First, a word from the past.
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and punishment of his guilt."-John Philpot Curran from his speech on the Right of Election of Lord Mayor of Dublin, July 10, 1790.
"Eternal vigilance."
Yup.
Here is what I wrote 24 hours ago, before the dam of anger and indignation that had held back the ire of the people opened in a righteous flood upon the heads of the wrongdoers in Washington. (Election Day? Don't Worry. Be Happy. And Prepare For Wednesday.)
"Eternal vigilance."
Yup.
Here is what I wrote 24 hours ago, before the dam of anger and indignation that had held back the ire of the people opened in a righteous flood upon the heads of the wrongdoers in Washington. (Election Day? Don't Worry. Be Happy. And Prepare For Wednesday.)
Dem landslide? (I gave it about an 8% chance of happening. Never have I EVER been so glad to be wrong.)
The Rahms and Schumers will immediately start crowing about how correct they have been, meanwhile busily selling the United States right down the same corporate-owned river that it has been sailing for 60+ years. We need to understand this, and oppose them with the same vigor that we have opposed the Neo-Cons.
They are simply NEO-Neo-Cons.
Neo-Con Lite.
Do not be conned.
Listen.
I heard Barack Obama say with a completely straight face yesterday that we must "...pursue a rational course." That we need to find a way to CO-OPERATE with President Bush, not try to impeach him. That was the gist of his spiel, no matter what words were used.
Fuck these centrists. Positions of this sort, positions which go over big when they are hyped by the media of the U.S., are POISON to the U.S. in the Third World. A Third World which is rising faster than the waters in New Orleans during the Katrina disaster. (Check out Mexico and Nicaragua for the latest developments on THAT front.) The entire "Pax Americana", CIA-built and enforced international kleptocracy is toppling like a house of cards, and Iraq is only the first battle in a long, long war of liberation for the Third World.
The poor of South/Central/Caribbean America and Africa, the peoples of the Islamic world, of non-Chinese, non-Japanese Asia? They see through that kind of bullshit in a NY minute.
A DUBAI minute.
An Oaxaca second.
Their translation?
"Both parties in the United States are owned by the same sorts of racist, white supremacist forces that have been ripping us off since the 1400s, and we will not take it anymore. VAYA!!!"
No matter WHAT the complexion of those making the statements.
And go they will.
To an ever-expanding war.
We can't even handle Iraq.
How long do you think that we will last if we do not RADICALLY alter our course?
Let us do it NOW.
Before we quite literally go the way of the U.S.S.R.
We face a worldwide storm that will make something like the Katrina fiasco merely a footnote to history.
From a future history course at the University of Mexico City:
"Oh yes. Katrina. Several years before its collapse, the U.S. mishandled a storm in one of its oldest cities. This was one of several hundred evidences of the rot that had set in at the base of that society, a rot that caused the whole system to fall in the autumn of 2010."
Yup.
Dig it.
And DO something.
DO something.
Do MORE.
The Ratpubs are still in control of the executive and judicial branches of the government, and at LEAST hold a Liebermajority in the Senate.
Only in the House of Representatives...the part of the Federal Government that is most quickly responsive to the changing wishes of the people because it is the one with the shortest election span and the weakest grasp upon power...has our voice truly been heard.
And brothers and sisters...IT HAS BEEN HEARD!!!
By our enemies as well as our allies.
Bet on it.
If this were a war, it would be one battle won.
NOT a victory.
Just one big battle.
In competitive sports, there is something admiringly known as "the killer instinct." One who has this is known as "a finisher."
We MUST finish this job.
We must literally CRIPPLE our opponent this time.
No Marquis of Queensbury rules.
This is not a sport, bounded by a set of relatively inviolable laws.
This is an out and out blood war.
A war that leaves people dead and bleeding in the dust.
A war that ruins literally BILLIONS of lives.
It is a fight to the finish.
The BushCo Boys are not going to roll over and play dead.
If they do so...they ARE dead.
They are guilty of crimes so heinous that were they not in positions of monstrous power, they would ALREADY be standing in the dock next to their moral equivalent, Saddam Hussein.
They would already be facing the hangman.
Quite literally.
The ONLY difference between Saddam Hussein and this crew is that Hussein did not have the military power to win.
But the power of truth has...at least this once...trumped military, economic and political power.
Let us continue in our efforts.
Let us continue to try to find the truth in the morass of spin that we laughingly refer to as "The Mass Media".
Continue to try to TELL the truth on the only truly free "Mass Media"...a media of, by and FOR the masses...that exists in the world today.
The internet.
VAYA!!!
So...
Take a day off.
Hell...take several days off.
And then...back to work.
They ain't dead yet.
Not by a long shot.
And if we do not put a stake through the hearts of these...these parasites, these vampires...and bury their ashes at the Wounded Knee killing ground, they WILL BE BACK.
Under cover of night, as is their way.
Secretly.
Under cover of "I am a Democrat!!!"
Under cover of "I am a patriot!!!"
Under cover of "I am a religious man!!!"
Under cover.
As is their necessity.
Bet on it.
I repeat:
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and punishment of his guilt."-John Philpot Curran from his speech on the Right of Election of Lord Mayor of Dublin, July 10, 1790.
"Eternal vigilance."
Yup.
VAYA!!!
Today is a good day to win.
But every day is a good day to die, if that death is in the pursuit of life, liberty and the right to happiness.
Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Patrick Henry and Malcolm X understood this.
As did my Uncle Mike, who died on the beach in Normandy.
As did my mother and father who put THEIR asses on the line during the Battle of Britain, three years before America even entered the war against Hitler.
As have millions of others throughout the course of human history.
Now it's our turn.
VAYA!!!
Once more.
William Shakespeare, "Henry V" Act 3, Scene 1 .
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
Ol' Will knew.
"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:"
He knew.
"But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger"
Do we?
Know this?
Are WE...gentle, peaceful souls, most of us...capable of being finishers?
God will it so.
Because it is time to finish this.
This thing that started with a gunshot to the head in Dealy Plaza over 40 years ago.
It is time to finish this.
It is time for the nightmare to end.
We have two years.
VAYA!!!
Because if we do NOT...
If we let this opponent get up off of the canvas...
The rest of the world is going to finish it FOR us.
You can bet on THAT as well.
VAYA!!!
Once more into the breach.
And you can rest in 2008.
VAYA!!!
Peace...
AG
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