I've lived most of my life with my head firmly buried in the sand when it comes to politics, gov't etc.  I liked it that way actually.  I always assumed that our gov't was set up nicely by the forefathers to police and govern itself without my assistance or supervision.  Silly silly me.  Apparently, I was not the only one who felt that way.  Cuz look at where we are now...

In the last few years, thanks to my husband who is king of conspiracies, I've had my comfortable middle class blinders ripped from my eyes.  Like everyone else in the country I wept and prayed on 9.11.  I cursed the "terrorists" who perpatrated such horror and evil on innocent people.  I swore vengence on the bad guys and I actually cheered and welcomed the war that followed.  Someone had to pay.  Boy howdy.  Someone does have to pay but the war in Afghanistan didn't do it and the one in Iraq is not going to, nor whatever future war our govt is plotting.  And I firmly believe that is exactly what they are doing at this moment.  Deciding where to go next.  And I have no doubt that if we, the people, make noise they will have absolutely no problem reminding us why the war on "terror" is so necessary.   I firmly believe that our own gov't at the very least allowed 9.11 to happen to us.  At the worst I have now come to believe that they may have actually had a hand in it's planning and execution.  They are most certainly profiting from the aftermath of the tragedy, they and their rich Texas oilmen friends.  

And I know that thanks to the many freedoms we have handed over to them in the years since 9.11, it's possible that they are reading this post.  But I don't care anymore.  I won't let fear stop me from standing up and shouting that this country is well and truly fucked if we don't wake up FAST and take back our rights and our freedoms and DEMAND that our gov't be held accountable for it's crimes.    We cannot allow the republican empire to continue to reign over us, to strip away one by one what little freedom we still have.  We can't allow the "fear machine" to scare us into accepting video surveillance of our every move.  We can't hand over control of the internet, the last bastian of free speech.  We can't let a handful of Republican companies control the media and color everything we see and hear to suit their purposes.  Remember the book 1984?  Doesn't seem quite so farfetched now, does it?

It's time for a grass roots movement, it's time to go old school and start a buzz on college campus', in coffee houses and back alley's where ever people gather.  Spread the word.  Stand up.  Speak out.  Demand we be heard.  Take back what is ours.  Stop letting them wipe their asses on the Constitution.  

I want it clear that I absolutely support the men and women of the military.  I am grateful to them for the enormous sacrifices they are making every day.  But right now at this moment someones son or daughter, someones husband, wife, lover, friend, is dying in a foreign land.  American blood is being spilled in the sand and it's not being spilled for honor or duty or glory or even revenge.  It's being spilled for greed, for oil.  For money and power.  And this year it's someone else's kid over there but in two years time it could very well be my kid.  Or yours.  And I don't know about you but I don't want my son giving his life for the glorification of George W Bush or the like. 

In regards to the upcoming election, a poll on cnn.com said that the chief concern of the American public in this election is the state of the economy.  For real?  Can that be true?  Cuz I could give two shits about the price of tea in China when people are DYING in a war that no one I know continues to support.  My number one concern is getting our men and women home, safe.  And not sending them to another country, another fight that is not ours.  I want to know what our gov't is doing about that and I don't want to hear anymore of Bush's double speak stumbling bumbling BULLSHIT.  

We're not stupid Mr. Bush and we are not blind.  

We see you and we know what your up to and for the moment we might be immobilized by fear, confusion and the desperate need to believe that we can still believe in our gov't and in our country.  But people are starting to whisper and that whisper is going to quickly turn into a roar...we're coming for you, one patriotic American at a time.

Stand up.  Speak out.  Demand justice...it's the American way.