I don't trust the government.

I prayed for Boston last night, in a few hours I'll go to my church and do it some more.

When I got up this morning I made a bee line to the computer to find out what the latest news on the bombing was. Not much different from eleven o' clock last night (no surprise there).

However this pans out, I don't trust our government.

That thought popped into my head seemingly from nowhere. But there it is.

Pulling the string on it, I started to remember when I DID have some trust that our elected officials and their subordinates at all levels.

I had it when the shots were fired at Ruby Ridge, then I found out the death of an innocent mother and child were without any reason.

I had it when the Feds returned Elian Gonzalez, then I read some more about the whole fiasco and realized it was using a young child as a political pawn.

I had it when David Koresh and his followers burned in Waco, until it came to light what a Class A mess that was.

It started to diminish as soon as the sitting President assured everyone that Islam was a "religion of peace" shortly after 9/11.

It kept shrinking when the Beltway Sniper was in action and all the authorities went looking for a disgruntled white man in a pickup truck. They'd still be looking for his if not for an alert trucker who wasn't particularly politically correct.

When the memo from DHS went out to all the police stations in the nation, detailing how right wing extremists were being produced amongst veterans, pro life groups, devout church goers and those believing in minimal government, my trust was gone.

It didn't come back when the shootings in Ft. Hood were classified as "workplace violence". The issuing of the HHS mandate requiring observant Catholic businessmen to violate their beliefs wasn't any big help either.

When the attack on the American compound in Benghazi went down I just shrugged in disgust.

The list goes on and on. It includes the assinine rules of engagement our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan labored under, the Kehoe Decision, the idiotic commentary about the arrest of Professor Henry Gates and the death of Trayvon Martin from the Oval Office and the silence from the same President regarding the Gosnell trial in Philadelphia.

I'm pretty bipartisan in my lack of trust, the liars come in all political colors.

Now we're supposed to quietly wait for the perpetrators of the Boston Bombing to be apprehended, brought to trial and punished. We're supposed to believe politics and ideology won't play a part in it?

You're kidding, right?

"...Of the People, By the People and For the People..."

Uh-huh. Tell me another one.