:: Idle Neurosis ::

:: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 ::

no good dirty hippies

in advance please pardon my political nature.....i heard jesse jackson speak at my school today at an anti-war teach-in. he was rather impressive...even more so was the a kid in his 20's who spoke about the humanitarian work he does in Iraq. why do people feel it is unpatriotic to disagree with this war? we were given the right to speak out against our government when we feel they are doing wrong... there is no justifiable means to go to war with Iraq. our rights are slowly being taken away and we sit back and keep our mouths shut...check out the patriot act if you don't know what i'm talking about. we say we want to overthrow saddam in order to liberate iraq. shouldn't people want our help before we attempt to help them. iraqis are the only people who have the right to overthrow their government...and if we do want to help we should do it through peaceful means...so iraq has a dictatorship, how arrogant are we to say we want to enforce our way of life onto them? saudi arabia, morrocco, and many other countries don't have a democracy but as long as their scratching our backs they're ok. trust me, iraq would rather their country stay the way it is than have bombs going off day after day. imagine the psychological damage that kind of violence has on the children of the country. weapons of mass destruction...there is no evidence yet..so that excuse gets thrown out the window....other officials can guarantee they have these weapons....how so?...cuz our government has the reciepts....we are the biggest supplier of weapons, including torture weapons than any other country. our soldiers are being shot at in romote areas in the world by guns made and sold by america. i'm not a pacifist...i think in certain situations war is necessary...but sending our troops to iraq and killing thousands of civilians is not even close to necessary. as a result of the gulf war, 41% of the iraqi people don't have adequate sources of water, not to mention food. and if you are realist who thinks every country for themselves...well here's a statistic for ya...the amount of money we'll spend on this war will be three times that what we spend on education for kindergarten through 12th grade in america. i know a lot of inner city schools, neighborhoods, and homeless people (who spend their days and nights in union station) who would love to utilize the money we will use for just one bomb. so why does our government want to go to war...greed. that's all it comes down to...greed for oil and greed for power. it's not easy to weed through all the propaganda...and it is not easy to find the answers...but being ignorant and not doing anything about it is no one's fault but our own. u don't know what to believe...ask questions....yeah sit down with that weird looking socialist kid from your poli sci class. get information and form your own opinion. make time for all this, skip your favorite tv show and find some answers...it's our right and duty to go to school and work but it is also our duty to help humankind.
....again sorry for all that

"The battle will last much longer than the war" -Jesse Jackson


stellar lady:: naughti 6:36 PM [+] ::
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