America's Last Throes

[Demeter]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_joaqu_edn__060319_america_s_last_throe.htm


"March 19, 2006

America's Last Throes
She Needs Our Help
by Joaquín Ramón Herrera


I find I have little to say, lately, on the entire Bush tyranny.

I've been raging inside over the miscarriage of justice that has been going on since 2000. I've written hundreds of posts, I've lost friendships over the election, I've taken to the streets in protest and been locked up in a barbed wire makeshift jail for over 50 hours without talking to a lawyer, I've worn shirts conveying my feelings, I've sent money to help those in the cause, I've written letters to congress, sent emails, signed petitions.

To be honest, "miscarriage of justice" is not the correct phrase. A miscarriage is not purposely achieved. This bloody, clotted mess the Bush junta has strewn upon our plates is an abortion of justice. It is a hot, stinking, mangled mess of death and loss, dropped right down into our trusting embrace, and we are still in so much denial that we are scolding the baby, telling it to get up and walk.

Offensive imagery? You don't know the half of what I have to say. And a third of that, I cannot, for I would probably be picked up and swiftly shipped to a gulag. I damn well hope you are offended. For myself, I am beyond offended. I am shrieking inside over this gross, aberration we call George W. Bush, and his group of leftover Nixonites. The ex-cheerleader turned dictator wags his head and opens his mouth, and the putrid miasma of his secret agenda stinks up my mind so terribly that I begin ranting, my words an attempt to clear the room of trickery, greed, and artless prevarication. Democracy? He is spreading insanity, and I have caught the fever.

Rumsfeld grins as he jokes with the reporters, and my stomach tightens, for I fear I am going mad; the man's face suddenly looks as if he is wearing a death rictus. There is no wisdom in his voice, no philosophy. Only contempt, and an iron will...."


THE AUTHOR GOES ON IN THE MOST HEART-FELT, CRUSHING LAMENT FOR A DEAD COUNTRY--READ IT ALL!!!





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Joaquín Ramón Herrera is an author and illustrator by trade, a rebel at heart, and a fugitive from the iron claw of ennui. You can delve deeper into his brand of hyperreality at wreckingboy.com, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World, and Escaping the Frame.

[MarmiteVarmint]

1. remember

George Bush is not the whole of America. Soon, he'll be out of office and he'll fade from view as all presidents and prime ministers do. I don't know why he looms so large--maybe because of America's short history. Half my family is English and there are SO many, many hundreds of years of England making her mark on the world. It's much easier to see the country is not just one man or woman, king or queen.

[JaiZapfino]

3. Dismantling the Future

Bush "looms so large" because he's not just out to colonize and take over countries, then let them go like England and other colonizing countries have in the past (for the most part) or just leave a mark on the world. He has gone against the will of the people completely and is twisting religion, morality, and the foundations of this country to justify his means. He's brain-washing the citizens, spying on citizens, controlling the media, and invading the privacy of individuals who pose an ambiguously defined "threat" to the United States government (government, not citizens or country). He has stripped the citizens of their rights, has caused and ignored the suffering of his own constituents, and has grossly mixed church and state, turning a "democracy" into a thinly veiled theocracy built upon and supported by the shoulders of middle- and upper-class white conservative "Christians."

He's dismantling the future, destroying the earth, and has created an unending war. America's history may be short, but the world's history is long and there has never been a man with so much power before.

[MarmiteVarmint]

5. You make me remember back . . .

I remember back when I was younger; politics was so exciting then and every election seemed so meaningful and full of portent. I daresay it helped all us youngsters feel important and such a part of things! (And we were, and still are of course.)

However, as you get older and see one election after another, you'll feel more settled. Bush will be a distant memory - if at all - as he turns back into an ordinary man.

Don't ever give ANY candidate as much power as you're attibuting to Bush. You need a bit of perspective; America is SO much more than just him. You have all made him into SUCH an ogre and it's just not necessary.

Have a hot cuppa and pet a cat somewhere - and realize, soon, you won't have to think about him again.;)

[JaiZapfino]

7. Apathetic Atrophy

While I feel a pang of sadness for the ease with which you condescend and settle into patronizing apathy, mostly I shrug it off. Your mature and reductive view is a dangerous one. Bush is not "old news," he is something our country has never seen. And like Dylan said (back when you were but a boy) "Get out of the new road if you can't lend your hand."

I didn't ever "give a candidate" as much power as Bush has taken. THAT IS THE PROBLEM. Mr. Unitary Executive has, by degrees, taken more power than even our Constitution grants one man. I assume you are not paying attention to the goings on, or you could never state such ridiculous admonitions. Ogre? He is but a figurehead. And the true ogre is the energy and will (or lack of it), that allows he and his handlers to succeed in all their machinations of greed and power. The ogre is apathy, the ogre is lack of awareness, the ogre is the people's inability to recognize the onset of tyranny. Perhaps you should have a cuppa and remember the fire of youth. It is what destroys the decay of rot, and purifies the ground anew.

[MarmiteVarmint]

8. Indeed

It's not apathy to choose one's battles wisely. Hysteria for the sake of hysteria - or feeling important and vital - isn't a substitute for BEING important and making a real difference. Dylan was the boy about which you speak - not I, and I have much too much political experience to make Bush the demigod that you have.

The sky ISN'T falling; and your position isn't more righteous because you think it has.

[MarmiteVarmint]

9. Why have you disabled your profile?

I don't think Dylan would have . . .

[the_expatriate]

12. Say Nothing, Do Nothing, Am Nothing

Ah yes....the days when you used to care.

[cliss]

2. That is a riveting article.

It sounds more like it could have been describing Chile, or maybe Uzbekistan. Just horrific.

However, the US is not dead. Just its government. The people will rise up, and reclaim what is rightfully theirs: a better form of governance, that doesn't bulldoze over 99.99% of its citizens.

[Demeter]

4. I Wish I Could Believe That Bush Will Go in 2008

but everything he's done so far, breaking every legal limit and trying to make Nature itself fall under his sway, makes me fear that come Jan 20, 2009, there will be no new President, legally or not. Just reruns of BushCo. He must know that the first thing that will follow is his deportation to the Hague to stand on war crime and crimes against humanity charges. What happens if we must take arms to evict this squatter who treats our nation as a two-hole outhouse? It will be great theater, an historical event that will become legendary, but hell to try to live through.

[MarmiteVarmint]

6. Now, now . . .

You know none of that will happen. Remember what you're about.:hug:

[Stand and Fight]

10. Fantastic Article... This really should be on the greatest page.

How is it that it was so widely ignored? I tried to recommend but it has been more than 24 hours since it was posted.

[ixion]

11. it really should be

it certainly speaks for me...

[the_expatriate]

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[Demeter]

14. kick