fourth of july

one holiday that as a child? I loved. as an adult? I've had good ones, I've had bad. lately in the last few years? I just don't get too excited. Maybe its cause I see things changing, and so much innocence lost, or maybe its cause I just am angry with the way politics are, or maybe its cause I'm not a flag waving, patriotic person. Not to say that I don't support the troops, but I don't support the troops going to war, so somebody can profit from it.

Since that fateful day that I went through that Hurricane, I've changed my views of government, and the response to the people. I've seen a new president arise, and then fall down and submit to the "powers that be"... in other words, I voted for change, and instead, got another politician. Seems like Louisiana is still a "colony" of the US... and they don't care if they kill the entire state, to get that precious oil.

I felt that the response to katrina, in many ways, reflected the fact that we are an oil state. they care about the oil, but not the people. Well, now they've really reassured me of this, by not responding to the gusher from the get go.

BP gets to hire mercenaries? WTF? I feel like a wave of refugee coming on again, in the country that I was born and raised in, only the third world of the US, (meaning louisiana) still isn't treated with any respect... OR revenues, from the rape of this beautiful state, so that a bunch of Oil Hookers can get rich.

I can only imagine the price of gas, if we had allowed McSame and Palin take over our country. That thought still frightens me...

I see James Carville come out swinging. I see Bobby Jindahl spewing a bunch of BS, and pretending he's doing something, while his friends profit from a sand berm, that won't last more than a few hours if we get a "big one". I see Billy Nungessar speak great lengths of truth, yet shuffled into a corner, and used by big corporate newstations, to make him look silly. When in fact, he has some legitimate things to say. I see Anderson Cooper standing in the quarter showing the country a bunch of drivel over and over, much like katrina footage, soon to become oil spill fatigue. I see the news crews spinning this, I hear that Haley Barbour claims there's no oil on his beaches, I see the pictures of the same beaches, and now hear that they're fining folks for taking them. cover up? yes... how DO you cover that up? Ask anyone in Alaska about the Exxon Valdez...

So much negativity, even the christian network is using it to sell the end of the world, the oceans on fire, the sea has turned black. Hmmmm. Is oil the antichrist? or are the oil barons of the earth, the antichrist?

Rachel Maddow is about the only one I've seen who has said anything honest... and has gotten in a boat and shown america. Hardball touches on it. John Stewart, and Steven Colbert, touch on it. Even Bill Maher, has come out swinging.

yet... its still gushing. its still killing... and now? its getting closer to Lake Ponchartrain.

What kind of response effort is this?

anyway, back to the fourth of july.
kinda hard to be patriotic, when all you see is people who don't give a damn about the very people who drill for this, who fish the oceans to provide food for your dinner table. Killing an ecosystem so fragile, that we become even more vulnerable to storms...

but the one patriotic thing I can do? Is speak my mind.
and there you have it. I'm very unhappy about the last five years. I've seen a country that cannot respond to the very people who make it what it is.

Next time I vote? I hope there's someone new out there, I hope the revolution will be televised, I hope people wake up... but somehow? I think Louisiana fatigue will have replaced the truth. A truth that the "idiot box" "big brother" has hidden from the modern day couch potato american.

happy fifth of july.