Honor...
2,786 Americans dead. 20,468 Americans wounded. 44,043 Iraqis dead. Countless Iraqis wounded.
Is there going to be anybody left to enjoy that "democracy" someone told us we were fighting for?
I offended a lady at work yesterday. She asked me why I typically dated older guys. I told her Bush's war hasn't left me with many guys my age to choose from. I thought she was going to hit me. I looked at her and simply reminded her that I wasn't really joking. She just got very quiet and went back to work, along with the rest of America.
We're in the process of losing our Habeas Corpus rights. We've lost every right so far that would keep the President's goons from breaking into our homes and stealing us from our lives for no reason. Hell, they don't have to give us a reason anymore. I sit here and think about the FBI file I earned when I ran with Socialists and Anarchists three years ago. I think of my blogs, the political groups I started in high school and college that still exist years later. I think of my inability to keep my mouth shut, my lack of desire to keep my mouth shut.
I wonder how long it will be until one day I disappear.
It sounds silly, but think about how easy it would be to slowly eliminate each of us that disagrees with the President. Many have already been taken care of, never to return. It's only a matter of time, especially after he signs the bill to remove Habeas Corpus...we could all be next without any good reason required.
I will never stop fighting for our rights. I will never put my beliefs on the backburner to keep myself safe. My saftey may just come at the cost of truth and justice, two principles held by every deity I hold close. Things are bad now, and getting worse. I refuse to simply stand by and allow my homeland to go down the drain so we can torture people who may or may not have done anything wrong. I don't believe in compromise, and neither does our government, it seems.
Why should we back down? Why should we fucking back down and let these people rape us of our rights? I want to start the revolution now. We as the proletariat, the workers, the cogs in the machine, WE hold far more power than any of the schmucks in "official" power. I am still amazed at how we lockstep and ignore the fucking obvious...there are more of us than them.
True, they hold the money. But who makes the money? Who operates those printing presses? The working class. Us, folks...WE ARE THE WORKING CLASS. WE MAKE THE MONEY THAT THEY HOLD OVER OUR HEADS. So why don't we have more if we make it? Because we've given our leashes to these fuckers. We let them limit our college loans so they can force us to enlist and die in countries we never had a chance to study as a way to get the education that we have a natural right to. Knowledge and life are expensive. It costs much less to die than it does to live, and the rich have acknowledged that, and send us into harm's way time and time again to teach us who really controls our heartbeat.
As a culture, we are controlled by the highest bidder. It is no longer the Nazarene Jesus, but the Supply-Side Jesus that we pray to. The Almighty Tit-For-Tat. We have been slapped around since birth to realize that when the money runs out, we die.
These days, as our rights are taken away, what does it matter if we get into trouble for attempting to survive? Is shoplifting for survival as bad as shoplifting for sport these days? How many of those in power have shoplifted our retirement funds, our 401(k) plans, our means of survival? True, crimes of survival always fuck workers in the process (small business owners), especially since they're being fucked by bigger businesses that are trying to put them out of business. But why are so many of us being driven to cause harm for survival, especially as our economy tanks it BIG time? Because we are becoming desperate to live. Again, living is FAR more costly than dying. The only reason funerals are so expensive is because the living need reassurance to keep living, that someday our children will be rich and buy us such pretty boxes to bury our decrepid, worker's bodies in.
The tone is not changing. I will not grow discouraged as so many of us have. How many of us absorbed Farenheight 9/11 and V For Vendetta and KNEW it was a message for us to stop being underappreciated doormats? Are we so beaten down by society that we only put out the fires lit under our asses to get us moving again?
It's a travesty. We've traded cancer for herpes. We think as long as we're not dead, we're fine. What am I doing about it? I write cartoons. I put the most common-sense politics into my cartoons in hopes of teaching the next generation to stop taking crap off bullies and jealous people, that each of us has the ability to work together and alone to take back the world from this destruction. I will not assign the word "Republican" to this travesty, because just as many Republicans as Democrats oppose this hell falling down on us. There are as many Democrats as Republicans that support this as well. Imperialism is not a two-party system. It is colorless and devoid of politics. It is simply an all-encompassing suffocation of innocent people which will result in a few dollars more into "elite" pockets.
Is there anybody out there that does not define life by a paycheck? How many of us have willingly, publically, sold ourselves out to save our own sweet assses from destruction? I do not preach Socialism or Anarchy, because those methodologies can be twisted by these same Imperialists to destroy any dictatorship of the Proletariat. Too many of us entered the Intelligencia and settled. We have forgotten who we are, and surrendered our rights in the process so Mr. President won't spank us like we once feared a deity would spank us.
We must pray to our intellect now, not to a man on Earth, not to an invisible being. We must pray our intellect awake and fight this crap. Read my words, do not discount them. Though our President has been genuinely quoted as telling us it is unacceptable to think, THINK ABOUT THIS. Be proud of your power, and use it. The worst that can happen may already be in the works whether you rise up or not. Reading this may have targeted you for an unannounced search. Why not go out with your morals intact and fighting a real fight for your freedom rather than a rich fuck's wallet?
Dare to know. Dare to fight.
Good Night and Good Luck.