:: The Blurst of Times ::

:: 11.03.2004 ::

An Open Letter to the American Public

American Public -

With all due respect: just what the fuck is your major malfunction? For three years now you have been abused, ridiculed, dishonored, fragmented, cheated, duped, snowed, and ignored. By your own president you have been driven to embrace a culture of fear, to throw your sons and daughters into faraway lands to die brutal deaths, to give up your righteous earnings to modern-day robber barons. You have seen gun-safety laws, theories about weapons of mass destruction, and a plethora of promises simply dissolve before your very eyes. Yesterday you stood with the opportunity to bring your honor back. And you squandered it like billion dollar budget surplus.

Yesterday, American, you could have made a stand for human rights. You could have made a stand for education, healthcare, the environment, social services. You could have made a stand for honesty, for truth, for peace, for global solidarity, for America and what it once meant to be a proud American. Today I see you have shown that you stand for nothing more than bigotry, hate, violence, destruction, hysteria, greed, and selfishness.

You have believed the charlatan who draped himself in the American flag, not out of pride, but out of cowardice. You rallied behind a heartless crusader, blinded by his own lust for greatness, oblivious to the consequences of reality, hidden from him by curtains of money, oil, and power. You have opened the door into a new era of loss, death, and destruction. The world is now his doormat, forever granted by the mandate of [you] the people.

The blood is on your hands, America. Once you could say the choice was stolen from you, swept away in a humid Florida night. Once you could say the world wasn’t what it is today. Once you could plead ignorance. Never again. You know what you have done. Given a choice between the unknown path and the path to Hell, you have chosen Hell. The piper is here and payment will be extracted. They will be your parents, your children, your friends, neighbors, and coworkers who all get to pay the price from now on, for the mistake you have made. They will pay it and the price will be them.

I have sympathy for you. I will weep with you when you bury your fallen. I will ache for you when the last tree is chopped down, when the last bird chokes on the smog, when cities are swept away in floods and tidal waves. I will be compassioned for you when I see children on the street, homeless and hopeless, robbed of futures in the name of a thinly-veiled religious crusade. I will seethe with my friends denied their rights as human beings and forced to live under the caste of second-class citizens by bigoted zealots. And I will be as ashamed to tell the rest of the world that I am an American and live in a nation unable to see the difference between wrong and right.

“I know the pieces fit, ‘cause I watched them fall away...”

:: Freddy F. at 8:42 PM [+] ::

Comments:

Beautiful. Pure. Understood. May your voice be heard.

# posted by  Polaris : 9:15 PM

 

good post, good thoughts...but maybe a bit overdramatic, besides why should the American people want anything different in the office - after all, what they voted on is a representation of well over half of the people in the U.S. We haven't become the people we are today because of a few bad choices for President - we are an ugly, consuming, selfish, unrepentant, and prideful country (notice prideful, not proud). It would be fun to blame all this on one man but...actually let's do blame it on one man - blaming things on someone else fits pretty well in our character too, let freedom ring and let justice win - as long as we have justice and punishment faced towards someone else. Long live Bush, here's to the small representation (his presidency) of the decline of morality, freedom, and everything our forefather's intended so many years ago - or maybe this is exactly what they intended - on a smaller scale. I'm moving to Australia - at least there I can blame everything on a Kangaroos. Have a happy four years as we were given two great choices...evil or evil, which one's less? which one do you trust more?

"I'm starting with the man in the mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways."

# posted by  Anonymous : 3:13 AM

 

Fred has very good points, but this world will never agree or be perfect. Your answers aren't everyones answers. And I don't think it would be good for us all to agree because we would not find out if there is anything better!

respect eveyones' thoughts other wise we will hate! Don't be hatin'!

"What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA"

# posted by  Bree : 5:30 PM

 

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