WORLD CANÂ’T WAIT
DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
YOUR GOVERNMENT, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly
illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.
YOUR GOVERNMENTis openly torturing people, and justifying it.
YOUR GOVERNMENTputs people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers,
and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.
YOUR GOVERNMENTis moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.
YOUR GOVERNMENTsuppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and
economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.
YOUR GOVERNMENTis moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to
birth control and abortion.
YOUR GOVERNMENTenforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.
People look at all this and think of Hitler—and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is
setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations
to come. We must act now; the future is in the balance.
Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need
for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet
the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this.
There is not going to be some magical "pendulum swing." People who steal elections
and believe they're on a "mission from God" will not go without a fight. There is not going
to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and
energies into "leaders" who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious
fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.
But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn—or be forced—to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it.
And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make
a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's
outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and
can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated,
where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been
taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to
change the course of history.
Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe
who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.
This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will
try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get
this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by
Bush and we are NOT going to stop.
The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined.
THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.
DEMONSTRATE on SATURDAY
(following the State of the Union) WASHINGTON D.C. On the Saturday after the State
of the Union address, massive numbers of us will protest at the White House. Prominent voices of conscience will help deliver On the night of President BushÂ’s State of the Union Address:
Bring the Noise... Drown Out BushÂ’s Lies In large cities and small towns all across the country, join in rallies one hour before BushÂ’s address to make our determination to
“Drive out the Bush Regime” the political message of the day. At 9:00 PM EST, just as Bush starts to speak, everywhere we will BRING THE NOISE. In a cacophony of
sound we will drown out his address with music: from drums to violins,
from hip hop to classical; and with noise: banging pots and ringing church bells, sounding car horns and lifting our voices. The agenda for 2006 must not be set by Bush, but by the people, in our millions, determined to stop this whole disastrous course.
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