I am told that my views are "radical" and "controversial"

[Bjorn Against]

I believe it is wrong to lie a country into an illegal war of aggression.

I believe it is wrong to drop bombs on civilian neighborhoods.

I believe that it is wrong to steal an election by illegally disenfranchising African American voters.

I believe it is wrong to engage in torture.

I believe it is wrong to put people's lives and health in danger by destroying the environment.

I believe that all people are entitled to all of their Constitutional rights, and no President, legitimate or illegitimate should ever be able to deny a person their Constitutional guarantees simply by uttering the words "enemy combatant".

I believe it is wrong to violate the law and set up an illegal government eavesdropping program which monitors the calls of ordinary Americans.

I believe it is wrong to hand out multi-billion dollar contracts to corporations like Halliburton despite massive evidence that they are ripping people off.

I believe it is wrong to leave tens of millions of Americans with out access to health insurance while the pharmaceutical companies and HMO executives live lives of excess luxury.

I believe it is wrong for a man who claims to be President to go to a birthday party for John McCain while New Orleans was drowning.

I believe it is wrong that the man who claims to be be President can break the law without being sent to prison like any other American would be if they had commited a fraction of the crimes that George Bush has commited.

I believe that it is wrong that I even have to mention any of this, why would any of this be controversial?

What has happened to our society when it is has become acceptable to torture people, to lie the country in to war, to watch a major American city drown and not help, to deny people health care, to illegally spy on people, and to commit electoral fraud?

What has become of our country when those who call for peace are labeled extremists, while those who call for massive death and destruction in countries that pose no threat to us are referred to as realists?

What has happened to our country when we are told to get over a stolen election and accept the illegitimate rule of a madman?

This is not the America we learned about in school.

It is time to take our country back.

[POAS]

1. 1st rec of many!

[xchrom]

2. yup.

[ulysses]

3. happy to be #5.

[Texasgal]

4. You weirdo!

:P

[LongTomH]

5. K&R

:kick:

[Hepburn]

6. Well, what you belive in would be...

...radical for a Pubbie!

[Robbien]

7. You are only labelled radical and controversial because the

rabid right has been allowed control of the labelling gun for far too long.

great post.

[hobbit709]

8. In that case I'm about as

"radical" and "controversial" as you can get.

[MuseRider]

9. You freaky, liberal radical you.

You can come to my house anytime. K&R

Nice post.

[peacetalksforall]

10. Yeh, rabid and controversial and radical to want to take back

our country from those who are stealing it from us with criminal acts against its citizens and brothers and sisters in other countries. By fellow-citzens (so-called).

[CrazyOrangeCat]

11. Radical and Controversial

Nice combo! ;)

k&r

[WernhamHogg]

12. Of course people tell you that you are "radical"

Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and pretty much everyone else on Fox "News" and RW hate radio have drilled it into the heads of the sheep that anything that is not far, far, far right is "radical" and "controversial".

[barbtries]

13. radical and controversial....hmmm

sounds more like reasonable, equitable, sensible...but this is the land of the bushies. in this land war is peace and wrong is right. i too am a revolutionary sort:

i believe that nature designed this planet to support all of the life upon it

i believe that people are not supposed to kill people

Peace

[Madspirit]

14. another k&r!! n/t

[earth mom]

15. Long live the radicals!

:applause:

[Klimmer]

16. Here is a kick and recommend. I then must confess, I'm a radical liberal also . . .

and damn proud to be! We have the truth on our side, we have nothing to apoligize for. Unfortunatley, before the light breaks free, I fear there will be a lot of darkness we must go through.

We all have each other though --- all of us who think a like. So chin up everyone.

[bobbolink]

17. Yup, you passed the test -- you're a radical!

:toast: :hi: :toast:

[Irishonly]

18. Well

If all of your statements make us radical, then radical is normal and the right is abnormal and/or morons whichever fits best.

[TheBaldyMan]

19. Who told you that? I ask from curiosity.

I'd really like to know who could be so dumb to ask a question like that.

[Bjorn Against]

20. Try watching FOX News sometime or else listen to right-wing talk radio

You will hear the word "radical" used to describe just about every position that is not 100% in line with the Bush agenda.

[TheBaldyMan]

23. *shudder* I can barely stomach the clips on YouTube

when I visit some place with it on cable I last about 10 seconds before changing channel.

I'll take your word for it.

[jaybeat]

21. Reasonable, not treasonable

In this backwards time, the reasonable to called treasonable, and the treasonable is called reasonable.

We WILL take back our country from these monsters, these evil people. You may not steal our nation, you may not trample our values.

What little trust or faith some may have had in you, you have squandered and pissed away.

We will take our country back, by whatever means necessary.

Oppose us at your peril.

[nealmhughes]

22. Obviously a seditious Secular Humanist who is a ComSymp Dupe.

I, myself am a treacherous atheistic Sodomy-enabling advocate of class warfare.

I do so love to get hate mail.

[grannylib]

24. Proud "radical" liberal supporting your "controversial" viewpoint.

I share your bewilderment that this has become so acceptable.
WTF???

Yes, the media have let us down; yes, our representatives in Congress have let us down; and we have allowed it to happen.
Time, indeed to ACT to take our country back. It's not gonna fall into our laps. We must MAKE IT HAPPEN.

[ninkasi]

25. I guess that means I am, too

because I agree with everything you said. You're not radical, it's the ones who are trying to make us into a fascist country who are radical. My father served during WWII to prevent our country becoming what it is today, under Bush and his corrupt administration. I'm glad he didn't live to see this.

[leveymg]

26. You're in good company. So were Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine.

People tend to forget how radical and controversial some of our best citizens really are.

Keep it up!

[Tekla West]

27. All that stuff

Why its just liberal nonsense. What would Jefferson say. Opps, bad example, he would have been in favor of it. So how about Lincoln, JFK, FDR, Teddy?? - darn, they support those ideas too. What in the heck is going on when so many American heroes are so Anti-American. Or, perhaps its just the carpetbaggers.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

28. To play devil's advocate for a moment, most of those aren't in themselves controversial.

What *is* controversial, in the sense that many people will strongly disagree with it is the implicit "and Bush/the Republicans have done this" attached to them.

[ananda]

29. radical and controversial..

means you must be doing something right in every way.