Wednesday, January 31, 2007
angry
It seems people have lost their right to be taken seriously because they are ‘angry’ or are ‘liberal.’ What right would any citizen have to be angry?
Here is an partial list: the shredding of the constitution, illegal wiretaps, falsified intelligence, secret prisons, torture, Terry Schiavo’s fate as a political tool, war on science, denial of Global Warming, fascist secrecy of our “elected officials”, signings statements that declare bush above the law, the breakdown of the wall between church and state, the revealing of a CIA agent for partisan political gain, the corruption of lobbyists, the total sell-out of the legislative process to corporate interests, appointments of unqualified cronies at every level of government, the complete mismanagement of the created wars, the lies about the complete mismanagement of the war, the monstrous budget deficits, the weak response to hurricanes, a civil rights division dedicated to undermining civil rights, an environmental protection agency that refuses to protect the environment.
During an undeclared war bush gave tax cuts to the rich. Under “classified” information, he allowed Cheney and energy companies to form an “energy policy” that has given us three dollar oil. He gave bankers the right to draft a “bankruptcy” law. He gave big drug companies the chance to re-write a “Medicaid” law. He's destroyed the public school system via No Child Left Behind. He's ignored hundreds of laws with presidential orders. He's moved us more towards fascism with illegal wire-taps and offering big-bucks to phone companies to track every American’s phone calls. Fifty years ago Our Weekly Readers told us the Soviet Union was a wicked place where, among other things, the government constantly spied on its citizens, killing freedom in the process.
We could be angry about an arrogant President who treats the citizens as simple-minded, and a press that ignores the obvious fact that he is. If these things don’t make you angry, I have to ask; what would it take to make you angry?
What is going on in the White House, the Pentagon, the CIA and the NSA, with gasoline prices, in Iraq, in New Orleans, with lobbyists and in Congress? Bush's warrantless phone data collection may not only violate our Constitution but expend so much money and manpower that America is made less safe by diverting resources away from more practical steps like inspecting cargo and hiring translators.
Here is an partial list: the shredding of the constitution, illegal wiretaps, falsified intelligence, secret prisons, torture, Terry Schiavo’s fate as a political tool, war on science, denial of Global Warming, fascist secrecy of our “elected officials”, signings statements that declare bush above the law, the breakdown of the wall between church and state, the revealing of a CIA agent for partisan political gain, the corruption of lobbyists, the total sell-out of the legislative process to corporate interests, appointments of unqualified cronies at every level of government, the complete mismanagement of the created wars, the lies about the complete mismanagement of the war, the monstrous budget deficits, the weak response to hurricanes, a civil rights division dedicated to undermining civil rights, an environmental protection agency that refuses to protect the environment.
During an undeclared war bush gave tax cuts to the rich. Under “classified” information, he allowed Cheney and energy companies to form an “energy policy” that has given us three dollar oil. He gave bankers the right to draft a “bankruptcy” law. He gave big drug companies the chance to re-write a “Medicaid” law. He's destroyed the public school system via No Child Left Behind. He's ignored hundreds of laws with presidential orders. He's moved us more towards fascism with illegal wire-taps and offering big-bucks to phone companies to track every American’s phone calls. Fifty years ago Our Weekly Readers told us the Soviet Union was a wicked place where, among other things, the government constantly spied on its citizens, killing freedom in the process.
We could be angry about an arrogant President who treats the citizens as simple-minded, and a press that ignores the obvious fact that he is. If these things don’t make you angry, I have to ask; what would it take to make you angry?
What is going on in the White House, the Pentagon, the CIA and the NSA, with gasoline prices, in Iraq, in New Orleans, with lobbyists and in Congress? Bush's warrantless phone data collection may not only violate our Constitution but expend so much money and manpower that America is made less safe by diverting resources away from more practical steps like inspecting cargo and hiring translators.
