A Disturbing Trend

I don't know about you, but I've been noticing a disturbing trend lately and it only seems to be getting worse. Apparently, Liberal Progressives such as myself are being called "libtards", softies and a plethora of other not so nice names, including one more that i just spied while going through the most popular blogs on MySpace: "Terrorist lovin' cowards".

Now, this is unsettling in a variety of ways, and a little insulting (wince). As I state in my about me section, it seems to have become almost criminal to speak out against this administration and its policies. Republican pundits have gone so far as to say we are on the sides of the terrorists if we do not support this war, the Patriot Act, illegal torture, etc...

I live in New York. I watched the towers fall down from my bedroom window. Frankly, I was more than a little peeved. I'm a pacifist, but I did want retaliation for the attacks on 911 (possibly a covert group of special forces going into Afghanistan and blowing off Osamas head?). Our president promised Al Quada and Osama Bin Laden. Said that we would hunt them down and take them out..

Oh what a tangled web...

Well, I've never been really politically active, but the current political atmosphere has incensed me to the point of serious anger. I don't know what it is, exactly, that has spurred the all too popular trend of discrediting, humiliating and censoring anyone who has publically questioned the war in Iraq or this administrations policies.

It used to be the most important right we had, that if we saw our elected officials doing something wrong or we as a people thought our country was headed in the wrong direction, we would hold our government responsible.

It seems to me that something in the past few years has changed that.

Our Constitution was written to safeguard his countrys' liberties, and the liberties of all those who live in it. To keep the democracy our fore fathers envisioned from becoming a tyranny.

Somehow, it has now become almost criminal to speak out against our government and its policies. Our basic and fundamental freedom to speak our minds is being infringed on more and more along with the right to a free press and protest. As of late, I've taken to watching BBC news to find out what's really going on in this farce of a war because it seems to be a 5th rate story in our papers and newscasts.

How dare the Republican pundits say I'm on the side of the terrorists!

Pardon me... But I was under the impression that Osama Bin Laden is the one who masterminded 911. Yet within months of of the so called "war on terror" he'd been nearly forgotten.

Our president and his cronies put on a big show telling us that Sadam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction and aiding and abetting Al Quaeda.. All of the sudden we were watching Iraq get bombed in a fantastic show of "shock and awe".

Turns out, there were no, zero, zilch weapons of mass destruction and Sadam (this great beast of a man) was found cowering in a spider hole. He has yet to be connected with Al Queada. 655,000 innocent

Iraqi civilians have been killed thus far, along with 3,000 of our boys in a war that was based on a lie. Osama is probably smoking a cigar rejoicing in the fact that us "evil Americans" have given him a whole new generation of Islamic children who will hate us because we killed their mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers who never had anything to do with anything and just happened to be in Bush's way..

We have, sadly, become the terrorists to them. Our media is inundated with Republican pundits who blindly follow the leader without question and defend Bush's actions by cherry picking the facts they like, ignoring the facts they don't, or just plain lying to the public...

It has been proven time and time again that there is serious corruption within the entire administration, yet there is always a fall guy and no one on the top is ever held accountable.

It's so odd that president Clinton, who did more for this country than a lot of his predecessors, was nearly impeached for having an extra marital affair, yet Bush is sitting pretty in the white house after blatantly lying to and manipulating the American people, not to mention the world.

We have a serious responsibility to show the world that we, the people, of the United States of America, are not behind Bush, his idealism or his policy; for the sake of our children and what our country is based on.

Lets get our acts together, storm the halls of justice, and demand the bush administration be held accountable for his actions!

Peace and luv, Janie

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it is morally treasonable to the american people." Theodore Roosevelt 1918.