"Eagle totem is the symbol of freedom with powerful symbolic meaning of timing, victory, and spiritual quest...helping you to discover your personal power and the route to the destiny of your choosing." - Presley Love
The American Bald Eagle was the perfect animal to symbolize America at it's revolution and founding. A country founded by men who exemplified the symbolism of the eagle totem and devised the Constitution with the Preamble that states,
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"
I like to think Law in a consummate form will be simplified to a few sentences. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" Considering law in it's current state and what constitutes legality an "ill Eagle" symbolizes America in 2014 as laws seem to make anyone a criminal.
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." -Ayn Rand
The People's path to discovery of personal power and route to their own chosen destiny is now like a toll road with sovereignty of passage arbitrary and at the whims of who/what can be bought. Only with payment and the proper licensing is it "lawful" to engage the market and earn a living of their choosing. People can only get as far as they have the money to pay with it's acquisition dictating their destiny. Our Preamble may read like an inverse if written to reflect current events:
We the citizens of the United States of America, for a disorder forming a more corrupt Union, monetize justice, insure domestic unrest, provide a common offense, promote the general dependency, and secure by the monetization of any blessings of our freedoms while indoctrinating posterity, do disdain and pervert this Constitution for the United States of America for profit.
On my honor,
I will never betray my badge,
my integrity, my character,
or the public trust.
I will always have
the courage to hold myself
and others accountable for our actions.
I will always uphold the constitution
my community and the agency I serve.
I will never betray my badge,
my integrity, my character,
or the public trust.
I will always have
the courage to hold myself
and others accountable for our actions.
I will always uphold the constitution
my community and the agency I serve.
The oath is void as soon it is uttered for reasons that contradict almost every line of it. Immunities from prosecution are in place that make accountability all but nonexistent. A conflict of interest between the public trust and the agency incentivizes protection and service of the agency while rationalizing the extortion of the public. A punch thrown towards an officer trained in modern procedure can warrant a bullet to the head. The greater crime being the assailant's poor decision to physically lash-out not the officer's poor decision to unnecessarily kill.
Sir Francis Bacon said this about nature and innovation, "For ill, to man’s nature, as it stands perverted, hath a natural motion, strongest in continuance; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?"
The end, by my reckoning, is the Sun burning out or the Earth splitting in two. Civilization can lose progress bringing about another Dark Age, a vicious cycle of man-made suffering will continue if innovations are not made in time to alter with greater goods the evils men do.
We could decide to heed wisdom's counsel and history's warnings, forgive transgressions, and sacrifice our ill-eagle and it's ways to make like the mythological Pheonix rising to life from what is looking like a path to Death.
