Even if there were no phony, illegal, staged wars going on
Even if the President had never authorized deadly weaponized uranium to be used in
our guns and tanks
Even if there was no Patriot Act denying Americans their freedoms
Even if there was nothing that would lead us to believe that 9/11
was the inside job
many scholars now believe it was
Even if the President was not cutting education and other vital services citizens require
Even if the US was not outsourcing our jobs
Even if the administration was not cutting the taxes of the ultra-wealthy
Even if the Oval Office did not condone unthinkably cruel and inhumane torture
Even if the President did not order illegal surveillance of its citizens
Even if the White House did not lie about having ever met a certain notorious criminal
lobbyist
Even if the administration had no knowledge whatsoever of the Plame scandal
Even if the President was not pushing for judges who
want to return the US to the
time of the Dark Ages...
Even if the administration was doing an otherwise wonderful job....
On the basis of Katrina alone? This administration needs to be removed promptly.
They DID THIS to New Orleans. They can - and very well might - do this to other cities, too.
Every
single American who knows what happened in New Orleans should be
concerned about our families' own personal well being. For what
happened was not mere negligence nor incompetence, but rather
purposeful genocide among predominantly lower income black Americans.
When
human lives are seen as expendable? This is an outrage unto itself and
a cause for serious concern, despite all other heinous crimes committed
in the past five years by this administration. And this expendability
of our citizens should be of paramount concern, because it has
implications for the well-being of every single one of us.
This
administration has declared war ON America. It therefore needs to be
removed using every means available - and as quickly as possible.
Asking our members of Congress to "please" do this is not enough.
Waiting for elections to change the tide is not enough.
We
must reach not only the disenfranchised, the poor, the persons of
color, but also every person of conscience in order to gather together
to organize and throw this criminal Regime in prison... with the keys
thrown away.
We must vocalize our sheer
outrage at what has happened with Katrina to hundreds of thousands of
citizens who have lost everything due to the purposeful actions of
those in the highest positions of power in our nation.
We
must begin to make a big noise such as has not been heard previously in
this nation's history. We must each take personal responsibility to do
all we can to awaken our neighbors, our families, our friends to these
crimes that have been committed against our most vulnerable members of
our society, quite *on purpose*.
We've
got tremendous power on our side by virtue of sheer numbers, so we
certainly *can* do this. But we must work hard in order to exercise
our power and our strength. The only way this can happen is if each
and every single citizen does his/her part.
The
criminals in the highest positions of government will continue to go on
and on from one year to the next ... until we, the citizens, stop
them. And unfortunately not even one of us has the luxury of thinking
that this is someone else's place to worry about and deal with this.
We can no longer pass the buck. Each and every single one of us has the
duty, the responsibility to act.
In
years past, we may have been able to let ourselves off the hook by
thinking that if wrong-doings have been committed, then Congress will
certainly take care of it. But we have seen however, with both what
happened with their crimes of 9/11 and with the phony justifications of
military invasions into Afghanistan and Iraq that Congress is not
taking action against the administration - nor against its own
complicity in these events.
All other
actions aside, this administration fully and knowingly *caused*
thousands of people to die with Katrina, and hundreds of thousands more
lives were devastated.
There is no one else who can take these necessary actions against this administration for its crimes.
There is only you and me.
We
must each take personal responsibility and take the
necessary steps to remove this criminal Regime from power. And if we
do not decide to act? Then the subsequent neighborhood that is next to
go on Uncle Sam's demo-list could very well be our own.
Representative
Cynthia McKinney's recent remarks on Katrina clearly indicate that our
removal of this administration is precisely on the mark. But she can
not possibly do this all on her own. We must all become involved and
help to make this happen.
As Rep. McKinney stated last week in her hometown of Atlanta:
"Setting
the stage with its failure to protect the American people on September
11th, and then with its rush to war in Iraq with forged documents, no
matter what the facts were, the Bush Administration has shown for the
third time, with Hurricane Katrina, that when it really matters and
U.S. lives are on the line, it is at best confused and negligent."
Now
if only we could believe for a moment that the "at best" scenario of
this administration being merely "confused and negligent" was precisely
on the mark. Anyone who's paying attention knows that this is, more
than likely, Congresswoman McKinney's rather gracious way of
stating, in true Southern hospitable style, that this administration is
as guilty as sin for the murders erroneously attributed to "an act of
nature" called Katrina.
According to wikipedia: "In the
criminal law, murder is the crime where one
human being causes the death of another human being, without lawful
excuse, and with intent to
kill or with an intent to cause grievous bodily harm."
So
in reviewing the facts about the administration's pre-knowledge
about Katrina and the breech (or shall we say demolition) of its levees
and the mass devastation and demise that this would inevitably cause?
There are no two ways about it. Any way you look at it, this
administration fully knew - and intended - that many deaths would
occur. And for this reason, our administration's got blood stains on
its hands.
There
is no time to waste. These criminals must be removed from power
immediately and be brought to justice before they can do any more harm
to any more people. This can be accomplished via both the routes
of impeachment and criminal prosecution trials as well.
It
is imperative that we use all available legal remedies at our disposal
in order to remove the perpetrators of these crimes and keep the
still-living American citizens safe from further harm at the hands
of their very own so-called "leaders."
Rep. McKinney's recent speech on Katrina:
Cathy Garger
Maryland
