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It daily becomes more and more difficult for any but the most stalwart leftists to ignore or deny the grim visage of the "change" being inflicted on America by the liberal/Democrats. Like a script from a revolutionary handbook, the key players in Washington, all on the left, are shredding the Constitution, while twisting and contorting current law, or completely ignoring it when needs be, in order to further mutate this once-great nation into a withered collectivist caricature of its former self.

The entirety of the contrived AIG executive bonus firestorm, as well as the Democrat "solution" to it, are ideal examples of the new order, and should serve as a stark warning to those who cling to any expectation of freedom and justice for themselves and their posterity. In contrast to the former notion of "due process of law" Americans once presumed to have been their inherent right, a new and appalling version of "justice" is being instituted.

As has been stated many times in the past, the "law" serves a completely different purpose in a free and just society than it does in a tyranny. In a free society, it is applied equally to all, and as such constitutes a framework of mutually established boundaries within which the citizenry can live and flourish to its maximum benefit. Under tyranny however, an elite class, which exempts itself from the annoyance of such a framework, nevertheless imposes its law on its subjects for the purpose of manipulating and controlling them.

Congressional reaction to the fanned-flames of outrage at the AIG bonuses clearly falls into the latter category. By passing a "tax increase" that only applies to AIG executives who had received bonuses, the federal government seeks to use "law" as a means to punitively and selectively attack individual citizens who had done nothing other than to abide by the terms of their own employment. Worse yet, by implementing this criminal misuse of power "retroactively," the congress removed any and all legal protection from any citizen whom it targets.

Yet at the same time, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, a true law breaker who was somehow excused from the same responsibility to pay his taxes that every ordinary citizen faces, now holds the reins on a sum of money that is counted not in the billions or hundreds of billions, but in the trillions. Unfortunately, the complexity of his latest "bailout" scheme causes most commoners to lose interest in the situation. But that complexity is itself a foundational component of the ruse, intended to prevent taxpayers from comprehending the degree to which they are being scammed.

In essence, Geithner is playing a shell game with the vast sums of money at his disposal. His hope is to shift and switch the untold billions from one financial organization to another, for the purpose of dissipating a focus on the toxic liabilities of any particular institution. Yet the reality of this game is that, at the end of the day, the till will remain empty, and the bill for all of the bad mortgages and other cascading obligations of the current financial crisis will be compensated, once again, by the taxpayer.

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