It's bugging me

The various wars. In Congo right now, there is an outbreak of Ebola virus. Ebola is a 90% fatal virus that turns internal organs into jelly. The nation already has suffered genocide and civil war since 1994, with a death toll nearing that of the Jewish genocide perpetrated by Hitler.

America is bugging me too. If anyone has read Naomi Wolf, you know her to be a straight shooting writer, she has a book out that details America's decline into dictatorship. It's freaky to be considered the sister nation of such a country. Where the president will fabricate doom and gloom projections of the fate of america if they don't go to war, and where the premise of the war has never been plainly spoken, and where the demise of the men and women and children, both in the armed forces, and the civilian victims of the war, are not considered relevant enough to admit that tactics were wrong.
The media hypes what *they* think should be vital information, the people who have the most money and the most toys tend to be the ones who run the media and the interest groups, who in turn run the country. Everyone who disagree's is UNpatriotic, and those who speak for the government, constantly use the "I'm not an expert" phrase to disuade hard questions. Not to mention the fact that Mr. G.W. Bush seems to forget that nearly everything he says is recorded in some way....does he think we don't know he is a liar?? He may have been hoping that no one was really paying attention *before* and hoping that the ones listening now will be just guillible enough to believe his gobbldy gook....."Mandela is dead". How the heck did Bush get elected? He's like petulant monkey.

I was reading on Vagabox, some quotes that really made me nod my head, I'll share them with you here.

Yes, my friends, I too am prepared to die for a cause, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. ~Mohandas Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. ~ Mohandas Gandhi

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse; because that's the memory that haunts. ~ Bob Kerry

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ~ Voltaire

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. ~ Mao Tse Tung

Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem. ~ Howard Zinn *I posted this because I was thinking about the young man who was held down by three cops and tasered, though he was not resisting arrest, nor displaying violent behavior. He begged them not to taser him. Meanwhile, people sat there and watched it happen and no one spoke up. Since when do we not speak up when horrible acts are being inflicted on citizens? *

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can’t afford an air force.~ William Blum

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.~ George Orwell *Mr. Orwell wrote this decades ago, and it is so sad that still today, we can clearly see the truth of the statement*


Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.~ George Bernard Shaw

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.~ Malcolm X

*When a person objects to a war, saying it is unjust and illegal, and is subjected to mockery for speaking out, called unAmerican or unpatriotic for disputing the premise of the war, there is something seriously wrong with the definition of patriotism!*