Article: This is NOT America

THAT IS WHAT AMERICA HAS BECOME. A country that not only tortures, but murders without due process or probable cause purely out of FEAR.

In the process we have become our own worst nightmare. We have become the overlords of former Soviet Union's Gulags. We have become the owners of The New Killing Fields with over 2 Million Iraqis either dead or displaced since 2003.

It's easy, as Keith does, to focus all of our horror at what this nation has become over the last half-dozen years squarely on the shoulders of George W. Bush.

But it would be wrong.

He didn't do this alone. Not hardly. He had an enormous heaping of help from Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Scooter Libby, David Addington, Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, Alberto Gonzales, Jeff Gannon/Gucket, General Ricardo Sanchez, General Tommy Franks, General David Patreaus, Monica Goodling, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Roger Ailes, Brit Hume, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Alan Colmes, Bill Frist, Dennis Hastert, Tom Delay, Joe Liebermann, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton and Millions upon Millions More who continue to sleep walk through this horror. Aiders and abetters to this False America's crimes yet seemingly oblivous to consequences of their own actions.

It's time for us to wake up from this nightmare. Starting in the next few months we have to make some hard decisions about the future direction of this country. We can't afford to wait until next November - we have to start taking a stand against unprovoked War, against Torture, against Unlimited Executive Power and for the Constitution, for the Rule of Law RIGHT FREAKING NOW.

We have to let our Representatives in Congress and those who Know that we can not let this stand.

It. Has. To. Stop!

But it won't be easy. All the other people besides George Bush who've helped create this Nightmare aren't going anywhere after January of 2009. They'll still be here. All of them. The Ugly Angry Americans. And we'll have to deal with them. They will fight us, tooth, nail and claw for every inch of the Constitution we try to restore. Many of those on "our side" will crumble under the pressure. We're gonna be called every name in the book. We're going to be threatened as the Dixie Chicks were, we're going to be harrased, ridiculed (like the New Eagles album has been), marginalized (as Bruce Springsteen's New Anti-War album was dropped by Clear Channel) and every once in a while jailed and physically attacked for daring to speak out and stand for peace (as Reveral Lennox Yearwood was in the Halls of Congress).

Be we must not lose hope. We must not lose faith that eventually this phony shadow vision of America will crumble and fade away and the real America of promise, freedom hope and genuine justice will emerge.

We have to get back to that America, the Real America. Failure is not an option.

It's America or Bust.

Are you with me?

F. Vyan Walton

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