So after all of this you may be asking yourself why I wrote this. The only thing I can say is that maybe I was just trying to put this into perspective. I have been writing about these things for a long time now and it still seems as if everything that I write, along with others that write about these things, falls on deaf ears. Sometimes I wonder why I continue. I guess that I believe that one day the American people will see exactly what kind of game that our government, the media and the military-industrial complex is playing. Maybe someday I’ll hit on just the right combination of words that will allow other Americans to see exactly what is on the line. What is at stake here is our form of government, our freedom, our economy and our very existence. You may believe that these “powers that be” know exactly what they are doing and have this all under control, but you would be mistaken. The only thing that they understand, the only thing that they have forecasted is their profit margins. They have no idea about how things will turn out. They are as clueless as the rest of us.
While this country wakes up from its deep slumber, there are people out here that have been awake for quite awhile. Last month there were mass demonstrations in eleven different cities across the United States, unless you were there, or talked to someone that was, you wouldn’t know it. There was no coverage of these demonstrations by the traditional media. It wasn’t that it escaped their attention; they just refused to cover them. I guess the best place to get information about them is the FBI. Maybe this is why they gave KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, millions of dollars to build “detention centers” in the United States. Sooner or later we may get a chance to see these “up close and personal”.
The only way that we are going to change things, the only way that we are going to stop this war, and to defeat those that would take from us our liberty and our right of free expression, is to do what others have done when faced with similar circumstances. The only way to get coverage of demonstrations against the war and the ones to come is to use civil disobedience. The only way we will get most young people involved is to make sure that if and when we are at war with Iran is to let them know that there will be a draft. The only way that people that finance these politicians that refuse to do the will of the people is to boycott their corporations and interfere with their operations by demonstrating in their factories and shipping points. The only way that we are going to change anything is to get angry enough to protest, really protest.
What will it take for Americans to leave their comfortable homes and get involved? A million people dead? That’s already happened. Concrete proof that our President has lied to us, that’s already happened. What about the government spying on Americans without a warrant? What about the media refusing to report on news that may be controversial? How about Congress refusing to do the will of over 70% of the people that are against this war in Iraq by stopping the funding? Tell me, when do we start acting like Americans and stop acting like a people that are afraid? Will we wait until it is too late? We may be there already.
That’s the way I see it.
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