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GOT ROPE?

Unknown | 27.06.2003 04:52 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Culture | World

Reposted reader letter from  http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

GOT ROPE?
To whom may give a damn,
Who is minding the store in Washington D.C.? Didn't we use to take care of the elderly, the poor, the disabled and our veterans or did that all go out with this contrived war on terrorism...YOU HEARD ME...contrived...
What ever happened to budget surpluses as far as the eye can see...OOPS...Bush and company has picked the treasury clean for themselves and their buddies...they want all of us to be responsible with our money yet they keep raising the debt limit and cutting services...
One of the most decorated war heros, Col George "Bud" Day, attorney, Medal of Honor recipient, and former POW officially filed a petition with the United States Supreme Court on 24 January 2003 seeking justice for hundreds of thousands of live WWII/Korea era military retirees who were promised life-time health care. The Bush administration is fighting him in court...
When Vietnam Veterans and Gulf War Syndrome Victims wanted to sue the U.S. companies who made the chemical and biological agents which caused their illnesses in the first Persia Gulf War...Bush fought them in court...
Bush has cut funding for many Veterans programs and health care...Senate Majority Leader Frist (R) recently told Veterans that they needed to sacrifice their health and lives for the war on terrorism...this is just not right...
Let your friends in the service know what this administration thinks of them...
And then we have the climate of anger directed at the poor, the immigrant, the minorities and those who question just what all of these hoodlums in the Whitehouse are up to in our names...just look at the attack on the Dixie Chicks as an example...so what if one of them said they were ashamed of Dubya...the machine kicked into gear and fellow artists like Toby Keith felt the need to put up a doctored photo of Natalie Maines with Saddam Hussein...see how they are willing to lie, cheat, steal and kill innocents and our children in countries far away to keep themselves in power...we saw it with McCain and Gore...we continue to see it with many others too...
AND THESE BUSH IMPERIAL CLONES CALL THEMSELVES PATRIOTS?
They say they love America but obviously can't stand Americans exercising their Constitutional rights, I offer these words from members of their own party:
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Republican President and War Veteran Theodore Roosevelt
Standing up for what is right, honorable and good is never treason...it is an obligation as citizen of this nation and a right ordained by a higher moral authority...
And what about those Compassionate-Christian-Conservatives?
Practicing the teachings of Christ is much more difficult than just preaching what some think Christ meant by Love God and one another...I am sure that killing others in God's name is not part of the deal...no matter whose God it is...after all...Jews, Muslims and Christians all worship the same "One true God of Abraham"...
I don't thump a Bible up against my enemy's face...I reach out my hand, I feed him, I cloth him, I shelter him, I provide medicine and schooling to him and I try to understand his beliefs, culture, religion and anger against my country...in short fixing what has gone terribly wrong...
This is the role of the peacemaker...
Not the Bush regime's version which is to push the world into Armageddon in a sort of born-again perverse self-fulfilling prophecy...definitely NOT Compassionate, Christian or Conservative...just plain ruthless, dangerous and evil...and the Shrubmeister's obsession with Saddam is diverting attention from domestic and foreign economic problems...Africa and South America are looking at revolution, civil unrest, bankruptcies and governmental collapses...not to mention starvation and disease...
And what about at home?
PUNCH THEM IN THE NOSE...PUT A BULLET IN THEIR HEADS...RUN OVER THEM WITH YOUR CAR...all 'ragheads' are the same...I have heard all of these statements lately...from my fellow Americans...and of course let's not forget those horrible French...the ones who gave us the support to even become a nation to begin with...who gave us Lady Liberty...
THIS IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AS THE TACTICS USED BY THE TALIBAN...OR THE FEDADEEN...OR EVEN HITLER'S LITTLE BROWNSHIRTED GOONS...SO WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT THAN THEY...in this case many of the ones saying these things are supporters of Bush and that should concern everyone that believes in the American ideals of Freedom, Justice and Fairness...
WE ARE USING CLUSTER BOMBS WHICH DON'T PARTICULARLY CARE IF THEY KILL MILITANTS OR KIDS...WE USED CS GAS JUST LIKE PUTIN DID TO KILL ALL THOSE HOSTAGES...WE POISON WELLS USED BY MILITARY AND CIVILIANS ALIKE...WE HAVE BEEN PLACING OUR TROOPS IN SCHOOLS JUST LIKE THE BAD GUYS DO...OUR TROOPS SHOOT CIVILIANS AT WILL OUT OF BOREDOM...OUR COMPANIES BUY YOUNG GIRLS AS 'GIFTS' FOR US TROOPS AND SUBCONTRACTORS...AND WE AS A PEOPLE DON'T SEEM TO CARE IF OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR LEADERS ARE THE SAME ONES THAT CREATED ALL OF THESE BUMS, CROOKS AND THUGS AROUND THE WORLD TO START WITH...OR THAT WE FINANCED THEM...OR THAT WE SOLD THEM ALL OF THOSE TERRIBLE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION...THAT'S DIFFERENT...THEY WERE ARE ALLIES THEN...THEY WERE GOOD TRADING PARTNERS...WHATEVER...
This has got to be the most corrupt, secretive, licentious and contemptuous administration I have ever witnessed in my life and now it is dragging the whole globe into World War III with Dubya's latest slogan of the month "Armageddon, come hell or high water". There is a cure for endless and senseless warfare, Junior, it's called Peace...we need to stop exporting terror and WMD to all these third world dictators and scum...that is a good start in making the world a safer and better place...Dropping food, medicine and blankets, not bombs...digging wells, not graves...and building coalitions and shelters, not hardened bunkers in caves in Afghanistan covertly with India while giving or selling mines, biological and chemical agents and heavy weapons such as stinger missiles to the same people we now want to kill in that country and in Iraq...
We are not one bit safer than we were a year ago...we are very much poorer as a nation though, in more ways than one...not every train car is inspected, or all shipping containers at the docks and the trucks...forget it...you can still walk across the border to the North or South at will undetected and unchallenged...airport security is still MIA and now many carriers are just going to go out of business...and all we have to show for this all...huge deficits as far as the eye can see and the largest and most invasive government agency the nation has ever experienced...and the actions being taken by this administration is truly making many very nervous...spying on citizens, no legal representation, apprehension and detention without any charges, rounding up folks and forcing them to get dangerous vaccinations, big brother type agencies to monitor every e-mail, phone conversation and letter and then there is my cuz, Dubya...Mr. Nintendo with a big red button at his disposal threatening half of the world with attack and alienating us from the rest of the more civilized countries daily...he is unifying isn't he...every nation is quickly becoming united against us...
WE NEED A CHANGE OF REGIME RIGHT HERE AT HOME FIRST!
This is why we need someone not from the DNC or RNC corporate candidate lists...that bunch have no spine and go along with everything the big contributors want...a McCain or Gore could win, but they walked away from the arena and didn't even take the time to say they got screwed by the Bush personal destruction team...
We must not let the Taliban faction of the neo-con radical right in the GOP or the advisors in this corrupt regime filled with chickenhawks, pardoned criminals and cold war left-overs from prior failed administrations which gave us Watergate and Iran-Contra dictate this nation's foreign and domestic policy...or bankrupt the world's economy and march it into Armageddon...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." -- Republican President and Five Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Where are those kinds of leaders...the ones who say let's go to the moon by the end of the year...the ones who will stand up and push alternative energy sources as though our lives depended on it...the Arianna Huffingtons who say let's stop driving gas hogs because we have the technology to build vehicles which are more efficient today...the Molly Ivins who say when are we gonna get serious about creating new jobs in new industries here at home...when will we stop peddling weapons of mass destruction around the world...when, when and who will take the reigns...the real heroes, the real patriots and the true leaders...
Being a patriot is more than just waving a flag made in China...it is understanding what the flag is supposed to represent...it isn't wearing the latest red, white and blue fashions made by slave labor in South America...it is having the conviction to take the extra step and wear a uniform or go abroad as a citizen and doing good things in this country's name...not evil which cause others to hate our government enough to attack us...stuff which the "evil-doers" in this administration have done and continue to do...
Here are just a few examples:
Zbigniew Brzezinski...  http://www.geocities.com/RepresentativePress/binLadenphoto.html
Donald Rumsfeld...  http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/30/sproject.irq.regime.change/  http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=41&sid=1648385
The dynamic duo of Kissinger and Snowcroft... "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." ~ Henry Kissinger ~ January-February 2003 edition of Eagle Newsletter  http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00144.htm  http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/index.html
And let's not forget Bush, Blair, BCCI and the Bin Laden Group...  http://www.tmtmetropolis.ru/metropolis/stories/2003/02/14/120.html
RIEGEL REPORT IN CONGRESS ON PROVIDING CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL AGENTS...  http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/medsearch/FocusAreas/riegle_report/riegle_report_main.html
US AMBASSADOR GIVING GREEN LIGHT TO SADDAM TO ATTACK KUWAIT...  http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html
BUSH THREATENED TALIBAN BEFORE SEPT 11TH...DID THIS PROVOKE ATTACKS...  http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/usthreats.html
MARVIN BUSH...THE OTHER BROTHER...WTC/SECURITY/JOHN O'NEILL...  http://www.hereinreality.com/JohnONeill.html
Why are the families of victims of 9-11 Outraged with Investigation Head?  http://truthout.org/docs_02/020303E.htm UNOCAL JUST SIGNED THE DEAL WITH AFGHANISTAN...
OSAMA BIN LADEN'S LOCATION ON SEPT 11TH...and his family's great escape in the days that followed...  http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/bin_laden_location.htm  http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york091102.asp
THE WHOLE "WE HAD NO IDEA A PLANE COULD BE USED AS A WEAPON" LIE FROM CONDI RICE...  http://www.xfiles.stylicious.com/lonegunmen/1aeb79.php  http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm  http://www.nlsi.net/hs-alc-info.htm  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html
"Who cares what you think..." "There ought to be limits to freedom..." "This would be allot easier if it were a dictatorship." -- George W. Bush
*****HE HAS TOLD US WHAT HE IS REALLY ABOUT*****
"Oct. 26, 1942, U.S. troops were under way for North Africa. On Oct. 28, the government issued orders seizing two Nazi front organizations run by the Bush-Harriman bank: the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation.
U.S. forces landed under fire near Algiers on Nov. 8, 1942; heavy combat raged throughout November. Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corporation, long managed by Prescott Bush and his father-in-law George Herbert Walker, were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act on Nov. 17, 1942. In this action, the government announced that it was seizing only the Nazi interests, leaving the Nazis' U.S. partners to carry on the business.
These and other actions taken by the U.S. government in wartime were, tragically, too little and too late. President Bush's family had already played a central role in financing and arming Adolf Hitler for his takeover of Germany; in financing and managing the buildup of Nazi war industries for the conquest of Europe and war against the U.S.A.; and in the development of Nazi genocide theories and racial propaganda, with their well-known results." -- Webster G. Tarpley  http://tarpley.net/bushb.htm
And who was the go between on these business dealings of the Bush and Walker families with the Nazis...Hermann Goering...
"Why, of course the people don't want war... but, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." -- Hermann Goering at the Neuremburg Trials
He was hanged...
In the waning days of WWIII the tradespersons who will be in greatest demand will be those who have learned how to braid strong rope and tie a decent hangman's knot! I can only hope that there will be enough trees remaining after the nuclear winter...and I don't really care what political affiliation they are...oil and opium has never been a good enough reason to sacrifice this nation's precious blood...and death for liberty will have no value if we destroy our own freedoms and PUNCH those who practice freedom in their nose...
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war . . . and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."--James Madison, April 20, 1795
NOW LET'S THE AMERICAN VOTER AND RETURN THIS NATION TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS...WE THE PEOPLE!
Mad as Hell,
"IT IS THE DUTY OF THE PATRIOT TO PROTECT HIS COUNTRY FROM ITS GOVERNMENT" --THOMAS PAINE

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