The Emperor Has No Clothes

I'm scared. Bush and Co. are trying to set provisions for canceling, postponing, or rescheduling the elections due to terrorist activities. There's talk of sending legeslation to Congress.

I've written letters. I've stood up and shouted as loudly as I can. I'm going to vote, if there's an election at all. I've done everything that I know how to do. And it looks like it's not going to be enough. They're taking the country away from us, and I've done every legal thing that I am capable of doing.

I'm scared. I'm poly. I'm a practicing Pagan. I'm bi-sexual. I cannot help but think that I'm going to be up there in the first lines if and when they start rounding up everyone involved in 'un-American activities'. I'm a student of history, and I'm watching the cogs of time come my way.

I'm scared. I should be writing my Oma and Opa, but I'm afraid to send them anything. It feels too much like offering false hope that everything's okay, and it's not. I don't know what the Dutch news is saying about America. I don't want them to spend their energy being scared for me, not when they have so many health problems.

I'm scared. I honestly no longer know if I'll be free or in a jail cell with each new day. I have committed no crime, yet I live in the fear that my government will decide that I'm a threat to them one day, and come and lock me up without a warrant, hearing, or trial. The only thing I can do to lessen the chances of this happening goes against everything that I believe in: Keep my mouth shut and my head down, and wait for things to get better.

I'm scared. I'm sitting here in front of my computer, and I'm terrified. I want to scream that the Emperor has no clothes, that he is insane, he is power-hungry, he will destroy us all. I am more scared than I have ever been in my life.

Bush is insane. He is power-hungry, and he will destroy us all. He has betrayed us. He has committed treason. He truly believes that he has been appointed to the Presidency by God. He wants to bring about Armegeddon. He is islolating us from the world, shutting us away from the countries that would influence us, show us what rights and freedoms really are. He is behaving like an abusive husband, treating America as his wife that he wishes to keep barefoot and pregnant. He's making it harder and harder for us to leave the country. He wants us to be ignorant, so we won't know when he's lying to us. He is turning us against one another over issues of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and patriotism, so that we will not turn against him.

The Emperor has no clothes. Wake up America. Write your Reps. Then call them. Then e-mail them. Then send faxes, telegrams, smoke signals, anything. Find out who they are here. Tell them not to support any piece of legeslation that would cancel, postpone, reschedule, or otherwise delay elections in the United States of America.

I know it's scary. I know it feels like putting a big target on your back for the Goon Squad (sorry, Homeland Security) to come and take you away.

But tell me, do you want to be scared for the rest of your life?