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This is Mark Ruffalo for the World Can’t Wait, Drive Out The Bush Regime.
I am afraid, and I don’t think it is just me, I think we are all
terrified to a degree. I know the desire today is to grow so
small and be left alone and not be spied on or noticed as out of the
ordinary in any way because maybe we might be defamed or sent away or
ruined.
And what about our children? What deeds that we do now might come to
weigh upon their unspoken selves? If only we were to remain a little
quiet, unnoticed, with some untold luck, we’ll squeak by and have a
place in the and have a place in the great American sun. That is what
the small secret self says.
There are millions of us out there who are frustrated and angry. Not
only in small pockets, but all around the United States crossing into
many different kinds of people, spanning oceans and continents. We are
the growing majority. Ultimately, we are not alone. If you come out, you will see that others will greet and
support you and enfold you into something that is greater than your
fear of what we are being led to believe America is about.
America is bigger than what we are being sold. America is greater than
the two party politics. It is greater than the exporting of war and
importing of oil. It is greater than living any less free because of
terrorism.
We are greater than the constantly growing division between the rich and the poor an the have and the have-nots.
We are the singular vision of democracy that carried America to it’s
crowning achievements of civil liberty, justice and the ability for the
poor and downtrodden and broken and despaired to lift into the safety
of the great middle class.
Mr. Bush and his agenda have made a sham of each and every aspect of
that great ideal. Legal torture, incompetence, corruption and
greed rule the day.
Step down Mr. Bush; your oil cronies and lobbyist friends have made
their riches on the backs of our working people. Step down and go back
to your ranches and island homes and let us rise up again to be the
free and fearless nation united in our diversity, under our many
different gods and be the shining light of democracy that we truly are.
Step down and let freedom ring in the red states and blue states and
the forgotten black southern states and let us mend ourselves again.
Free of your lies, and your tyranny.
Step Down! Step Down! Step Down!
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Recorded by Bruce Burch,
Radio Host, All Things Reconsidered and Fourth Estate Radio
http://allthingsreconsidered.org http://fourthestateradio.com