When I talk about going home to visit these days I use these words with the hindsight and nostalgia of living in a different sort of America. Every time I go back, home has changed so much that I often don't recognize my own country, the one whose rights and liberty slogans were spoon fed to me for 30 years. I suppose the changes have happened gradually for those living there, my family and my friends, but for me each two years or eighteen months when I go back I am reeled by what I see and hear. Watching the nightly news makes me irate. I yell at the television. I crumple up newspapers and magazines in disgust. How can people accept this? I try to analyze those people around me, do they see it? I ask myself if they are aware of what is happening here and if so then don't they know that this has to stop before history catastrophically repeats itself. They seem so calm about it all. They seem so afraid to contradict, to disrupt. Would I be calm too if I lived here again. Would I stand up and contradict?
It feels like a small tide is turning towards the truth. I think I'll have to go home for a visit to verify for myself. I'm praying that this is the case and things will return to a semblance of what they were.
Nothing makes a statement like an image. I found this video and thought I'd share it. The song was written by Pink and features The Indigo Girls. Some of the images are very difficult to watch but if we don't watch them then we don't know the truth. Truth represents freedom. We need to know what's really going on. We need to get angry and stay angry. Don't you think so? Watch the video, listen to the words to the song and please get angry with me.
Click on the YouTube icon to see it full screen.
6 comments:
Yes, I am mad, too. I watched that and wish there was some way to make GWB watch that and make him understand. I can't watch US newscasts anymore, they seem biased and shallow to me now.
Some people over here are angry and are speaking out.
I hope that something will give on November 7th.
That music video was very moving. Brought tears to my eyes.
I have been angry ever since Bush stole the election in 2000. He has made terrible decisions ever since the day he was "elected". Americans aren't getting the help needed back home, the international community despises us, and we have destroyed Iraq and killed thousands of civilans and American soldiers.
It's extremely upsetting, especially when there isn't a damn thing that we can do about it. Thank goodness he can't run again in 2008. I feel sorry for the poor bastard elected that will have to clean up after Bush's mess.
That's exactly why I make sure to vote by absentee ballot - just mailed mine off last week.
Remember people, every vote counts!
It would seem that here in America if you are opposed to open borders then you are a racist , if opposed to the war in Iaq a coward , if you don't want the U.S A to be a pawn of Israel then you are anti-Semmitic. I am not in favor of gay marraige or civil unions or whatever they call it. Nov '08 clean house and senate and every damn thing else. I really enjoy your blog you have a nice writing style and stay on topic. JLL berkeley Springs WV... we have some pretty good water here too
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