It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will
we be?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
You know, I don’t care if it’s not proper for a Congressional candidate
to say: “horseshit.” I don’t care if it is not a good “tactic” to get
kicked out of a Congressional non-impeachment hearing that was just a
bunch of horseshit anyway. I don’t care if I get accused of being too “extreme” for bucking the (cyst)em by doing everything form camping in
a ditch in Crawford, Tx to non-violent civil disobedience to, lately,
running for Congress as (oh no!) an independent.
If people can’t see how this nation is teetering on the precipice of
financial ruin and dragging the rest of this planet down with us as we
destroy our ecology, too”and if people don’t realize how desperate our
situation is, then I must say, that’s horseshit!
I am angry. No, I am incensed that hundreds of thousands of people are
dead, dying, wounded, displaced from their homes or being imprisoned
and tortured by the sadists that reside or work at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue with the approval of their accomplices down the road in
Congress. I am furious that I buried my oldest son when he was 24 years
old for the unrepentant lies and the unpunished crimes of the Bush mob.
Are you incensed? If not, maybe you should ask yourself: “Why?”
Hypothetically: “Why am I not enraged that my country has killed or
hurt so many people for absolutely no noble cause in my name and with
my tacit approval?”
I am steamed that the working class has to, once again, pay for the
excesses of the capitalist criminals that feeds its rapacious appetite
with the flesh and blood of our children and won’t rest until it owns
every penny in this world and has all the power.
You may say, “But Cindy, it is not polite to be angry or to use such
strong language in public.” Horseshit! In my opinion, every citizen in
this country should rise up in anger and DEMAND that George Bush and
Dick Cheney not only be impeached and removed from office, but be tried
and convicted for murder and crimes against the peace and humanity!
We should all walk off of our jobs and refuse to work and refuse to be
cogs in the wheels of psychotic consumerism until our troops, military
contractors and permanent bases are removed from Iraq and Afghanistan.
We should, but most of us won’t. We won’t because it may mean that we
would lose something of “value.” Material possessions are so
transitory, as are our lives. We can leave a lasting impression by our
courageous activism and moral sacrifice, or we can leave a pile of
rusting metal or rotting wood. I choose the former for myself.
We should come out of our comas of too much TV news and not enough
non-biased information to push for alternatives to fossil fuels that
are clean and renewable and protest nuclear facilities and off-shore
oil drilling like we used to in the olden days when people actually
cared enough about not poisoning our world to get off of their couches
or (today) out from behind their computer screens to do something
constructive instead of complacently shelling out hundreds of dollars a
week for gasoline and food.
I get so pissed off when one of my supporters has a tooth ache and
can’t afford to go see a dentist to fix it or when my sister has had a
cough for almost two years and doesn’t have the health insurance she
needs to get fully well. And when I think that almost 50 million people
in this country are non-insured or under-insured, I see red. Why, in
one of the wealthiest countries in the world, do some have the
“privilege” of being fully insured and healthy, when health care is a
basic human right, not a privilege for the elitists? My heart hurts
every night when the men who sleep propped up against my campaign
office, huddled under their blankets against the San Francisco chill,
wish me a “good night” and I can’t choke the same words back to them,
or do much of anything but give them coffee to keep warm and books to
read to help pass the time. My campaign office is being visited on a
daily basis by Iraq war vets who can’t access the help they need to get
physically or mentally healthy—and I am “extreme” because I actually
want things to really change and choose to act on this desire and not
sit around passively pretending that this horseshit doesn’t exist?
Since Casey died, even though every day I am filled with pain and
longing, I have tried to be the poster-mom for this pain telling my
neighbors and fellow Americans how it feels to be profoundly hurt by
the Military Industrial Complex and that it wouldn’t be too long before
the cancer of BushCo would strike every American home and now that this
prediction is awfully coming true, I see more and more apathy and less
and less action.
Three years ago today, I first sat in a ditch in Crawford, Texas and
three years later, we are in dire straits, my friends, and the
prognosis is not good, unless we all make a conscious effort to
sacrifice some of today’s comfort for the sake of our children and
grand-children’s futures.
Sixty-three years ago today, the monsters of the US war machine dropped
a WMD on hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children and since
then, this nation has just descended into a further spiral of war and
profiting from war and preparing for war and more profiting from war;
which is destroying every aspect of our society and we MUST reclaim our
very souls from the Military Industrial Complex before it is too late.
Please don’t wait for November, or January or for the Dawning of the
Age of Aquarius because every second we allow this demented pattern to
continue, is one second too long!
Get moving!
I’am another Vietnam combat veteran sick of watching our so called representives shit on our Constitution and our country. I.am sick of sorry ass pussys like JEC:… belittleing patriots with enough courage to try to save this country. If you want the right to talk shit go to war, or loose a child in a unjust war. Otherwise shut the hell up you little chickenshit.
I am angry too, Cindy. I am angry that a so-called “loving mother” would use her son’s grave as a political soapbox.
On November 5 (the day after the likes of Nancy Pelosi mops up the streets of San Fran with you), do us all a favor and fly off to Venezuela and into the arms of your loverboy, Hugo Chavez.
I agree that Bush/Cheney should be removed from office and tried for crimes of mass homicide. Cindy, please speak out against the Bush/Cheney interventionist policy in Georgia that threatens to get us into a nuclear war with Russia. This could be Bush’s last and greatest crime.
“Sadists” are not the only ones who reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. There are more fools and short-sighted opportunists, the kind that supported Hitler. Some of them even died for him, rather than desert to Argentina like the more sensible did.
Cindy, you are fighting human nature. In Colonial times, a man placed his hand on his son’s head and said, “Give me peace in my own time.” I don’t say ignore it, but you MUST take it into account. Human nature is why we MUST have Social Security. How many of us would voluntarily pay into it, if it weren’t mandatory?
Energy. AMERICANS have a bunch, like shale oil, which can be commercially extracted by detonating a nuclear bomb deep underground, which violates some testing treaty. So what! Use old bombs, which everyone knows we are NOT testing but using commercially.
Universal Health Care. The communists have it. So could we. The US Army gives someone a few weeks training, as a front line Medic, then says he is qualified to dispense prescription drugs AND to operate on people, with a bayonet. How much more would it take to qualify someone as a doctor, by our current standards, to treat neighbors UNDER SUPERVISION? Call them Number 1 Triage. And, yeah, the AMA would never approve, no matter how many lives it would save. They would lose status.
Stephen Rohaty, 2 tours in Vietnam, and, as a combat veteran jungle fighter, ENTITLED to call Georgie bush a deserter AND war criminal!