I want to cry

[ravan]

But I'm just numb. THIS, is what I've been talking about, raving against, and wishing I had the might to stop for the last 4 years.

When a holocaust survivor decidress to return to Germany because he sees the country he's living in heading down the fascist road, I have the bittersweet knowledge that I have been seeing the signs right. The world is in for a rough ride unless we can stop this shit before the world decides it has to bomb us back into the stone age to protect itself from the lunatic that is our "leader".

Don't bother to deny it, or defend that son of a Bush squatting in the White House. I don't want to hear it. No more appeasement.

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[jemyl.livejournal.com]

Do you really, really think that this is something new? Do you really think that no prisoners were tortured or killed in the Korean, Viet Nam or World Wars? Hell, we even interred our own citizens in those. The McCarthy Era saw Communist Pinkos at every turn and many Americans lost their jobs and families over that Jackass and his wild accusations. All of them, yes all of the tortures and wild accusations and gaybashing and blacks killed etc in the name of "justice" or "war" are based on one thing and that is FEAR. It is basically a fear of the unknown combined with the idea that they CAN get away with it. Did it ever occur to you that now, thanks to LJ and sites like the Freedom Press and reporters who report the news even though it ends up meaning the end of their jobs, the age-old torture and killing of prisoners and people who just disappear are finally being reported? It is much harder now to keep things under wraps. I say HOORAY!

I won't debate Bush with you. I do assert, however, that a lot of people who opposed Clinton just seemed to drop from the face of the earth or end up dead. The problem is not a Bush problem. It is a problem of a military organization that has heretofore not had to answer to anyone for how prisoners were treated because no one had the guts to report it. Can you blame them? Now, with so much better and more open communication throughout the world, it is much harder to hide the dirty deeds.

Don't sell the American people short. Though we may seem like a bunch of sheep, history has shown that the wool cannot be pulled over our eyes for long. I make it a point not to believe completely the propaganda of either side in matters like this. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle.

There are people who have a lot to gain by discrediting our troops, all of our military and our government. If they can divide us enough, they believe that they can just waltz in and take over and we will all be speaking Farsi.

There are also a bunch of jerks in the Bush administration, (Cheney and friends) who truly believe that they can dupe us into anything. I guess they never met Bubba! Bubba will give all kinds of lip service to the government and then go out and kill him a deer whenever it starts to eat up his tomato plants and season be damned. Bubba understands torturing your enemy if that enemy is a threat. Bubba also has a sense of what is right and wrong and will brook no one interfering with that, nomatter what their office or rank. Our world has a lot more Bubbas than you might realize. They are not likely to be the ones standing up and drawing all the fire for speaking out. Instead, they work quietly, like a fifth column, bringing about a number of small changes, a judge here, a representative, a military leader, reporter, senator there, until one day the jerks are no longer able to garner enough power/votes/loyal drones to do their bidding. I have seen it happen in this country throughout its history.

Just think, forty years ago you would never have known about the torture. The news was much more managed then. Now the mainstream media is being seen for the bias it has and people are questioning as never before. The Bay Area is not always a good barometer of how things are. Things there tend to be exaggerated, everything in every way both good and bad. That the torture has come to light and there is such a rumble over it is good. Look for much more before this is over. War really is hell, for all involved and whether we like it or not, we are involved because our friends and families are involved.