After dreams of being a pop music sensation were crushed by a talent manager, Ackmed decided on a career as an murdering bastard was more suited for him.
"The world is watching". President Obama's words were spot on when he spoke about the fall out after the rigged Iranian election. I have been transfixed on the #Iranelection twitter feed for days. Or cursing and conspiring as to why CNN has failed so miserably to tell the story of the brave people of Iran who are fighting for freedom.
I would like to see the same thing in this country. Yes I said it. Revolution. I voted for President Obama and stand by him but I have absolutely zero faith in our government whatsoever. I do not believe the elections in 2000 or 2004 were legitimate. There's no way to tell if our last election was legit because there was no way we were putting an old white dude in the White House. End of story.
Democracy to Americans I feel is best represented in those magnetic ribbons people put on the back of their cars that say "support the troops".
It's easy to just slap that on your mini-van and call it being patriotic. It's not a lot of work. Lazy, fat and stupid that's how us Americans like it.
It's difficult to picture Americans taking it to the streets to demand equal rights for all, accountability and transparency of our politicians and re-instilling our Constitution into the framework of our country. However, since the invention of Tivo this has become more of a possibility because you can't protest if American Idol is on.
"People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people."
I know what you are all saying now.
Oh hey! That's that quote from V for Vendetta! I love that movie man.
No. Actually it was a guy named Thomas Jefferson. He was the third president of our country and get this! The dude was nutso for revolution! Yea but you certainly weren't taught that in elementary school were you. You see back in the day those people with bad teeth on the other side of all that water were being really shitty to us when we were just getting going over here.
The Brits were all up in our shit so a whole bunch people said "fuck this!" and got together so they didn't have to put up with their shit no mo.
That's how we have to teach history to young America now so get used to it.
If you want to know something even crazier this Jefferson guy had a great idea to make sure all Americans had guns so the next time a tyrannical government got all up in their shit and all the people said "fuck this!" they wouldn't have to throw rocks.
Don't believe me?
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Yea crazy ain't it? He thought the blood of politicians and militia men was the shit that kept this country so great! This dude was our pres, the head cheese and it would probably be safe to say that he had a feeling that the American Revolution would not be the first. I think he would be extremely disappointed to know that it was not only the first but the only one.
I will go back to humbly observe the fight for freedom and democracy in Iran. Those people are in my thoughts and prayers. They have my undying support but it is not my fight. This is my country for all its open sores, rotting flesh and putrid stench it's my country and I love every inch of it.
I'll love it even more when everyone finally says "fuck it!"
With Love & Respect,
Mike James
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