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Edited on Wed Sep-03-08 06:42 PM by Peace Patriot
and kill and torture and break every law and violate every decency that courageous people have fought for with their blood, sweat and tears, and sometimes at the sacrifice of their lives, over the decades and centuries of struggle for human rights.
"Sit back and wait." Uh-huh. For what? "Sit back and wait," while the Reaganites support and fund the slaughter of 200,000 Mayan villagers in Guatemala? "Sit back and wait," while Bushites slaughter a 100,000 innocent people in one night of "shock and awe bombing"--then kill hundreds of thousands more with the civil chaos they have caused--deaths from injuries, disease, tribal warfare, and the displacement of millions? "Sit back and wait" to see if the Bush-supported, violent, rightwing military coup in Venezuela is successful? "Sit back and wait," while the Bushwhacks stoke a civil war in Bolivia? "Sit back and wait," while the oiligarchy figures out how to kill a bishop?
We have to NOT "sit back and wait" any more. We have to pre-emptively attack Bushite/Corpo lies and help expose their dirty rotten plots. It's all we can do--seek out the facts, the context, the history, help educate people about the past, analyze the black holes where information should be, and the disinformation, in the Corpo media, spread the word about what's happening in South America now--a rebirth of democracy, in truth--and write letters, make phone calls, lobby, blog, and to try to keep our government from doing more evil.
This is in our own interest, and in the interest of peoples whom our government has greatly harmed--to NOT "sit back and wait." We need to know what's really happening in South America, now--for instance, the swift movement toward a South American "Common Market"--because it is going to directly affect us, because we live in this hemisphere, and because our own government is so bad, and has so gravely alienated the southern half of the hemisphere. We need to know, because our government is stoking coup plots and civil wars, and could well involve us in another oil war--this time in South America.
"Sit back and wait" is neither in our self-interest, nor in the interest of the people who have been oppressed by our government and its Corpos, and are rising in democratic rebellion against it. We need to support their rebellion! We need to let them know that the American people are also a revolutionary people, who seek justice and self-determination, and support justice and self-determination for our fellow and sister Americans to the south.
"Sit back and wait" lets evildoers operate with impunity. We can't do much--because our own government is so out of control--but we can, at least, pay attention, remain conscious, help others to do so, and not fall into the Corpo-induced slumber that has afflicted our people for so long.
We cannot afford to "sit back and wait." We have been "sitting back and waiting" for 40 forty years, starting with Reagan. And look what it has gotten us!
I urge you NOT to "sit back and wait." I urge you to actively seek out alternative information, so easy now with the internet, to counter the Corpo propaganda that we are subjected to, day in, day out. We are not getting the truth about South America, just as we did not get the truth about Iraq WMDs and so much else. You are foolish to "sit back and wait." It is not in your interest. It is not in the interest of your country. And it is not in the interest of the people in other countries, whom our government's policies greatly affect. I know that you mean it as to this situation--the threatened coup that Fernando Lugo has warned of, and that has most of Latin America expressing "grave concern" and support for Lugo. But I see it as a trend among people who don't want to be bothered about our own government's evil deeds, or about the sufferings and struggles of others. Our ignorance about both of these things--and our myopic, 'head in the sand' attitude, induced by Corpo propaganda--is leading to our country's irrelevance in our own hemisphere, and to the massive disdain and disgust of millions of people toward the U.S., when we could have had--and still could have--an extremely positive and fruitful relationship with the democratic revolution in the south.
This is an appalling situation. We need to be actively working for positive change in every sphere--both in our own country, and regarding our relations with the rest of the world. We have reached a critical turning point--with fascism at home and a bloody path to grab resources abroad, down one road, and re-building our democracy, and helping to create peace and prosperity in the world, down the other road. "Sit back and wait" means an acquiescent, obedient, quietest population of cannon fodder and slave labor, for the McBushes to take further down the bad road, until there is no turning back. I can only hope that that is not the choice of most of us. And I sincerely hope that it is not your choice in the larger picture.
"Sit back and wait" for Lugo to be taken down, if that's what you want to do. That's what your "waiting for the evidence" tells me that you are willing to do. For me, Lugo's word was good enough. He has now been seconded by the rest of Latin America. And if we take Deep Throat's advice--"Follow the money"--we know damn well who's behind this. We may not be able to do anything to prevent it, but the least we can do is not remain stupid sheep, "waiting for the evidence." And I hope you don't do this on other vital struggles for democracy and social justice, here or there.
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