Robert W. Barker

Shut down Guantanamo, arrest the liar Cheney, bring Bush to deposition and hearings for war crimes, fire Halliburton and abandon the war in Iraq now, not tomorrow, not next year...now.

The scent of self-indulgence and insatiability raises the ire.

Incompetence and cronyism permeate the public being, and draws our anger. Blatant lies perpetrated by the government we fund - covered up by censorship - sponsored by corporate run media; it all drives us to irritation.

My mind turns to thoughts of possible retribution when I see the sick policies of the last administration dragging on. Differences mingle between the two parties as the distinctions betwixt the two once held sway, now fade into the quest for power, greed and pay offs, bail outs and ravenous spending. Where did we go wrong or were we ever right?

America the potential to be the greatest country in the world left dangling in greed avarice and the clutches of small minded people.

Look around America; we are under the auspice of greedy little people with one common goal, to gain personal wealth or power at all cost, even to the death of our country.

Yeah we know the stories, AIG, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Citicorp, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac and numerous other institutions run by people willing to sell their mothers for a buck.

Political leadership that invest our blood and funds in a war for dubious reasons, globalist and nationalist sending false flag scenarios to render us paranoid and frozen in fear.

Yes I am angry, and if you're not you are not paying attention.

Bonuses from tax payer funds for the biggest failure in banking history to the same idiots that perpetrated the failure; leave us shocked yet they say it's natural.

Guantanamo remains open and the psychological torture has not changed, as we had hoped under Obama.

We still have a huge force in Iraq and even though he plans to reduce it, the bill is rising on a daily basis. Halliburton and Blackwater continue to get their checks=2 0and the debt to China The World Bank and Japan is soaring at interest rates that eat our fiscal lives away.

Unemployment ascends to new levels as the jobs that once held the middle class in place are sent to Bangladesh or Mexico where labor cost are cheaper, and tax break s to all that take these jobs away.

All so the greedy bosses can raise their bottom line on the backs of Americans that made them what they are.

Labor unions that overstep their bounds and require ridiculous labor rules and stipulations so radical they drive business to seek shelter in other markets. Unions once the bulwark of the middle class, have become giant savages of greed themselves and lost the common man's good along the way.

Subprime scams that made certain folks wealthy on futures options and banking stocks while nasty derivatives were passed off to unsuspecting investors leaving the public holding the bag.

We bail out the banks, for failures they incurred, we punish hard working Americans for the few that over stepped their economic ability.

We voted for change and as yet it is all hype and deflection rhetoric based in Disneyland images and frosty covered words with little weight or intent, except to sooth the savage beast, that rest within each human impacted. That autonomous beast our forefather developed to stand up to the British our is missing, locked in living rooms. That seething anger for repressive and poor run government, lost in a mountain of patty melt media and fast food bellies; developed to deflect the pain.

It gets our goat to see the USA leading the universe in teen pregnancies due to the loss of sex education and the so called power of abstinence taught by the religious right.

More newborns in general then the baby boomer days as all sense of sexual responsibility passed on to God and small minded ministers pray for more butts in the seats.

Education in the USA once led the globe now 37 th and sinking. Homelessness the highest in our nation's history beacons more daily as crack, meth and alcohol become the heaven of the dispossessed.

Funds funneled to Iraq or Afghanistan or even the pockets of no bid overcharging contractors and mercenaries' while our infrastructure deteriorates at an alarming rate.

If these things and the numerous other man made maladies leave you yawning or unconcerned get out of our way for there are a few Americans that have had enough.

Madoff and the hedge fund guys that bilk the rich and drive the middle class 401 K ?s to dirt, are eating away at the core of the nation, and it is time to take action.

Marches protest and any other means to bring sanity back to this lost nation is called for.

Revolution of some kind must occur or we are flushed down the toilet of apathy and indifference as greed runs the show and we watch American Idol.

Mr. Obama thus far has left us in a realm of "where is the beef," I have not lost total faith but with each passing day he seems further from the man we voted for and more like the party we voted out.

We need action and real positive moves not smiles and pretty words spewed by a big eared Oppy, but substance and actions.

Shut down Guantanamo, arrest the liar Cheney, bring Bush to deposition and hearings for war crimes, fire Halliburton and abandon the war in Iraq now, not tomorrow not next year now.

Clean up the finance system and jail the cheaters and liars that ruined the nation.

Impatient you may call me, subversive I may sound but when things are this bad only the subversive see the truth.

Open your eyes, call out for justice, scream at the Congress, surround the capital, demand a reality check on our entire system or SIT BACK DRINK A BEER AND watch America die.

Robert W. Barker is a writer, professional photographer and travel aficionado from Eureka Ca. His work is carried on many web sites around the globe, a first novel recently copyrighted in the library of Congress, is soon to be published.

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Source:
http://www.populistamerica.com/not_gonna_take_it_anymore

Illustration:

"“The Bostonians paying the excise-man, or tarring and feathering.”
A 1774 British print depicted the tarring and feathering of Boston Commissioner of Customs John Malcolm. Tarring and feathering was a ritual of humiliation and public warning that stopped just short of serious injury. Victims included British officials such as Malcolm and American merchants who violated non-importation by importing British goods. Other forms of public humiliation included daubing victims’ homes with the contents of cesspits, or actual violence against property, such as the burning of stately homes and carriages. This anti-Patriot print showed Customs Commissioner Malcolm being attacked under the Liberty Tree by several Patriots, including a leather-aproned artisan, while the Boston Tea Party occurred in the background. In fact, the Tea Party had taken place four weeks earlier."

[Probably] Philip Dawe(?), mezzotint, 1774, 14 x 9 1/2 inches—Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mpimages/mp016.jpg)