Freiheit und Wissen: Free Haiti, Part II: Calling All Bloggers

Freiheit und Wissen: Free Haiti, Part II: Calling All Bloggers Freiheit und Wissen: Free Haiti, Part II: Calling All Bloggers

If your head is already swimming from Downing Street Memos, CIA ID leaks in the White House, Napalm in Falluja, Torture in Gitmo, and why the hell is this bunch of incompetents and crooks still in office, hold on to something and get fixed on a point in space. We need you to focus. See, Saddam Hussein isn't the only sovereign leader we've overthrown and kidnapped recently.

I hear you saying "huh? - wouldn't I have heard that on the news?" Well, yes and no. What you heard on the news is that Haiti's President Aristide resigned following a bloody rebellion and was flown to safety. He claims that he was taken away in handcuffs and kidnapped. They didn't tell you that, did they? Yep, we violated the Inter-American Democratic Charter by overthrowing a democratically elected President. (Carried out, ironically, by our unelected pResident in violation of international law - the hits just keep on comin'!)

To put the frosting on the cake, UN peacekeepers slaughtered an entire neighborhood in Haiti, babies and all. Freedom is on the March, Y'all! It's stomping all over you.

I know I should take a more serious tone when writing about these atrocities, but I don't have any outrage left. I'm to the point where I'm running on sarcasm, derision and blind hate of the criminal coup that is controlling my government and indiscriminantly overthrowing foreign regimes and murdering babies.

Yeah, I campaigned and I voted, which didn't do a damned bit of good because the machines were fixed. Nobody wants to talk about how all over the country, Democrats like Kerry and Mongiardo were leading the polls, then at the last minute, Bush and Bunning pulled ahead. In other words, somebody figured out how many votes to add to get a victory. Just because they're getting better at stealing elections, it doesn't make them any less crooked.

So I'm writing about this now to contribute to the call for a blogswarm. Maybe we can get the media to cover this now that some of them are awake. I want to do a comprehensive list of everything that's going on with out government, with links and such, but I don't know if I can manage it. It's all so big and ugly and unAmerican that it's hard for me to focus, too. If we want to live in a democracy again, though, we don't have any other choice. Focus.

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