Add me to your lists Mr. Bush

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Add me to your lists Mr. Bush

 

 

 

 

http://www.proudliberalbitch.com/add_me_to_your_lists_mr.htm

 

 

 

 

 

Add me to your lists Mr. Bush.

 

 

Send my name to Mr. Ashcroft. Forward it to the FBI, the local

police, the INS and the IRS.

 

 

 

Make sure your Secret Service takes note.

 

 

 

Copy my name to every blacklist, enemies list, security list, and

watch list your scribes scribble.

 

 

 

While you detain activists at airports, I am ashamed to travel

unchallenged.

 

 

 

While you abduct untold, unnamed foreign-born Americans, I am

ashamed to sleep in my own bed.

 

 

 

While you steal food, not just rights, from millions of families,

I am ashamed to eat.

 

 

 

I am ashamed to wear new clothes; ashamed to drive; ashamed to

share ill-gotten wealth with your kind; even ashamed I can provide

better for my little daughter than almost any father on earth.

 

 

 

I am not a threat to you, but I stand with billions. God is not on

my side, or yours, but the best traditions of freedom, right, and

non-violent resistance are with me. I stand alongside the Senator your

intern calls senile.

 

 

I stand with the Congresswoman your operatives unseated in the

primaries. I stand with the loud but lonely voices of

 

 

those in print and broadcast media who are not afraid to challenge

you. I stand with the growing number of principled government clerks

who quietly undermine you. I stand with countless noble people across

the world who are no longer cowed by bully-America.

 

 

 

I am but one speck you can blow aside, but even your family and

friends can't ignore legions of us. In your ignorance, you have

wakened forces that will bring you down.

 

 

 

You remind me of forgotten traditions: ancestors who fought

non-violently for peace in eighteenth century Virginia; antecedents

who broke nineteenth century laws to help slaves to freedom; parents'

 

 

siblings who aided conscientious objectors during World War II; my own

 

 

non-violent resistance to Vietnam, and more recently, to Reagan's

adventures in Nicaragua.

 

 

 

Your adept predecessors persuaded with honey and intelligence, but

your ignorance now shakes us. For that, and for that alone, I thank

you. Now we will resist and topple your kind.

 

 

 

You have guns, bombs, but we have the power of non-violent

resistance. Those who read know that firepower is laughable in the

face of such force. Be afraid, Mr. Bush, and all who serve yourselves

in backing this fragile regime, for you have germinated the seeds of

your downfall.

 

 

 

We do not threaten your person or your pathetic toys, but we will

cast you on the trash-heap of history. You can lead only by our

consent...that, you have squandered.

 

 

 

Add me to your lists, Mr. Bush. I may be insignificant, but wait.

I have time, history, and numbers on my side, and I am not the tiniest

bit afraid of you.

 

 

 

by Alan Morse who lives in Phillips, Maine.

 

 

 

Published on Saturday, October 19, 2002 by www.CommonDreams.org