The FF would be pissed

Not the Fantastic Four, although I wish that there really were Superheroes to remind us of what is good. No, I mean the Founding Fathers, the Framers of the Constitution. The white dudes who jacked the US from the Natives. Maybe they wouldn't be mad, considering how they treated the people that were already here, how they treated the Africans and they were the ones who made the whole "Manifest Destiny" philosophy possible.

".... the right of our manifest destiny to over spread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federaltive development of self government entrusted to us. It is right such as that of the tree to the space of air and the earth suitable for the full expansion of its principle and destiny of growth."
-Sullivan 1839
An ok introduction to Manifest Destiny
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/dialogues/prelude/manifest/d2aeng.html
A more comprehensive piece:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/manifest/manifxx.htm

The White Mans' Burden
The white man is on the March. Reading early American literature and taking an historical look at the movement of people and power in the US, I can only assume that our nations' recent actions in Iraq are the manifestations of the Anglo need to expand and conquer whatever he can, at whatever cost.

I am horrified to see what this nation is doing. How can we call ourselves a nation of morals, values, of God loving individuals and families when we allow our troops to kill people for oil and power? How does that fit into the philosophy of Christ?

Bush is not a Christian. It is impossible that he is a Christian, just as it is impossible that a true Muslim would ever take an innocent life. There is nothing in the Gospel of Jesus that tells us that killing for any reason is okay. There are things that instruct us on how to be forgiven, but nothing that gives us permission to kill one another for any reason.
Bush is flouting Gods laws. He is a coward and an imbecile. Is he in DC trying to figure out a way to spread Goodwill and Peace through love? No. The President is busy finding ways to intimidate and kill people who do not believe as he does.

Since when is occupation liberation?
I look at Iraq and I see a nation of people who are used to fighting, for whatever their reasons are. People fight and kill each other. Nations have conflict. People rise to power and fall based on many factors. Saddam was a bastard. Okay no doubt. He was. But here are all these people, supposedly Iraqis fighting like hell to get the US out. Where were these men when Saddam was in power? Why weren't they suicide bombing him and shooting at his troops? If people wanted change so badly in Iraq, why when change came were they so hostile to the people who brought it? I don't have the answers, I don't know, I am just asking questions. I hate to see people die. I know that this situation could be lived out in another way. I see that America is becoming a malevolent empire and that the majority of the people here in this nation are complicit, that we are content to sit by and let the elite in this nation send our children to their deaths and condemnation for politics. That is sad and evil beyond words. I wish there was a way for me to wash away the stain and stink of being an American right now.We are not doing the right thing in Iraq and everything around us tells us that. The people in Fallujah are called "insurgents" and we are told that Americans have killed at least one thousand. So we are to believe that these people have the military strength to fight the US? I think not. What we are fighting is the idea that America is the "Great Satan". That we are evil. What then are we doing to disprove this notion? America has declared war on the Iraqi people, for no reason. There were no Iraqis piloting planes on September 11th. There were no weapons of mass destruction, no delivery system, no cooperation with Al-Qaeda. nothing. no threat. Iraq was no threat to the US. But I believe that if we continue to fuck up their country, kill their children and destroy their nation to make the world safe for America, that the fight is going to be brought to American shores. Some shit will blow up here, or some people will be poisoned, something bad. And then its going to be called "Terrorism" and that act is going to be the justification for a whole new round of aggression somewhere else. Of course to even suggest this is probably sedition, but I really believe that this government is acting against the best interests of not only the American people, but the whole world.


Fuck the Government
I also want to be clear that I love the American people, but I hate the government. The American people, my countrymen, I think are good in their hearts. It would be hard to convince someone who has been a victim of US aggression that, but I do believe that. I am an African American. I see America from the inside out, and I hate this place with a passion. Not the physical land that this Nation is located on, but the spiritual ground that it lays on.

I was always taught, in school anyway that America was a place where people came to flee poverty, religious persecution, to pursue freedom and liberty in the ways that they saw fit. Now the Right wing, millenialist Christians control the government and they seem to want the rest of us, to just toe the line. There is comparatively more "Freedom" here in America, than other places, but at what cost? And isn't the rest of the world just becoming more and more totalitarian? Is there anyplace where the free exchange of ideas is encouraged and the will of the people is implemented? Is there a place where the individual as well as the collective health is nurtured by the state? Not this place, not America. I came to understand at an early age, that America was a place where some white people (Anglo Saxons to be exact) came to set up a new outpost for people like them. They tried to dress it up in pretty words, but the people that have benefitted the most from America and all of its systems has been the descendents of those Anglo Saxons and the people who look like them. All the rest of us hyphenated Americans have just taken the crumbs. America is a place where you can lick off the bullies' plate, eat the leftovers from massas' plate. Where you can side with the the big kid that everyone else is afraid of.

That's enough for tonight.
Power to the peaceful. Please America wake up and do the right thing. We cannot continue to abuse the rest of the world.