I've been thinking that America may legalize some form of narcotic soon… I think it may need its soma (I know I need mine some days!). You can only push the citizens around for so long before they wake up, seize arms, and burn down the Whitehouse. Off with their heads! Eat the rich! It's about time for another revolution. Civl rights was never supposed to mean no rights for people, all rights for the corporation.
There's got to be an easier way...
Now hold on a second, it's burning.
There's a change coming, in my blackened school,
I suggest to you, that it takes 5 seconds, just 5 seconds
To put a morphine sepository all the way inside
Brothers and sisters! Do you know what I'm talking about?
I'm talking about, a full on, motherfucking, REVOLUTION!!!
I think it's important to again mention Elliott Abrams, the Iran/Contra criminal later pardoned by Bush Sr., and now hired by Bush Sr. — realize that Abrams and the rest of that gang were not voted in. They were appointed. Realize also that they've been in power almost indefinitely. What I'm starting to see is that the American political system is a farce democracy — you have two nearly identical right-leaning parties who, no matter who actually is elected, simply choose someone to sit as a figurehead (patsy) for four years while the unelected folks keep running the show.
Just think — how many lefties do you know that would be “happy” when Gore gets elected next? They'll think “oh, now it's all going to be better”. Don't think Clinton didn't play these games too. It's a universal truth of the modern American political system. Short of destroying that system these things will not change.
The inspections are going unhindered. And what does Bush tell us? 'The signs are not encouraging' -- In North Carolina last month, a woman attending a lecture I was giving asked me when America would go to war in Iraq. I told her to watch the front page of The New York Times and The Washington Post for the first smear campaigns against the UN inspectors. And bingo, right on time, the smears have begun.
You've got to love that the US tries to discredit the UN team because one of the guys (who was appointed because of a request from the US) was involved with pornography. Yeah, I guess that dressing up in kinky leather outfits is worse than the giant financial crimes most of the Bush admin is guilty of — or even DUI. Again, the message is clear: The US government wants and desires war.
Anyone who seeks out war for war's sake is evil.
Then again, Bush is history's most popular president. His approval rating continues to set records as he slashes America's freedoms (and privacy) and brings the world to the brink of war. Now, let me ask you a hypothetical question — if I believe that someone is committing a crime, and I kill them, but it turns out I was misinformed or too stupid to tell the difference, should I be punished? In the real world, I'd at least be charged with manslaughter, if not murder, and would face serious punishment (hell, in Texas they'd execute me even if my IQ was 75).
Now, given that Bush is about to kill an awful lot of people for no good reason, and he has a huge approval rating, what responsibility do the Americans that support him (and the British that support Blair) have? If this turns out to be as unjust a war as everyone but the neo-cons know, should those people have to answer for that support? After all, they put Bush in power and continue to support him.
If you feel that people must answer for crimes, or at least see how someone could believe that then you start understanding why terrorists can “justify” attacking civilians like on 9/11 (I'm not saying I support it, obviously I don't as a pacifist). Under a democracy, the people are (in theory) responsible for the actions of their government. As such, one can reasonably call upon the people to answer for the crimes of that government. (That said, I don't believe that America is a democracy, and I don't believe the American people are free or have a say in what their government does. Too bad the terrorists don't understand that — which means that the US citizen will continue being sacrifical lambs to political games.)
This past week, President Bush made a big deal about signing a military authorization bill with a $30 billion increase. Here we are, 12 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and without a credible enemy in sight we are still spending nearly $400 billion annually on defense. It is not really the cost of defense, but rather the cost of an empire.
Permanent war.
And short of revolution — and I mean Civil War II — nothing is going to change it. If you were born in America, you will be a (potential) slave — and certainly a monitored slave — until one of the following happens:
- The US collapses financially, which may well happen
- The US is overthrown by force internally
- The US is overthrown by force externally
- You emmigrate to a free country
As I mentioned about, and I'll point out again here, the same criminals run the country no matter who gets elected. Freedom is an illusion, and it has been for a long time. As long as you're voting Rep/Dem, you're supporting the status quo, which is perpetual war and police state.
And there is stuff happening. But do you really want to find out what it is?
And before you get angry at me for writing these things, please ask yourselves — should you be angry at me for telling you, or at them for doing it to you?
PS. And remember, the American government doesn't care about protecting its citizens (although they'll lie and tell you they do if they want your support). It's going to war with a country that has no way to strike back, but a war that may incite numerous unstoppable terrorist attacks on the American people. In addition, it has all but ignored “Axis of Evil member” North Korea who has flat-out told the US that it will “incinerate Los Angeles with nuclear weapons” if the US continues on with its current pro-Taiwan independence posturing.
