America Values

America and Americans must hang their heads in absolute shame and embarrassment.

Humanity, which does appear to include Americans, is facing a situation that it has never faced before, rampant Global Warming. In the entire history of human beings, we have never had to deal with these kinds of environmental challenges. This is absolutely novel.
The dangers are real, they are present right now, and they are growing exponentially. Human beings around the globe face massive and abrupt weather changes, as exhibited by the record season of both storms and hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico this year. Humanity faces rising water levels that will surely inundate most coastal cities, including great cities like New York, in just a few years. Along with massive and unpredictable weather changes will come crop failures, starvation, shortages of potable water, economic collapse and major relocations of people as they flee the effects of global weather change.

What does George W. Bush, President of the United States and his party, conservative christianity, do about it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

He stands by, deliberately, while disaster unfolds. Why?

You see Bush, and these christian republicans are not here for humanity. They are not in power to make life better, to ease suffering, to protect the weak and helpless. They are not here to love others and do good works. They are here to gain power. Personal power. Power to order people to their deaths. Power to command that all humans worship their twisted beliefs. Power to subjugate, humiliate, torture, and condemn innocent people. They have never met a lie, a distortion, a manipulation, or a murder that they won’t sanction. George W. Bush is just as guilty as Dobson, Falwell, Bennett, Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity, Ralph Reed, and all of the rest of these soulless goons. As they are guilty, so then are each of us.

But these evil men and women do the work of America don’t they? WE, yes you and I have given them power. We have allowed these miscreants to arise to the world stage and foist their vicious pogrom onto innocents. Americans are responsible for these people. Americans will pay the price of their betrayal of humanity and the earth.

This price will come as the world turns its back on the declining super state. Not only will the rest of the world abandon America, but also it will actively work to destroy the evil we have loosed upon the world. America, for all its good, is overshawdowed by what we have allowed to happen: We have given our and present and our future to tyrannical insanity. More importantly, we have abandoned our democratic and religious beliefs, condeming our children to a life of disasters and loss.

America of today has failed the children of tomorrow.

I am saying that all of us are responsible for what our leaders do. You, me, your neighbors, everyone. All Americans, despite wether you directly voted for Bush or not, are responsible for placing him in power and keeping him there. A leader can be a leader or so long as his followers allow him to be. If we are truely a democratic state than we citizens have the power to remove garbage from our system. The fact that we have not and will not reflects the realization that, at some level, we are in league with Bush and his ilk. Just as Falwell, Dobson, Robertson, Reed, Bin Laden, are all the antithesis of their own religions, we are the antithesis of what Democracy should be about. The Christians and Moslems that are true to their own religion have allowed evil men and women into their leadership, and have not taken the appropriate steps to remove them, therefore, these faithful Christians and Moslems are culpable of supporting a leadership that refutes the very tenets of their own religion. The 'good christian' and 'good moslem' are guilty of abandoning their own beliefs, for the basic tenets of both Christianity and Islam are justice, peace, compassion.

Speaking from my own perspective, I know that I did not do enough to stop Bush and get someone I wanted elected. I didn't work hard enough, I didn't donate enough money, I didn't volunteer time, I didn't take to the streets in protest. I didn't participate, beyond voting and scribbling a few words, to the political process. Therefore, I am responsible for the vicious coward that how occupies the highest seat of power in the world.

America, and the corruption of Christianty and Islam has shown the world, that humanity, despite our lofty technological achievements and impressive population growth, is still a raving beast, a hollow eyed, ignorant, superstitious, jealous, insecure, bigoted, and cowardly mammal. America and major religions have proven that wealth and power, and large numbers does not change the essential dark side of humanity.

As scary as it is, we have proven that human beings allow our flawed selves to surface in our leadership. Bush, Dobson, Falwell, Bin Laden and the rest of this scum truely do represent us.

As Pogo remarked a long time ago, "We has met the enemy, and he is us."


What Planet Are You On, Mr. Bush? (And Do You Care, Mr. Blair?) The Independent By Geoffrey Lean and David Randall
Sunday 04 December 2005
Tens of thousands of people marched in 33 countries yesterday to express concern for the environment. But will their leaders respond?
More than 100,000 people took to the streets in more than 30 countries yesterday, in the first world-wide demonstration to press for action to combat global warming.
The marches - timed to put pressure on the most important international climate-change negotiations since the agreement of the Kyoto Protocol eight years ago - took place against a background of a blizzard of new research showing that the heating of the planet is seriously affecting the world sooner than the scientists predicted (see panel below).
The protests were directed primarily at President George Bush, who has been assiduously trying to sabotage the protocol and has ruled out even talking about setting targets for reducing the pollution that causes global warming, once the current targets expire.
Harlan Watson - the head of the US delegation to the negotiations, being held in Montreal - announced at the opening of the meeting: "The United States is opposed to any such discussions."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120405Y.shtml

Activists Gather for Climate Change Marches The Associated Press
Saturday 03 December 2005
The Arctic Inuit who are losing their ice caps and activists demanding urgent action on global warming were among thousands taking to the streets in cities around the world Saturday to raise awareness of climate change.
The demonstrations coincided with the 10-day UN Climate Change Conference under way in Montreal to review and update the Kyoto Protocol, the global accord that binds the top 35 industrialized nations to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
A march in downtown Montreal was to be the largest of the demonstrations expected in 32 countries, including Japan, Germany, France, Bangladesh, Brazil, Australia and South Africa.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120305A.shtml

Protesters from 30 Countries Unite To Fight Global Warming By Cahal Milmo The Independent UK
Saturday 03 December 2005
Up to a million people will take to the streets of more than 100 cities in 30 countries today to demand greater action on tackling global warming.
The first worldwide demonstration on climate change will coincide with the opening of a key United Nations conference to set out the basis for the reduction of greenhouse gases after the Kyoto treaty expires in 2012.
Organizers of the protests warned that the world's leading industrialized nations had failed to make an impact on climate change and some, in particular Britain, were backsliding on their environmental commitments.
The UN meeting in Montreal, which will be attended by representatives of 189 countries, is set to be dominated by efforts to persuade America - the world's largest carbon emissions producer - to join future UN-led talks on ways to curb rising temperatures and sea levels.
The Bush administration has refused to ratify the Kyoto agreement, which pledges the 35 leading industrialized nations to cut carbon dioxide levels to 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012 - an undertaking they are struggling to meet.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120305X.shtml