America: Remove these clowns, your survival depends on it!

[marmar]

J’accuse – you!
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2006-06-29 00:52. Impeachment
By Frank Thomas Smith
http://southerncrossreview.org

Who is this “you” whom I accuse? It’s third-person plural and it’s you, the American citizens who voted for George W. Bush – not necessarily the first time, for even though he seemed clownishly unfit for the job, he was, for most, an unknown clown; and an unknown clown is at least better than a megalomaniac. But the second time! How could you - after all any self-respecting moderately intelligent person already knew, or should have known about him because of his actions? That he is indeed, after all, an ignorant, pampered, bumbling, power-hungry fundamentalist who lives embedded (sic) in a cocoon of like-minded, like-feeling, reactionary individuals who, like him, have lied to us in the most nefarious manner: transparent lies told with sincerity, to the extent that one can almost think that they believe their own lies. And maybe they do. That would make them more dangerous still. Recently Bush proclaimed that “…We will not rest until the whole world lives in freedom.” Are those not the words of a madman?

No, I didn’t forget about those who voted against him. But what are we doing now? Sitting home watching the world cup or virtual reality shows instead of working to get rid of the beast which is devouring its own children as well as those of thousands of Iraqis. So I accuse myself as well.

Forget about the Katrina debacle; that’s a question of incompetence and all governments are incompetent to a greater or lesser degree. We can’t quite forget, though, about the United States being unwilling to join the rest of the world in its half-hearted attempt to save the natural environment before it’s too late. Even such watered down agreements are anathema to the Bush government because they could be inconvenient to their friends in the military-industrial establishment. To hell with nature! Forget about technological spying on its own citizens (for now). A congressman attempted to introduce a motion of censure based on that issue and not even his own party had the courage to support him. So forget about the politicians.

It's hard to forget about the concentration camp operated by the United States in Guantanomo, Cuba (of all places) where human beings - enemies or not - are kept in cages like animals without charges, trial, rights, lawyers and probably tortured (torture is now allowed, remember?) during interrogation.

You may forget about the fact that the United States, once the world’s model for the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, has become despised by the great majority of the world’s population – but I can’t forget it, for I live in the midst of the rest of the world and for the first time in my life I am ashamed of being an American.

The rest of the article is at: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/12530

[acmavm]

1. More and more intelligent articles are being written about what is

wrong, what has been wrong, with this country since 2000 (including that election). More and more has been written about the illegalities and criminal behavior of the clowns who are running this country into the ground.

And it's true. Here we sit. Doing nothing.

But I live in Nebraska. Try doing anything progressive here. We gave the Senate Ben Nelson and pretend he's a democrat. Sheesh.

[AndyTiedye]

2. We ARE Calling for Impeachment

We HAVE been calling for impeachment every way we know how.


We have been writing, faxing, and phoning our Congresspeople about it,
but the same spying which is such an obviously impeachable offense is
also the ultimate blackmail weapon, so it is not too surprising that they
are rushing to kiss up to the regime on this instead of doing their duty.

Communities all over the country are passing resolutions calling for
impeachment.

Candidates are running for Congress pledged to vote for impeachment:

[TahitiNut]

3. It's second-person plural.

First-person plural is "us" or "we"; second-person plural is "you"; third-person plural is "they" or "them."

That's how I learned it. :shrug:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person