Seat of Power

As 1945 was drawing to a close the world wide nightmare was ending - what was to believed - once and for all. The wave of Fascism had gripped Asia and Europe and had been in the subsequent wars been repelled, crushed under the mighty weight of people who demanded to be free. But as Berlin was crumbling and as the Red Army advanced a darkness fell upon the whole of East Europe. An adversary more powerful and more sinister that what lie dying in bunkers of Germany.

Evil never sleeps. When one host grows too weak for usefulness it abandons it in favor of a stronger host and as Hitler lay dead - with it the promise - or threat - of a new world order, in it's wake was the great red tide. A new war started seemlessly as the old was ended. Conflict never ceased as the guns had and in this silence battles raged on - not only across vast oceans but now also on the homefront and with the power of God in missle form behind each super power.

I stood now long ago in front of the Capitol Building in Washington DC, standing in awe of the magnificents of the history that took place inside. The halls were both great men of incredible courage and exemplarly vision and visionless cowards served at the will -and sometimes- discontent of the people through many trying times over the last 207 years. How many millions of lives were directly affected by the desisions made unbeknownst to those sitting in those hallowed halls - and in my mind even more troubling - how many people today walk by not realizing how much of an affect those desisions - both good and bad - have really had on the peoples of this earth. They walk by without thought to what an incredible achievement Jefferson, Madison, Jay, Payne, Franklin and Hamilton to take the ancient philosophies of Plato and Aristotle and Hobbes amonst many others and apply them to a real state - one that frees instead of enslaves in whcih I for one would like to believe has had a net positive effect on the state of man. And the building in which they casually walk by in the epicenter.