I have traveled much during the past year. Some might say too much!
I was in Berkeley, CA on Sept 11, 2005. The Solano Stroll was in full swing. The Solano Stroll is a Street Faire on Solano Avenue in Berkeley. Food Booths, a few Pagan Booths, Musicians, Dancers, Political Activists and People of every color, nationality & creed together in the breeze from the Bay. From the top of Solano Avenue down to San Pablo Avenue a river of humanity shoulder to shoulder and you would never have known it was the anniversary of a terrorist attack!
Later we toured Sonoma County, tasted incredible wines, played on the beaches and toasted sea lions, otters and salmon in their own worlds.
I have been to North Dakota when it was –10 degrees F and the people were sweet and good.
Nebraska, California, Texas, North Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, everywhere I go I meet wonderful folks and I can say that we as a people are okay. We go to work and raise families pay taxes and love our families. Does it get any better?
Perhaps we, as Wiccans, face challenges the Muggles don’t. We must rise above our life’s worth of emotional baggage and treat each and everyone we meet with fairness and friendship.
Perhaps your parents were cruel, or maybe a family friend or member molested you. Yes, it is painful and not right, but you must be above the anger. Wiccan’s can’t be sexist or racist or anti-gay or discriminatory against any group. If an individual or identifiable group of individuals has caused you harm the courts and polls are there, go for it. But not all people of a given color, sex, preference, religion or whatever are necessarily evil. A person must be respected or not, based upon who they are and what they do, period!
The President, Vice President, their cronies and henchmen come from many ethnic backgrounds and all have a few common traits. Love of power, love of money, profit at any price, demagoguery, and deceit.
The President & Vice President exaggerated and lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, spying on Americans, the deficit, you name it. Did you know that when the World Bank refused to loan the USA money, we borrowed $202 Billion from Red China? So much for tax relief!
The Government is just like you and me. If we spend more than we bring in we must borrow to cover our expenses. Well the World Bank says that we, the USA, are a bad credit risk, so we borrowed from the “Evil Empire”! These things must be “Family Values”, isn’t that what the Republicans and the Religious Reich promised us? Isn’t that at least part of the reason most of us voted for the current regime? Or did we?
Are we that dumb and gullible? Are “WE” going to vote for another Republican puppet to Pat Robertson? Who will we bomb next? Who will we assassinate next? Why are there 20 Million illegal aliens in America today? Why does Bush oppose a wall with Mexico to secure our borders?
We all know about these things and that is the way it is, but there is more! Recently the President in his State of the Union address spoke of our addiction to petroleum and his plan to save us. Yet at the same time Mr. Bush was hawking a tax break of $25,000 for businesses to purchase three ton SUVs. Additionally the businesses will be able to deduct the depreciation for amounts over $25,0000 over 6 years. As my grandmother Dora used to say “White men do tend to talk from both sides of their mouths”! Grandma Dora was a Cherokee who survived the Trail of Tears and she should know!
Once again, more lies!
Is this worse than getting a blowjob? Yes, Clinton lied about having sex with that “Lewinsky woman”, but look at what Bush has lied about!
Now that we can, hopefully, all agree that Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney are liars, do you think for a moment that we should believe what they say about IRAN? Would you send your son or daughter, to die in another war for oil, or control, or domination or just because the President, Vice President or Pat Robertson doesn’t like their leader?
Did you know that the tax breaks given to the wealthy and the war with IRAQ have erased the surplus from the Clinton years and put the USA into debt for $725 Billion (US) with $202 Billion (US) owed to China alone!
I don’t care if Mickey Mouse is in charge of Iraq, or Palestine or Iran. We can’t afford any more of this! The solution is rather simple. Let’s help Israel build their wall to keep the suicide nuts out, build a similar wall with Mexico, staff the Canadian Border as it deserves, and tell each and every middle-east government that any attack on Israel will be considered an attack on America and reserve the right to use nuclear arms. Mutual assured destruction – nasty words to be sure, yet they have maintained the status quo (for the most part) since World War II.
Next let’s start making ethanol from every source available and the same for bio-diesel. Farmers get to growing our fuel and making money! Now let’s tell the middle-east nations and all of OPEC that they can drink their oil for all we care. Thank you very much!
Somewhere in the midst of all of this let’s do another radical thing! Let’s charge our prisoners or let them go. Are we Fascists or what? Did the Constitution and the Bill of Rights just evaporate? Where is the Democratic Party and everyone else? Hillary where are you?
How about this, let’s not wiretap, search a home or in any other way violate the privacy of an American citizen without a warrant. I think this is covered in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, see searches and seizures etc…
I recently discovered that the US has finally found a way to dispose of radioactive waste! We turn it into bullets called depleted uranium and fire them at our adversaries around the world. It pollutes the water, soil and air. It causes deformities in babies, cancer and death to innocents. Did you know that depleted uranium dissolves in human blood?
Now, how about we get really radical and expose every swinging jack who has participated in orchestrating or ordering torture and all other crimes against humanity and impeach them! Then, let’s turn them over to the World Court. Did you know that, Vice President Dick Cheney, is already wanted by the World Court for Crimes Against Humanity?
The time is now friends. How much will we take? When will this garbage end!
When will we Pagans stand up and do what we know the Gods expect of us? If we don’t act we will enjoy the fruit of our labors times three! Remember “An it harm none, do as you will!” These are the very foundations that separate us from the unwashed, uneducated Muggles, the minions of the Religious Reich & the Republican Party!
If the Republican Party remains in control of this country, my future posts will come from Vancouver, B. C. Canada! That sucking sound you hear, will be me and many other Pagans heading north!
Blessed Be,
Stormy
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