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Using the FreeRepublic I will put you into a hypnotic Tran:

YOU ARE GETTING THIRSTY. YOU ARE GETTING VERY THIRSTY. YOU WANT A DRINK OF WATER. YOU ARE SO THIRSTY, YOUR TONGUE IS SWELLING UP AND WHEN YOU SWALLOW YOU THROAT IS BURNING.

WATCH THE SWINGING CHAIN. . .

YOU ARE IN A HOT DESART AND YOU ARE THIRTEEN DAYS FROM THE NEAREST WATER. YOU SEE A COLD DELICIOUS GLASS OF WATER IN THE SKY. YOU TRY TO FLAP YOUR ARMS, BUT THEY CAN'T MOVE. WATER WATER EVERYWHERE AND NOT A DROP TO DRINK . . .

I hope you have felt a little more empathy with a poor soul who has been denied life with dignity by those we have trusted to secure that which the Constitution was designed to do in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

If we fail such task, we will move along in our self-hypnotic state . .

"And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot

Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung"