Overwhelmed at the underwhelmed
Apologies for not having updated here in a long long time. Often there is so much I'm enraged about, so much that I want to bring to people's attention, that I don't know where to start. The Bush Administration continues to violate treaties and conventions, continues to whittle away at the world's and his own people's human rights and yet the public continue blindly on their own narrow paths, either oblivious or apathetic or just plain selfish.
I will endeavour to write about some of them, even if it's only a sentence. Something is better than nothing.
I will start with the decreasing access to information, another nail in the coffin of democracy in the USA. Read this following article about Bush denying access to or destroying once public information. The list of examples is a long one and continues. Much of this information we can no longer access is very important. If we don't know about it, the government becomes a totalitarian regime, able to do anything it wants (as if it isn't anyway), holding all relevant information for itself, so the public is ignorant of the truth. To quote the title of an article about the importance of archives "No records, no access, no rights, no accountability" (no democracy).
It's the US public who have to do something, who have the power to do something, before this madman influences the rest of the world with his version of 'democracy'. For a start, do something about the closures of the EPA libraries:
That is a link to the 'take action' page. You can read more about the closures here.
Fare well. I'll try to return more regularly.
