"I am Mad as HELL and I can not take it anymore"
OR
"Ends DO justify the means, and we (liberals) need to understand and adopt it."
OR
"We are dealing with TERRORIST… the bu$h Administration."
I just got though reading the following news and diaries:
"Republicans Cut Several Programs in Budget"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051026/ap_on_go_co/congress_budget_cuts;_ylt=AjuCE5cDxF8V_FSy3uEEkLcDW7
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"Enough already with calling Iraq a mistake" by Meteor Blades
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/26/175742/39
"National Park Sell-Off" by environmentalist
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/26/171456/47
"Vice President for Torture"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501388.html
"WHY BUSH IS UNIMPEACHABLE" By Ted Rall
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20051025/cm_ucru/whybushisunimpeachable
I am not sure how much more I can take, I am not sure how much more this nation or the world can take.
More ranting below the fold.....
We all do what we think we can do. We post on blogs, we write letters to the editors, we write our local, state and federal government representatives. I once believed that the pen was mightier than the sword, I guess I still do, but only when the pen is welded by those in power. Our writing is doing us, the nation, and the world no real good.
Us, liberals, have now resorted to faith and prays. We believe that in some miraculous way Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald will rescue us and the nation from this nightmare. Sadly, this is not a nightmare, this is REALITY.
The REALITY is that NO ONE is going to save us. We are going to have to save ourselves. Do you not think that our founding fathers (and mothers) once wished and prayed for a miracle? Someone or something that would remove their repressive yokes.
That outside miracle did not appear. After years of waiting, they finally decided to do something themselves. Maybe it will take us many more years of our repression to have us stand up and do something.
I am not even sure, that our founders would have done anything if they had cars, TVs, and the Internet. We have become complacent. As "liberals" "democrats" "progressives" have somehow convinced ourselves that we must be like Gandhi, Kings, and others. To change repression by civil disobedience, and the pen. We all have good excuses – jobs, family, bills, responsibilities. I am the first to admit, I have not attends many Peace Rallies, MoveOn meetings, or any of the many other things I could be doing… I have a job, family, bills, and responsibilities. I use them all as excuses… I am more than aware of my shortcomings.
I think what I want, no what I need, is a leader. I know this might be what we all have to wait for. Maybe that is what our founding fathers and mothers had to wait for. A leader, who can instill in us a vision, help us set some goals, and create a plan so we can take back our country.
I am at the point that if that leader was to appear, and demand us march in the streets with pitchforks, then I would do it. If, we were asked to sacrificed, I would find a way. I made promises to myself, when I was young and naive, that I would never let what happened during WWII ever happen again. I am not talking about what the Germans did, but what we did. We interned the innocent, we are doing it again in Gitmo. And because it is no where I can be, I have done nothing but write letter to stop it.
I do not know what to do, I am ready to take to the streets. I am ready to do unto others (bu$hco) what they have done to us, and to the citizens of this world.
Can someone here, please tell me, what can we do, how can we stop this. I do not want to leave this challenge to the next generation. The next generation will be to broken, by what is happening now, to do anything to correct what we are allowing to happen now.
I agree with the earlier diary, the war in Iraq was not a mistake. It was and is Murder, Terror, Greed, and yes, Treason. Those in power now must be held accountable. Not in some future history book, but now in the flesh. If, what is happening now, is allowed to continue, and those responsible not held accountable, tired/convinced/sentenced/imprisoned, then history will repeat itself. We must insure that no other cabal ever tries this again.
Is there a true leader among us? Is there someone here, on this blog or in this country who can and will step up to plate? Or, like our founders, to we have many more years to wait?
Maybe if there is not an individual who can do this, maybe we can create Critical Mass here, to instill in us a vision, help us set some goals, and create a plan so we can take back our country.