5-12-2


To The Washington Post

Dear America:

And so it has come to this. Your once great nation has fallen
into madness, an affliction of mass denial that brings shivers up
the spines of millions outside your borders. Yours is a sick
nation. But most of you carry on as though nothing at all is the
matter.

Dark, evil operations run rampant in the secret corners of your
government institutions. An illegally constituted government
pursues war at will anywhere on earth, discussing nuclear
options that become points for cheerful chatter over lunch.
Your military and intelligence agencies employ terrorist tactics
around the globe even as they insist that such tactics are
necessary in the fight against terrorism.

You have become a nation of monsters, America. Hypocrites.
Murderers. Fools.

Your constitution is a shambles thanks to national security
measures resulting from what might well be
U.S.-government-sponsored terrorist attacks in New York City
and Washington D.C., covert provocations designed to justify a
malevolent, poisonous, oil-based military economy.

Never mind that earth-friendly technology already exists to
once and for all end dependence on oil, coal and nuclear
energy from huge, out-of-control utilities and corporations. You
would rather pay through the nose for your insecure comforts,
wouldn't you America ? and make others pay with their blood.

At the same time, you stand by as the Israel?s secular Zionists
? whom you support through the supply of arms and money --
slaughter untold numbers of innocents in the West Bank, then
blame the Palestinians for bringing the terror upon them
selves. True, there are terrible Arab suicide bombers in Israel?s
midst. But are they not driven to madness and desperation by
your infernal support of international terrorist politics?

As I write these words, you support a nation run by a convicted
murderer who with impunity is carrying out war crimes as cruel
and horrendous as those of other sadistic tyrants in history.
And you say, in your utter cynicism, when will these
Palestinians bring this war to an end?

You recklessly wage combat on other fronts, too. At home, your
War on Drugs is a disastrous 30-year folly -- a gigantic con
game designed to benefit lethal cartels, corrupt politicians and
menacing intelligence agencies across the planet.

Meanwhile, military tanker jets daily spray massive quantities of
unknown chemicals into the skies above your cities without
your population?s consent, and most of you do not even have
the wherewithal to look up. Those who do and who voice their
outrage hear only a deafening silence from your congress and
your tax-supported health agencies. Some Americans have too
active imaginations, yes? Best treat them with mind-numbing
prescription drugs, and try to forget that the awful side effects
number in the thousands.

Indeed, those who your government appoints to oversee your
safety and security laugh in your faces. With your
government?s support, crooked multinationals like Monsanto
buy up the world?s water supplies, and take possession of the
world?s vegetation through Frankenstein technology already
known to cause illness.

Does the FDA care about any of this? Hell no. It?s long been on
the bandwagon to foist genetically altered food on the Guinea
Pigs of the country -- including every man, woman and child
on America?s increasingly toxic soil.

You are a nation of suckers, America, to be bled dry of your
hard-earned pay through outrageous bank schemes, Wall
Street rip offs and fake government budget grabs. Your
Pentagon cannot account for trillions in lost dollars. Does this
bother you? Not in the least.

Your whole economy is controlled by what is for the most part
ravenous, international private banking interests in the form of
The Federal Reserve, which with your government?s consent
leads you down the garden path to irrecoverable debt and
certain financial ruin.

Is this worth thinking about? When?s the football game on?

These very same money men are the ones who, through
unmonitored and unrepresentative world committees, are
driving countries like Argentina into hopeless debt and social
upheaval. These greedy overlords are creating strife and
suffering on a scale too tragic for words in nation after nation.
Just look at Africa.

They?ve got their sites on America, now, too; disrupting
economic stability through so-called free trade initiatives and
provisions for special favors and the endless flow of cash to
corporate monstrosities like Enron.

For the most part, your congressional representatives are
nothing but swine gathering at the corporate troughs. Your
president is a creep and a thug, a hypocrite who through his
actions celebrates war, repression and greed even as he gives
lip service to peace, freedom and justice.

George W. Bush hoodwinks you daily, the coward hiding
behind a phony patriotism. He is an Enron buddy boy, a spoiled
child lying in his teeth about his past and current dirty deeds.
Does he care about you America? Hardly. This is altogether
obvious to those outside your borders who are politically aware
and awake to the world around them.

You were never concerned about the disgraceful practices of
George's ruthless father, either, a Bin-Laden cohort and friend
to criminals and killers in global drug, oil and terrorist
enterprises. Iran. Vietnam. El Salvador. Chile. Guatemala. Iraq.
And on and on. The never-ending bully-boy story of blood,
guns, drugs and money.

Does any of this matter? Not really. Go get your ten-billionth
burger America. Fatten your already fat asses with
bacteria-and-hormone-ridden meat and do nothing as you sit
stupefied before your mind-numbing television sets awaiting
the next episode of sad families being humiliated on Cops.

Few among you are the least bit concerned that no real
investigation of 911 has taken place, that no serious
investigation of the anthrax attacks is moving forward, that no
authentic investigation of Enron, or the murder of one of its top
executives, is underway.

How many of you give the slightest damn about the totalitarian
measures your government is taking to keep its secret
meetings, grubby files and treasonous activities from your
eyes? You look the other way as your own honest citizens rise
up against those within your nation who gassed innocent
children to death at Wako, hid evidence in the TWA 800 air
disaster and rubbed elbows with foreign terrorists in Oklahoma
City.

When did you stop caring America? Was it after your own CIA
and FBI plotted the murder of President John F. Kennedy? Or
is this just the raving lunacy of the conspiracy nut? What does
your gut tell you America? Is something a little amiss here?

Forget about it. Have some Pepto-Bismal.

Today, in futility, your own government goes to court against
itself for information you are entitled to by law. But this is
hardly deemed vital news in the community. It is a fleeting
reference in an electronic sea of meaningless banter. For proof,
just look to all the spineless whores who constitute your
mainstream news media.

Today, you excoriate, ridicule and ostracize the brave and true
among you. Your best investigative journalists are fired from
their jobs and ignored. Congress?s few courageous souls are
laughed at and dismissed out of hand. The most honest and
conscientious political leader in the country, Ralph Nader, is a
powerless, near invisible curiosity easily side-lined by hired
goons.

America, you are a goddamn shame.

What law matters now in your despicable state? What justice?
What truth? When will you wake up? If you had your druthers,
you would right now gather your courage, take to the streets
and march on Washington D.C in the millions. But I know you
will do no such thing. The vast majority of you are spiritually,
emotionally and intellectually dead.

You consume. You eat. You shit. And that?s just about it.

As I write these words in Spring of 2002, I can only imagine
what additional horrors your shadow government might be
planning in what will surely be an attempt to justify militarism
and totalitarianism on a universal scale. A nuclear explosion in
one of your cities perhaps? A massive bio-chemical attack?

Or perhaps it will be some Arab terrorist who does the great
and terrible deed, his last thought before death being the
promises you made to him before killing his family.


Sincerely,
Robert McDougall
A Canadian