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Mar. 21st, 2003 07:53 pmSomehow, It just seems *wrong* to start a war for spring. This is the most fucked up celebration of anything I've ever seen. Just my two cents. I didn't even realize today was the first day of a new season, until someone on my friends page mentioned it. It still feels like winter here, and not for the weather. That feels pretty standard upstate March--cold, grey, rainy, bleak. Well, cool, but it only really feels cold because you're always wet.
We went out to dinner with Jen and Josh and thier baby Vivian, and Remy said that the Shock and Awe thing has started (I don't usually check the news at school, there isn't time) and that Baghdad morre or less is not. And yet again I started crying, and was so upset that I nearly couldn't see the menu to order my dinner. And then didn't really eat much of it. I don't know what to do. It's started, it's happening despite everyon'es best efforts, and some people actually like it. And that nauseates me. This is going to blow up so badly on us, even if all the rest of the world doesn't have the power to stop us. I really want to leave, go somewhere that isn't envolved in the whole fiasco, but I don't know where that would be. The moon maybe? I want to get as far away from this sinking ship of a country before it really becomes a police state, as I'm pretty sure that we won't be able to do anything from inside. There's only so much you can do when the black-suited thugs come to take you away because they *know* you don't support their every action. It's not like we've made any secret of it. Anyone who's overheard any conversation we've had recently, anyone who's read our journals, knows that we don't agree with anything the president's current regime is doing. When is it going to turn into the McCarthy era in full again? When are they going to start demanding the ordinary citizens defend themselves from impossible allegations? When is the revolution going to start? When the towers fell, in my dazed and delirious sleep-deprived state, I asked a friend of mine if the revolution had started, and she was shocked. And now it doesn't seem so very far off. It wasn't our revolution, it was the one that threw us farther from our freedoms.... And was, in a rather ofhanded way, quite possibly the catalyst to really staret it. It's been ised as the justification for so much death, and all of it out of proportion to the deaths we sustained here. How many people will be killed for those few thousand? How many hundreds of thousand? While I do sort of agree with the eye for an eye theory of retribution, I do not hold with when an eye is taken, take out the enemy and his whole family and neighbors for it. The word crusade has been used too often by the Bushites, and that scares me. And I really don't believe in levelling a whole city, and all the culture that was there, the masses of people now burning and dying. Dresden repulsed me, even in textbooks. And that's what we're doing again.
We've signed our own death warrants, merely by having names associated with this country. When people think of a country, it seems that all its citizens are automatically linked with their governments especially in a country where its government is elected by the people. So obviously then, wouldn't it appear that we support this sort of insanity? He needs to be gotten rid of in the next election, but I don't know if that will happen. I know people are pissed off, but I don't know if that's enough. Can we get the pissed off to actually vote this time? I know there are never any candidates, but I'm seriously considering, just in the interest of getting him out, just voting with the largest party that is *not Bush*. And I hate that thought. Get him out, and then we can fix things. If not, we're truly fucked.
We went out to dinner with Jen and Josh and thier baby Vivian, and Remy said that the Shock and Awe thing has started (I don't usually check the news at school, there isn't time) and that Baghdad morre or less is not. And yet again I started crying, and was so upset that I nearly couldn't see the menu to order my dinner. And then didn't really eat much of it. I don't know what to do. It's started, it's happening despite everyon'es best efforts, and some people actually like it. And that nauseates me. This is going to blow up so badly on us, even if all the rest of the world doesn't have the power to stop us. I really want to leave, go somewhere that isn't envolved in the whole fiasco, but I don't know where that would be. The moon maybe? I want to get as far away from this sinking ship of a country before it really becomes a police state, as I'm pretty sure that we won't be able to do anything from inside. There's only so much you can do when the black-suited thugs come to take you away because they *know* you don't support their every action. It's not like we've made any secret of it. Anyone who's overheard any conversation we've had recently, anyone who's read our journals, knows that we don't agree with anything the president's current regime is doing. When is it going to turn into the McCarthy era in full again? When are they going to start demanding the ordinary citizens defend themselves from impossible allegations? When is the revolution going to start? When the towers fell, in my dazed and delirious sleep-deprived state, I asked a friend of mine if the revolution had started, and she was shocked. And now it doesn't seem so very far off. It wasn't our revolution, it was the one that threw us farther from our freedoms.... And was, in a rather ofhanded way, quite possibly the catalyst to really staret it. It's been ised as the justification for so much death, and all of it out of proportion to the deaths we sustained here. How many people will be killed for those few thousand? How many hundreds of thousand? While I do sort of agree with the eye for an eye theory of retribution, I do not hold with when an eye is taken, take out the enemy and his whole family and neighbors for it. The word crusade has been used too often by the Bushites, and that scares me. And I really don't believe in levelling a whole city, and all the culture that was there, the masses of people now burning and dying. Dresden repulsed me, even in textbooks. And that's what we're doing again.
We've signed our own death warrants, merely by having names associated with this country. When people think of a country, it seems that all its citizens are automatically linked with their governments especially in a country where its government is elected by the people. So obviously then, wouldn't it appear that we support this sort of insanity? He needs to be gotten rid of in the next election, but I don't know if that will happen. I know people are pissed off, but I don't know if that's enough. Can we get the pissed off to actually vote this time? I know there are never any candidates, but I'm seriously considering, just in the interest of getting him out, just voting with the largest party that is *not Bush*. And I hate that thought. Get him out, and then we can fix things. If not, we're truly fucked.
