The Furious Spinner

I would like to know where the hell are the American people? Where are the people of this planet? Why are they not rising up en masse to say they've had enough? Blackwater mercenaries are now patrolling the streets of a major U.S. city. You guessed it. The Big Easy is now the Big Target. According to Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo, these mercs have been hired by our government. Yep, better get some hired guns in here to protect all the property of the rich white folks from the poor black folks.

On top of that, as many of us feared, the water in Nola (which the governor initially claimed was not toxic—what planet is she from?) is so toxic, according to an EPA official, that it has rendered the city virtually uninhabitable for ten years—and the Bushies are covering up this little detail. Despite its apparent uninhabitability, people will continue to live there, just as they have continued to inhabit extremely toxic places in other parts of the U.S. One of the reasons Mario and I canceled our trip to Nola last year was because of all the pesticide spraying and industrial pollution down in Texas and Louisiana. And I was born in LA, remember, when my father was stationed there during his stint in the Air Force. I really wanted to visit the region.

It won't surprise any of you to learn that Bush cronies are cleaning up on the cleaning up and rebuilding of Nola.

And this stupid "war on terror" is continuing to spread across the planet as governments become more oppressive, using "safety" as an excuse to deprive citizens and visitors of their civil rights. Australia has arrested a visiting American peace activist. (It's such a stupid expression: "war on terror." Let's have a war on fear. A war on nervousness. A war on happiness.)

And let's not forget Gitmo. Perhaps as many as two hundred or more "detainees" (men kidnapped from their homes) at Gitmo are entering the second month of a hunger strike to protest the conditions at the camp. The military is now force-feeding some of these men. Your tax dollars at work.

What should you do with this information? Whatever you'd like. I suggest you call all your reps and harangue them. Give money where you think it will help. Begin a revolution of change. Think WWCD? (In this context, I was thinking of the Coyote Clan: What Would Coyote Do?)

On a totally different note: how do you all do caffeine? It's extremely disconcerting. I've had a few pieces of chocolate and I can't sleep and I feel like total shit. Never again. At least until the next time. Bleck.

I shall try the dream world yet again. When I wake up, you all better have fixed things.

May You Revolt in Beauty!

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