Saturday, July 23, 2005
Who Are We?
What happened to truth, justice, and the American way?
What happened to us?
What happened to the idea that we were the stronghold of the world, the great shoulder for the world to cry on? The protector of the oppressed? The knight in shining armor?
The Pentagon is trying to block the release of more photos and videos detailing the abuses at Abu Ghraib. And if the videos reveal what Seymour Hersh says they reveal, then we have officially failed ourselves.
In the same period, reporter Seymour Hersh, who helped uncover the scandal, said in a speech before an ACLU convention: “Some of the worse that happened that you don't know about, ok? Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read they were passing letters, communications out to their men….The women were passing messages saying ‘Please come and kill me, because of what's happened.’
“Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys/children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror it's going to come out.”
The emphasis is mine. If this is right, then American soldiers raped young boys, who were guilty of no crime other than being with their mothers or guardians. And instead of dealing with this matter openly and frankly, or openly shunning the perpetrators, the government has decided to sweep it under the rug.
Congratulations. The terrorists have finally won. Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses, so that I may fuck them up the ass, is the new mantra for America. I want this not to be true. I want, with all my heart, to live in a country where the innocent are protected and the guilty are punished openly and without recourse.
And yet, that's not what's happening. Crimes are happening every day against those that we are quick to label terrorists, guilt notwithstanding. Anyone who dares to speak out is said to be offering comfort to the terrorists. Kindness? Understanding? Don't you know that those are for liberal pansies? Strangle the brown folk! Nuke Mecca!
I miss America. Doesn't anyone else?
What happened to us?
What happened to the idea that we were the stronghold of the world, the great shoulder for the world to cry on? The protector of the oppressed? The knight in shining armor?
The Pentagon is trying to block the release of more photos and videos detailing the abuses at Abu Ghraib. And if the videos reveal what Seymour Hersh says they reveal, then we have officially failed ourselves.
In the same period, reporter Seymour Hersh, who helped uncover the scandal, said in a speech before an ACLU convention: “Some of the worse that happened that you don't know about, ok? Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read they were passing letters, communications out to their men….The women were passing messages saying ‘Please come and kill me, because of what's happened.’
“Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys/children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror it's going to come out.”
The emphasis is mine. If this is right, then American soldiers raped young boys, who were guilty of no crime other than being with their mothers or guardians. And instead of dealing with this matter openly and frankly, or openly shunning the perpetrators, the government has decided to sweep it under the rug.
Congratulations. The terrorists have finally won. Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses, so that I may fuck them up the ass, is the new mantra for America. I want this not to be true. I want, with all my heart, to live in a country where the innocent are protected and the guilty are punished openly and without recourse.
And yet, that's not what's happening. Crimes are happening every day against those that we are quick to label terrorists, guilt notwithstanding. Anyone who dares to speak out is said to be offering comfort to the terrorists. Kindness? Understanding? Don't you know that those are for liberal pansies? Strangle the brown folk! Nuke Mecca!
I miss America. Doesn't anyone else?
