I'm Sorry World

From: A Sorrowful Citizen

Dear world,

Please accept my apology for what American has become.

Like all great powers, we became complacent. We stopped paying attention when our leaders told us that they knew how to fix everything that was wrong with everything. We were scared by the attack on our shores, those of us who had thought ourselves immune to such violence. We stepped back and said, "Yes. Do what needs to be done." We trusted where trust was not due.

Of those who bothered to vote, nearly one half voted, twice, to enthrone a very unsavory character, and his cabal of miscreants, as the new generation of protectors of our freedom.

That same half, still frightened and confused, wrapped in a miasma of religious fervor and self-righteous anger, is still blind to the evil being done in their name. They continue to trust our government in spite of repeated examples of childish anger, and incompetent performance of the Constitutional duties which they have sworn to perform.

We did not understand that the Congress of this United States would pass a mammoth legislative package called The Patriot Act, without reading it. That act curtailed our freedoms, and even our rights to protest their loss.

We did not understand that our President would sign legislation while at the same time adding a fillip that he didn't have to carry out the laws which that legislation enshrined. This total violation of his sworn duties still leaves many of us numb with disbelief, but does not seem to matter to that half who still accept anything this government does.

We still don't completely understand how an American government can think torture is a justifiable act if done in the name of some imaginary war with no end in sight. We have a very hard time believing that our government would do such a thing, in spite of mounting evidence of the brutality our legal, legislative, and executive branches would foster on a world that we have been taught looked to us to uphold the standard of human rights.

We have a number of serious issues to be resolved in the next few weeks. An election that may wrest power from the stupid, ignorant and unAmerican Congress that wants to turn us into a 3rd world economy and a dictatorship of the brutal. A major challenge to the torture policy by some in that Congress who seem to have recovered a sense of what a horrible road we have started down. A battle to keep a mad man from attacking yet another country that refuses to accept the dictates of an international control freak who uses fear and ignorance to brow beat a public which has yet to understand what is being done in their name.

Wish us well. None of us living have had to confront these issues on our own shores before. We are not good at disbelieving our government. Not because we are docile, but because we have been trained to think democracy could control our leaders. We are having a very difficult time accepting how very wrong things have gone.

Most of us still believe in the dream of freedom, respect for all peoples, and peace through diplomacy. We are working hard to convince the rest to vote the current regime out of power.

In the meantime, know that there are still Americans who abhor what the Bush regime has done, and still plans to do, and we will do everything in our power to stop them.