dear me poor old sir ian, page-28

ypres - before you check out read a letter from dear john.

Hmm. Reynolds and Griffin. Old guys. Members of the establishment.

These guys are radicals, and you know why? They’re trying to tell you the truth, and most of you refuse to hear it. You’re so enamored of your so-called security, and so terrified of losing your meager income, that you will permit all manner of depravity and false witness. You will go to sleep at night counting your money, but you won’t count the innocent dead bodies who have been murdered in your name. That’s about the size of it.

Except for one more quintessential, sterling example of radical. Of people we should emulate.

Cindy Sheehan. Whose son Casey died in Iraq. Who has been at the forefront of trying to alert the American people that her son died for a lie, for a whole series of lies, and people are still dying for these lies.

Once she was just an ordinary mom. Then Bush’s lies took her son away, along with the lives of some 10,000 Americans and 140,000 Iraqi women and children in only two years. Plus ruining countless other lives. That’s Dubya’s legacy, along with a host of other barbaric and inhumane deeds, including the theft of trillions of dollars stolen from you and me and funneled to his corrupt corporate cronies.
(It really is an effective formula for radicalizing the middle class.)

At this moment as I write, Cindy Sheehan is standing by the side of the road in Crawford, Texas, demanding to speak to President Bush. I just saw her on CNN, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Israeli anchorman.

She told Blitzer about the first meeting she had with Bush, when the jovial president came into the room telling jokes and then consoling Cindy for the loss of “her loved one.”

“He didn’t even know my son’s name,” Cindy told the squirming Blitzer. “And I’m here until he comes out and talks to me.” Sheehan told CNN that Bush’s “misguided policy” is going to cost a lot more mothers their sons unless the war is stopped now.

The call has gone out around the world for ordinary people, musicians, and the news media to converge on Crawford to hear Cindy’s story and witness Bush’s response. For more information check out http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7418 and check the other stories on that delightful site while you’re there.

So ... now you know that Homeland Security should be concentrating on suppressing American mothers who have lost their sons to lies in Iraq.

White-haired college professors and ordinary middle-class mothers .... these are the new radicals. Will Bush and his criminal sycophants come up with a new policy to make corporate America safe from them, because they are the real threat to the people in power?

Ah, the new America. Imprisoned minds exploited by unscrupulous killers. But the middle class radicals are emerging. And their single overriding issue is honesty.

So I looked at that bizarre e-mail again ...

Overthrow
all the governments
all at once

International criminal syndicate
has taken control of world’s money;
honest citizens must prevent
them from destroying the world;
Lennon was right:
all borders are bogus.
Is there any reason
we can’t have an honest world?

... and suddenly it didn’t seem so radical to me anymore.

Oh, I know, it’s presumptuous of me to speak for people in other nations of the world, yammering Yankee dog that I am. And for sure Americans seem to be unable to clean up their own act, their unstoppable murder machine sweeping around the world.

But Bush, repulsive and without redeeming social value as he is, is still only a symptom. The real disease is systemic.

And until that truth is addressed, Cindy will be left crying on the side of the road, principled white-haired grandfathers and grandmothers will become the new targets of persecution, and young boys and girls will keep dying needlessly.

Unless, of course, we take the advice of that strange e-mail, and stop this self-destructive foolishness right now.

Any chance you can honestly respond, or are you too scared? Remember the coherent memes. It’s up to you now.

As I said almost two years ago , arrest the president now, and along with him his hellish herd of homicidal harlots. You clearly see what the future holds if we don’t.