Years ago while I was visiting friends of mine who had two daughters ages 7 and 9, or thereabouts, their mom got up from the kitchen table, opened up the girls’ door and asked them to pipe down because they were laughing hysterically. Mom sat back down at the table and dad looked at the now closed bedroom door, raised his finger and said snidely, “Ya! Stop having fun!!”. I laughed, of course. Mom wasn’t too impressed with him though.
Over at the orange place, they’re having a big, serious discussion about the appropriateness of celebrating Fitzmas with SnoodGuy leading the way in his “Kill the Fitzmas Talk” diary. To that I say, “Ya! Stop having fun!!”.
Geez.
Oh, we all learned as kids that it isn’t nice to gloat over others misfortunes – even those of our enemies – but this isn’t about gloating and this isn’t about others misfortunes.
This is about punishing a completely corrupt and hostile administration that has:
- torn your country apart,
- is responsible for the deaths and injuries of who knows how many thousands of people (they’re so unbelievably inhumane that they won’t even count the number of dead Iraqis),
- that finds end runs around international treaties to justify torture,
- that prides itself in destroying other countries,
- that holds itself above all people in the “civilized” world,
- that refuses to fund life-saving armour for its troops
- that doesn’t provide proper care to those who’ve survived
- that has plunged the country so far into debt it will be one long, painful haul back for the poor and middle class for countless decades to come,
- that refuses to properly protect the homeland as it promised,
- that purports to care about health care, education and the environment while sticking a knife into all attempts to improve them,
- that refuses to believe in scientific fact
- that promotes a religious agenda then chastises other (Muslim) countries for doing the same,
- that wants to dismantle your future through its social security “reforms”,
- that goes after its detractors and enemies using the PATRIOT Act as its shield,
- that detains innocent people indefinitely in the name of the GWOT and sends others across the ocean to be tortured,
- that wants to trample on a woman’s right to choose,
- that wants to amend the constitution to ban gay marriage
- that hires completely incompetent people – from the top on down – for the most vital government positions relating to life and liberty,
- that lied without shame and continues to do so on a daily basis
- that has misled its country and its allies into a vicious, endless war,
the list goes on and on…
So – let me tell you – if and when Fitzgerald announces indictments against these arrogant bastards, I dare anyone to tell me to STFU.
I may not be an American, but if any of you are having a Fitzmas party, be sure to send me an invitation because this is one celebration I won’t miss!
As for the rest of you who, like that mom, believe we should all be dignified in our response, find your own damn place to hang out and remember this: if Kerry had won the election, you would have been partying right along with the rest of us as we watched Bush leave office. So, save your indignation for what really matters.