitution for a new one

   2.  Redesign or restructure of an existing constitution

  The growing anger and boycotts are only going to grow regarding the TSA and Homeland Security's policy of body scan imaging.  Lawsuits filed against the TSA are only growing, including one filed by EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center.  A growing number of Senators, privacy groups, and watchdogs like Ralph Nader continue to plea for the program to end and support EPIC and other motions for immediate stays.

  Once again, this is an end that we allowed by justifying the means.  Since 9/11 there has been a continued assault on the very freedoms we all so naively salute and scream when protesting against tax hikes or Washington in our doctors office.  We stood by and not only watched, but reelected those who passed the Patriot Act on us.  History records Abraham Lincoln as a criminal for repealing Habeas Corpus during the Civil War, but the people overwhelming  gave a pass to a new generation of government that did the same.  George W. Bush and the same Congress who violated the Constitution where reelected and the Democrats who won in 2006 voted with the ruling class in keeping the Patriot Act alive.

  In the weeks, months, and years following those terrorist attacks we sat idly by like the toad in a pot of water, and let our government slowly add the flame.  We gladly removed our shoes and proudly ran them through surveillance, or told our children or grandma to wait if they needed a drink.  Heaven forbid we were making a short emergency flight to family with just a bag and toiletries and met the full criteria of red level risk.  Sure it all got tiresome after a while and seem trivial when we saw the thousands simply walking across our borders, or the news of terror suspects passing as illegal Mexicans to gain access to our system.  But we just endured because it was necessary for protection, and after all how could this infringement be illegal with such a noble patriotic name?

  Now I am sure this line is causing most of you to do a double take.  Especially considering the current Speaker of the House has a 30% or less approval rating in some polling, and has carried the adjective "toxic" for the last nine months or more.  Say what you may about Nancy Pelosi, but for her cause and her president, she has exceeded expectations.

  It is time for her to move up in management and allow new leadership from the Democrats to try their hand in Congress.  Pelosi is perfect for the head of the Democratic National Committee.  Should this appointment and move take place everyone would come out as a winner, most importantly the American people.

  With the exception of the far left Progressives, madam Speaker has carried a target on her back since Obama's election and the orders handed down to steamroll the Liberal ideals and agenda into law.  She has become famous for news clips touting the excitement we would share after health care was passed and we discovered like children opening a new present, what it actually entailed.  About how we are just deserved of punishment, even jail time, for not participating in mandatory coverage (later admitted to be nothing more than a new taxation on an already burdened public).  Or defending President Obama's position on preemptive arrest of those who "may possibly" cause a threat. 

  Humility and courage, these are the key words found when you search the files of an American soldier's background.

  Humility because once that man or woman commits and steps forward in our place, they forfeit their individual rights.  They cannot complain, they cannot ask for work break, or long lunch, or a three day weekend after a long and grueling week.  They cannot request common courtesy when their superiors address them sometimes with insults or degradation, in attempts to toughen their spirit and fortitude.  A soldier does not catch the newest viral video, or know the latest Gaga exploit, or the hottest movie at the theaters.  A soldier checks his or her identity at the barracks, and God willing, can claim it on their way home.  To be an effective weapon or tool is to be an important piece in a larger machine.  Soldiers take this on with the understanding the world they once knew is on hold for  now, and reality is where the next station is and orders handed down.

  Every election cycle, no matter the outcome, we hear the same refrains in the weeks prior and the weeks after.  Upon exposure to the population the enormous amount of captial spent and required in order to win your vote and the office being sought, each side again chooses party lines rather than real change. 

 The victor will always quote the Constitution and the First Amednment right to free speech.  Their claim is how dare you encroach of the voice and responsibility of the people to participate in gaining their representatives ear.  They make bold stands on pundit news extolling how our founders wished for all men to have an ear in government, and the dollars equate to each citizen's time on the floor of Congress.

  The losers of course, as they play by the same rules, will begin the noble task before election day, of bringing this great evil into light.  Their cause is not out of spite, but for us, the common man, and how we are being ignored in favor of big business and mysterious influence.  They wish only to reform, but are forced to participate in a corrupt system in order to have the opportunity to change it for us at a later date.

  Let's make the fire insightful.

  November 2nd has come and gone, and like many elections before, we find ourselves exhausted from the increasing media play by play, campaign commercials, and press releases of change.  The mandatory rounds of slaps on the back, and humble acceptance were completed over the weekend, and the slogans for January are being handed out as we speak.  The great amnesic that is the holiday season is underway, hoping the wave of Republican replacements will give hope to the troubled economy and help America's industry and confidence begin its path to recovery.

  It is normal and understandable to feel burned out, to tune out the talking heads and the leaders-elect you voted for, if just to catch your wind and regroup for the even larger juggernaut that the 2012 season will bring.  Our minds tune into the mindless satire of nightly sitcoms, or computer graphics of the next blockbuster or get lost in the pages of fantasy on our night table.

  If anyone at all still doubts we live under the ruling class, start listening to the predicted winners.

"I am sure Americans and Tea Party members will understand if we are stonewalled and can't get things done, they will have to understand we will try to amend Obama Care's worst items, etc"

  Yesterday they swore in battle cries "We will repeal Obama care at all cost!!"

  This past Saturday, the mall of Washington D.C. was host to the masses once again. Among the memorials to fallen heroes, Olympic monuments to noble men, and the tranquil waters of reflection some 250,000 fellow American's came to rally for...sanity?  Even hours into the event, organized by Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert of Comedy Central, a vast majority of attendees still did not have a definitive answer to the cause they came out for.  To most, it was an agreement with the comedic teams nightly outtakes on our nation's tumultuous and always provocative political scene, and the way the media networks present it.

  Poking fun at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, held a few months prior, was common place with signs touting "have you seen my honor".  Stewart himself jabbed with a roll call asking for name, race, religion, job,  a major objective of the event to tout it's attendees as the "real" Americans.  These he claimed where the average citizen, who represented all of our melting pot.  Reviews of Beck's event, depending on the source, tend to describe the crowd as "non urban".  Just two weeks ago, in a one sided interview on Fox's the O'Reily Factor, Stewart repeated this point with the overbearing host.  Trying to get a few words in edgewise, Stewart said his purpose was for 'the folks that he sees when he goes out, who feel they are not represented by the extremism in the media today'.

  In these times, any event or group that attracts a crowd that impresses the media to gain a spotlight in their prime time, tends to call itself a voice of the "people".  Stewart, part of the media he mocks,  may have tapped into a good portion of the disappointed country.  His crowd remained well mannered, though jokes to legal marijuana may have assisted in the mellow tone.  Some signs and interviews with participants voiced some disgruntled words, though it seemed most kept to the hosts way of protest, with humor and satire.  It definitely leaned a little more to the left, but many of the common complaints are not shared just by those with a D or L assigned to their ideology.  Steadfast supporters or believers in all things GOP or Fox News may have felt out of place, but perhaps seeing the other side may have let them at least understand the opinions many have against the media giant and its machine of personalities bent on the cause of saving us hedonists from the abyss.  Where the former's call was to repent or all is lost, Stewart's point was that proof that all will mend,  is here in the masses.

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power": Abraham Lincoln

“After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd.

“The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.” Alexis de Tocqueville [Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville] (1805-1859), French historian

“All men having power ought to be mistrusted.” James Madison

“Arbitrary power has seldom been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.” Lord Chesterfield

“It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.” Eric Hoffer

“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.” T.H. Huxley

“If those in charge of our society—politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television—can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” Howard Zinn, historian and author

“The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the ‘best’ sources.” Walter Karp

“In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty.” Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi (1828-1910), Russian writer

“In the general course of human nature, a power over man’s substance amounts to a power over his will.” Alexander Hamilton

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” Samuel Adams

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” Thomas Sowell

“It’s important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.” Harry Browne

“It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.” John Adams, 1788

“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson, 1799

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

“No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.” Thomas Jefferson: American 3rd US President (1801-09).

“Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.” Baron Wessenberg

“Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.” George Washington, Farewell Address

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” Harry S Truman

“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal’ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was ‘illegal.’” Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Why We Can’t Wait, 1963

“People crushed by law have no hope but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.” Edmund Burke

“Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.” William Proxmire

“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” John Adams

“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.” Frank Herbert

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

“The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors.” Plutarch, Historian of the Roman Republic

“If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.” Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), philosopher, essayist, British Lord Chancellor

“The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.” John Adams

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker

“The problem with American power is not that it is American. The problem is simply the power. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.” Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford historian, New York Times, April 9, 2002

"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.” Eric Hoffer

“Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.” - Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice Source: We, The Judges, 1956

“Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.” Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998), historian and author, Source: Freedom and Order, 1966

“We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.” Stephen Vincent Benet

“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.” Thomas Jefferson

“It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.” Eric Hoffer

“You see what power is—holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them!” Amy Tan

“Money becomes evil not when it is used to buy goods but when it is used to buy power… economic inequalities become evil when they are translated into political inequalities.” Samuel Huntington, political scientist