Despair Not. Demand Accountability. Letters, Links, Lovenotes& Lie-Bashing

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“My personal trials have also taught me the value of unmerited suffering. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways that I could respond to my situation: either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. Recognizing the necessity for suffering I have tried to make of it virtue. If only to save myself from bitterness, I have attempted to see my personal ordeals as an opportunity to transform myself and heal the people involved in the tragic situation, which now obtains. I have lived these last few years with the conviction that unearned suffering is redemptive.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Suffering and Faith” (excerpt), "Christian Century Magazine", April 27, 1960

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PLEASE POST your letters to elected officials and the press, Katrina Response action alerts and info links, plus affirmations and ideas to channel our outrage. This is the no-whine zone. We are going to broadcast the WAKE UP CALL.

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The unspeakable permanent nightmare of the citizens-- and the city-- of New Orleans, resulted from the malign neglect of the cynically-named Department of Homeland Security. They will not have suffered in vain. We honor their human dignity as we bear witness. This is America’s Wake Up Call. Any American with a heart to feel and eyes to see will be touched and changed and aware.

The waters of propaganda have been drained from the White House fishbowl, revealing the priorities and the intentions of this administration. This nation has no Commander in Chief. The U.S.A. has been commandeered by a corporate CEO whose bottom line has nothing to do with the American homeland or its security. The U.S.A. has become a private cash cow for corporate robber barons. The myth that “Big Government is the problem” and the decades-long “disassemblement” of the social safety net has reached its logical-- and foreseeable-- conclusion.

Too many brave souls in Louisiana and Mississippi have paid an unimaginable price that provides this moment of revelation. It is our duty to channel our outrage as we witness the suffering; to be motivated and DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY from our elected officials.

George Bush stated before he left for New Orleans (five days after the storm and end-of-vacation fund-raising, golfing and Nero-esque guitar playing) that many people were working hard to help the victims and “the results are unacceptable.”

He's right. This is UNACCEPTABLE. We don’t want excuses, we want accountability.

No amount of catapulting, spinning or doublethinking will return the blinders to America’s eyes.

We are one people. We have witnessed the ultimate outcome of governing by “whatever the market will bear.” We want our country back.

Now.