Open letter to President Obama

Witnessing the election of the first African American president and a man I hope can bring REAL change to America and to it's politics was exciting and brought tears to my eyes. Watching this with my partner was heartwarming as I felt a huge weight lifted off of us as a couple. It has been very scary this last eight years with the Bush rhetoric of gay bashing and such. It has been scary not just because of that, but because of our overall loss of freedom in this country since 9/11.
I want to be safe just like everybody else. But I also want to be free to move about my country and travel abroad without worrying that I may be taken away at any moment for something I have done or said or for who I am. I want people to be free to immigrate to this country and for them not to worry that their religion or how they got here will cause them grief, physical pain and possibly detention.
I want to see jobs return to THIS country. Good jobs that anyone can get without going to college. I want EVERYBODY to have the opportunity to go to college if they choose, regardless of their ability to pay. I want to be able to not have to worry about my parents (who are retired) loosing their life savings in their IRA because of someone else's greed.
The ability to have clean air and clean water would be nice also. I would love it if someone would actually bring up the fact that hemp CAN save the world (not like that will happen) but it can be included in MY dream for renewable energy.
And so, I would like to remind President Obama of the things he said during his run for the presidency and that many of us do not take these things lightly. We want and expect him to live up to them. We want our government to work for us, for ALL the people not just rich white straight Americans.
If you feel the same, I urge you to write President Obama a letter, an email, or give him a phone call and let him know this the minute he gets into office, because he will have unbelievable pressure to do the opposite from lobbyists, special interests and even some of his advisors. He needs to hear from the people who elected him, even if you didn't vote for him (As I suspect some of you didn't. Maybe voting Nader or writing in Kucinich. I wish he could be our president. Which is fine. It's great in fact. I voted for Nader in 2000). He is your president, and the best chance we have right now to do something.
We need to hold him to his words and bring up some other things like Palestinian rights, and restructuring or getting rid of altogether the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, focusing on things like fair trade and actual relief with no strings attached.
I know these are lofty goals. And I know that it will most likely be business as usual. But I cannot sit back and not try when I have someone in office who might actually listen. At least I hope so. We shall see. I am sorry this is so long. If you have made it to the end, yes, this is the end. Thanks for listening. I hope you will take action and I truly hope that we can make a difference this time, and get the America and the world that we truly want and deserve. A world of true peace, understanding, hope and prosperity for EVERYONE NOT JUST AMERICANS.

You can go here to find out how to contact President Obama. When he is president that is:
White House, you can send the transition team a message right now at change.gov this is a place where you can send them a message directly right now.

If This Doesn't Scare You...

Okay so I read that the President has the power now to detain civilians living in the United States indefinitely. THIS MEANS you and me, anybody that the president deems an enemy combatant (whatever that means). So basically they can say you are a terrorist, and not really even have any proof, partially because of the so called Patriot Act, and lock you up indefinitely without charges, without a lawyer, and probably not let you see anybody, not your family not anyone. You will in effect be "disappeared". This is what dictatorships do. This is what despots do. Crazy people who want total control over their people. This does not happen in America.
What has happened to our constitution? This scares the crap out of me. And if it doesn't scare you I suggest you read 1984 or at least watch the movie, that movie scared me more then any horror movie I've seen. I swear it seems like the right wing is using that book as a blueprint for controlling us. And it is not outlandish to think that we will eventually have camera's watching us in our own homes, and people dumbing down and changing our language to make it mean things it really doesn't and to tell us that we cannot be in love with who we want, and that our government will be torturing it's own citizens. Please write letters, send emails, and telephone your Congress people and Representatives on this.
Fourth Circuit Backs Bush on Detentions
President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision. ...
07/16/2008 - 13:37

Busy!

Okay so I haven't been here much. I'm sorry to the two people who maybe read this. I probably won't be here much this summer I am going back to school and I will be super busy doing other things as well. ugh. anyway. I will post but I might just do alot of re posting things like news articles and such. I apologize in advance for my laziness on this. Have a great summer and still check out the blog there might be something I go off on. Peace

Yet another mixed message from the dominate media

Okay so about a week ago the dominate media kinda sorta said that drilling in ANWAR would save us from high gas prices , by boosting production and then yesterday it said that the boost in production that Saudi Arabia has agreed to will not really do anything. Hmm which is it boost production and have lower prices or not. This is just another example of how they miss lead us DAILY about everything. So what they are saying is that if we drill in ANWAR THAT boost will save us, but the Saudi's boost will not. Even though drilling in ANWAR will probably take years to accomplish, millions or billions even to set up, and could possibly hurt or kill the wildlife in the area, NO big deal. It will save us. Well, here's an Idea... how about we take that time, effort ingenuity AND money and invest in say renewable energy sources like wind power, solar energy, battery powered and electric cars, things like that. Just a thought

They have finally said it

They actually wish for a new terror attack on this country to help get McCain elected. If you want four more years of fear and war this is your guy...
Aide: Terror Attacks "Big Advantage" to McCain http://www.truthout.org/article/aide-terror-attacks-big-advantage-mccainEdward Luce and Andrew Ward report for The Financial Times: "John McCain's right-hand man hit a raw nerve on Monday when he said another terrorist attack on US soil would prove a 'big advantage' to the Republican nominee's general election chances. The comments by Charlie Black, who is arguably Mr McCain's most experienced adviser, put into words what many Republicans and Democrats have privately been stating for months."

Progressives can save the world!

These are some of America's real values. If you believe in these you cannot vote for Republican Conservatives and if you really believe in them, then you want Green Party or Socialist candidates. I believe that this is what America really wants. We need to work for this, but we need to start with small government so that we can show people what Green Party or Socialist party candidates can do for all of these values and the true way of American life. We cannot continue in the way the world is going now, it is NOT sustainable for anybody or anything, people, animals, plants etc.
I am reading a book right now called Don't Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff that my girlfriend has lent me. I strongly recommend it to all progressives to learn how we can frame our arguments to get into the fabric of our society like the conservative neo-cons have. It is way past the time for us to do this. They have a 30 to 40 year head start on us and have billions of dollars invested in there mission. We need to learn these things to give us the tools we need to take back our country and really help the world.

Yet Another Reason NOT to Elect John McCain

The following is an article from the site Truthout.org, one of my favorite news sites, if you do not know about the Project For A New American Century I strongly recommend that you find out about it. This article will get you started. Oh and don't believe that add that McCain has out that says that he hates war. He loves it, he wants it and will continue it even more so than now, at the total and complete expense of this country and all of it's people.Simply to protect the U.S. "interests" abroad for the Multinational companies and the insanely and sickeningly Rich people who run them.
John McCain's Chilling Project for America
Thursday 12 June 2008
by: Elliot Cohen, Truthdig
(Former aide to Dick Cheney I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (L) and former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz. Both men were instrumental in the creation of the "Wolfowitz Doctrine," which advocates preemptive war and oil security at all costs - a philosophy that lives on in McCain's mindset, according to Elliot D. Cohen.) ( the previous is a caption for a Photo ont the site. Photo: Reuters)

John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars. The credo of this group is "the end justifies the means," and the end of establishing the United States as the world's sole superpower justifies, in its estimation, anything from military control over the information on the Internet to the use of genocidal biological weapons. Over its two terms, the George W. Bush administration has planted the seeds for this geopolitical master plan, and now appears to be counting on the McCain administration, if one comes to power, to nurture it.
to read the full article go to http://www.truthout.org/

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