We Will NEVER Forget

I know it’s the season to be jolly and all – a time to raise of glass of cheer and let bygones be bygones.

But for the hundreds of millions of us – those at home, and those around the world – who are celebrating the end days of the Bush regime along with the seasonal holidays, if you bloody pricks think we’re at the point of forgive and forget, here’s a less-than-friendly reminder:

We won’t forget the crimes of one G.W. Bush, his enablers, his supporters, and his Party.

We won’t forget the warmongers and the war profiteers, those who cheerleaded us into an unwinnable war so they could seize power, curry influence, and line their pockets at the expense of the American taxpayer and American troops.

We won’t forget the dead, the maimed, the orphans, the displaced of Iraq – those who lost their family members, their way of life, their culture, the treasures of their history as a people - nor those who caused their current situation.

We won’t forget the soldiers, the medics, the journalists, or the peace-keepers who lost their lives in the conflicts perpetrated by those whose goal was profit and political expediency – rather than peace on earth and good will towards our fellow men.

We won’t forget the torturers – those who participated, those who gave the orders, those who knew of its existence and remained silent, those who busied themselves looking the other way while unspeakable barbarism became the policy of a nation that once held itself legally as well as morally accountable for its own actions.

We won’t forget the Constitution-shredders, those who were all too quick to lend their support to an Administration that literally shat upon the very rights and freedoms that have sustained our nation since its inception as a Beacon of Democracy.

We won’t forget the so-called religious leaders who, like Judas goats, led their flocks to the electoral slaughterhouse, all-too-anxious to dismiss the teachings of The Nazarene when votes delivered meant money in-pocket, and political wherewithal.

We won’t forget the greed of the corporate titans and their willing participation in seeing our economic system fail – so long as they had theirs and the American worker be damned.

We won’t forget the insidious corruption that was allowed to permeate our Department of Justice, and our judicial system at large – and we won’t forget those who so enthusiastically contributed to that corruption and its consequences.

We won’t forget the flag-pin wearers who allowed such trinkets to be substituted for real patriotism, honest concern for their fellow citizens, and heartfelt love of country.

We won’t forget the pseudo-journalists, the whoring media hacks who ignored the crimes perpetrated daily on the American people and our fellow world citizens; the pundits who were afforded unlimited airtime to spew their propagandist talking points while behaving as though the truth was something to be avoided at all costs.

We won't fogret the victims of Katrina, the victims of racial injustice, the victims of hate crimes based on ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation - nor those who victimized them.

We won’t forget the preachers of “family values” who defended the actions of the Craigs, the Vitters, the Foleys of the world as being temporary lapses in judgment while, at the same time, persecuting our gay and lesbian brothers-and-sisters as being immoral and worthy of the worst scorn.

No, we won’t forget.

The name of every hate-filled, corrupt, morally bankrupt, monetarily greedy, influence-seeking, politically self-serving, treasonous scum-of-the-earth public figure who has put their own personal goals or party agenda above the well-being of their own country are indelibly etched in the minds of We, The People – and you can damned well rest assured that we won’t forget.

Peace on Earth to all of my fellow world citizens.

As to those who so steadfastly sought to destroy that peace: Go fuck yourself!

We won’t forget what it is, who you are, and what you’ve done.

Not ever.

Merry Fuckin’ Christmas.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NanceGreggs/469