Tax Time Power Dive

Posted on April 15, 2003 in War

A lot of us are taking a long look back at the past few weeks and wondering just what the hell happened to this country, to the circle of friends that we had, to ourselves. No one dropped bombs on us, but we all got lectured and we lectured in return. And today, all we Americans are expected to put in the forms that document that we’ve helped to pay for the everlasting war that most of us don’t want.

I’m not so angry at the Right as I am at the middle. The middle which paints me as the equal of the guys who want to bomb and kill everyone who gets in the way of the Oil Machine. The Middle who is buying this Pie in the Sky tax plan, believing that the money will come out of no one’s pocket when it comes time to pay off the golgothine deficit.

Most of my friends on IRCQnet #travel (irc.icq.com Port 6668 — look for EmperorNorton between 9 pm and 6 am Pacific Time. I’m in and out) feel down about the whole war, but then, most of my friends there aren’t American. They’re incredulous that we’re celebrating the mess that is the fall of Bagdad and that we’re not rising in the streets against the Petroleum Crusader.

Now that Bush is pondering a move against Syria, the talk is taking pretty much the same course. As I said on Mileah’s blog:

The American public keeps doing the nodnodnod whenever Bush suggests another war. In a few days time, we’ll hear “But ~this~ is ~a good war~ or folks saying things to the effect of “Well, I don’t like the regime in Damascus and we should maybe assassinate them, but we shouldn’t go to war.” And with that flourish of the wit, Bush will smile and take us there anyways.

It’s going to keep going until the word NO is pronounced firmly and without equivocation.