"Lies From the Pit of Hell"

Dear Mr. President,

Israel shot down a drone that violated Israeli air space yesterday. Hezbollah suspected of launching the drone. Thousands form a convoy in Islamabad, traveling to Waziristan to protest U.S. drone strikes. We’re more brazen than Hezbollah because we’ve got the bucks and the firepower on our side, but still, the fact remains that the U.S. of A. is violating Pakistan’s air space along with Yemen’s and Somalia’s and who knows who else’s air space every day. Unlike the unarmed surveillance drone over Israel however, our drones are armed, unleashing Hellfires and death in their blind injustice. That peace march to Waziristan is, I think, the only organized march yet to protest drone strikes. 32 Codepink representatives are there, all of whom volunteered and all of whom paid their own way. 32 people who probably won’t be voting for Obama in 2012. Maybe if we had drones flying overhead unleashing instant death and destruction like they do in Pakistan, more people would pay attention and see the evil of drones, but the populace is diverted with bread and circuses: the Presidential “Debate” last week that was more infotainment than debate and in my town this weekend, Columbus Day parades and festivities along with Bluegrass in the Park, Blue Angels in the sky and America's Cup races on the bluest of blue bays. Not a drone in sight, not a special ops team breaking down doors in the dead of night, just Marines and Navy boys shaking hands and smiling for the cameras, recruiting posters for the red, white and blue. Patriotic tunes, marching bands and church spires, baseball and football on TV. No threats, no worries, no problems. Except for Rep. Paul Broun, M.D. (R., GA) who calls evolution and the Big Bang “lies straight from the pit of hell.” Rep. Broun sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. And State Rep. Ron Hubbard (R., AR) who wrote that African Americans were better off as slaves than if they’d been left in Africa. Or Charlie Fuqua Republican candidate for the House of Representatives from Arkansas who wrote that the only solution to the Muslim problem was to expel every Muslim from the U.S. Or President Barack Obama who declares Fatwas against suspected terrorists every Tuesday and commits wars of aggression in countries with whom we are not at war, all justified by White House lawyers in secret memos that cannot be made public because of National Security. The dangers we see, the dangers we don’t, the danger we are.