WE REFUSE TO BE RULED IN THIS WAY

[Guest guest]

The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!

Mobilize for November 2, 2005!

 

http://www.worldcantwait.lunarpages.info/getInformed/theCall/

 

Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a

murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries

in their sights.

 

Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.

 

Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing

them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them

in the dead of night.

 

Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a

narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.

 

Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious,

political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations

to pay a terrible price.

 

Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world,

the right to birth control and abortion.

 

Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and

ignorance.

 

People look at all this and think of Hitler—and they are right to do

so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very

quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act

now; the future is in the balance. Click to read more...

 

 

 

Your Government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a

murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries

in their sites.

 

Your Government is openly torturing people and justifying it.

 

Your Government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing

them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them

in the dead of night.

 

Your Government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a

narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.

 

Your Government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious,

political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations

to pay a terrible price.

 

Your Government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world,

the right to birth control and abortion.

 

Your Government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and

ignorance.

 

People look at all this and think of Hitler -- and they are right to

do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very

quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act

now; the future is in the balance.

 

Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They

recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they

cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the

challenge, and people sense this.

 

There is not going to be some magical " pendulum swing. " People who

steal elections and believe they're on a " mission from God " will not

go without a fight.

 

There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This

whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into " leaders " who tell

us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is

proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize

people.

 

But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not

resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn -- or be forced -- to

accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this

Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it.

 

 

And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can

really make a huge change in this country and in the world. We need

more than fighting Bush's outrages one at a time, constantly losing

ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a

political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated,

where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole

direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions,

must and can take responsibility to change the course of history.

 

To that end, on November 2, the first anniversary of Bush's

" re-election " , we will take the first major step in this by organizing

a truly massive day of resistance all over this country. People

everywhere will walk out of school, they will take off work, they will

come to the downtowns and town squares and set out from there, going

through the streets and calling on many more to JOIN US. They will

repudiate this criminal regime, making a powerful statement: " NO! THIS

REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT! "

 

November 2 must be a massive and public proclamation that WE REFUSE TO

BE RULED IN THIS WAY. November 2 must call out to the tens of millions

more who are now agonizing and disgusted. November 2 will be the

beginning -- a giant first step in forcing the Bush regime to step

down, and a powerful announcement that we will not stop until he does

so -- and it will join with and give support and heart to people all

over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.

 

This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence

us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for the

majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are

going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush

and we are NOT going to stop.

 

The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had

right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were

victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping

to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they

ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.