Truth Convicts

There is something epic yet invisible going on around us all the time. We have evidence of Big Brother watching our every move and still we do nothing. There are men, women, and children dying in a country from a war that currently 70% of Americans don’t agree with, yet we allow it to continue. What is going to be next, corporate robots serving us drinks on a refrigerated beach in Dubai while people can’t find work?

Look at the number of website traffic hits in a day by web content crawling robots and ask yourself whether or not mainstream search engines sold you out. I guess we’ll have to see who gets the next fat check from us signed, Uncle Sam. President Bush has been trying to give immunity to our cell phone companies used in his illegal surveillance on U.S. citizens. My question is who the hell is going to pardon him and why can’t the leaders of this nation be held liable under the same damn law they get paid to protect. Where are we as a nation when you can’t mention the Presidents name without being recorded? They now can listen in on any conversation via the microphone in your cell phone whether on or off. They have realized that war Presidents get elected for a second term nearly every time. They use the first four years to influence votes towards a re-election and the second term filling a majority of their color into the proper (power) seats, its pretty smooth sailing at this point. Here they seem to grab their magic pen and continue the constitutional rewrite.

Since the beginning of this premeditated Iraq war we have permitted, almost encouraged, a swift dismantling of our protections from big tyrannical government. Our fear based society permitted government to pen away our rights in the name of protection from caveman terrorists and more importantly American comforts. They used the clever guise of the Patriot Act but never informed us about the Home Grown terrorist Act. On cue we rose together declaring we must do something. What we did is conveniently invade a country having nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction or 9/11. Iraq has the largest untapped known oil reserve in the world. We were duped by stupid pseudo patriotic country songs that boasted our lack of knowledge of our world. How did it go something like I don’t know the difference between Iraq and Iran but I know Jesus and I talk to God. What is this nonsense? Are we going to allow our children to be this ignorant or will it stop with us? President Bush claims history may substantiate his largest mistake. He is probably right; it will most likely come from our children’s lack of education through the useless baised text books in the public school system. Its time to wake up and realize that war does not bring about stability in the Middle East it only inflames it. We are breeding generations of terrorists over seas. Try putting yourself in the shoes of an Iraqi and see if you would summon the rage to fight back.

Perhaps your house had just been raided in the middle of the night with armed soldiers pointing guns and flashlights yelling in a foreign language. Maybe they are doing a thorough job of searching your wife or daughter. You could be the son who saw his father get shot for trying to stop this injustice. Or perhaps they are driving their armed convoys too fast through your neighborhood and you see a child get ran over. Of the so called smart bombs dropped in Iraq, 50% reportedly missed their targets. Maybe one of those hit your home or a close neighbor’s. If these shocking facts of war don’t sour your stomach then we are doomed as a species. I do not blame the soldiers for doing their job though they do have a choice. I charge the politicians at the top calling shots and those just above them pulling their strings all of whom never fire a weapon or witness the gruesome murders they request. Don’t get overly hung up on George W. whom lacks sufficient intelligence and I’m not talking about the CIA deficiency.

“News coverage has pointedly stressed that W.'s month-long stay at his ranch in Crawford is the longest presidential vacation in 32 years. Washington Post supercomputers calculated that if you add up all his weekends at Camp David, layovers at Kennebunkport and assorted to-ing and fro-ing, W. will have spent 42 percent of his presidency ‘at vacation spots or en route.’” Charles Krauthammer, “A Vacation Bush Deserves,” The Washington Post, August 10, 2001.

He had a good month of vacation studying up on the lines he still butchered drawing the invisible link between 9/11 and Iraq.