Ode To My Father (We The People Revisited)

My father used to always repeat the phrase, "Who guards the guards?" He would sometimes just say it out of the blue, more than likely he was thinking of something related but unsaid, but most of the time he said it whenever he noticed someone of "Authority" going too far, or pushing their weight around.


In recent years, as I have witnessed the increase of tyranny around the world -- both here in the states and abroad -- that phrase of my father's has often come to mind. Who does guard the guards?


The Administrators? No... Quite the opposite, if anyone is responsible for the actions of the guards, it is the administrators that unleash them. Remember, most guards, enforcers, police officers, and soldiers are just following orders. So who guards the guards?


There is only one answer: WE THE PEOPLE!


We the people are responsible for policing the police, if you will. If we do not stand up against tyranny, the tyranny continues, and will continue to go unchecked and become progressively worse. That is, until WE THE PEOPLE stand up for our rights not only as citizens, but as human beings gifted with a creative soul, that spark that can only come from a Creator or Creative Force or Source. So tyranny is not only an affront to WE THE PEOPLE, it is also (by default) an affront to the All Mighty.


We must begin to think of all forms of tyranny as a cancer of the worst kind, for it is historically the worst thing to ravage through mankind as well as the natural world. No one is free from tyranny once it rears it's ugly head. If you are merely a witness to tyranny, you are still a victim of it. If you are an enforcer of tyranny, you are still a victim of it. Tyranny effects us all negatively, and only a very select few receive any sort of benefit from it. Yet, even the administrators of tyranny are still imprisoned by the destructive forces it unleashes. A truly compassionate individual that cares for humanity as well as the future generations must stand up to tyranny -- one must realize that their is no other choice. For if you bow before tyranny, perhaps you escaped the gallows today, but you walk away a coward, always haunted by that same tyranny. For if you walk away a coward, it is only a matter of time before you either become the victim or the usurper -- either way, all compassion is killed by the force of subjugating power.


Tyranny is anti-compassion. We must learn to love one another again, not lust after, but truly be willing to die for one another in order to preserve the nature of freedom. In death, one is set free. This is why tyranny and torture is such a vile thing, for it can last a lifetime and beyond unless the common wealth of the people begin to realize that freedom is the only way to live, without freedom you are simply a beggar waiting to die.


Finally, I would like to thank my father. He was an immigrant, and he taught me, a natural born citizen, a lot more about freedom than I ever learned in public school. It took me this long to answer his question, however, even now I can feel him smiling at me from the Other Side. Who guards the guards? We The People.