By
Dr. Robin Meyers, 9/6/06
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used this memorable phrase to describe a moment when
people of conscience would need to take action NOW, and not take what he called
“the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”
Another such moment in human history has arrived, as the Bush administration
moves the world closer to annihilation, hijacking both the American Dream, and
the peace-making heart of True Faith.
For five years now, we have watched the most secretive, the most belligerent,
the most paranoid, the most inept administration in American history destroy
both our reputation around the world, and any chance to repairing the rift
between the West and Militant Islam. George W. Bush is a terrorist’s dream.
Osama Bin Laden would love to see him become president for life.
Unfortunately, while millions of Americans are finally waking up to this
nightmare, many of them still believe that just complaining about it, or
signing a petition, or shuffling a few politicians, or writing a letter to a president
who doesn’t read will save the day. It won’t.
What I have called the first “Christian Fascist” regime in America
is depending on all of us to think we have done something good just by saying,
“Isn’t it awful!”
Ramsey Clark put it best. Has democracy become a “spectator sport,”
or “will we be players?”
One organization in this country
believes we should be players, and they believe in the “fierce urgency of
now.” The World Can’t Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime is calling us all to
march again, to participate in the largest-ever anti-Bush rally on October 5.
But first we need to organize. At 7 pm on September 7, meetings will be held
around the country to plan for a mass protest just one month later, on October
5. Go the www.worldcantwait.org and find out where those meeting are being
held, or organize one yourself! Make a contribution to World Can’t Wait,
because those full-page ads in the New York Times cost money, and the forces
arrayed against us are well-financed.
But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. The time for doing nothing has passed.
This is our moment.
This is the “fierce urgency of now.”
The World Can’t Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime!
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Dr. Robin Meyers is the minister of Mayflower UCC Church,
Oklahoma City, Professor of Rhetoric in the
Philosophy Department at Oklahoma
City University,
and author of WHY THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IS
WRONG: A Minister’s Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your
Future.