Personal Morality
The Mayor of Salt Lake City, Ross Anderson suggests we tell our elected officials: “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.”
Anderson insists that we need to be courageous and tenacious. If, we the voters don’t persist, we are failing to live up to our responsibilities as citizens in a democracy, as well as, our responsibilities as moral human beings. If we remain silent, we signal the candidates running for Congress that we support the status quo. Silence is complicity.
While, acting in our name our government has caused immense, death and destruction by sending our military to attack and occupy a nation that posed no danger to us. We should be raising hell and making it clear in every way possible that the convoluted explanations by Democrats don’t cut it, when so many voted to authorize Bush and his neocon buddies to send American troops to attack and occupy Iraq.
It’s a matter of personal morality, because we cannot support any candidate who continues to vote to fund the atrocities in Iraq. We cannot support any candidate who will not commit to removing all of our mercenaries and troops from Iraq. We cannot support a candidate who is too timid to publicly acknowledge that the occupation of Iraq is about oil.
America has one of the worst voting records in the free world. In 2004, only 45 percent of those eligible to cast a vote did so. Compare that to recent free elections in Australia 96%, Indonesia 93% and Belgium 91%. Unfortunately, many Americans believe that there is no real choice and stay home. Are they right?
Anderson insists that we need to be courageous and tenacious. If, we the voters don’t persist, we are failing to live up to our responsibilities as citizens in a democracy, as well as, our responsibilities as moral human beings. If we remain silent, we signal the candidates running for Congress that we support the status quo. Silence is complicity.
While, acting in our name our government has caused immense, death and destruction by sending our military to attack and occupy a nation that posed no danger to us. We should be raising hell and making it clear in every way possible that the convoluted explanations by Democrats don’t cut it, when so many voted to authorize Bush and his neocon buddies to send American troops to attack and occupy Iraq.
It’s a matter of personal morality, because we cannot support any candidate who continues to vote to fund the atrocities in Iraq. We cannot support any candidate who will not commit to removing all of our mercenaries and troops from Iraq. We cannot support a candidate who is too timid to publicly acknowledge that the occupation of Iraq is about oil.
America has one of the worst voting records in the free world. In 2004, only 45 percent of those eligible to cast a vote did so. Compare that to recent free elections in Australia 96%, Indonesia 93% and Belgium 91%. Unfortunately, many Americans believe that there is no real choice and stay home. Are they right?
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