Putting It Into Words

Manuel Valenzuela eloquently expresses the outrage felt by so many of us:

You should be outraged that so many fellow Americans were methodically conditioned to vote against their own interests and for the benefit of the corporate world, sending the world a message of backwardness, of warmongering, of ignorance and thirst for violence. Americans of all varieties should be incensed that so many gave George Bush a thumbs-up mandate for the feeble leadership, incompetence, violence and killing of the past and the ineptitude, violence, war, division, terror, criminality that is sure to come. By voting Bush back into office we have lost all respect in the world, we have become the terrorists we fear, the war criminals we loathe and have allowed for the continued slaughter of untold thousands through the weapons of mass destruction we are so proud to manufacture.

We have given the corporatists in government the confidence that what they have done is endorsed by so many millions. We have given the neoconartists new life, their ideology fresh legs, and their delusional preemptive ideas to reshape the world continued existence. You should be ashamed at your fellow citizens, 59 million strong, for voting while living in bubbles and disconnect, for voting kidnapped by fear, bigotry and homophobia, for voting not with their brains but with their manipulated emotions.

You should be outraged that millions have made you less safe, not more, making our world a much more dangerous place, and America a most inviting target of vengeance and hatred spawned by a foreign policy we have through our vote accepted. Now, thanks to all those millions, the actions of our government will be imputed onto us, and guilty we will all be in the wrongs done in our name. To the eyes of the world, there are now no innocent Americans, for the actions of the criminals in power have now become our own. To the world, our government’s wrongs have fused with the people’s beliefs, and distinctions between the two will no longer be made. We should all be screaming that the collective future of our children has been made more perilous, and that blowback will surely continue the vicious circle of violence we presently inhabit.

In particular, this segment caught my attention:

The recipe for success has been perfected by the corporatist few, learned through careful study and American sponsored implementation in Latin America, Africa and Asia that for years has had the desired result of selecting American puppets, dictators and proctors.

There is a lot of truth in this, as anyone who has studied the backgrounds of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al will know. Look at Juan Negroponte, the USA's new point-man in Baghdad. He is NEVER in the news, never. He keeps the lowest of low profiles while Iyad Allawi grabs all the headlines, good or bad. But there is no question who is running the show, and a very well-rehearsed, well-practiced show it is indeed. The idea that these carefully crafted install-a-dictator plots have ultimately come home to be used in the USA itself is supremely ironic.

We the People are being routed in a war most of us fail to see or understand, our lives each day becoming that of yesteryear’s serfs and tomorrow’s automatons...We are the many and the enemy the few, and only together can we defeat this most formidable enemy.

Read Valenzuela's full "Call to arms" here (and yes, he does sound a bit like Yoda doing a Gandalf impression at times).