It's been almost 3 years since the WTC attack. As I sit here writing this, I am a mass of negativity that is struggling to unclench my jaw. The sadness & anger I feel when I see my city being used by the criminals in office is maddening. What's even more maddening is when I hear that it's going to be a close election. Yes, readers, there are people stupid enough to vote for George W. Bush. Many of them were in my city last week.

While it is my opinion that most of Bush's supporters are fucking idiots who shouldn't leave the house, breed or open their mouths to speak lest they get slapped by someone who is more switched on than they are, I realize not all of them are like that. Most of them are just frightened. Don't feel bad. You're human. Don't be their goddamned puppet either.

The Republican National Convention was the worst example of their nasty marionette show. These Republican pricks raised the terror alert right after the Democrats were all over the news with their own convention. We were told many locations in New York & New Jersey were targets... then it was revealed that this information was over 2 years old. Do you feel your strings being pulled yet?

After pushing their convention back to early September, in order to get all that extra 9/11 sympathy & fear, the Republicans entered my city & polluted it with their bullshit. United For Peace & Justice organized a protest march & wanted to have a rally on the Great Lawn in Central Park. New York's mayor Michael Bloomberg dislodged his tongue from Dubya's cocaine covered asshole long enough to tell everyone to "Git off mah lawn!". That's fine. The march was still on.

It was a mostly peaceful march with few incidents. Of course if you read the New York Post it was all arrests & burning dragons. Let's see. The Daily News, The New York Times & New York Newsday all reported a peaceful protest, but Rupert Murdoch's paper gives a vision of chaos in the streets. It doesn't take a genius to figure out which paper is manipulating what you read & why that piece of shit rag only costs a quarter.

I saw no arrests. I saw no violence. I did flip off a hotel that had a banner welcoming the RNC & also gave the finger to Fox News. I saw a few protesters arguing with Bush supporters on the other side of the metal barricades. I did not see who started these confrontations. I did see a man & a woman arguing in Union Square Park, where the march ended. The man was a Bush supporter.

"You don't want to listen!" The man shouted as he turned & stomped away.

The woman called after him saying, "You're the 1 walking away & choosing not to listen."

Good point, madam.

I spent the following week on vacation. I wrote, watched many movies, listened to Air America Radio & tried to unwind from my frustration with this broken democracy. I read the papers 7 read of protesters getting arrested & asses being kissed in MSG. Knowing that these scumbags were about to defile the stage I saw Prince perform on, I watched the coverage of the last 2 nights of the RNC, the main event.

I saw Dick Cheney, the criminal who profitted the most from the war in Iraq, step up to the podium with an egotistical, reptilian snarl on his lips. Every word he said was shit falling from his ass. He spat each syllable off with utter contempt for everybody listening, looking more like Lax Luther as each second passes. Cheney & his political party exploited 3,000 deaths in my city. The hand he wasn't using to count his Halliburton money with, he was using to fist fuck the populace. Then he had his family join him onstage while he licked his fingers clean. His lesbian daughter, Mary, was in the audience with her girlfriend but wasn't invited to join in on the photo opportunity. I guess gays aren't allowed to be acknowledged on TV at the RNC. Well, I can understand how they'd want to focus the camera instead on a smiling Bush supporter holding a "W for President" sign high above his head. The fact that he was holding the sign upside down is an accurate reflection of this administration. That guy didn't want to read his sign properly just like Bush didn't want to read the Presidential Daily Briefing on August 6, 2001, which was entitled "Bin Laden determined to attack US". No need for Dubya to interrupt the longest vacation a president has had.

On Thursday September 2nd, I went back into Manhattan. I was going to meet my lady for a Godzilla double feature & I decided to go in early to wander the streets. I walked to Union Square Park again. At the southern end of the park, a group of Vietnam vets who are against the war in Iraq erected a tarp with the names & dates in which each American soldier was killed. There were also shoes to represent dead Iraqi civilians. When you come face to face with the sheer numbers, it's overwhelming. One thousand dead soldiers' names are right in front of your face. They lost their lives far from home in a country that had nothing to do with the WTC attacks. They died needlessly; unless you think Halliburton execs needed more money.

After the movies, I went uptown with my lady, who had a class at John Jay College. After that I headed to midtown & watched delegates moved towards the Garden. Underpaid cops were annoyed & hostile. I decided to go home. Bush was going to take the stage at 10:00 pm. I thought it best to watch the moron give a bad speech. You need to know your enemy.

I flipped through the networks during the speech. Different channels cut to different shots when Dubya pauses for applause or when he makes that childish facial gesture where he puts his tongue on his upper lip at the end of each sentence. Cameramen focus on any minorities they could find clapping. Bush talking about 9/11 as if he did anything productive to help was similar to him pissing on everybody who was killed at Ground Zero as he tried to buy the nation's vote by mentioning his tax cuts over & over again. 3 miles north of the site of mass murder, people who could have prevented it, people who hid in bunkers & 1 man who spent 7 minutes having My Pet Goat read to him exploited the morning my city was on fire. Worse yet, they were cheered for it by frightened little digits that have been intimidated into supporting them. I sat in my living room, throwing socks at my TV everytime that arrogant, coke-sniffing, trust fund baby said something that pissed me off.

I threw a lot of socks that night.

As we approach the anniversary of the day that changed us all & as we get closer to Election Day, I ask you readers to take a closer look at the state of our country & the behavior of our government. Put aside any fear you have of terrorism. Ignore Dick Cheney's manipulation of that fear when he talk about the election saying, "If we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again & we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating." Dick, when you speak of terrorism in that manner, it sounds like you're threatening those with no intention of voting for you & your talking monkey of a candidate. Don't fucking threaten me.

I urge readers to go out of their homes & put their ears on the pavement. Listen closely. What you'll hear is dissent, sedition & the birth rattle of a revolution that could conceivably start on November 3rd if Dubya's sibling steals the votes in Florida for him again. George & Jeb Bush have made it obvious that your vote doesn't matter to them. Thanks to touch screen voting technology that leaves no paper trail, they will make up their own results & expect to get away with it again.

I've been to Ground Zero. I've stared at the hole in the sky. I saw the surrounding buildings that are still damaged. I didn't like the feelings I got while standing in a place where so many people were murdered. What I like even less than that is knowing our nation's leaders will reopen that old wound, which is easy to do after you've witnessed death via satellite.

But the people who took to the streets to protest are not limited to New York. We are smart, creative, freethinking people, Mr. Bush. We see through you & we are here to fuck with you.

R

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