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THIS SOUNDS LIKE HOW I FEEL.....RARE TO BE ON THE SAME SHEET AS A

POLITICIAN!!!

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!!! (tnx,

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Mayor says: " We Won't Take It Anymore " !

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MAYOR OF SALT LAKE CITY TO BUSH,

CONGRESS AND MEDIA " WE WON'T TAKE IT

ANYMORE "

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Thursday, 15 November 2007, 12:35 a.m. This one ought to

be read at every patriotic meeting and get-together! It is guaranteed to

send shivers down your spine!

===== " We won't take it anymore! " October 27, 2007

City & County Building Salt Lake City , Utah Address by Mayor Ross C. " Rocky " Anderson Today, as we come together once again in this great city, we raise

our voices in unison to say to President Bush, to Vice President Cheney,

to other members of the Bush Administration (past and present), to a

majority of Congress, including Utah's entire congressional delegation,

and to much of the mainstream media: " You have failed us

miserably and we won't take it any more. "

 

While we had

every reason to expect far more of you, you have been pompous, greedy,

cruel, and incompetent as you have led this great nation to a moral,

military, and national security abyss. " " You have breached

trust with the American people in the most egregious ways. You have

utterly failed in the performance of your jobs. You have undermined our

Constitution, permitted the violation of the most fundamental treaty

obligations, and betrayed the rule of law. You have engaged in, or permitted, heinous human rights abuses of the

sort never before countenanced in our nation's history as a matter of

official policy. You have sent American men and women to kill and be

killed on the basis of lies, on the basis of shifting justifications,

without competent leadership, and without even a coherent plan for this

monumental blunder.

We are here to tell you: We won't take it any more! You have acted in

direct contravention of values that we, as Americans who love our

country, hold dear. You have deceived us in the most cynical, outrageous

ways. You have undermined, or allowed the undermining of, our

constitutional system of checks and balances among the three presumed

co-equal branches of government. You have helped lead our nation to the

brink of fascism, of a dictatorship contemptuous of our nation's treaty

obligations, federal statutory law, our Constitution, and the rule of

law. Because of you, and because of your jingoistic false 'patriotism,'

our world is far more dangerous, our nation is far more despised, and the

threat of terrorism is far greater than ever before. It has been

absolutely astounding how you have committed the most horrendous acts,

causing such needless tragedy in the lives of millions of people, yet you

wear your so-called religion on your sleeves, asserting your

God-is-on-my-side nonsense—when what you have done flies in the face of

any religious or humanitarian tradition. Your hypocrisy is mind-boggling

- and disgraceful. What part of " Thou shalt not kill " do you

not understand? What part of the " Golden rule " do you not

understand? What part of " be honest, " " be

responsible, " and " be accountable " don't you understand?

What part of " Blessed are the peacekeepers " do you not

understand? Because of you, hundreds of thousands of people have been

killed, many thousands of people have suffered horrendous lifetime

injuries, and millions have been run off from their homes. For the sake

of our nation, for the sake of our children, and for the sake of our

brothers and sisters around the world, we are morally compelled to say,

as loudly as we can, “We won't take it any more!”

As United States agents kidnap, disappear, and torture human beings

around the world, you justify, you deceive, and you cover up. We find

what you have done to men, women and children, and to the good name and

reputation of the United States, so appalling, so unconscionable, and so

outrageous as to compel us to call upon you to step aside and allow other

men and women who are competent, true to our nation's values, and with

high moral principles to stand in your places—for the good of our nation,

for the good of our children, and for the good of our world.

In the case of

the President and Vice President, this means impeachment and removal from

office, without any further delay from a complacent, complicit Congress,

the Democratic majority of which cares more about political gain in 2008

than it does about the vindication of our Constitution, the rule of law,

and democratic accountability. It means the election of people as

President and Vice President who, unlike most of the presidential

candidates from both major parties, have not aided and abetted in the

perpetration of the illegal, tragic, devastating invasion and occupation

of Iraq . And it means the election of people as President and Vice

President who will commit to return our nation to the moral and strategic

imperative of refraining from torturing human beings. In the case of the majority of Congress, it means electing people who

are diligent enough to learn the facts, including reading available

National Intelligence Estimates, before voting to go to war. It means

electing to Congress men and women who will jealously guard Congress's

sole prerogative to declare war. It means electing to Congress men and

women who will not submit like vapid lap dogs to presidential requests

for blank checks to engage in so-called preemptive wars, for legislation

permitting warrant-less wiretapping of communications involving US

citizens, and for dangerous, irresponsible, saber-rattling legislation

like the recent Kyl- Lieberman amendment. We must avoid the trap of focusing the blame solely upon President

Bush and Vice-President Cheney. This is not just about a few people who

have wronged our country - and the world. They were enabled by members of

both parties in Congress, they were enabled by the pathetic mainstream

news media, and, ultimately, they have been enabled by the American

people--40% of whom are so ill-informed they still think Iraq was behind

the 9/11 attacks—a people who know and care more about baseball

statistics and which drunken starlets are not wearing underwear than they

know and care about the atrocities being committed every single day in

our name by a government for which we need to take responsibility. As loyal Americans, without regard to political partisanship—as

veterans, as teachers, as religious leaders, as working men and women, as

students, as professionals, as businesspeople, as public servants, as

retirees, as people of all ages, races, ethnic origins, sexual

orientations, and faiths—we are here to say to the Bush administration,

to the majority of Congress, and to the mainstream media:

" You have violated your solemn responsibilities. You have

undermined our democracy, spat upon our Constitution, and engaged in

outrageous, despicable acts. You have brought our nation to a point of

immorality, inhumanity, and illegality of immense, tragic, unprecedented

proportions. " But we will live

up to our responsibilities as citizens, as brothers and sisters of those

who have suffered as a result of the imperial bullying of the United

States government, and as moral actors who must take a stand: And we

will, and must, mean it when we say 'We won't take it any more.’ If we

want principled, courageous elected officials, we need to be principled,

courageous, and tenacious ourselves. History has demonstrated that our

elected officials are not the leaders—the leadership has to come from us.

If we don't insist, if we don't persist, then we are not living up to our

responsibilities as citizens in a democracy—and our responsibilities as

moral human beings. If we remain silent, we signal to Congress and the

Bush administration—and to candidates running for office—and to the

world—that we support the status quo. Silence is complicity. Only by standing up for what's right

and never letting down can we say we are doing our part. Our government,

on the basis of a campaign we now know was entirely fraudulent, attacked

and militarily occupied a nation that posed no danger to the United

States . Our government, acting in our name, has caused immense,

unjustified death and destruction. It all started five years ago, yet

where have we, the American people, been? At this point, we are

responsible. We get together once in a while at demonstrations and

complain about Bush and Cheney, about Congress, and about the pathetic

news media. We point fingers and yell a lot. Then most people politely go

away until another demonstration a few months later. How many people

can honestly say they have spent as much time learning about and opposing

the outrages of the Bush administration as they have spent watching

sports or mindless television programs during the past five years?

Escapist, time-sapping sports and insipid entertainment have indeed

become the opiate of the masses. Why is this country so sound-asleep? Why

do we abide what is happening to our nation, to our Constitution, to the

cause of peace and international law and order? Why are we not doing all

in our power to put an end to this madness? We should be in the streets

regularly and students should be raising hell on our campuses. We should

be making it clear in every way possible that apologies or convoluted,

disingenuous explanations just don't cut it when presidential candidates

and so many others voted to authorize George Bush and his neo-con buddies

to send American men and women to attack and occupy Iraq . Let's awaken, and wake up the country by committing here and

now to do all each of us can to take our nation

back. Let them hear us across the country, as we

ask others to join us: " We won't take it any

more! "

I implore you:

Draw a line. Figure out exactly where your own moral breaking point is.

How much will you put up with before you say " No

more " and mean it?

I have drawn my

line as a matter of simple personal morality: I cannot, and will not,

support any candidate who has voted to fund the atrocities in Iraq . I

cannot, and will not, support any candidate who will not commit to remove

all US troops, as soon as possible, from Iraq . I cannot, and will not,

support any candidate who has supported legislation that takes us one

step closer to attacking Iran . I cannot, and will not, support any

candidate who has not fought to stop the kidnapping, disappearances, and

torture being carried on in our name. If we expect our nation's elected officials to take us seriously, let

us send a powerful message they cannot misunderstand. Let them know we

really do have our moral breaking point. Let them know we have drawn a

bright line. Let them know they cannot take our support for granted—that,

regardless of their party and regardless of other political

considerations, they will not have our support if they cannot provide,

and have not provided, principled leadership. The people of this nation may have been far too quiet for five years,

but let us pledge that we won't let it go on one more day—that we will do

all we can to put an end to the illegalities, the moral degradation, and

the disintegration of our nation's reputation in the world. Let us be unified in drawing the line—in declaring that we do have a

moral breaking point. Let us insist, together, in supporting our troops

and in gratitude for the freedoms for which our veterans gave so much

that we bring our troops home from Iraq , that we return our government

to a constitutional democracy, and that we commit to honoring the

fundamental principles of human rights. In defense of our country, in defense of our Constitution, in defense

of our shared values as Americans—and as moral human beings—we declare

today that we will fight in every way possible to stop the insanity, stop

the continued military occupation of Iraq, and stop the moral depravity

reflected by the kidnapping, disappearing, and torture of people around

the world.

 

If you believe the above, I challenge you to do

something to save OUR County and the World. I believe Dr. Ron Paul,

http://www.RonPaul2008

...........................

http://dailypaul.com/

is the man that wants to do the above things for his & our

children and grandkids. Please take a Stand, Now!

Say, “We won't take it any more!”

 

 

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