Where is the righteous outrage? A Rant from Duncan

Where is the righteous outrage at the Cheney Regime? The indignation at the lies & crimes?
How many Afghani civilians have been killed or maimed. Afghanistan is forgotten, the Cheney Regime gets a pass.

They lied about WMD, invaded Iraq a country that had done nothing to Americans and killed at least 100,000 innocent civilians in the process. They get a pass. Solid facts proved that they were planning the Iraq invasion BEFORE 9/11. They get a pass. They illegally torture and murder prisoners (82 documented murders so far), they get a pass. They rig elections. They get a pass. Check out Prof Mark Crispin Miller's book "Fooled Again".

They stall investigations into what really happened on 9/11 and then put out the 9/11 commission's whitewash report that ignores critical facts. They get a pass.

They have government agencies manufacturing news. They get caught having journalists on the payroll reporting fake news & propaganda. They get a pass. They cut veterans benefits and combat duty pay for the soldiers that they sent to invade Iraq. They get a pass.

They allow hurricane Katrina to kill and devastate thousands, as many as 2000 people still missing, just in Louisiana.... nothing more than CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE, they get a pass. They illegally spy on American citizens, like the Quakers, anti-war groups and even the Raging Grannies. They get a pass. Right now Harpers magazine has a cover story that puts forth all the crimes that warrant impeachment.

They hand over the national treasury to their cronies and plunge the country
into extreme debt. Now they are having Halliburton subsidiary KBR build concentration camps on US soil. They still get a pass. Check the press releases on the KBR section of the Halliburton web site where they brag of the $385 million contract from the Dept of Homeland Security.

People just don't seem to grasp the severity of the situation. People go along with all of this and watch the same old TV garbage, thrill in their shopping sprees, get all excited about the Super Bowl or rock concerts and in general act like nothing is going on. People act like "someone" will come along and take care of it all for them. Like it is all just a damn TV show and a happy ending is just guaranteed! A happy ending is not guaranteed! What is it going to take to wake people up? To get people to act, to become furious?

Are people waiting until someone like Tom Brokaw or Ted Koppel makes a formal official announcement on their TV!!!!

"And tonight's news.... the government of the United States has been taken
over by an extremist right-wing faction of the Republican Party by rigging
the elections. Your vote is now near meaningless and you should be prepared for harsh conditions as you are driven to the status of a third world country and a total police state is put into place. Now, here's Biff with the sports and
shopping news."

Do people think fascists will be dressing like the Nazis in WW2 movies?

That "detention camp" info on the Halliburton KBR website, for instance.
What more do people need? EVEN in the barbarism of Nazi Germany there weren't documents that SPELLED OUT EXACTLY what the agenda was. No way. Documents always sounded banal, clinical, professional and LEGAL.

Do people actually expect to see a document that says something like:

KBR will now be building concentration camps to house anyone who dissents
against the illegal wars of aggression that this government is going to
continue. There innocent people will be beaten, starved, tortured, raped and killed with little or no due process of any kind of civilized law.

This week Reagan appointee former Supreme Court judge Sandra Day O'Connor gave a speech warning of the Bush fascist agenda, as have Bill Moyers and even Al Gore in the recent past. This week John Bolton, the US ambassador to the UN, pretty much announced that they are now going to attack Iran and he used the same silly old WMD spiel to justify it. How many innocent people will be slaughtered there? What will it take to get people up off their butts? Where is the indignation?

Yesterday they launched the largest air assault on Iraq in 3 years. 50 aircraft, 1,500 soldiers attacked targets north of Baghdad. Probably THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT IRAQIS WERE SLAUGHTERED AND MAIMED. They don't keep body counts of Iraqis and they don't allow Americans to see reports of the returning coffins of their own American dead. Where is the outrage?

A nation cannot perpetrate these crimes & atrocities without destroying itself. These creeps are fundamentally changing the actual structure and law of the country. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are being shredded and they have just begun. In their own words, "This war will go on for generations. Forever." That is straight out of the ultimate horror story, Orwell's "1984". If you've never read it. Read it. Think of the billions of dollars they're squandering. The misery forced upon millions of people. Think of your children's future. Do you want to see them in the military over in the mid-east or Korea or maybe China?

Year 4 of the occupation of Iraq begins this weekend. There will be mass demonstrations across the nation on this anniversary of the barbaric "shock & awe" attacks. In Seattle there will be a rally and march at the federal building tomorrow at 1 PM. In Tacoma on Sunday there will be a rally & march at 1:30 PM at People's Park. You are all invited to do your civic duty.

What's the point in demonstrating many ask? They ignore us. They do what they want anyway. Well, during the Vietnam war there was the massive march on Washington.
What people didn't know at the time was this. Right before the march on Washington Kissinger Nixon and the rest were in the planning stage to actually drop NUCLEAR BOMBS on North Vietnam!!! Because of the demonstrations they decided against it. They also decided that they would have to get out of Vietnam. They could see that the country was against them and so to try and keep their political power... they began planning ending that war.

No one knew this at the time, of course. As Gandhi said, "What you do may seem insignificant but it must be done."
No one knows what might happen but it is certain what doing nothing will accomplish.

Has this country been turned into a nation of "good Germans" who "just don't know" or care? Friends, democracy is not a spectator sport. See you in the streets.

Duncan.