Our World in a Nutshell

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

BuzzFlash,

How many deaths does it take for US government to act or to react? To many Americans, Dr. Tiller was a hero, ending the suffering and sorrow of many couples needing his services. Can any of us Americans imagine what it must be like to have to go through such stressful situations and have people, strangers, harassing you, stalking you, and intruding upon your privacy? All under the excuse of "free speech?" Such speech is not free. Dr. Tiller paid for it with his life, and many women undergoing traumatic surgeries paid for it with the stress of being harassed by total strangers who were also invading their private lives.

Many of us Americans predicted that violence would rise in this nation, during and following a violent Bush GOP government. And, such a prediction, over the years, has come true. If Bush and his cohorts in crime can kill over a million innocent people, unarmed people, including thousands of children, without fear of punishment from US law in US government . . . all of which was brought about by lies and misleading statements through the use of MSM, and especially Fox News, Bush's favorite news outlet (there were times when they were the only news group allowed on Bush's plane) without accountability . . . the lack of US law empowers like-minded individuals in this country, causing them to band together without fear of being made responsible for their actions.

Americans do not see this in the news enough . . . our CIA intelligence worked before 911. It was the lack of intelligence in the White House that failed this country. After three months of warnings, Bush refused to warn Americans or the airlines, and, did, however, warn others. No accountability. This, by itself, was a treasonous act.

It's also troubling to know that in the past, law abiding protesters were arrested and jailed by the Bush GOP for protesting for Peace. People were arrested for what they wore, how they looked. Thousands of us Americans have been put on lists given to airlines and harassed when trying to fly around the country, simply for protesting the Bush GOP regime's invasion/occupation of Iraq. We have yet to see anyone arrested or detained for suggesting assassinations, or violence of any kind. These people are at war against women, yes, but the protesters in Wichita are just one battalion of the Bush GOP in their war against Americans. They are at war against the military, gays, healthcare, the poor, the American worker, education, Mexican immigrants, and all other minorities . . . they are at war with anything that is a part of or is described as being a "democracy."

Those supporters of the Bush GOP who are at war against the poor, not poverty, but those who are in poverty . . . that began with Reagan, and here's hoping that his statue will be a reminder to all Americans, including historians recording his history, remembering and recording the outrageous comments made against poor women with children, the Iran-Contra affair, and the terrible Eighties when many people were without jobs and families were found living in their cars, going around the country looking for work. People turned out of state psychiatric hospitals during the Seventies were joined by fellow Americans, all could be found living on the streets of this nation. We still have street people in what is supposed to be the richest country in the world, and today, in accordance with the Bush GOP's years of progress for this country, many are our own military, who served under the Bush GOP regime, are now living on US streets.

By all means, please remember that no one in government paid the price for those debts and deaths. If President Clinton had done his job by following through with the investigations of Bush number one, we would never have had Bush number two. But, it's been said that Clinton didn't want to put the American people through that. Sound familiar? Truth be told . . . it's those in DC who are protecting themselves, not the American people. If that were the case, protecting the American people was first and foremost, the Reagan/Bush/Bush regimes would never have taken place without the needed investigations and prosecutions for their crimes while in US government.

Free speech by the Bush GOP has never been free for the rest of America. People paid with their lives overseas and here in the US, all due to people who are intolerant of those who differ from themselves. We have to tolerate their inciting murder and harassment towards Americans who have done nothing except try to go about leading their own lives. This is intolerable and it is un-American. It's not about life. We have children who die every year from disease in the US, and who have no healthcare. Children hungry from poverty. Children orphaned. How many of these protesters, who have the blood of Dr. Tiller on their hands, protested against the Bush GOP and their murders of children in Iraq and Afghanistan? How many?

We Americans have read about the intolerance and abuses by religious fanatics towards women in the Middle East. A young teenager in Iraq being murdered by her father because she had a crush on a young man in the military. Girls in Afghanistan having acid thrown in their faces. Just two examples of such cruelty. Whether it's in the Middle East or here in the US, these people share in their narrow view of the world, and think nothing of using violent behavior against those who differ from them, and such actions are called, and rightly so, domestic terrorism.

The US has over 800 hate groups in this country and yet, people fear a few prisoners coming into this country from Guantanamo. People who had families, who had lives, and the Bush GOP kidnapped them, put them in prison without any evidence to charge them with any crimes, and they were denied legal counsel and trials. It was reported back then, that Bush chose Guantanamo for those very reasons. Why should they have been denied their rights as US prisoners, just because they were not on American soil? Years out of their lives. How many were tortured every day we still do not know, and we are to expect these people to just "get over it?" Where is the intolerance that should have been shown to the Bush GOP instead?

The problem with many Americans, such as those who only hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see, they are the same people who gathered together (without any fear of police squads, I guess, because they weren't liberals or progressives) with their tea-bags, protesting taxes (brought about by the Bush GOP whom they voted for) without representation, which they have (Republicans) and they keep putting them back into office, which we could say is just a vote against themselves.

Today's Republican Party is not the party of Eisenhower, they are the party of Nixon/Reagan/Bush, and are not capable of leading this country. We have had over 30 years of proof. How many ideas do we hear coming from Bush GOP leadership today? All we hear about is how they refuse to help the Democrats clean up their (Bush GOP) very costly (China owns us today) illegal and treasonous mess.

President Obama has put DLC (Lieberman-type Republican lites) and GOP in his administration and still these Republicans complain. That's the one thing we can be sure of coming from today's Republicans (Bush GOP). They will complain regardless of what President Obama does to try and include them in his administration. The Bush GOP did this all through the Clinton presidency and they are doing the same today. These people, who view the world as if it's their own private planet in a nutshell, are not qualified to ever serve the American people. Their judgment for eight years supported Bush/Cheney/Rove 100% of the time. That's reason enough. They are responsible for what this nation faces today . . . debt, death, and destruction of two nations and one US city, New Orleans. These are not things to be taken lightly and just "forgiven." Only the dead can forgive. Not in the real world, outside DC, that has to live with these disasters.

Fascism, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary, is an "authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization." It's not liberal. It's not moderate . . . and it's not a democracy. These Bush Republicans have done nothing to stop the aggressive behavior of their right wing. Instead they have used many ways, including their radio shock jocks, to encourage this type of behavior against innocent people, and against our government. In the days before Nixon, these people and their so-called free speech probably would have been made accountable.

Who would think that today, after all this country has been through, with the education that is available, and because of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, that we would see the remnants of those same Puritans who were sent adrift to our shores in exile after getting on James I's nerves and bad side?

From "Word and Phrase Origins," the word Puritan means "pure of heart," and mid 16th century." (snip) "Noted for industry and intellectual intensity, among other fine qualities, they were even more noticeable for their strict morality and absolute reliance on Scripture. It was these latter qualities, often carried to fantastic extremes, that made puritan a synonym for a narrow-minded, excessively religious person blind to the beauty around him."

The murder of another doctor and the continued violence and harassment against these medical clinics has nothing to do with the freedom of speech. Where in the hell are our police and US government? Again, violence begets violence, and if it is not stopped, it will continue, and we have witnessed that type of behavior from the Bush GOP for eight long years. What kind of an example are these people setting for our future generations? What kind of an example is our government setting for our future generations?

History tells us that regardless of the religion . . . fanatics who see their own little world in the same dimensions as those found in a nutshell can become violent . . . how is this any different from the animals found roaming the wild and fighting for superiority? This is about absolute power, not democracy, and certainly, not morality.

You be the judge, America. Extreme quotes below are just an example from many such quotes in "What Liberals Believe," edited by William Martin.

"I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it." -- Glenn Beck, nationally syndicated Clear Channel radio host and now a CNN commentator, The Glenn Beck Program (May 17, 2005)

"I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo." -- Ann Coulter, "Live and Let Spy," Yahoo!News (December 21, 2005)

"When abortion is made illegal again, you will be hunted down and tried for genocide." -- Randall A. Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, in a letter to doctors sent to the New England Journal of Medicine, quoted in Time (September 11, 1995)

If US government had paid attention to such violent threats, maybe Dr. Tiller would still be alive. Yet, it seems that these fascists and their so-called freedom of speech was more important to protect than the innocent lives of doctors and their patients. Common good? Hell no, and not much of a show for a real democracy either.

Freedom vs. License: "The liberty of the individual to do as he pleases, even in innocent matters, is not absolute. It must frequently yield to the common good." -- Justice George Sutherland, Atkins vs. Children's Hospital. 1925. (My emphasis)

Where have we seen the "common good," put above the actions and speech that incites violent behavior towards innocent people, and keeps coming from those fanatical religious groups, MSM, and shock jocks, who were supporters of the Bush GOP and are intolerant of all Americans who disagree with them . . . who are seen to constantly infringe on the rights of others, claiming it's their right. Their freedom of speech. Where's the justice? Where's US law? Where's the Common Good?

Thanks BuzzFlash,

Shirley Smith

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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