Cherokee Sage Woman

The headlines get more Orwellian with each passing day. And I amaze myself by my ability to still be shocked by some of the unreal happenings in this 'Bushit' era. Today the paper talked about how we are seeking secret places to keep political prisoners detained 'for life'. Admittedly, they have no further use to us; we have tortured every single piece of information from them. But we aren't quite ready to let them go. So the rules must change & it must be 'okay' to hold these poor souls (now 6000 & upwards) until they die. Without enough charges proven against them to ever bring them to court, we will bless our own method of punishment.

The whole thought just numbs me. These men & women (and no doubt, children) are simply guilty of whatever the CIA has contrived against them. No charges filed, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.. and for that, they will die.

Think back a couple of hundred years to our Revolutionary heros. These fellows were INSURRGENTS, folks! They were the REBELS that bucked against the system & won our so-called 'freedoms'. They mutinied, resisted, defied, disobeyed, REVOLTED & were labeled terrorists by their mother country. And so began our secession & the development of Democracy (or shades of what it could have been). Who do we think we are to try & recreate the colonization of our 'empire' in a soverign country like Iraq?

Shame on us.. and God help us to see a light in this dismal quagmire.