Coretta Scott King Dies on the same day as her late husands Dream

Crossposted on Dailykos

Corretta Scott King has just died, on the same day that Samael Alito was confirmed to the Supreme Court.

This is the moment that the right-wing has been striving to achieve for the past 25 years.

I vow on my immortal soul, that this will also be the first moment in their impending and permenent fall. I pledge in the memory of Dr King, that I will do all I can - financial, emotional, physicially - to help bring about a truly more perfect union. A more Perfect World.

I rise to remind you why we are Democrats...

• We don't think it's right to let the man who killed over 3,000 Americans get away so that you can start a second war using false pretenses, out a CIA agent in order to cover your ass, then fail to provide proper troop levels, fail to provide them adequate protection and then completely botch the reconstruction process of the nation we've just blown half-way to hell for no good reason.

• We don't think it's right to emasculate regulatory and oversight agencies to the point that you have not just one company commiting massive fraud and theft, you have an epidemic of them from Enron to Tyco and AlDelphia.

• We don't think ignoring safety regulation enforcement promotes good business strategies, nor does it protect lives for that matter.

• We don't think it's right for companies to raid their pension funds.

• We don't think our seniors living on a fixed income should be forced into a drug program that bleeds them dry.

• We don't think it's right to spy on American Citizens without probable cause or a Warrant.

• We don't think it's right to indefinately detain American Citizens without a hearing.

• We don't think it's right to Torture detainees, particularly when over 100 of them have died in custody as a result and the information they've provided has been shaky at best.

• We don't think it's right for U.S. Congressmen, who outwardly claim to be pious and deeply religious, to use their position to protect the Saipan Sex Trade.
  
• We don't think it's right to ignore clear warnings of an impending national disaster, then completely foul up the recovery and cleanup.

• We don't think it's right to ask the most vulnerable of us to shoulder the greatest burden, in order to further enrich those who want for practically nothing, while creating a stealth tax increase for everyone else.

• We don't think it's right to ignore rampant election fraud, twice.

• We don't think it's right to accept and give bribes to Congressmen.

• And most importantly, we don't think it's right for the President to sign a law, them immediately claim the law doesn't apply to him.

I heard Sam Seder on AAR yesterday in response to a right-wing phone troll who snidely asked "Where is the right to an Abortion in the Constitution"? Sam pointed out that the Constitution isn't simply a catalogue of person rights, it's a catalogue of governmental limits and responsibilities.

Under the 10th Amendment -"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

This concept is at the very core of "Power to the People". The people (who dare) are the ones who determine our fate. We are the People, WE ARE THE POWER - if we dare to use it and focus it, as Dr. King did. We can amend the Federal and State Constitutions, we can shape our nation, change fate. That's exactly what we did in the 60's and 70's. It's exactly what Dr. King inspired us to do - with Audacious Hope. We can do it again.

It was the 60's Peace movement, the Civil Rights movement, the 70's environmentalist movement, the Women's Rights movement that inspired people like Samuel Alito. These are the "irresponsible kids" he's still railing against.

We've already cedded too much ground. We have to fight back.

Yes, they have a 20 plus year head-start. We thought we'd won when were able to convince Nixon - Nixon to implement the EPA. It was Nixon who first began to implement Affirmative Action. Ever since Reagan, they've been fighting back.

Yesterday's battle shows that you can't try and wait until the Fourth Quarter to get in the game. We have to realize that the opposition is well entrenched, and yes - some of the opposition is us. We're gonna take some lumps people. We're gonna lose some fights - but every inch of ground we gain (like Swinging 20 Democratic Votes against Cloture in just a few days) is well worth it. We now have a core of 25 Senators with true backbone - that's a Foothold. All we have to do now is continue to work actively to expand that foothold, inch by inch, state by state.

We certainly can not let the pain, suffering and effort of those who came before us go wasted and unprotected. We can't let Dr. King's dream slip away permenently. We can't forget JFK. We can't forget Bobby. We can't forget Malcolm. We have to honor them, honor them all.

Are you with me? If so, give me an "Aye" in the comments. Enough to make the heavens shake from an Audicious Hope, forged from our pain and frustration of the last two days - the last 20 years - into a better and brighter tomorrow.

Are you with me?