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(don't say it, i think constantly!) anyhow, by way of explanation, i am in Sacramento today to honor the memory of my darling daughter, Rebekah-Marie Bales Zask - Bekah - on the occasion of National Victims of Violent Crime Week. so i flew in to my home state from NC where i presently reside. it's been a few years since i've flown.
the good news is it's apparently still safe to post on DU. (maybe i should also reveal that i am in the last chapters of The End of America).
so as i was saying. lining up for the national security ritual. three signs clustered together caught my eye. We are currently under an "orange" security alert. "orange" means that the danger of terrorist activity is "high."
after over seven years in power - after waging war on "terror" for seven years, killing countless citizens of iraq and afghanistan and who knows what other sovereign nations, sacrificing over 4000 - the most recent number i heard was 4,032 - of our own children, displacing millions, destroying infrastructure,
enriching a few thousand bushies, war profiteers, and corporations at the expense of the american taxpaying public and the people of less fortunate countries,
after all this time and all these lives, all they can manage is ORANGE?
shouldn't they be changing their signs by now? where are the cheery signs saying, todays terror threat is yellow? or today you may fly without fear, thanks to our victory in the war on terror?
if after all this time and waste, if they can't do better than "orange," why would any thinking person even consider signing up for more of this? and why do the bushies still hold power?
by the way a fellow traveler in line mentioned "it's always orange" and laughed.
it's a fucking sham is what it is. gawd bless america my once free home.
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