dammit.

i mourn that my country has lost its way, its pioneer spirit.  and for what?  a few extra dollars, a little more security.  i get it.  my country is traumatized and suffering from an en masse ptsd.  too much war, too much bloodshed, too much death hanging over our heads everyday has killed something precious within the quintessential american psyche.  the common man believed that with the fall of the soviet empire, we were finally free to slash our war budgets and take care of america for a change rather than the whole world. 

that's how it should have been anyway but the men who make and sell weapons could not abide how peace was putting them out of business.  the politicians (particularly fundamentalist christian republicans) could not abide peace either.  to them the idea of an america that yields back its ulitmate power over the world was unthinkable; sharing world responsibilities with other nations was anathema.

so 3 men born here in america decided to sell the soul of their nation for a few extra dollars.  karl rove, dick cheney and george bush are guilty of serious crimes against my country and no one in power will do anything about it.  and so the illegal president gets away with creating this whole new "post 9/11 world" where americans must again fear for their lives from some foreign devil overseas, where we are beset on all sides with enemies and business for the merchants of war and death couldn't be better.

everyone at the top is getting rich while here at the bottom, more soldiers are killed everyday, their lives wasted.

the american spirit may never recover and in my heart i know that until justice comes to this land and holds those responsible into account, the america i knew, the america of daniel boone, davy crockett and abe lincoln, is dead.