- LETTER
FROM AMERICA
- Okay,
people of the world, you all have your own
problems to deal with, but are those greater than
the global conflagration that George W. Bush is
about to set off?
We, the sane people of the US, are doing all
within our power to stop the mad mob that has
seized our government from criminally attacking
Iraq, which will kill not only innocent Iraqis,
along with our troops and the troops of any other
countries foolish enough to join in Bush's
insanity, but will open us all to retaliation
from those who see this not just as an oil and
power grab, but as a religious crusade against
Islam.
The American people, thanks to the five justices
on our Supreme Court who installed Bush in the
White House, no longer control or have a voice in
our government. Our Congress for a litany of
reasons is out to lunch. Our constitutionally
guaranteed freedom of the press has vaporized in
the hands of the corporations who now own it.
The corporate media spread and repeat, ad
nauseum, the administration's lies. They tell the
people only what the administration wants them to
hear, see, read. Those of us with access to the
Internet have turned to the international press
for the truth about what is going on in the
world.
Our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech
is fast disappearing. People are now being
arrested for speaking out for peace, as happened
to a New York lawyer who was arrested in a
shopping mall for wearing a T-shirt that said,
"Give Peace a Chance."
Our constitutionally guaranteed right to
peaceably assemble now exists at the whim of the
authorities from whom we must get permits to
gather. Ever since the coup that was blessed by
the Felonious Five on the Supreme Court,
opponents to this unelected president are herded
into "First Amendment Zones" far from
where he may see or hear them.
Dissidents are now not only labeled
"un-American," "unpatriotic,"
"commies" and, in the case of Hollywood
celebrities who are speaking
out,"dupes," but "traitors"
who, in the view of some, should be tried for
treason under the Sedition Act of 1918.
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who broke
the news about the My Lai massacre, has been
accused by archconservative Richard Perle, who
thwarted Bill Clinton's last opportunity at
attempting to broker peace between the Israelis
and Palestinians and who now serves as chairman
of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, of being
the "closest thing American journalism has
to a terrorist."
No, Americans are not blameless for the mess they
find themselves in, whether they let it happen
through arrogance, brainwashing or apathy.
However, what George W. and his minions are
planning to do will not have only grave
consequences for us, but for the whole world.
If we cannot get the courts to stop Bush's war or
Congress to impeach, convict and remove him and
his administration from power, then the world
must let him know that he will be declared a war
criminal if he attacks Iraq.
No rational person believes Saddam Hussein is a
good guy. Then what dictator is? And the worst
dictator of all is the one who now occupies the
White House. Saddam is no imminent threat to any
nation, but George W. Bush is a threat to the
whole world
Bev Conover©, Editor, Onlinejournal.com
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