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When lives are written in invisible ink

April 8,  2004

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In addition, as our national leader, he is responsible to the country to maintain the decorum that the office embodies, and as our representative in the community of nations, Bush is responsible for his behavior on the world stage.

What about all that stuff above? Just look closely at his responsibilities: he has not met any of them. Moreover Bush has endeavored to go the extra mile in each and every case, not to fulfill those duties but to destroy them. Completely.

In every instance cited in the first paragraph, the records of this administration (all of them that have not yet been shredded) speak for themselves. Health care and prescription drugs have become a wholesale giveaway to his friends, in those industries, allowing their prices to rise by 20% a year regardless of actual costs. We have the most expensive drugs on the world markets, and the government will not even attempt to bargain with the companies, using the huge senior population as a captive consumer group to obtain price reductions. http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0401-10.htm

The security of the nation has never been more in doubt, despite hundreds of billions spent (in all the wrong places, on all the 

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Instead of defending this nation, George W. Bush has sought to destroy everything of value and our way of life, not to mention creating the worst possible environment between each and every one of us; by pounding the war drums, while screaming into every corner of our lives, about all that we must fear. Nor should we ever forget that we must now surrender all our rights—just to live in terror under this new fascist state of multi-national corporate capitalism: Theirs is a creed that recognizes no authority but its own greed, no principals except raw power, and whose only benchmark is unlimited profits for the very few. Is this how a president: "provides for the common good, and protects and defends the constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic?" Not by a long shot!

Bush has become famous for the sneer, the macho swagger, and his intolerance of anyone not painted red, white and blue. As a conscious being, he is loathsome. His manner is that of one without a purpose, to whom everything beside himself is Stupid! He publicly mocks his detractors, and has done everything except literally spit upon all our foreign treaties and agreements. He’s hideous to watch, being perhaps one of the least human people we’ve ever had in high office, never mind as president. The man has no sense of honor, either personal or national, no understanding of dignity, because he possesses none himself. With his barnyard approach to diplomacy he has certainly played the fool upon the world stage. From day one of his administration he has marked America and Americans, as being completely clueless idiots, around the world.

Before 2000, when we paid taxes, we paid them to the United States Treasury, theoretically to the US government. That money went to run the

Today whenever taxes are collected they go straight into The Bush War on the World. Collect the heads of the cabinet, in your mind’s eye. Arrange them in any order that you chose, and then ask yourself why you are paying out hard earned cash—to basically give these people the means to continue what they are doing in your name?

You make everything possible. When challenged the Cretans say that you elected them, which is a lie. They also say they are protecting you. Just look around, do you feel protected? Have you lost someone near and dear, in one of the several Bush WARS? When did you last get a raise? Are you certain of anything anymore? Certainly no job today is secure, not even the sovereignty of the country is certain anymore. All that’s clear today is that we now have an out-of-control dictator that has committed an untold number of impeachable offences. And we know that Congress has yet to act on any of these transgressions of the highest order. Why not? See "the license" that Bush was given by congress when all of this began? Don’t look to the Supreme Court for help either; they sold out on 12-12-2000 – when they stopped the Florida vote, before all the votes were counted.

Your political party won’t be of much use either. This is something very basic. This is about the kind of nation you want to live in, and what you want your taxes to go for. Political parties simply do not do anything as small, as what most people might want. For help with this one, we must revert to what we did before there were formal parties to "represent our wishes." Because they too have failed us, badly.

There was a time when people spoke for themselves, without the stamps of approval handed out (or bought) from any political party. There was a time when people took care of the most basic things in their lives, rather than just delegating it to someone else. Sometimes, even today, individuals take matters into their own hands, when it is important enough to do something about a transgression that is too threatening to life, or to the continuance of that life. This is too important to delegate to some disinterested third party. This is also something that need not wait for the election.

Start now with your local television stations, newspapers, radio talk shows. Talk, and listen. Write and read more often. Find out what the hell has

This is why we had a constitution so that we would never have to make these kinds of choices. And had the constitution been protected, (another presidential failure), that would still be true. But the constitution is no longer in effect. Ask Tom Ridge, or maybe John Ashcroft. Neither man is very competent with speech, but you can try. Call them up. Write to them. Ask them what the hell is going on? If they tell you "We’re at WAR" ask them to prove who did 911, and then you’ll believe we’re at war. But in the meantime, "why can’t we have our constitution back?" It’s been around since the beginning of this country. These creeps couldn’t get a job if it weren’t for the likes of the Bush Brigades: and yet they’re part of those who have redesigned our lives to fit into their dirty little plans.

We are either a nation of laws and not of men, or we are a gang of bandits that simply tolerate the masses of those less fortunate—at least until the poor can be removed from that equation. So which of these ideals captures the way you want to live your life, and how many others share that vision?

When human lives are written in the invisible ink of power politics—then blood is all that matters in the end. Liberty is a constant torch and one that always is in need of feeding by each new generation. But we skipped some generations, and we’ve grown soft. We have assumed things that we have not earned, and now we must pay for what we say we need

So let’s begin to talk!