Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.

Note to Rantburg readers: lay off Syria for a day or two, I think they're on to us.

Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.

"Mahmoud! We're so happy you're home from that evil Gitmo place where they tortured you. But my, how did you gain all that weight?"

Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.

And we have a spot on the secret Ashkkkroft camps in Idaho just for you, so you'd better shaddup.

Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.

"Some one's crying, Lord, KUM BAY A ..."

Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.

Rats, there goes my new grant ...

Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.

'cause we want to keep 'em pregnant, barefoot and ...

Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.

And a majority of the country voted them in, so your protest is going to be kinda lonely ...

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.

Never takes long to invoke Hitler. For some reason they never invoke Stalin ...

Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this.

And they know three or four of them personally.

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.

Yep, the ballot box, political parties, rallies, giant puppets, bared breasts, and dropped shorts just don't say what needs to be said ...

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.

No, no, certainly not!

There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party.

Sorry, Hillary, looks like the white robe trick isn't working ...

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.

'cause there's only one truth, and it theirs, ya know.

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.

Since the majority of voters strangely refused to do so ...

And there is a way.

First, send us money.

We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge change in this country and in the world.

Second, smoke this. Wow, dude.

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.

And if you'll just wait to January 20, 2009, you'll get your wish. I sure President Rice will be more accommodating ...

To that end, on November 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election", we will take the first major step in this by organizing a truly massive day of resistance all over this country.

Truly massive, now, sorta massive just isn't going to cut it.

People everywhere will walk out of school, they will take off work, they will come to the downtowns and town squares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to JOIN US.

And bring your giant puppets!

They will repudiate this criminal regime, making a powerful statement: "NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!"

"After which we'll steal all the lightbulbs and go home!"

November 2 must be a massive and public proclamation that WE REFUSE TO BE RULED IN THIS WAY. November 2 must call out to the tens of millions more who are now agonizing and disgusted. November 2 will be the beginning — a giant first step in forcing Bush to step down, and a powerful announcement that we will not stop until he does so — and it will join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.

It's really not for me to criticize your organizational skills, but you're on a tight time-line to get this done by noon today, doncha think?

This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will to try to stop us.

And it worked, too, 'cause there's no one standing in Daley Plaza, except the pidgeons.

But we speak for the majority, ...

... which is why you lost the election ...

... 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.

Oh great, more spam e-mail.

The point is on top of our heads 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.

Okay, so they're not Calvinists.

These next days are crucial. The call you are reading has to get out to millions right away — on the internet, passed out as flyers in communities, published as ads in newspapers. DO NOT WAIT!! GET ORGANIZED!! If you agree with this statement, add your name to it!!! And do more than that: send it to friends, get them to sign it, organize a meeting, take it to your church, your school, your union, your health club, your barber shop, to concerts and libraries and family gatherings, everywhere you go. Raise money, lots of money. Get people together, make plans to be there on November 2, and to build for it.

Natter everywhere! Mutter to yourself while walkind down the street! You never know who will hear your wisdom!

The world can't wait! Drive out the Bush Regime! Mobilize for November 2!