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I'm sick of this
18 years ago
General
Sick of all this same old shit in the world, sick of politics, sick of bureaucracy, sick of "business as usual", sick of the status quo, and sick of apologists saying that it's okay that the administration rapes the ideals of my nation on a daily basis. I'm sick of people standing back and watching it happen, shaking their heads and balling their fists and saying "Why doesn't somebody do something?" and not acting.
What's wrong with America? YOU are wrong with America, Mr. John Q Non-Voter. YOU are, Mr. Apologist. YOU are, Mr. Alarmist. You people who blindly followed Bush's Patriot Act - a law which is anything but patriotic. You people who called for a need to tighten security after "the worst terrorist event on US soil" - a record that's not hard to set given the dearth of terrorism in this nation's history. Prior to 9/11 the nation had suffered very few attacks, in a global sense. But one well-orchestrated attack and the alarmists are shouting on the radio, the government steps in with the fearmongering and the promises to make it all go away if we let them have complete control over our lives. The people who supported these draconian measures are reprehensible, but they are not the true villains here.
The people who sat back, saw what was happening but refused to act, they are the real culprits. The ones who refuse to stand up for their beliefs, to attend a peaceful protest or a march, or to write a congressman, or to attempt to educate others on what's going on. The people who sat in their armchairs watching the evening news, shaking their heads sadly while saying "Ain't that a shame..." while doing nothing to stop it... you ALLOWED this to happen.
I believe in America. I love my country, and I love the basic ideology on which it was founded. I believe that somewhere in the past 50 years, we lost our way, sacrificed our ideals. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... what greater ideology can there be? That moral compass was replaced with the much more sinister "Dictated life, limited liberty, and the pursuit of shut the fuck up about the government or go to an extraterritorial prison where we'll torture you."
Don't like what you're reading? Tough shit. It's either because you don't agree with me, or because you realize that it's true. If you don't agree with me, bugger off; I neither require nor desire your approval. If you're picking up what I'm putting down, though, get off your ass and do something. Write a senator. Write every senator. Find a protest to attend. Tell your friends. Write an article. Do something, not nothing.
I'll leave you with the famous words of Pastor Martin Niemöller:
In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.
What's wrong with America? YOU are wrong with America, Mr. John Q Non-Voter. YOU are, Mr. Apologist. YOU are, Mr. Alarmist. You people who blindly followed Bush's Patriot Act - a law which is anything but patriotic. You people who called for a need to tighten security after "the worst terrorist event on US soil" - a record that's not hard to set given the dearth of terrorism in this nation's history. Prior to 9/11 the nation had suffered very few attacks, in a global sense. But one well-orchestrated attack and the alarmists are shouting on the radio, the government steps in with the fearmongering and the promises to make it all go away if we let them have complete control over our lives. The people who supported these draconian measures are reprehensible, but they are not the true villains here.
The people who sat back, saw what was happening but refused to act, they are the real culprits. The ones who refuse to stand up for their beliefs, to attend a peaceful protest or a march, or to write a congressman, or to attempt to educate others on what's going on. The people who sat in their armchairs watching the evening news, shaking their heads sadly while saying "Ain't that a shame..." while doing nothing to stop it... you ALLOWED this to happen.
I believe in America. I love my country, and I love the basic ideology on which it was founded. I believe that somewhere in the past 50 years, we lost our way, sacrificed our ideals. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... what greater ideology can there be? That moral compass was replaced with the much more sinister "Dictated life, limited liberty, and the pursuit of shut the fuck up about the government or go to an extraterritorial prison where we'll torture you."
Don't like what you're reading? Tough shit. It's either because you don't agree with me, or because you realize that it's true. If you don't agree with me, bugger off; I neither require nor desire your approval. If you're picking up what I'm putting down, though, get off your ass and do something. Write a senator. Write every senator. Find a protest to attend. Tell your friends. Write an article. Do something, not nothing.
I'll leave you with the famous words of Pastor Martin Niemöller:
In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.
