White Noise Insanity

Ever since 9/11/01, the one thing that has always bothered me is the reaction of those Americans who are for the Iraq war. Their undying loyalty to the Bush Regime no matter what they do including choosing to start a war against a country that has nothing to do with 9/11, which has now amounted to an illegal occupation, a quagmire and a civil war all wrapped up into one, they will label anyone who does not agree with their war and the reasons for it as traitors.

They'll go to great lengths too to express it too. Quite a few people in this country have been fired because they have bumper stickers on their car that doesn't support Bush and voices outrage against the Iraq war. Others have had their car vandalized, some have been arrested for protesting the war, and if you're the mother of a soldier who is currently alive and serving in Iraq and you speak out, this is what happens to you:

ST. PAUL (Oct. 14) - A Duluth mother who has been outspoken against the war
in Iraq and against her son's deployment there said she was shocked when a
letter she had sent to him came back with the word "DECEASED" stamped on it.

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"It's very upsetting, and somebody obviously did it," Najbar said.
"I think this is somebody's cruel little joke."

Joan Najbar's son is alive and is fighting on the battlefield right now as you read this.

Najbar is an outspoken mother against the Iraq war, but yet, has a son over there fighting it, which to me is about as American as one can get! As an American, she has a freaking right to speak out against this freaking atrocious war and doesn't deserve to be treated like this. Only the Bush supporters would go to great lengths to harrass a mother like this. She's not a traitor or a treasonist who is plotting to overthrow the American government or a radical who is purposing to burn down the White House to make her case against this president and his decisions. Nope, she's a mother of a soldier who is now sacrificing. What is she sacrificing that other Mother's aren't? She has a child in a war/occupation who at anytime could come home via the cargo department of a commercial airliner (spit...that still makes me so angry) because he has died while fighting for her right to speak (which is what Bush has said our soldiers are fighting for....for us to keep our rights) and she now is receiving harrassingly cruel documents where her safety could be in jeapordy because of those who support this war! It's so ludicrous!!!

The Minnesota National Guard has said that it is not normal procedure to stamp anything that goes to the family of a deceased soldier to includes the word "deceased" on it.

Najbar's son is still alive, however, so whoever did send this (the article linked above does not explain if the envelope was addressed from the Minnesota National Guard) knew she was against the war and knew that her son was over there.

Stories like this makes my blood boil, because I don't like living in America if it is turning into a country like this. It's supposed to be the 'land of the free' not the 'land of the suppressed'. If a soldier's mother can't protest the war without being harrassed by the very people who have recruited her son to the battlefield because they don't agree with her, then there is something seriously wrong with the mentality of our country and of those who support the fascist Pigs and who love this war! If our soldiers are fighting for our freedoms like Bush is always stating, well then, act like they are for crying out loud.