There are millions of mothers mourning the deaths of children today (and every day) ten
years after Shocking and Awful.
Some of the mothers on the American "side" take false comfort
in the lie that the war was justified and view their sons or daughters as
“heroes” who died “keeping America safe” or some crap like that.
However, there are a few of
us who know the facts: the war was “justified” by lies and fought for profit
and control of resources and our kids are lying in permanent graves for
temporary and temporal gain.
So, what’s happening now?
Obama is president, the wars are over, our troops are home, Iraq is rebuilt and
peaceful, and the oceans have stopped rising, George and Dick have been held
accountable? Actually, none of these things are true, yet we see few people out
protesting anymore.
There has been some good
energy around the case of Pvt. Bradley Manning and his persecution by the Obama
regime. Of course, Manning in being persecuted for exposing the lies, yet Dick
and George are still playing footsies with the 1%, as they are foot loose and
fancy free. Opposition to drone warfare is up, with little recognition that
Obama has increased that program profoundly since he’s been in office.
So many lies, so man
scandals, so much violence perpetrated by the Obama regime, yet so
little protest? And when there is protest, the establishment “opposition” is
quick to point out how much in love they are with The Man, but that they would
like him to “pretty please” not sign the pipeline legislation, for example.
Without a doubt, the time is now come for us to get off of our collective ass and hit the streets…this past week when Congress passed, and Obama signed, the “Monsanto
Protection Act,” our government openly declared war upon we the people. We
the people must fight back! If you don't fight back now, then what is your line in the sand? Is there ANYTHING that President MonsantObama can do at the behest of his bosses, the 1%, that would finally wake you up to the fact that the US government is rife with war-mongering, greedy scoundrels that don't give a damn about you or your children?
What keeps us, as a nation
and a people, so accepting of the wars that our government wages against us
here at home and abroad? I believe that it’s a combination of a few things,
but first is the servile corporate media: the propaganda arm of the US Empire.
For example, on March 27th,
President MonsantObama signed a spending bill that contains provisions that
effectively give the most evil corporation on the planet, Monsanto (and other
biotech companies), the green light to continue poisoning the food supply of my
grandbabies. While President Congress was approving it and President
MonsantObama was signing it into law, the shiny keys of marriage equality were
being dangled to distract us from that horrible rider contained in H.R. 933.
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Propaganda and misinformation
breed apathy and reactionary political analysis. However, I think the number
one thing that keeps us bound to the cyst-em is that we continually forge our
own chains of partisan political slavery. It’s almost impossible to “think
outside the box” of the “two” party cyst-em because slavery beats one down and
makes a person feel like he/she does not deserve to be free.
For the past three months, a few of
us have been hard at work organizing Tour de Peace: a bike ride for Peace and
Justice from California to Washington, DC. It has been frustrating to know that
President MonsantObama has placed US troops, drone bases, or both, in 35
African countries and he has been responsible for bombing the stuffing out of 8
Arab countries while assassinating American citizens and thousands of
innocents, checking the dead off one by one from his Kill List.
We organizers of Tour de
Peace have been delighted with the energetic, if small, response, but also disheartened with the knowledge that if it were a President Romney or President
McCain doing the same things President MonsantObama is doing, we would have an
easier time raising money and getting more people to join us in our 90-day
protest!
If you voted for Obama, we
don’t get it, but we forgive you! It’s time to break the chains of your slavery
to the “two”-party scam and join us to raise a people’s movement against our government that does more harm around the world than any other entity.
This is a call to action:
Action based on the core principles of each and every one of you who have
worked for peace and justice in the past. YOUR principles are the correct ones
and I hope that the principles of the US Empire don’t match yours.
If I act outside my core
beliefs, I become ill. I am impressed with the extraordinary mental acrobatics that it must take for some people to
still justify the actions of MonsantObama because those moves must rival those of a Gold Medal Olympic gymnast.
Come home.
The world needs you; we need you!
We are leaving on 04 April, 2013
