Today’s prompt for the Just Jot It January challenge is: surreptitiously.
That’s another hard one. I had to look it up to see exactly what it meant. 😉
adjective 1.obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized;clandestine:a surreptitious glance.2.acting in a stealthy way.
3.obtained by subreption; subreptitious.
The only thing I can really think of to post about on that word is the US government. Instead of the way it’s supposed to act- honestly, openly and in the best interest of the American people, it acts behind closed doors, surreptitiously, and usually not in the best interests of the American people. In fact, usually it acts very much against our interests!
Our government has been taken over by special interests. Interests with BIG money. So much money that no politician is able to turn it down and do the job they were put there to do (protect the constitution). Instead, they take the money and pretend to the people that they do their jobs (sometimes not even that). They only do what their biggest donors pay them to do!
They sneak around behind closed doors and do whatever the hell they feel like! They all swore an oath to defend the constitution. But almost everything they do now is UN-constitutional! From the really big things like Obamacare, or abdicating their responsibility in Congress to actually debate and declare a war, or allowing the sickening (UN)Patriot(ic) Act, to the ‘little’ things like allowing thousands of un-elected bureaucrats to make ‘laws’ to run every tiny little detail of our lives.
Yeah, they pretty much have to act surreptitiously, otherwise the American people might actually wake up to their disgusting dereliction of duty and throw them all out (like we OUGHT TO)!
You hit the nail on the head about the government. Reminds me of lyrics from Pink Floyds’ song , Dogs, off the Animals album. “You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to, so that when they turn their backs on you, you get the chance to put the knife in”.
Pink Floyd was awesome!
I don’t understand why more people aren’t open to the idea of taking control of their own lives. I have to assume it’s the result of all those years of government ‘education’.
I guess that’s why I try so hard to get alternative views out there.
Oh dear. That’s scary. But then abuse of power in any form is…
P.S. Don’t forget to link to my daily post, so other people see it. 🙂
that’s very true, I always wonder why more people don’t seem to care about it.
Link to your daily post? Where is that? I thought I was doing that already with the JusJoJan link. No?