This is the journey that our fear-ridden, navel-gazing fellow Americans must take: from the obsessive victim-hood of a criminal act that the federal government chose to cover-up in textbook Orwellian fashion (i.e., through sensational, testosterone-driven media manipulation and jingoistic militarism) rather than properly investigate (recall that the crime scene was not preserved for forensic purposes but quickly "cleaned up" for exploitation and hallowed as "ground zero") to the celebration of "people power" in fearless, non-violent regime change as we have been privileged to witness in Tunisia and Egypt.
To paraphrase John Lennon: the Reagan-Bush II era is over (if we want it).
Somebody should tell President Obama. He loves to ride bandwagons. Someone should really let him know that the train he should be riding is, even now, leaving the station.
Rise up my fellow citizens of the Invisible Whitmanian Republic! Facebook and Tweet and WikiLeak your way to a new consciousness!
And when you've finally decided to stop feeling sorry for yourselves that a group of nameless, faceless, uppity brown men got the drop on you and made a spectacle of your holy places (the symbols of global capitalism and U.S. militarism), you can start to feel empowered by the fact that a much bigger group of (largely anonymous) uppity brown men and women and children have embraced and put into action on the streets of their capital cities ideals that you espouse with your lips while denying with your hands and feet and tax dollars.
Rise up! Rise up! Your resurrection lies in insurrection! Rise up, unless true liberation and democracy are no longer your birthright. Rise up and show the world that we, too, have a right to determine our destiny free from plutocratic despotism and violence. Rise up now or forever hold your peace!
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