A Conscience Bothered
I think about the Iraqi people all the time. All the misery, torture, humiliation inflicted upon them by the arrogant citizens of the United States, Britain and Israel. How few of us fathom the racism ... at least if one goes by what the newspapers and tv says or doesn't.
Some killers and their co-conspirators never get to suffer the indignity of even being charged. George Bush still sits at the helm of the American nation. The American people are way too puny and impotent to do anything about it. They cower like sheep as their democracy and bankbook is ripped to shreds. What a wonderful site to see all those French students staging major protests over an employment legislation. Sure, there was some rioting - probably by the one's who got paid - but the majority marched peacefully by the millions. At stake in the US is something immensely bigger and more precious - the very principles upon which the American nation alleged stands. It is crumbling like Palisades cliffs over Pacific Coast Highway, revealing its true foundation - sandstone. Yet the people are scared shitless to act. They blow nothing but hot air. They should have emptied out into the streets over the last two (s)elections, but instead their ever-spreading behinds remained immovable to their couches of comfort, perhaps even hoping "somebody" (else) would do something. How pathetic. All their power has been rendered moot by their own hands. They are lost in a sea of minutiae.
They learned that Bush decided to invade Iraq long before the actual invasion. They learned that he and his retinue of rot knew full well long before that a) there was no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and b) that even if it were, it posed no threat to anyone, given the circumstances of Iraq's sanctions and status under the microscope. They now know that Iraq had nothing whatsoever to do with the events of September 2003. They know that American citizens have been spied on. They know that Americans have been torturing and murdering at will. They know that the books were purposely cooked to lie to the citizenry and the world. They know that, against any and all codes of justice in the world, their government illegally kidnaps people around the world, bring them to an American torture chamber called Guantanamo, hold them in indefinite captivity without any human rights whatsoever. No country can stoop lower, yet the American people still are paralyzed and frozen. All of humanity is appalled and outraged -- with the conspicuous exception of the American people who still wallow in cowardice.
There are only two things about the American people that I find shocking: a) the pennyanny things that actually shocks them; and b) the enormous crimes against humanity that doesn't.
Some killers and their co-conspirators never get to suffer the indignity of even being charged. George Bush still sits at the helm of the American nation. The American people are way too puny and impotent to do anything about it. They cower like sheep as their democracy and bankbook is ripped to shreds. What a wonderful site to see all those French students staging major protests over an employment legislation. Sure, there was some rioting - probably by the one's who got paid - but the majority marched peacefully by the millions. At stake in the US is something immensely bigger and more precious - the very principles upon which the American nation alleged stands. It is crumbling like Palisades cliffs over Pacific Coast Highway, revealing its true foundation - sandstone. Yet the people are scared shitless to act. They blow nothing but hot air. They should have emptied out into the streets over the last two (s)elections, but instead their ever-spreading behinds remained immovable to their couches of comfort, perhaps even hoping "somebody" (else) would do something. How pathetic. All their power has been rendered moot by their own hands. They are lost in a sea of minutiae.
They learned that Bush decided to invade Iraq long before the actual invasion. They learned that he and his retinue of rot knew full well long before that a) there was no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and b) that even if it were, it posed no threat to anyone, given the circumstances of Iraq's sanctions and status under the microscope. They now know that Iraq had nothing whatsoever to do with the events of September 2003. They know that American citizens have been spied on. They know that Americans have been torturing and murdering at will. They know that the books were purposely cooked to lie to the citizenry and the world. They know that, against any and all codes of justice in the world, their government illegally kidnaps people around the world, bring them to an American torture chamber called Guantanamo, hold them in indefinite captivity without any human rights whatsoever. No country can stoop lower, yet the American people still are paralyzed and frozen. All of humanity is appalled and outraged -- with the conspicuous exception of the American people who still wallow in cowardice.
There are only two things about the American people that I find shocking: a) the pennyanny things that actually shocks them; and b) the enormous crimes against humanity that doesn't.
posted by Imagine-Nation at 12:58 AM
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