Americans....

I have known many over the years. I've known a brilliant man, a gifted scientist, who believed in creationism with all his heart and would use that brilliant mind to come up with the most convoluted reasoning to make the facts and science warp to his beliefs. I've known a poor woman who was generous beyond my understanding to utter strangers who were in need; afterwards I found out she gave us all the food she had for that month... I've known a soft-spoken, incredibly gentle man, who was so rabidly pro-life that he felt it was quite justified to murder someone to prevent an abortion. Those are but a few. Over the years, I've met them in all shapes and sizes, from earth-shakingly obese to Jack Spratt... from all corners of the political spectrum... funny, angry, aloof, kind, hospitable, curious, arrogant, friendly, blindly patriotic, and often, so often, with a naive, child-like wonder at the country they live in. I have been speaking to Americans a lot lately... just to keep my head straight and remind myself that my anger should never translate to them personally.



It's the American government I am angry with, and the money men behind the leaders - those men who truly shape world events. I am also irritated at the sheep-like mentality of the American population which prevents them from separating truth from lies, spin and bullshit. That blind patriotism... that not understanding and not wanting to hear what their government has been doing outside of their borders for the past 40+ years. That propensity for seeing life as a western movie or reducing everything to a Disney analogy. I know Americans are not stupid, I know at some point the grassroots movement will gather such momentum that people will start to understand what is being done in their name and the risks their government exposed them and future generations to. Let's hope it wont take too long - there are elections coming up.



America is a lovely country and a wonderful ideal that is being desecrated by greedy, power-hungry men of money. And that makes me angry....



PS I'm still waiting for those weapons of mass destruction!