The New Road

Truth

Here is a prediction for 2006. The theme for that year will be truth. And I don't mean truth in the co-opted Christian sense which is as a synonym for myth. I mean the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Why? Because of this.

(And believe me, I could have picked pictures a lot more gruesome than this.)

I talked with a guy from Britain last night and asked him if they would have let people rot in the river is Europe and he just shook his head and said, "No. No. Of course not." Of course not. And nobody would have thought it would happen here either.

Pictures like this just make me angry. And the lying of the people in this administration sounds so ignorant, out of touch, and meaningless. People died in the streets. In America. That's completely unacceptable and yet there are these lying apologists going around yammering how it's anybody but the President's fault. They make me sick.

And the more I hear lies the more they make me sick. And people lie about everything.

They lie about how we got into Iraq. The lie about why we are in Iraq. And they lie about how Iraq is going.

They lie about the economy. They lie about our history.

They say horrible unthinkable things, like that every black baby should be aborted, and then they lie about having said it.

They cheat at business and lie about it. They destroy the functioning of the government and then lie about it.

They lie about their political opponents. And their pundidiot apologists lie and lie and nobody ever calls them on it. Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, it's 100% fabrication and lies. 2,000 buses? They didn't exist. And they lie and lie, and nobody ever calls them on it.

And it's not just the administration and their cronies. Lying is systemic. I hear it everywhere. It's in ads; "The first ten people to call will get a special discount." Bullshit. Everyone will get the discount. We aren't idiots. And I don't like the fact that it's just a lie. My mailbox gets filled with spam that's all lies and scams. I put my car in for service and I get a questionnaire back on how the service was, with the unspoken understanding that if I put bad marks on it I will get no end of questions about it. So I'm forced to lie, because the service is never as good as it could be.

I'm fed up with the lies. How much bullshit are we supposed to take? I mean, seriously. The next pundit who spews the same old crap about how we are 'bringing freedom to Iraq' needs a straight punch to the face.

We need to call an end to the era of lying and spin that seems to have a hold on our national polity.

We need to start talking the truth. Talking the truth about Iraq. Talking truth about Katrina and Rita. Talking truth about the culture of corruption in the White House and the Congress. Talk the truth about how Bush is little more functional than a vegetable. It's time to stop sugar coating the wave of Christian fascism that's taken over this country wrapped in the flag and call it what it is.

Give me a plan to fix Iraq that is actually connected to reality, or pull the troops out. Fix FEMA so that it's an agency that works, or disband it. For the christo-fascist neocons out there, just fess up, your trying to create a theocracy.