If you haven't already, I now urge you to see Fahrenheit 9/11. I'll give this disclaimer, though--I was violently ill after I saw it. When W won the electoral vote (note: one must remember that he did not win the popular vote, and therefore is more of a prime minister [appointed by a governing body] than a president [appointed by the people]. One must also remember that the last leader of an ostensibly democratic country to be appointed by a governing body was none other than Adolf Hitler.), my exact words were, "Well, this should be interesting." And interesting it has been. W and his friends have managed to create so many "Others" that it has allowed them to enter the US into an illegal and immoral war, create the Bush Doctrine, which allows for pre-emptive strikes against sovereign nations that have NEVER attacked or even threatened to attack the US, disenfranchise hundreds of millions of Black voters, deny gay and lesbian citizens their civil rights by writing discrimination into the Constitution, and endanger the health and well-being of millions of American women, among other things.
Fahrenheit 9/11 sickened me because it presented the facts of W's administration in a clear and precise manner. Granted, it was extremely biased against W, but there really are no attempts to insist otherwise. My overwhelming disgust with this administration is only equalled by my determination to vote, to see that others vote, and to make sure that this is W's ONLY administration.
So make sure you're registered to vote, and when November comes around, do what is moral and smart--vote W out of office. Lest anyone accuse my intentions of being in the wrong place, let me end with this:
"What is therefore the task...of today? Shall I answer 'faith, hope, and love'? That sounds beautiful. But I would say courage. No, even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth. Our task today is recklessness. For what we lack is most assuredly not psychology or literature. We lack a holy rage. A holy rage. The recklessness that comes from a knowledge of God and humanity. The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets and the lie rages across the face of the earth, a holy anger about things that are wrong in the world, to rage against the ravaging of God's earth and the destruction of God's world, to rage when little children must die of hunger, when the tables of the rich are sagging with food, to rage at the senseless killing of so many, and against the madness of militaries, to rage at the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of destruction peace, to rage against complacency, to restlessly seek that recklessness that will challenge and seek to change human history until it conforms with the norms of the kingdom of God."
~ Kaj Munk, a Danish pastor who was executed by the Nazis in January of 1944.
