[kj] Confirm...

[Phillipps Marc]

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Thought I'd pass this on from another list I read:

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"This is the morning immediately after November 2nd, the day of the US
Presidential election. In the last couple of hours it has become clear that
this is also the morning after a black day, a horrific day.

Yesterday, on November 2nd, saw 57,784,330 apparently normal men and women
(at last count) go out of their houses and commit, in their own small ways,
a crime against humanity. An atrocity took place in America yesterday, even
though no blood was shed. And, as with so many of the atrocities that have
come to resonate throughout human history, it was banality and ignorance in
aggregate that was the root cause, rather than some massive, central act of
evil.

These 57,784,330 people - what did they do? Did they enslave anyone? Did
they carry out genocide? Did each of them emerge from their houses and
murder a pensioner? No - what they did was seemingly far more innocuous than
that; they each voted for four more years of the Bush administration.

In doing so, these people have, staggeringly, given the thumbs up to the
last four years of human history. They're happy with it; they're proud of
it. They want more of the same. The 100,000 dead civilians in Iraq - so
what? These 57,784,330 people are confirming their complicity in this
slaughter. The 25,000 dead civilians in Afghanistan - who cares? And, of
course, over 1,000 of their own dead in Iraq (so far) - there's no pity
there.

The blood that Bush has spattered across this planet can no longer be seen
as the contribution of one deranged president whose legitimacy was always
questionable anyway. From today onwards, we have to look at the state of the
world as not being due to the work of one man, but to the majority of
American voters.

It's ironic. The people of Iraq never voted for Saddam - their country was
not a democracy. But they still paid, with their lives. They - men, women
and children alike - were held to account for the crimes committed by the
dictator who had seized control of their land. The people of America,
however, have given their approval to the Bush regime. Will they be held to
account in the same way as the people of Iraq were? Over the next four years
this should become clear.

I never for one moment doubted that Bush would win this election. Three
factors - the patent ignorance of the American electorate, the slow death of
secularism and the GOP's proven aptitude for post-electoral subterfuge -
made it clear from the start that Kerry had no chance. But my expectations
have done nothing to alleviate the despair I feel to be sitting here right
now contemplating what the next four years might bring."

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So . . . I guess that's it (I really doubt that Ohio is going to change
anything)

Time to start the "Spare a bed for an American" campaign I think . . . 


Marc. 



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