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• Thursday, July 3, 2008 10:03 AM

  When Are We Going to Wake Up?

  We let Bush steal the last election, and now we are granting the Executive Branch unprecedented, unlimited, no-fear-of-reprisal power to spy on Americans. Spy! On US! Our economy is circling the toilet, thousands have died in Iraq (and for what? An oil war? Then why are we paying so much to fill up our tanks?), and Bush has gutted the Clean Air Act and every piece of existing or proposed legislation that might mitigate the catastrophic damage we are doing to the environment.

  So I ask you: where is the outrage? Why are we sitting idly by and letting this happen? There should be marches on Washington, massive outpourings of mail demanding his immediate resignation. At the very least he should be impeached. Bush has BROKEN THE LAW. Damn near every member of his Cabinet has broken the law. You and I can't go to the corner store on an expired inspection sticker without suffering consequences. WHERE ARE THE CONSEQUENCES HERE?

  If we, as Americans, don't demand that our representatives in all branches of government pay for their blithe disregard for pesky inconveniences like, say, the Fourth Amendment, we are no better than any banana republic dictatorship. So summon your rage. Summon your will to fight. Then fight! Fight FISA tooth-and-nail. Organize a grassroots effort to get Bush impeached.

  The time is now.

  —pinesolprincess Read pinesolprincess's other letters
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