The Reasonable Voice

“YOU’RE MY HERO!”

2010-01-19T06:25:00.000-08:00

The difficulty we are experiencing in this 21st century gives us reason to pause reflectively in recognition that there are those who have been or are seeking public office whose agenda is not very heroic. They are programmed by the “money changers” about whom we were warned centuries ago. They are the users up and abusers of the great gifts, of this exceptional “work in progress,” we call America. To be sure, they are convincing imitators of goodness, while profaning our faith and feigning patriotism. However they are not the good guys, for good guys do not look down on us from on high, while saying “no” to our Asking, Seeking & Knocking for a more secure footing in every way. From the shadows they keep us focused on personal problems and fearful of what tomorrow may bring. For in re-directing our preoccupation to what we think has been, they get back in!

What shadowy puppeteers fear most is consistency with Ghandi, FDR, Bobby, “Abraham, Martin & John,” who saw things not as they were, but might have been. A good man under constant fire, President Obama stubbornly fights to keep "the Ship of State" afloat in a sea left mined by lesser men. Americans love to bestow heroic status to many with less than heroic intentions. Like our votes, Presidents have been both good & bad for America, so perhaps we should worship less, and research more when choosing them. Too often polls reflect overreaction to misconceived expectations. So unless we wish to have our lives, the security of our children’s future and our Nation’s International Dignity muddied in the sludge of tyranny again, we need to stop believing in corporate owned “talking heads” and the National panic they beam, in the wake of a recurring Nixon, Bush and Cheney theme.

Create thinking time so we’re not herded, but heard. Stop looking back to a 1950’s tea time that never was. Purge, cleanse and purify ourselves of the devastation we inherited from our recent antics in the Bushes. Walk away from the banking institutions on which we bet the lives of our children. Turn down the volume, turn off the rhetoric and stop trusting those whose negative ads warp truth. Cease our mindless voting in reaction to media manipulation. Never, ever, ever again be duped by those who, like Rove & Woo, wipe their dirty shoes on our Constitution. Yes, we need another Massachusetts Democrat in the Senate, not because it’s a “Kennedy seat,” but because America needs responsible Health Care provision and not Republicans who keep us in the dark and on the run. Shine your light on the strings of their shadowy puppeteers, or else we are “left behind,” looking backwards in our mirrors. In the midst of a world, where dirt poor earthquake victims left with nothing, are pulled out of rubble singing praise, we must ask, is America still “The Home of the Brave?”

It’s all in the marketing, and Americans, looking for quick solutions are being duped by pretty faces, when what we really need is to support “Men of Reason.” Looking like our TV image of Superman, does not make a candidate a “Man of the People.” Arian Model looking Conservatives, like Scott Brown & Bob McDonnell are chosen for us for their TV camera appeal. You see, GOP Conservatives protect the status quo, because the status quo protects them. However, for Americans to move upward in an America that moves forward, we need to vote for substance, not whitewashing revisions of history, served up by superficial “suits.” “We the People,” need to Think Progressively, if we are to progress happily & securely throughout this new century. To prosper we need to be seen, counted and respected again. This is what “United We Stand” must mean.

In 2008, after our National government’s moral earthquake, the man from Hawaii said, “follow me” on a path we need to walk before we can run again. Given time, this vision will “Preserve, Protect and Defend." Our new President needs to count on us to be the Hero we all can be. If instead, after only a year we run scared, frightening Conservatives projecting misinformation into our homes with spewing dribble from “talking heads” who regurgitate “Mission Accomplished talking points,” will win by insuring American families lose. In 2010, in Massachusetts, in the Census, in mid-term Elections all across “the Land of the Free,” “We the People” must be our own Heroes and “Let Freedom Ring.”

Giving HOPE a helping hand,

Marcello Rollando
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Our Humanity,
Freedoms, Honesty and the Rule of Law

www.TheReasonableVoice.com
http://www.democratunity.com
http://my.nolimits.org/?xgsi=1
http://www.andreamiller.us/info

HAITI: OUR NATIONAL CONNECTION

2010-01-18T05:22:00.000-08:00

Now in tragedy, we can finally see our neighbor and benefactor HAITI. Any History buff can tell you that this most unfortunate, poverty stricken country, we now join an international effort not only to help, but to save, is in large part a recurring chapter in our Nation’s story. As an all but forgotten footnote, Haiti is the missing link which reveals the best and worst of America’s past, present and future: We Are A Connected People! In many ways the slave rebellion of Haiti, coming so soon after our own successful Revolution, is as vital to America being a country with a national reach “from sea to shining sea,” as our National generosity is now necessary to their survival. True it was the Europeans who began our march to the Second Continental Congress, our Declaration of Independence, the great experiment in our International “Exceptionalism” as “The First Modern Democracy,” albeit compromised at present, by the unpatriotic hypocrisy of “The Patriot Act,” and in the past, by the slaughtering of Native Americans. However, without “the War of Knives,” followed by Napoleon’s 1802 invasion, Crete-a-Pierrot, the arrest & death of Haitian freedom leader Toussaint, and, in less than 30 years after our own, the Declaration, in January 1804, of the Second Republic in the Western Hemisphere, we wouldn’t be the sum total of who & what we are. We’re connected.

If the ancestors of the very poor black Haitians who bravely hang on after the recent devastating earthquake, hadn’t made it “the better part of valor” for Napoleon to give Haiti back to the Haitians, in all likely-hood, our President Jefferson would not have had the opportunity to ignore Congress and the Constitution, and enlarge our not always united United States, by doubling the size of America with his 1803 Louisiana Purchase. See the connection?

As a Progressive Independent, I make every effort to listen to all points of view and choose the “Candidate” over the “Party.” I continue to appreciate and respect Republicans like Everett Dirksen and Governor Nelson Rockefeller, yes Goldwater too, and even those “tea baggers” who long for the rebirth of what the 50’s are supposed to have been, under the Golfer-in-Chief. However, living through the slow undoing of our National human decency and International respectability, resulting from the activities of people like, Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzales and Rove, it became increasingly difficult to understand how “We the People” could settle for such a poor reflection of ourselves, in our government. I know we have never been the perfect people our movies and even history books portray, but surely we know the Bush League redefined each of us to the world, in a most disappointing and embarrassing way. I'm not an Obama worshiper, and I have little faith in either National Political Party. However, there is no comparison between the lack of leadership of the self-serving Bush League and the mature, calm and deliberate leadership of a President with an International vision, who seems to reach out at every opportunity to embrace and include all points of view. It’s more than Bipartisanship. It’s International accountability. It’s connecting, responsibly.

Our new young President knows, while we must not try to rule the world, we must be good citizens of and in it. Observing the Haiti comments of our recent trio of Presidents, is a most vivid reminder of the contrast between the limited view, reminiscent of those administrations who turned a blind eye to Papa & Baby Doc, in a self-deluding mind-set of protecting us from Communism. “Just send your cash,” is precisely what you’d expect from a moral & mental midget who at best, is so incredibly insensitive & Internationally unaware, and at worst, just too uninterested in anything beyond his personal turf of Texas dirt. Thankfully, the people of the world, could at least see that two to one, our most recent Presidents are examples of America’s best sincere Humanitarian International Citizenship. The Haitians will see it too, just as soon as they have sufficient medical help, clean running water, enough food for their children, homes, clothes and yes, electricity once again. I have faith, that with God’s help and our own, these descendants of fighters for Freedom & Independence for the Second Republic in our neighborhood, will survive and win the day. In recovering from our own near destruction from the Bush/Cheney years, let us resurrect our Humanity and re-connect to our shared history with our Haitian neighbors, in a Renaissance of our Human Decency.

Giving HOPE a helping hand,

Marcello Rollando
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Our Humanity,
Freedoms, Honesty and the Rule of Law

www.TheReasonableVoice.com
http://www.democratunity.com
http://my.nolimits.org/?xgsi=1
http://www.andreamiller.us/info

"TO BE or NOT TO BE!"

2010-01-11T15:04:00.000-08:00

Yes, truly, that is the question. There are no more "sure things." The Robber Barons of Corporate greed set free by The Bush/Cheney Regime, have successfully eliminated our American certainty, and replaced it with near financial ruin. Yes, I'd hate to see anyone but a Kennedy in the Massachusetts Senate seat, but it's time for the American citizen to stop thinking in terms of the Media created fantasy of Blue vs. Red, used by “talking heads” to ease their herding of the masses. As both Steele & Reid have proven, there are mental midgets in both National Parties.

This is a call for recognition: it's not about Color, or Party, or who you voted for in the past. It's about a new low for those in high office. It’s about a middle class that needs to rise up and put Banks, Wall Street, Media and Government in their proper place and perspective. It's about the newly “have nots,” taking back America from the "Money Changers."

And, it’s about Time!

Now we have no choice but to give elected officials and Business Institutions a taste of being “Left Behind” in the “Dark Side” they have created. It’s Time for “We The People,” to step back out into the Light of Free Will, Free Thinking and Freedom. It’s Time to restore the rights of both those who have paid their dues for family & country and those who have paid their debt to society. It’s Time to resurrect our Human Decency and protect it from all industries who look down on us as cattle to be herded to financial slaughter. Time to realize Corporate CEOs and their Board Members don’t care about you, your children, nor your neighbors and friends. Time to “Seize the Day, confident in the truth that, Corporate leaders don’t believe you & I will really do anything about their using us to maintain their lifestyle with outrageous bonuses. Out of sight, in the shadows of secrets and lies, Banks and other institutions are scrambling to think of newer schemes to drain our financial blood, and keep their corporate hearts beating the life out of us and our Nation. However, now they scramble also, out of a new fear of us. They are scared of the President with the new look from the foreign country of Hawaii. They are scared of what might happen when “We the People” decide to push back. They are scared of us, out here in the real US. HEADLINE: Wall Street lives in growing fear of Main Street. This is the Truth that sets us Free.

So stop blaming our purchased government, and cut off the money at its source. Take your money from The Takers, but don’t stop there. Sign petitions, rally your neighbors, call & write members of Congress, and yes, implore all conservatives to let go of their fear to let go of the “status quo.” Proclaim to all, this will be “the Land of the Free” again, beginning with me. Let those five per centers at the financial top, know that our American grass roots are now producing thousands of “George Baileys” who are making a comeback to re-take the “Home of the Brave.” “We The People” will not be the manure under their feet used to fertilize their financial takes. Send a clear message, in this year of Census and Elections, “We the People” count for something other than their source of “green.” Demand the repeal of the most unpatriotic “Patriot Act,” as just one of many wake up calls for the ensconced old guard holding hostage our National government and personal economies. Remember the power of the words, “I AM,” and proclaim across the political range, “I Am the Change,” and I’m coming to a Board Room near you, very soon. “We the People” now see the true color of Corporate America, and it’s not Red, White, Blue or Black. It’s Green, and cold calculating domestic Corporate anti-American activities of greed and oppression are as dangerous to our American financial stability as any attack from murderous members of al Qaeda. Now, America, “Lift Every Voice and Sing: “Let Freedom Ring.”

Giving HOPE a helping hand,

Marcello Rollando
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Our Humanity,
Freedoms, Honesty and the Rule of Law

www.TheReasonableVoice.com
http://www.democratunity.com
http://my.nolimits.org/?xgsi=1

WHAT's The HARM?!?

2010-01-06T05:42:00.000-08:00

No doubt there will be near misses and failures in our Homeland Security, especially since at least 1900 our Federal Government has done little to prepare us for a realistic, mutually beneficial and humane international world view. The truth is, like it or not, we all must share this earth with some degree of sensitivity to all Nations, Peoples, Environment and animal life who live upon it.

While the Bush/Cheney Administration may have been the least practitioners of such "justice for all," and most blatant in their efforts to profit from power by negatively programing, instead of helping the citizens it swore "to preserve protect and defend," they were by no means the first to do so. Still, the Bush League played us and "We the People" played into their hands, with the oft revisited "Macho, Macho Man" routine, proclaiming us the best, biggest, badest, John Wayne in the world, and who can forget, "Mission Accomplished!"

However, we've been here before. Remember, “The "Bay of Pigs" was the result of a CIA Dulles lying to his President and his country, just as DICK breath Cheney and his GOP cohorts have done to "We the People" throughout the 21st century.

Perhaps it's time to stop being so foolishly gullible. We were duped into thinking we were a Super Human Race – remind you of anyone? Now, we need less self-righteousness and more listening, careful review, checking our inner mirror to see ourselves as our fellow human beings around the world see us. Time to be attentive at all levels, to all things, insist on a government that shares information and communicate peacefully with each other, even those who blindly march still, in lock step with policies that put us “In Harm’s Way.”

Giving HOPE a Helping Hand,

A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Our Humanity,
Freedoms, Honesty and the Rule of Law
www.TheReasonableVoice.com
http://www.democratunity.com
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“UNITED We Stand” is Not Just About WAR!

2010-01-02T16:37:00.000-08:00

Most of my political life, I have been an Independent, more often than not, successful at appreciating all points of view and choosing the candidate over the “Party.” I’m also old enough, not only to remember, but appreciate and respect Republicans like Everett Dirksen and Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and even Goldwater. However, living through the slow undoing of our National human decency and International respectability during the “Dark Ages” of the Bush/Cheney/Rice/Rumsfeld/Gonzales/Rove administration, it became increasingly difficult to understand how we as a people could settle for such a low self-image of ourselves. I know we have never been the perfect people our movies and even history books portray, but surely we know when we’re being Nationally and Internationally redefined in a most disappointing way. Now, I don’t claim to be a scholar but I certainly don’t rely on Google or on either our mainstream or “new media” as my only resource/research for information and perspective, so I know when I’m being manipulated and I have to believe that those ever increasing “talking heads” with their ever narrowing self-serving talking points, know as well.

It doesn’t matter whether you are Republican, Democrat, Independent or Progressive, it simply is not acceptable to continue to lie to ourselves about how the first 21st century administration delivered us into this evil. To be reasonable, they didn’t create our most pressing dangers, however they did choose to profit from them. Using our Faith and Patriotism as cover, they marched us into a State of Fear, until we became “True Believers.” As we are about to be counted for representation and maneuvered into media driven
mid-term election mind-set, we simply need & must mute the rhetoric (even our own) so we can listen intelligently and review mentally all that we have been told, seen, heard and experienced in the first nine years of this New Millennium, because much is suspect, and deep down inside where we left our thinking caps, we know it.

No matter who you voted for in 2000, 2004, 2006, or 2008, who you vote for in 2010 is going to say who we are. As my European friends told me, “once could have been your Supreme Court, but twice, that was you.” So please let us take off our “Love it or Leave it” blinders or “rosy colored glasses” and see the world as the world sees us. Black, white, rich, poor, Conservative, Liberal, young, old, poor, middle class and even some rich (though not so much), we have been used, and if we continue to let Conservative spin scare us into irrational choices, we will never regain our common sense. Surely we can recognize when a hypocrite accuses us of being unpatriotic if we don’t shoot first and ask questions later. Surely we have not been blindsided so long that a Peter King and Joe Liberman do not offend us with their opportunistic grand standing. Please tell me, we don’t accept the near miss of loss of human life on Christmas Day, as we swallowed the politicizing of 9/11, with jet deck landing and “Mission Accomplished” pontification. Surely, we have seen the light by now and know it’s time to think reasonably, act responsibly and work together.

Terrorism and the acts of terrorists, domestic or foreign, in our seats of governmental power or neighborhoods needs to be recognized, acknowledged and overcome.
Right Conservatives are wrong: It is not weak for an American President to “review the situation” before plowing us under by blundering blindly forward. However, even if the GOP was correct, it is morally wrong to use human life and any threat to it or near catastrophe as a political means to fire up a frustrated base of support. Now whether you read the Bible, newspapers or tea leaves – think. Reconsider how every Congress & President from 1900 to 2008, regardless of Party, have led to a Nation that praises and believes in the secrets and lies of oil men in our White House, but also led to a President who is willing to accept responsibility, admit mistakes and even hold accountable those in government who failed to protect us. Can you even imagine GW, Cheney, Peter King, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Steele, Sarah Palin speaking so maturely and acting so responsibly?

Giving HOPE a Helping Hand,

Marcello Rollando

A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Our Humanity,
Freedoms, Honesty and the Rule of Law
www.TheReasonableVoice.com
http://www.democratunity.com
http://my.nolimits.org/?xgsi=1

“GOOD RIDDANCE” to TOM DELAY

2009-12-29T09:41:00.000-08:00

Congratulations America: We’ve almost made it through the first decade of this new 21st century. How impressive we were, United & Counted in an historic 2008 reversal of fortune of eight years of abuse of power. Yes, for one brief shining moment, we were “We the People” again wielding the power to govern our government as originally intended. Yet, just like the Israelites in the desert, here we stand complaining “yeah, but what have you done for us lately,” not realizing our doubts and fears are fueled by those who fuel the economy for their own global satisfaction.

Truly, this has been a painful year for far too many, but the pain we endure must include a realization that there are those both in and seeking public office who simply don’t care about you, your family or your mortgage payments. They are the “money changers” about whom we were warned centuries ago. They are the users up and abusers of the great gifts, of this exceptional work in progress, we call America. They have become convincing imitators of goodness, profaning our faith and feigning patriotism. However they are not the good guys, for good guys do not look down on us from on high, while saying “no” to our Asking, Seeking & Knocking for a more secure footing. They want us focused on personal problems and fearful of what tomorrow may bring, for when they keep us standing still & distracted, we long for what we think has been. And they want back in!

So unless we wish to have our lives, the security of our children’s future and our Nation’s International Dignity ground into the ground again, it’s time to join those, like the passengers and crew on Christmas Day in the skies above Detroit, and stand up for ourselves. Willingly, Happily and Gladly be counted in the Census and counted on in the voting booth, so that “We the People” determine our family’s representation. For if we allow Conservative State Legislations to “run the table” like Tom DeLay playing with the numbers, we will neither be counted, or even count. The Census, like the voting booth, count us in, in “The Land of the Free.” This is our only path to being Nationally seen, heard, respected, preserved, protected, defended and prospered. This is what “United We Stand” needs to mean.

Conservatives protect the status quo, because the status quo protects them. So if you want to progress forward and upward, vote for Progressive thinkers. Naturally, we can count on GOP who got us here, to “take” us again, when we fear. However, to Reinvigorate Job Creation, Improve Education for all our Children, Develop our Communities, Protect our Religious Freedoms without imposing them on others, our new President needs to count on “We the People” to help him resurrect our “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” If we run scared, Conservatives win their PR battle with misinformation, regurgitating talking points and spewing dribble from talking heads.

In 2010, to guarantee our Voting Districts in a way that honestly represents us in The U. S., “We the People” must be counted on to be “The Voice of the People.”

Giving HOPE a Helping Hand,
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Our Humanity,
Freedoms, Honesty and the Rule of Law
www.TheReasonableVoice.com
http://www.democratunity.com
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PLEASE HEAR US and LISTEN!

2009-12-24T05:37:00.000-08:00

PLOUFFE, GIBBS & AXELROD --

I understand what is, as well as what isn’t in the long awaited Health Care bill voted on in Congress this Christmas Eve, and I support the President completely.

I’m writing for those who aren't as fortunate as we, because what’s left of the President’s desire for Health Care Reform after "the good, bad and ugly" Congress has inflicted upon it, is still a wonderful step forward, at long last, but your one sided communications fall far too short of what the public needs to hear to enthusiastically support it. In short, the Republicans are winning the Info/PR war.

"We the People" need to hear from you that you have heard us. So make your various websites more interactively user friendly. There needs to be back & forth exchange before you can call it a conversation with America or "Change." While Americans are not as dumb as Republicans think, many are not quite as sophisticated as the President, and you guys need some On Camera work at communicating his great ideas, to achieve a greater majority.

As senior White House Staff, you need to understand that although Health Care Reform will favorably impact on our overall National economy eventually, every moment of every day and around most family dinner tables, “We the People” are focused on what is impacting negatively on their daily personal economy – an impact that far too often has resulted, not from anything they have done, but what was done to them by their own Bush League government and Banking institutions. Just one example: loans can only be made to people with jobs and a good credit rating, but after Banks without warning lowered credit lines and raised interest rates on credit cards and other sources of buying power for the general public, “We the People” were left with plummeting credit scores. Thus they can’t get the loans the President is asking Banks to make, especially if they find themselves suddenly unemployed or even under employed.

Now having had one Emperor "W" with a "Bismarck" Dick sidekick, most Americans are not asking the President to be a Dictator, but perhaps a little bit of an FDR wouldn't hurt. While I applaud the President's courageous efforts to reunite our country with Bipartisanship, the reality is, some very greedy Republicans and Bank Board Members got us, the USA and now the President into this financial funk, and they care very little about him or the Hopes & Dreams of Americans.

So please Mr. President, Stop Asking and Start Telling: Real Health Care Reform requires more than 60 votes in Congress. It requires Health Care Reform in our National MIND-SET: YES, both eating habits of a fast food nation and Fast Food Corporations must share in responsibility for our National Obesity; YES, Healthy Reform in Public Education is as necessary to the development of our youth, as are more healthy items on the school lunch menu, for an educated mind is a most valuable asset to any Nation; YES, Healthy Campaign Finance Reform would lead the way to lucrative health in any National Budget for Preventive Care, for bridges, schools, Community Centers and fewer foreclosures. For the best of Health, invest more in Peace and less in war. This is the Truth about America that will set us free from The Takers. Then again we will be “Sweet Land of Liberty.”

This is the America I remember in my dreams and it is “…of thee I sing:” “Let Freedom Ring!”

Giving HOPE a Helping Hand,

Marcello Rollando
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Our Humanity,
Freedoms, Honesty and the Rule of Law

www.TheReasonableVoice.com
http://www.democratunity.com

TIME TO REMEMBER!

2009-12-19T13:30:00.000-08:00

After two terms of “dead or alive” Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice/Gonzales/Addington/Yoo misadministration, it is baffling that many Americans remain convinced by the Rovian marketing of their version of reality. How utterly afraid GW and the Big Dick must be that we will someday wake up to the Truth: the Bush League, consistent with Reagan’s castration of Government responsibility to the American people (including Tea Baggers), chose to respond to the murders on 9/11, not by pursuing those in Afghanistan who were responsible, but rather by using young American men and women as pawns in a wholly unjustifiable war for short term oil riches and long term financial draining of a potential middle eastern empire.

The TRUTH: every life sacrificed in and for the IRAQ war is a life used and destroyed by its own government; Our first 21st Century administration lacked any sense of humanity, lost in its own clichés, sound bites, secrets, lies and smirking rhetoric, it redirected “We the People” into We the Duped, as we sat watching the double talk of Corporate owned "talking heads."

Wouldn't this season of snowy Holidays be a good time to take off our “Love It or Leave It” blinders, put on our thinking caps and get actively involved with the only Truth that will set us free from the low road lesser men & women would have us continue to trod, against all that we claim to stand for. If indicting traitors from a former administration is too awkward for National consumption, then can we at least stop listening to and being fooled by those “Left Behind” as proof of a most shameful period in our Nation’s history: The "Dark Ages of Bush & Cheney.

True, we were never as perfect as our movies & history books portrayed, but at least we were honest enough to admit we were a work in progress attempting to live up to the Ideal that was the Idea of America. However, that was before our religious beliefs became a weapon the GOP used to incite our mob mentality. If we continue to follow their fearful lead, we will be forced to profess the belief that in just one single year, one good man elected to the highest office of the Land should have eliminated all the challenges that face us. This is indeed group self-denial. Although, perhaps if we had elected someone like Barrack Obama before, and indeed waged the correct war where Al Qaeda was instead of where the oil is, we just might have found and defeated those who invaded America and murdered us on September 11, 2001 -- eight long years ago.

However, we didn’t do that. No we, in a state of righteous indignation over oral sex denials, elected an unprincipled regime who wiped their oily boots on the Constitution of the United States of America while the blood of our youth dripped from their hands. Wrapped in the American flag, they marketed themselves as standard bearers of family values. We were duped by fairy tales of spin. So will we continue to allow Congressional Republicans to blame and criticize those who are trying to clean up the mess dumped on our Nation by these stampeding elephants in search of shadowy hiding places, OR shall we stand tall, accept, if not admit the unfortunate effect of the Bush League on our personal economy and International reputation, and join our new President in a period of repair and healing: "United We Stand?"

The choice is ours, but I hope the next time you feel yelling “Kill the Bill,” or screaming out impatient talking points over the Health Care Reform compromises of Senator Harry Reid or the length of war or surge of troops, or the loss of jobs, the foreclosures and devalued stocks, might I suggest you insist that the Bush/Cheney Administration be brought to Justice for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, so you can address those truly responsible, as well as their accomplices before & after the fact: The C Street House Family & their “Family Values” friends, including but not limited to: John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, Jim DeMint, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, the John Birch Society and the how low can you go Joe Liebermann. The Choice is clear and it's Yours to make.

Giving HOPE a Helping Hand,

Marcello Rollando
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Our Humanity,
Freedoms, Honesty and the Rule of Law
www.TheReasonableVoice.com
http://www.democratunity.com

Mr. PRESIDENT

2009-12-14T07:40:00.000-08:00

BANKS Got USA, You and US into This, so Don't Ask, TELL: NO FORECLOSURES for a Year AND accept any monthly mortgage payment over 50% of the home buyer's regular payment. It's only humane that those struggling to pay their mortgages be given this chance to survive financially and keep the greatest investment any family can make: A Home of their own in which to Live!

In the usual “The House Never Loses” mind-set, Bank CEOs and their well placed lobbyists choosing to “cut off their noses to spite their faces,” have decided that Americans will lose their homes (& Credit Rating) before the Banking Institutions will make any adjustment to the new post Bush League economic reality facing our Nation and working families. Time for “We the People” to put Family before CITI and admonish Supreme Court for proclaiming “Corporations are individuals.” They Are NOT, but our children are!

Thanks to Conservatives and the 1886 Supreme Court interpretation of the 14th Amendment, the “Land of the Free” is infected with a lucrative institutionalized corporate structure that is anti-individual. Buyer Beware: Wall Street Conservatives and Banking Institutions who have delivered unto us this second coming of “The Great Depression,” sail on ships kept afloat by Our Money, leaving "We the People" bobbing up and down in a personal sea of RED.

So instead of continuing to bailout out those who monthly gouge our personal family budget, Let's Stop our flow of money from reaching the Board rooms & yachts of Banker’s schemes, by putting it in the vaults of Community CREDIT UNIONS.

"We the People" need to close our accounts with International Banks who have purchased other Banks using Our Money, and invest in our family budgets by opening accounts with Local Community Banks.

Mr. President: Tell the TAKERS that you support that and see how quickly they find some human decency. When millions of Our Money move from the coffers of BofA, CITI & Wells Fargo, “Change we can Believe in” will naturally follow. Then see, How Green the Valley will be for American families from “Sea to Shining Sea!”

Marcello Rollando
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Our Humanity,
Freedoms, Honesty and the Rule of Law
www.TheReasonableVoice.com
http://www.democratunity.com

Our Children REAP What the RIGHT REDS SOW:

2009-11-27T08:11:00.000-08:00

Since 2000 we’ve been travelling a less admirable road, but its inception wasn’t Florida chads or a Supreme Court compromised; nor Ohio voting machines or Iran Contra; nor even Watergate’s felons. The very moment “We the People,” decided to collectively ignore corporate greed and become “the takers” of the easy money Banks heaped upon us, "we stepped in it." Once chasing the next buck became our raison d’être, our children’s future outsourced and their education & sense of family & neighborhood replaced with online shopping, tweets and political sound bites of insulting "spin,” our National path became the low road. Then Bush League assured quicksand was added into the mix and stirred to their $astifaction.

However, it all started the first time someone seriously felt justified in professing "America, Love it or Leave it,” and “My Country, Right or wrong!” It started where the Middle Class is neither welcome or invited: in gated communities, Bank Board Rooms and sanctuaries of Congressional Lobbyists. It started when our Second Continental Congress removed freedom for slaves from the Declaration of Independence. It was the Sedition Act of John Adams; Andrew Jackson’s insistence that “the red savage” was dispensable because he was an inferior race and a conquered people; it was Tyler & Polk in Mexico; Lincoln’s assassination & Wilson’s isolationism; Hoover’s inability to deal & Eisenhower’s waiting for the last round of golf before inviting us to the wedding between Military justification & Corporate manipulation; it was Nixon’s redefining presidential power, Reaganomics castrating Government involvement in our lives and a CIA Chief serving as Commander-in-Chief; it was our over reaction to oral sex in Biblical proportions! Thus we now reap the red ink residue sown by "Cool, Cool Conservative Men," and our families get to pay bills which, like our children, have been "Left Behind.” Final costs reserved for us now by the Flag Waving Right Reds is the red blood of our youth irrigating foreign soil – innocently believing in the Service Deferred Dick hiding amongst the Bushes.

Marcello Rollando
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Our Humanity,
Freedoms, Honesty and the Rule of Law

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CONSERVATIVES Have Their Facts RIGHT!

2009-10-11T12:09:00.001-07:00

FACT: the starting point of any healthy debate on behalf of Freedom, Justice and the American way must begin, and Rightly so, with protection for those who profit from the sale of insurance and their souls, while Conservatively insuring savings on the expense of providing Health Care.

FACT: That we are even debating the need for affordable health care for all Americans, though good Republicanism, is as American as rotten apple pie.

FACT: Heated exchanges in the dog days of summer solidifying a marriage of convenience between GOP and Blue Dog Democrats, even before their divorce from the American People was final, is what makes Tom Delay dance on the tombstone of “that government of the people, by the people, for the people…”

FACT: a purchased government, assisted by corporate owned showbiz oriented news media is an invaluable combination for our enlisting in the ever increasing impressive membership of “Third World Countries.” “Right On!”

FACT: Mindset of American Corporations, especially Banking Institutions is Capitalism in its purest state: “The Rich Get Rich and the Poor get Poorer;” “We the People” know “What’s good for General Motors is good for the USA:” Bankruptcy, you say? See your Conservative Congressman for an estimate today, but enclose fee to expedite.

FACT: Rightly re-directed & blinded to “The Dark Side,” thus failing to see the escaping escapees Rove, Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Cheney and GW, is Right on target with “…government is the problem,” while “United We Stand,” like our school children, was “Left Behind.”

FACT: It is the natural order of things for Middle Class tax dollars to be recycled to those who enabled Banking Institutions to loan working families into late month re-runs of the “Great Depression:” Right on the Red Line from Reagan to Bush, for America’s “top of the heap,” it’s the Right connection.

FACT: Isn’t it Right that working Americans pay for their healthy sons, daughters, husbands & wives to be torn in pieces by war, leaving us with crumbling Conservatively funded schools, bridges, neighborhoods, streets and family voids sacrificed to the New World Order. That’s Right? Right? Damn Right, it is!

FACT: Thirty more pieces of silver toward overloading the bulging pockets of a Wall Street that enabled Corporations to bust the budget of borrowing American families is more Simon LaGree than “Give me your tired, your poor.” Nonetheless, “America, Love it or Leave it” still works for those who reap from the rape of the new “huddled masses…the homeless, tempest-tossed:” You & Me.

FACT: Conservatively speaking, protecting the Insurance Industry & Pharmaceutical Companies instead of our children or their grandparents is the Right reflection of the fear of Conservatives in: “In order to form a more perfect Union…” But have no fear, for BLACKWATER will soon be Right on your street corner saving you from what’s Left.

FACT: In a Lobbied Congress of 218 Republicans and 52 Conservative Democrats, there is no 60 vote majority for those who are stuck with the check at the end of the Texas Tea Party. It’s not the aromatic Bill of Rights we now breathe free. What fills our family dining room at dinner time, is the sweet smell of Conservative success in duping us out of our most stabilizing American asset: The Middle Class.

FACT: It’s the Conservative bill from the Right that is the stench stifling our personal finances. Time for “We the People” to click “refresh” and eject Conservative fear from our bank accounts. Then “the wind beneath our wings” will be our own cleansing Humanitarian breath of fresh air, which will disperse self-serving Conservative clouds of doubt & greed that prevent a Transparent Government, Regulated Corporations and a fighting vote for MEDICARE for ALL AMERICANS EVERYWHERE!

Marcello Rollando
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of
Freedom, Honesty and the Rule of Law

“LET’s SLOW DOWN and GET THIS RIGHT!”

2009-07-30T08:44:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I’m RIGHT there with “Waterloo” Senator Jim DeMint. I mean, where did moving forward ever get us but in unfamiliar territory, and then what, “Single Payer?!?” Conservatives are RIGHT about HEALTH CARE Reform killing off the old people, poof Alzheimer’s, all gone. Like my daddy told Truman, “Harry, what in God’s name is the hurry? As far as I can see, throughout the Halls of Congress, everyone is covered, at least their asses.” “To the right, ever to the right; Never to the left, forever to the right; May our creed be never to exceed; Regulated speed, no matter what the need.”
Now all of a sudden our HEALTH CARE system isn’t good enough. This is all the fault of FDR giving LBJ “Great Society” ideas. We’ve always been Great for the RIGHT people. Next thing they’ll be drudging up JFK and claiming that HEALTH CARE too, “is a moral issue as old as the scriptures and as solid as the Constitution.” The Declaration of Independence may offer “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, but the Constitution says nothing about HEALTH CARE for all Americans. Getting a Driver’s License is the RIGHT way to think about this: HEALTH CARE is a privilege (not a right) rewarded by locals, and we can trust them (a lot more than some foreigner from Hawaii) to get it RIGHT.

RIGHT now, healing HEALTH CARE is just way too reckless and painful an adjustment. Isn’t it enough we can’t use the N word in public anymore. I mean being Red is RIGHT as long as you stick to the code: “To the right, ever to the right; Never to the left, forever to the right; We have gold, a market that will hold; Tradition that is old, a reluctance to be bold.” Now being RIGHT may sound like FRIGHT, but those that’s got the Gold makes the rules, and what’s RIGHT can always scare up enough frantic support. Reagan was RIGHT: the economy can take care of itself. The best thing our Government can do is allow America’s major corporations to boost the American economy from the top down. Obviously Corporate leadership knows the RIGHT way to take care of the Middle Class and lower income citizens; RIGHT people don’t need government. They stimulate the old fashioned way, by investing their Golden Parachutes in as many yachts, mansions and high tech obsolete war munitions, as possible. Then the rest of us will see some money. Now, in your heart of hearts, you know that’s RIGHT, RIGHT?

“Change” is a foreign concept to the institutionalized, be they Bankers, Insurance & Pharmaceutical Boards, or even those who’ll do all the RIGHT things to maintain their Capital Hill employment security. Besides, when did Progressive thinking become a good thing for real Americans. What’s wrong with being RIGHT all of a sudden? I mean, where would we be now if it weren’t for such great Americans like war mongers Rumsfeld & Wolfawitz, or Defenders of Justice Gonzales & Addington, or Constitutional script doctors Yoo & Rove, or the out of sight, but not out of commission, shell game artist: Tom DeLay; not to mention my personal favorite for whom we’ll all end up bending over to support -- Super Dick: Cheney. Now that’s what’s RIGHT about America!

RIGHT now I’m certain Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Bill Kristol already know what The C Street FAMILY has decided is RIGHT HEALTH CARE for the rest of us. “The FAMILY” is the proof of the Righteousness of the RIGHT. “Cancer on the Presidency” be damned. Doug Coe and Family are now RIGHT in the Congress: “Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble.”
“Come ye cool, cold conservative men; The likes of which may never be seen again (don’t bet on it!); With our land, cash in hand; Self-command, future planned; And we'll hold to our gold; Tradition that is old; reluctant to be bold. “To the right, ever to the right; Never to the left, forever to the right; May our creed be never to exceed; Regulated speed, no matter what the need.”

Signed:
Not so Stupidly Yours, Cause we’re covered by The Family,

RIGHT Conservatives & Blue Dogs,

Submitted By:
Marcello Rollando, The Reasonable Voice,
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Freedom, Honesty and the Rule of Law = This is what it means to be a Progressive American!
www.TheReasonableVoice.com

YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED

2009-06-06T21:03:00.000-07:00

FRIENDS time to be the Hero, to enlighten, inspire and empower all American citizens to stand up, speak out, & be heard on the issues that most impact your self-esteem, your pride in your Country and the daily lives of your families.

Issues like: Banking Institutions who take without giving back to the Community; the Outsourcing, Offshore Tax Evasion & Greed of our Corporations; Domestic Spying, Governmentally Sanctioned Torture, Universal Health Care; The renewal of our National commitment to the Rule of Law and Accountability.

It will take more than one person, one speech or even one President. It will take “We The People” recommitted to demonstrating The Golden Rule as Good International Citizens! It will take introspection, investigation and perhaps even prosecution, but most of all, it will take filling the world with love, not war.

America, though one Nation is more than a one issue country. So I challenge all Americans to express your concerns and your solutions and your hopes.
Please help The Reasonable Voice give your voice National Muscle.

Then “United We Stand” will truly be Our Identity and Our Destiny. So email TRV your personal concerns, your professional worries and your financial fears and Marcello@TheReasonableVoice.com and you will become a vital part of our Mission to raise a might voice from every state in the Nation, against the rape of our freedoms.
The Reasonable Voice can be one expressway to what you envision.

After all, being Patriotic is not about Blue vs. Red States. It’s about being a good neighbor and citizen of The United States.
Being American is more than military might. It’s even more than bragging rights.

Being a Patriot is about reaching out, about joining in, about fighting the good fight for Family, Neighborhoods, and Community Friends.
Being a good citizen is about planning for the future, about Educating our Children, Respecting Senior Citizens and providing all with descent National Health Care.

Being American is about remembering those, all too often forgotten; about speaking out, helping out and accountability.
Being an American Patriot is being an International Citizen, with Good Will toward the Earth and all that live upon it.

A true Patriot recognizes what needs repair and seizes the opportunity to Speak up for family, friends and those who can’t speak for themselves.

Will you, your associates, your neighbors and your friends join The Reasonable Voice to fight the good fight?

Thank you,
Marcello Rollando, The Reasonable Voice
Marcello@TheReasonableVoice.com

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THE CLOCK IS TICKING

2009-05-23T16:52:00.000-07:00

As Jack knows, nothing wakes a sleeping giant so much as something that stinks. So, are you awake America, because it still smells RIGHT. The Truth is, our banking institutions and their credit card policies, break no laws. Indeed, it’s quite believable that they are run by law abiding citizens, RIGHT off our shores. True, we’ve been damaged by such RIGHT guys. So forget the snooze button. Heed the alarm. Rise up and answer this call to action. It’s TIME!

“Yes We Can” re-direct the greed of banks and the energy of corporate boards, by personally engaging and focusing our government into the Power of Universal Health Care and EDUCATION! Knowledge is Power for our children’s future, but Wisdom, is the Power we have today, over Government & Corporate Execs, who prey. Tick Tock. Stop their clock.

TIME to turn off those talking heads: the public face of those who duped us into poverty in the first place. TIME to Purge, Cleanse and Purify ourselves of the residue of darkness, the masters of Halliburton and of that Rovian re-direction. Tick Tock. Reset your clock.

TIME “to preserve, protect and defend,” not what is RIGHT, but what is Correct, Responsible and from Within. TIME to hold the “money changers” accountable, be they banks, credit card companies or lobbyists who put their financial gain above the good of our Communities, Neighborhoods, Physical & Mental Health, Education and Children! Tick Tock, before the clock strikes again.

TIME YES, to run on the banks, but not the way you think. No, unlike the Constitutional interpretations of John Yoo & Alberto Gonzales, you’ll find no advocates of violence here, nor suggestions that you stuff your mattress with what’s left over after “bailouts.” However, it is TIME to identify the enemy, and stop rewarding those who pick your family’s pockets. TIME to change, for the RIGHT Way is the Wrong Way. Tick Tock. Start your Stop Watch.

TIME to put banks on notice. TIME you realized “Money Talks” best, when it walks with Education and Universal Health Care. TIME to divorce Insurance Companies and marry what’s LEFT. Tick Tock. Now clock in.

TIME to Stop the Greedy at the top, by denying their access to your bottom line. TIME to realize your deposits are the money banks need to borrow from you. TIME to seek repayment, in low interest rates, reasonable credit lines and flexible due dates. Greed and guilt, breed their over-kill reaction. Banks are scared, so we need not fear. Any cash you move gets it done, for “United we Stand” and “We The People,” are one. TIME to Ask, Seek, Knock. Tick Tock. Restart your clock.

TIME to start paying for the important things, like Universal Health Care and our Children’s Education. TIME also to remember the forgotten: Families who live at or below poverty line ($7.25 min wage: 7/24/09). TIME to Educate, Inoculate and Incorporate them in. TIME too, to respect our elders, before the clock runs out. Tick Tock. Rewind the clock.

TIME To Be The Authority once again, for the time to question authority, has come and gone. TIME for the three of us: Government, Corporations and “We the People,” to mutually support “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”

It’s TIME,
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of
Freedom, Honesty and the Rule of Law,

Marcello Boss Rollando
www.TheReasonableVoice.com
marcello@TheReasonableVoice.com

“A Wise Man is hungry for TRUTH, while the fool feeds on trash” … Proverbs 15

2009-05-23T15:56:00.000-07:00

Recently I watched FROST/NIXON for the first time, years after I Directed “Nixon’s Nixon,” (then titled NIXON & KISSENGER) at the Circle Rep Theatre, in New York City, by masterful playwright, Russell Lees. For the most part, the film was as boring as a docudrama can be, when we forget that to educate, we must first entertain. Nonetheless, the last 30 minutes of the film were as moving and disturbing as the real events. This due primarily, to its prequel (The Assassinations of the 60’s) and its sequel, (the election of George W Bush & Dick Cheney – twice).

Needless to say, I wept deeply all over again, not for Nixon, despite Frank Langella’s brilliant portrayal of the Constitutional betrayer. I wept for America and all Americans everywhere, because for all of the hard lessons of Watergate, “We the People” still allowed the Bush League of Cheney, Rove et al, to drag us once again, through the mud of Treason, Murder of our youth in Iraq & Afghanistan and a loss of our International Integrity.

Despite the white wash of our history text books, we were never an innocent people, perfect in every way, but at least we wanted to be. Unlike the CIA, we were born out of an ideal of national brotherly love. Unlike Dick Cheney, we dared to dream of leading the world by the very highest and best example of the Golden Rule. Yet, for eight years, “We the People” allowed a government steeped in secrets, lies and joint ventures with corrupt banking institutions, Corporate greed and CIA Secret Prisons, to redefine us.

Not even Watergate made us submit to that. We dethroned the villains then. Shouldn’t we at least imprison them now?
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of
Freedom, Honesty and the Rule of Law,

Marcello Boss Rollando
www.TheReasonableVoice.com
marcello@TheReasonableVoice.com

Listen to our Mirror on the Mall

2009-04-13T08:20:00.000-07:00

During the dark ages of the Bush League, it was perhaps too difficult to hear the prologue of The Reasonable Voice over the demons of rhetoric promoting fear and confusion, but as we discover just how far we’ve drifted out of tune with our world, perhaps in celebration of the election of our new President, we can, once again hear (& listen to) the harmony of The Reasonable Voice within.

From time to time, most of us seem to resist the pain of facing the music for what is good for us: school, exercise, healthy diet, reading, alone time and taking/making the time to really Listen to the Truth. Listen to our children, our neighbors; Listen to the birds singing and the wind in the trees; Listen to what strangers are saying (even those who speak against us), but most of all, Listen to those leaders who claim to speak for us. Once again The Reasonable Voice invites all Americans, regardless of political persuasion to take a little time to Listen to the diverging sounds all around us, and still the dissonance such noises cause, with the peace that comes with Listening to all points of view. In such moments, you may even hear your own true nature speak to you. It may be frightening or even shameful at first, but Listen until you hear the whispering sixth grader from within. That’s your Reasonable Voice.

Listening to your Reasonable Voice will rekindle in you, a goals filled purpose and visionary mission of hope for the resurrection of a principled America, which could offer again the promise of the equality of dreams. Within the refrains of chest beating at our victory over pirates & patriotic rhetoric, perhaps we should also welcome (if not encourage) the emerging pulse of Political Revolution, if we are to create an American restoration, with any hope of replacing the darkness and residue of Rove, Cheney & Bush. Let our National Chorus celebrate peace & International Humanity, as well as the defeat of piracy. Let 2009 revive our sense of a Happy International New Year that is worthy of our Nation’s creation, as well as our Nation’s Creator. Listen to the truth about our leadership; then Listen to the truth about what constitutes real Leadership. Listen to the morality of The Golden Rule; then Listen to the immorality of our recent Administration. Listen, then revolt against those whose governance continues to be so revolting, for their residue still permeates our CIA & Justice Dept.

Listen to the crescendo of reason stirring & steering within you. Then follow as it leads you to reject the disharmony and dishonesty of those who have wiped their feet on our Constitution while pretending to revere our Flag and values. Listen to the growing drum beat for prosperity, peace and equality, then march to the heart beat of human decency. March to the voices of Freedom crying out from the wilderness of the Bush years, yearning to accelerate us into a future of renewed National Honor.

The Reasonable Voice invites you to stop dancing to the tune of despots, and reexamine the composition of your dreams, the definition of your country and the depth of your soul! It is not enough to follow the dreamer, You Must Be The Dream! Searching for someone with all the answers, just takes you further from the truth in your mirror: You are the Hero who will save your children, your grandchildren, your country and yourself. Allow The Reasonable Voice to be a light upon your pathway, out of the shadow of a Government of moral midgets. Let The Reasonable Voice be your mirror, enabling you to see the wisdom of that “still small voice” of balance and equality within you, so that you will never again be drowned out by the discords of external chaos, reality shows, and a miserably flawed news media.

Full Stop!!! This is not a call to look back to a calmer, happier more peaceful time. Far too many politicians have used this ploy to wreak havoc on our present and future. If there ever was a calmer, happier and more peaceful time, it was long before Pearl Harbor, or even 1900, and if you keep looking back, you’ll find civil war, slavery, the massacre of Native Americans, taxation without representation (yes, even then), and of course Revolution – and that’s just American History. No, if we are to find that imagined magic time of peace, we need to recognize the myth we keep passing along to our grandchildren for what it is – a white wash, a most incomplete picture, indeed, a lie that allows the composition of duets like Abramoff & DeLay, Rove & Gonzalez and the ever dark comedy of Bush & Cheney. If we truly seek Peace of Heart, Peace of Spirit and Peace of Mind, then we need to stop expecting it to flow from the wells of corruption. Far better for us to ask, seek & knock at the mirror of our soul.

What we seek is, and always has been found in the silence of Listening to our Reasonable Voice – our international humanitarian within, if you will. The Reasonable Voice is your guide to what really matters, the essence of what it means to be “A Human Being,” for one can not be a good American, without first being a good Human Being.

Can you see it?

Now Listen: As John Donne would agree, all of us on this planet are a piece of the great mosaic in which we live. By redirecting our attention and “To Do” list to what is most important to humanity, we save our families and our world. Like it or not, Shakespeare was right, the World is the Stage on which we are performing and “to those that much is given, much is expected.” So do we wish to cast ourselves in the role of the villain invader, or are we willing to recommit to be the international good guys. Yes, “Charity begins at home,” but our home is the Earth & all that live upon it.

First, always LISTEN to the Children of the World (& not just with your ears) and as you love your children, love all Human Beings.
Second, understand it is America’s raison d’être to lead by example – the example of an International Golden Rule.
Third, your Reasonable Voice is the truth that is seeking to set you free, and you need look no further for it, than the truth in your mirror.

A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of
Freedom, Honesty and the Rule of Law,

marcello
www.TheReasonableVoice.com
marcello@thereasonablevoice.com