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Why do Americans refuse to get angry?
Sometimes, there just isn't enough beer to lighten the general mood. And when I am having
difficulty dealing with the whole thing it has been said that I can be like Lady Macbeth
on a bad day. Lately, it seems as though there are more of those days than usual.
Helen and Harry, you're always so gentle and kind, and I feel as though I have found some truly
kindred spirits in you and in your online community. It really is a blessing to know that
there are still people out there who believe in peace and love for us all, and yet are
willing to turn back those who would destroy that sentiment. It is becoming such a rarity
in this time and place. People have become so self-concerned, and blinded to humanity
that they no longer function as members of a true society.
I watch the violence being spread to every corner, to every concept and establishment in
the world, and it is overwhelming. And I cannot believe for one minute that so many of us
will remain untouched by the violence that we can just shrug it off and say, well, it
won't affect us for a while. I am frustrated that more people don't get it, that more
people aren't mad as hell. We see how bad it is.
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They are slaughtering a lot of innocent
people the world over.
People disappear at random into the secret prison system to be
tortured and kept indefinitely.
Our leaders steal, they pillage, they rape, they torture, they
starve people.
They refuse to help people that are being slaughtered by others because it
is our ally slaughtering them, or because they don't have any more natural resources for
big corporations to steal.
We watch them take away what our forefathers laid out for us
as our natural rights as human beings and they tell us it's for our own good.
When people
are being beaten and tasered for having the nerve to speak out, speak up, or speak
against, American citizens actually cheer!
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They are slaughtering a lot of innocent
people the world over. People disappear at random into the secret prison system to be
tortured and kept indefinitely. Our leaders steal, they pillage, they rape, they torture, they
starve people. They refuse to help people that are being slaughtered by others because it
is our ally slaughtering them, or because they don't have any more natural resources for
big corporations to steal. We watch them take away what our forefathers laid out for us
as our natural rights as human beings and they tell us it's for our own good. When people
are being beaten and tasered for having the nerve to speak out, speak up, or speak
against, American citizens actually cheer! Jay Leno gets laughs when his jokes imply that
the violence against an innocent citizen were deserved!
They are stealing us blind. Not
just by sending our jobs overseas and giving tax breaks to the wealthy -- now they are
literally taking it out of our pockets. Oil is well over $80 a barrel, not because it has
gone significantly up in value, but because the dollar has gone down so far in value.
And many of us do see what is happening, and refuse to get angry! It is so much easier to
say nothing. We sit in front of our computers and our TV's and we don't say anything,
because we just want to be left alone. We like all of the nice things we have, and we
fear that someone will call us a nut job if we stand up and call the great "they" on their
actions.
My wonderful husband once said to me that I should be careful what I say over the phone
and in public, because "they" are going to come and take me away. (He spent 20 years in
the military, and has been silenced via total institution training -- it's a shame, he
really is a natural Hippie!) I told him about Rev. Martin Niemöller in
Nazi Germany, and that eventually, they will come for us all. Maybe if we speak up and
speak out, more people will refuse to let this happen. It is not true peace if the only
place I can find it is at my house or at your house. That's hiding our heads in the sand
and hoping they pass us by on the way to the neighbors.
I watched Alan Greenspan on "Face The Nation" last Sunday. He actually said when
asked about the intentional devaluation of the dollar and it's effect on our country that
"sometimes, Democracies must come to an end." (and yes, I know that this is a
representative republic). And that is what will happen, because that is what Greenspan and
his ilk are openly promoting. If we are too busy struggling to survive because of the
economic violence being committed openly against this country by ALL of these criminals,
we won't have time to speak out. And now the news that Dubya is coaching Hillary so that
she can continue his war if she gets into office...
Is it any wonder I am driven to distraction by it all? Gawd, I feel like Don Quixote some
days. I wonder if it is even worth the effort myself sometimes. But I will stock up on
toilet paper and tampons, because I can't afford gold, and try to buy myself some time to
keep standing up. And whether or not you can see my POV, it couldn't hurt to keep a
little extra northern quilted on hand.
As always, I am wishing you only peace and love.
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