I don't think I'll be blogging much after this post. The Office of Homeland Security will probably consider me a major threat to national security, trying to recruit our 30 readers a day, 28 of them looking for new stuff from over there on the left of the screen, and charge me with consorting with the enemy or talking out of turn or something like that.
Let me make a couple things clear just in case you have any doubts. I am not in favor of the war in Iraq. I was not in favor of the war in Viet Nam. A lot of people are making a big deal about John Kerry's record in the Viet Nam war. A lot of people are making a big deal about John Kerry's protest against the Viet Nam war when he got back to the States.
Is there some doubt that he served his country by fighting in Viet Nam unlike Bush the Lesser, who had a few strings pulled so he didn't have to be a target? Is there some doubt that Kerry was against that war when he came back and exercised the freedoms we had back then to voice his opposition, unlike Bush the Lesser, who spent some time drinking and carousing and protesting a DUI charge, of which he was convicted, near his family's summer home in Maine?
Would John Kerry be protesting the war in Iraq and having some balls about the lunacy going on with the professed U.S. foreign policy of pre-emption, I would feel much better about him. Iam voting for him. I am voting against Bush. I am voting against Cheney. I am voting against Rumsfeld. I am voting against Paul Wolfowitz. I am voting against Big Oil. And I realize that Kerry might not be the answer ... I am not deluding myself.
We are engaged in a class struggle in this country. There is a huge underclass of discontented, for whom there is little hope for improvement of their lot. If Bush is re-elected, the differences will become even more apparent because such differences will become more widespread.
The riots of the late '60's will be nothing compared to what will come. And the larger underclass of the economically disadvantaged and deprived will have been armed by virtue of the Second Amendment by the same ultra-conservative, flag-waving, right-wingers that try to suppress the freedoms and rights of the individual.
I fear that bloodshed is coming if no change is effected. The slogan "Power to the People" will again be the battle cry of freedom of the disaffected.
While Bush seems to think he has a clear idea of what lies ahead in the future, he has ignored what is happening to those who are without the economic means to be heard. The meter keeps running long after major hostilities ended, long after the capture of evil-personified, Saddam Hussein. Bush continues to build the financial deficit, spending more and more money fighting "insurgents" in Iraq as a part of his Crusade for peace in the Middle East. Israel is expanding some settlements on the West Bank with Bush’s approval, which decision is anathema to his professed policy and which causes even greater instability and strife in that part of the world and such an idiotic decision will then lend credence to his Crusade.
And here at home, where, for example, half the children in Cleveland live in poverty, there is no improvement in the lot of Americans, despite what the President says.
It makes me sick to my stomach. I fear for our children.
Posted by Bill at August 31, 2004 09:05 AMYour comparison to the 60's is sadly fitting. I desperately wish it were not, but I am frustrated and angry to the point of nausea about the inevitable results on so many levels of Bush's blind politics. Thanks for such a lucid post.
Posted by: Philip at August 31, 2004 10:45 AMDo you suppose every generation has a natural fear of the future for their offspring, and will it ever be otherwise?
Kman and I discussed this very thing the other night; the death of the middle class, skilled blue-collared workers and a growing apathy to the plight of the less fortunate. I felt this way back when Reagan was in office as well. I just wished I could be passionate about supporting Kerry. I have no illusions that the Democrats have all the answers, or that they, too, don't goose-step with Big Business. But, their platform is all I have to represent me. I do believe the time is ripe for a third party to gain momentum, but the apathy I speak of is a mountain to overcome.
Education, meaningful and real wage-earning employment, health and age-related issues, the environment, the deficit, and our goodwill value overseas are my main concerns. I feel for the Iraqi people, I wish them the best. I don't feel it is a situation that America can solve in my lifetime, and I believe the whole affair was politically motivated folly, hiding behind the skirts of oppressed women and their children.
Luckily you have the right to free speech in your country so your loyal fans will not have to send you food parcels to your prison.
Posted by: Michelle at August 31, 2004 12:36 PMDear Homeland Security People,
I've never met these people before in my entire life. Go harass Kathy Howe over at Kazoofus; she knows 'em.
I don't know anything about any war. Make love, not riots. Power to the household appliances!
Yours in bBush,
X
methinks my dad found your blog. LOL
I can take on Homeland Security blindfolded and with my arms tied behind my back. grrrrrrrrr...
Posted by: Kathy Howe at August 31, 2004 05:32 PMHas the DHS been visiting your blog too?
Just wondering.
Posted by: Keri at September 2, 2004 05:52 PMOf course DHS is monitering our every move. We are smart enough, lucky enough, to have a computer and know how to use one. Unlike the youngsters they want to bring up under their feet. So, thank you for being here!
Posted by: Dianne Sutherland at September 11, 2004 03:44 PMMy boyfriend (partner? SO? The guy I live with) has frequent insomnia due to his anger over Bush. He recently started a blog of all Haiku because he said the only way he can deal with four more years of Bush is to write a Haiku every day.
I don't know what we are going to do. Fortunately (or not) my kids will still be kids when the fucker finally can't serve anymore.
But I am still hoping for a miracle in November.
Posted by: Jen at September 21, 2004 11:33 AM