The Age of Giants

     By paraphrasing this quotation slightly; "its demolition, started in 2000, is still the most wanton act of vandelic savagery in what has become a century of constitutional barbaism, signalled conclusively the end of the age of giants and the arrival of the age of pigmies."  This becomes very descrtiptive of the Bush administration and its attacks on the US Constitution.  Will the age of giants come again?  Not with the continuing arrogance, power grabs, suspension of habaes corpus, approval of torture, the promotion of greed, the old buddy system of reward, the continuance of the Patriot Act and the pillorying and condemnation of critics of such acts that diminish the entire United States at home and abroad.

It will take unprecedented cooperation of the different houses of the Congress to repair the damage that Bush and cohorts have done to the United States.  Enough of the internecine sniping and back stabbing our representatives (?) seem to look on as normal.  Cooperation is really necessary and not along party lines.  When will all the aspirants for president wake up and realize that only with the resoration of the Constitution to its full authority and vigor will the age of giants be able to make a comback.

Gordon S. Brand