\r\nDear America: \r\n<\/p>
\r\nAnd so it has come to this. Your once great nation has fallen into madness, an affliction of mass denial that brings shivers up the spines of millions outside your borders. Yours is a sick nation. But most of you carry on as though nothing at all is the matter. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nDark, evil operations run rampant in the secret corners of your \r\ngovernment institutions. An illegally constituted government \r\npursues war at will anywhere on earth, discussing nuclear \r\noptions that become points for cheerful chatter over lunch. \r\nYour military and intelligence agencies employ terrorist tactics \r\naround the globe even as they insist that such tactics are \r\nnecessary in the fight against terrorism. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nYou have become a nation of monsters, America. Hypocrites. \r\nMurderers. Fools. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nYour constitution is a shambles thanks to national security \r\nmeasures resulting from what might well be \r\nU.S.-government-sponsored terrorist attacks in New York City \r\nand Washington D.C., covert provocations designed to justify a \r\nmalevolent, poisonous, oil-based military economy. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nNever mind that earth-friendly technology already exists to \r\nonce and for all end dependence on oil, coal and nuclear \r\nenergy from huge, out-of-control utilities and corporations. You \r\nwould rather pay through the nose for your insecure comforts, \r\nwouldn't you America ? and make others pay with their blood. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nAt the same time, you stand by as the Israel?s secular Zionists \r\n? whom you support through the supply of arms and money -- \r\nslaughter untold numbers of innocents in the West Bank, then \r\nblame the Palestinians for bringing the terror upon them \r\nselves. True, there are terrible Arab suicide bombers in Israel?s \r\nmidst. But are they not driven to madness and desperation by \r\nyour infernal support of international terrorist politics? \r\n<\/p>
\r\nAs I write these words, you support a nation run by a convicted \r\nmurderer who with impunity is carrying out war crimes as cruel \r\nand horrendous as those of other sadistic tyrants in history. \r\nAnd you say, in your utter cynicism, when will these \r\nPalestinians bring this war to an end? \r\n<\/p>
\r\nYou recklessly wage combat on other fronts, too. At home, your \r\nWar on Drugs is a disastrous 30-year folly -- a gigantic con \r\ngame designed to benefit lethal cartels, corrupt politicians and \r\nmenacing intelligence agencies across the planet. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nMeanwhile, military tanker jets daily spray massive quantities of \r\nunknown chemicals into the skies above your cities without \r\nyour population?s consent, and most of you do not even have \r\nthe wherewithal to look up. Those who do and who voice their \r\noutrage hear only a deafening silence from your congress and \r\nyour tax-supported health agencies. Some Americans have too \r\nactive imaginations, yes? Best treat them with mind-numbing \r\nprescription drugs, and try to forget that the awful side effects \r\nnumber in the thousands. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nIndeed, those who your government appoints to oversee your \r\nsafety and security laugh in your faces. With your \r\ngovernment?s support, crooked multinationals like Monsanto \r\nbuy up the world?s water supplies, and take possession of the \r\nworld?s vegetation through Frankenstein technology already \r\nknown to cause illness. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nDoes the FDA care about any of this? Hell no. It?s long been on \r\nthe bandwagon to foist genetically altered food on the Guinea \r\nPigs of the country -- including every man, woman and child \r\non America?s increasingly toxic soil. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nYou are a nation of suckers, America, to be bled dry of your \r\nhard-earned pay through outrageous bank schemes, Wall \r\nStreet rip offs and fake government budget grabs. Your \r\nPentagon cannot account for trillions in lost dollars. Does this \r\nbother you? Not in the least. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nYour whole economy is controlled by what is for the most part \r\nravenous, international private banking interests in the form of \r\nThe Federal Reserve, which with your government?s consent \r\nleads you down the garden path to irrecoverable debt and \r\ncertain financial ruin. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nIs this worth thinking about? When?s the football game on? \r\n<\/p>
\r\nThese very same money men are the ones who, through \r\nunmonitored and unrepresentative world committees, are \r\ndriving countries like Argentina into hopeless debt and social \r\nupheaval. These greedy overlords are creating strife and \r\nsuffering on a scale too tragic for words in nation after nation. \r\nJust look at Africa. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nThey?ve got their sites on America, now, too; disrupting \r\neconomic stability through so-called free trade initiatives and \r\nprovisions for special favors and the endless flow of cash to \r\ncorporate monstrosities like Enron. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nFor the most part, your congressional representatives are \r\nnothing but swine gathering at the corporate troughs. Your \r\npresident is a creep and a thug, a hypocrite who through his \r\nactions celebrates war, repression and greed even as he gives \r\nlip service to peace, freedom and justice. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nGeorge W. Bush hoodwinks you daily, the coward hiding \r\nbehind a phony patriotism. He is an Enron buddy boy, a spoiled \r\nchild lying in his teeth about his past and current dirty deeds. \r\nDoes he care about you America? Hardly. This is altogether \r\nobvious to those outside your borders who are politically aware \r\nand awake to the world around them. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nYou were never concerned about the disgraceful practices of \r\nGeorge's ruthless father, either, a Bin-Laden cohort and friend \r\nto criminals and killers in global drug, oil and terrorist \r\nenterprises. Iran. Vietnam. El Salvador. Chile. Guatemala. Iraq. \r\nAnd on and on. The never-ending bully-boy story of blood, \r\nguns, drugs and money. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nDoes any of this matter? Not really. Go get your ten-billionth \r\nburger America. Fatten your already fat asses with \r\nbacteria-and-hormone-ridden meat and do nothing as you sit \r\nstupefied before your mind-numbing television sets awaiting \r\nthe next episode of sad families being humiliated on Cops. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nFew among you are the least bit concerned that no real \r\ninvestigation of 911 has taken place, that no serious \r\ninvestigation of the anthrax attacks is moving forward, that no \r\nauthentic investigation of Enron, or the murder of one of its top \r\nexecutives, is underway. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nHow many of you give the slightest damn about the totalitarian \r\nmeasures your government is taking to keep its secret \r\nmeetings, grubby files and treasonous activities from your \r\neyes? You look the other way as your own honest citizens rise \r\nup against those within your nation who gassed innocent \r\nchildren to death at Wako, hid evidence in the TWA 800 air \r\ndisaster and rubbed elbows with foreign terrorists in Oklahoma \r\nCity. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nWhen did you stop caring America? Was it after your own CIA \r\nand FBI plotted the murder of President John F. Kennedy? Or \r\nis this just the raving lunacy of the conspiracy nut? What does \r\nyour gut tell you America? Is something a little amiss here? \r\n<\/p>
\r\nForget about it. Have some Pepto-Bismal. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nToday, in futility, your own government goes to court against \r\nitself for information you are entitled to by law. But this is \r\nhardly deemed vital news in the community. It is a fleeting \r\nreference in an electronic sea of meaningless banter. For proof, \r\njust look to all the spineless whores who constitute your \r\nmainstream news media. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nToday, you excoriate, ridicule and ostracize the brave and true \r\namong you. Your best investigative journalists are fired from \r\ntheir jobs and ignored. Congress?s few courageous souls are \r\nlaughed at and dismissed out of hand. The most honest and \r\nconscientious political leader in the country, Ralph Nader, is a \r\npowerless, near invisible curiosity easily side-lined by hired \r\ngoons. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nAmerica, you are a goddamn shame. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nWhat law matters now in your despicable state? What justice? \r\nWhat truth? When will you wake up? If you had your druthers, \r\nyou would right now gather your courage, take to the streets \r\nand march on Washington D.C in the millions. But I know you \r\nwill do no such thing. The vast majority of you are spiritually, \r\nemotionally and intellectually dead. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nYou consume. You eat. You shit. And that?s just about it. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nAs I write these words in Spring of 2002, I can only imagine \r\nwhat additional horrors your shadow government might be \r\nplanning in what will surely be an attempt to justify militarism \r\nand totalitarianism on a universal scale. A nuclear explosion in \r\none of your cities perhaps? A massive bio-chemical attack? \r\n<\/p>
\r\nOr perhaps it will be some Arab terrorist who does the great \r\nand terrible deed, his last thought before death being the \r\npromises you made to him before killing his family. \r\n<\/p>
\r\nSincerely, \r\nRobert McDougall \r\nA Canadian\r\n<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"The sad truth...","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2002\/05\/an_open_le.html","filesize":"8.6 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2002\/05\/16671.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":16672,"heading":"you lost me...","article":"...at \"your once great nation.\"\r\n\r\num. were you refering to the indigenous nations wiped out to make room for the U.S. Constitution and its mission to protect the interests of the rich under the guise of \"democracy\"?","author":"??","parent_id":16671,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-05-17 04:32:56","modified":"2002-05-17 05:00:15","fileurl":""},{"id":16697,"heading":"never a \"great nation\"","article":"the USA has never been a great nation. It was built on slavery, genocide, rape, and theft. The resistance didn't begin when the USA all the sudden became \"bad\". The resistance began the day Colombus set foot on this land. And it will continue until colonial imperialism comes to an end.","author":"rockie","parent_id":16671,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-05-18 20:14:22","modified":"2002-05-18 21:00:40","fileurl":""}]}