Bush said in his remarks on the London bombings. "We will find them. We will bring them to justice. And at the same time we will spread an ideology of hope and compassion that will overwhelm their ideology of hate.”
All I can think of, when I read this quote, is bush sitting in the oval office carving the words ‘hope’ & ‘compassion’ on bullets to be sent to afghanistan & iraq. He’s thinking to himself ‘job well done’ smiling proudly.
Honestly, we’re fighting terrorism with hope & compassion? So that detention center in cuba has nightly sing-a-longs? Do They roast marshmallows & talk about their troubled up-bringings? Or how about that little Abu Ghraib fiasco? Were those just ‘trust exercises’ that got confused because of a cultural differences?
Last I knew we were trying to fight terrorism with guns & bombs. Those aren’t even anagrams for hope & compassion.
So in an open statement to bush….
Bush, please don’t be a fucking jackass. Hope & compassion don’t kill & torture people, and by all rights right now, americans do. So shut the fuck up.
ah well
-De
July 11, 2005
July 07, 2005
Help, I'm being Opressed.
Writing has become difficult.
I’ve been wanting to blog lately, but just haven’t been able. I’ve been wondering why, there are plenty of things going wrong in this great nation of ours, and abroad, that piss me off. Too many things in fact. Never in my life have I seen america filled with so much oppression of mind. We are allowed to say what we want (mostly), but every day it seems there is some new legislation regulating the world. Porn being over-regulated on the net, Kansas arguing against evolution, and ‘winning’, artists arrested for terrorism, property legally stolen for private enterprise. And it doesn’t stop there, the list goes on.
Too many things weighing on my mind, and I’m realizing I feel oppressed. I’m a fairly law abiding citizen, yet I live in more fear of my own government than I do of terrorists. If I were the worrying type I’d be worried that one day I’d wake up in jail for thinking the wrong thought.
Our freedoms are consistently being eroded, but what can I really do?
Protest? Done that, to no real avail.
Boycott stores that I don’t agree with their policies? wal*mart doesn’t seem to care.
Vote for someone better? Done that, and realizing that voting doesn't work.
Recycle? Do it, bums get some change from that, better than nothing.
Fight back? Love to, but against who?
The christians up the street?
My republican neighbors?
The army, navy, air force & marines?
The police?
My boss?
The ceo of my company?
The ceo of any company?
Get real, fighting any of these groups seems fairly pointless, it’ll change nothing, or, make me them, only from beyond the looking glass.
Ministry sums it up best, we're in ‘the land of rape & honey’
So fuck ‘em
-De
I’ve been wanting to blog lately, but just haven’t been able. I’ve been wondering why, there are plenty of things going wrong in this great nation of ours, and abroad, that piss me off. Too many things in fact. Never in my life have I seen america filled with so much oppression of mind. We are allowed to say what we want (mostly), but every day it seems there is some new legislation regulating the world. Porn being over-regulated on the net, Kansas arguing against evolution, and ‘winning’, artists arrested for terrorism, property legally stolen for private enterprise. And it doesn’t stop there, the list goes on.
Too many things weighing on my mind, and I’m realizing I feel oppressed. I’m a fairly law abiding citizen, yet I live in more fear of my own government than I do of terrorists. If I were the worrying type I’d be worried that one day I’d wake up in jail for thinking the wrong thought.
Our freedoms are consistently being eroded, but what can I really do?
Protest? Done that, to no real avail.
Boycott stores that I don’t agree with their policies? wal*mart doesn’t seem to care.
Vote for someone better? Done that, and realizing that voting doesn't work.
Recycle? Do it, bums get some change from that, better than nothing.
Fight back? Love to, but against who?
The christians up the street?
My republican neighbors?
The army, navy, air force & marines?
The police?
My boss?
The ceo of my company?
The ceo of any company?
Get real, fighting any of these groups seems fairly pointless, it’ll change nothing, or, make me them, only from beyond the looking glass.
Ministry sums it up best, we're in ‘the land of rape & honey’
So fuck ‘em
-De
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