Americas Battered Wife Syndrome

America’s Battered Wife Syndrome
Category: General, Editorial/Comment.Posted by Advena at around evening time.
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Dear America
As a friend of the family I can’t sit back and watch you do this to yourself without saying something. Consider this a long distance intervention.
Your man is no good. He treats you like crap, lies to you, abuses you, bullies you, exploits you, takes your money. As a friend I want to tell you that you deserve better. You deserve a person that treats you with respect, cares about your welfare, and your children’s welfare, but that’s not George and it never will be.
Do you tell yourself that he’ll stop, or that it won’t get worse? He won’t ever stop, every insult, injury and death he has caused are a line that once crossed will never be uncrossed. Forget the dream. You will never have the American dream with George. You have to forget about what might have been, what George might have been, and realise that at the end of the day you are what you do, and look at George’s track record.
Notice how he’s alienated all your friends? Who can blame them, they can’t understand why you stay with him when he treats you like shit and embarrasses you in front of everybody. The more his public behaviour overshadows yours, The more doubt creeps over them, they wonder if they knew you as well as they thought they did. You seem to have changed - if you condone his behaviour- and your silence can create the impression that you do. People are more inclined to take things at face value when they feel alienated. Your friends remember the good times you had together, the heroic battles you fought together, all of the intricate interweavings between their families and yours through time and space. Do you even recognise yourself anymore America? He is a drunken, coke-addled loser and he always will be, you should kick him out of your house today before he can destroy any more members of your family, your history, your culture, before he decimates your bank account so irretrievably that China and Saudi Arabia repossess all your stuff.
YOU CAN DO BETTER! You are an amazing country, beautiful, interesting, funny, positively glamorous, you wouldn’t stay single for five minutes, you know that suitors would be competing for your affections and any one of them would be ten times better than George. And how can you stand his god-awful Stepford’s answer to Marie-Antoinette mother, piping up with another casual atrocity every time she opens her mouth.
Because of George and his friends global warming is now upon us - I know what it has cost your family already, combined with George’s complete uselessness and indifference in a crisis. It would probably now be possible for a mathematician to calculate exactly how much of all of our futures we are losing for every minute you stay with that sick,twisted, idiot.
I see you doing what everyone in your position does - you end up looking to the perpetrator for comfort because theres no one else left, and look at how he reacts for Christ’s sake, look at what he did to New Orleans, and you should know that yet again he did it in front of all of your friends, all of us saw nothing happening whilst thousands died, all of us heard Ray Negen and the president of Jefferson Parish (I must heard him 30+ times now and I still cry every time) and all of us heard George’s bloody mother. We have been trying to help and he won’t let us. We are all appalled and aghast, it breaks our hearts to see him hurting you like this, and you not fighting back, you just take it and take it as it slowly spirals down into the pits of hell. What will it take America, will you let him kill you before you’ll kick him out? This is not rhetoric America, he is killing you every day you stay with him. If I had described your relationship with George to you back when you were still with Bill you never would have believed me. He degrades you in little increments, every day he erodes your assets as well as your dignity, your reputation, your legacy and your life America.
All of our TV crews were rescuing survivors as they filmed the devastation because there was nobody else there to help them, all of us saw the victims being treated like some sudden new insurgency. with suspicion and hostility. Those poor people, the heart & soul of New Orleans, the very people whose culture and history made New Orleans beloved around the world, He just left your brothers and sisters to die. Can you really continue in your relationship with George after this? There is a degree at which cognitive dissonance becomes outright delusion. He is a maniac, he is destroying your life, please, please leave him, just leave him, only you have the power to make it stop.
He is selling out your family business, if you let him continue like this how are you going to live? How are you going to feed your children, what happens if you get ill? Everything he has ever touched has turned to shit, he puts any idiot that’ll kiss his ass into positions of power and New Orleans is the result. Kick him out America! Do it today! I know it feels like you would be leaping into a void, but I promise you, you will be leaping out of one. Your friends will come back as soon as they see you are back to your old self, they really miss you. I know that less than 36% of your heart is still in it. Go with the 67% of you, that 36% is just that vestigial, primitive part of the brain that clings to the familiar no matter how badly the familiar sucks.
It all comes down to you, America. I know no-one likes other people passing comment on their relationships but this is an extreme situation. You are in very real danger, he is hurting you everyday and he is hurting us, your friends as well. But only you can make it stop. We are all rooting for you, although we don’t get to talk to you very often anymore, because he cuts us off from you. We are on your side, we will all be over the moon the day you finally kick him out. You know he really should be thrown in jail for the things he has done to you. Him and all of his gangster friends.
Please, please, do it America, you know I am right. If not for yourself then do it for your brothers and sisters and children. Do it before he kills any more of your family or anyone else’s. We are all really worried for your welfare.
Your friend,
Gail

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESEPTEMBER 7, 2005
Contact:  Eddie Gutiérrez, Director of CommunicationsPhone:    (323)  217-8875     Email:  eddie@eqca.org
GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER TO VETO EQUAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS LEGISLATION
Sacramento, CA — In response to Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to veto Assembly Bill (AB) 849, The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act, Executive Director Geoffrey Kors of Equality California issues the following statement:
“Not even twenty-four hours after our historic victory when our families went to sleep dreaming of equality, we are extremely heart-broken and disappointed that the Governor has chosen not to lift the burden of discrimination for hundreds of thousands of loving and committed families. The Governor has let us down, but nothing can take away our victory and the progress we have made to achieve equality for all.
“One man cannot terminate a civil rights movement.  Minority rights should never be dictated by the majority.  Hard working, Californians believe in freedom, justice, and equality.  The Governor has failed our families and the children who will sleep tonight wondering if, tomorrow, their parents will be legal strangers under the law.
“The marriage equality bill has yet to reach the Governor’s desk.  We urge him to reconsider his decision.  He has yet to hear how our families have been harmed by discrimination.  When he goes home tonight and enjoys the comforts and protections of marriage, we hope he thinks of the children and families whose fate rests in his hands.
“If the Governor truly opposes discrimination, he will come out in strong opposition to any ballot measure, court decision, or legislation that repeals legally recognized protections and responsibilities that are currently afforded through domestic partnerships or permanently bans marriage protections for same-sex couples.  He has to make a decision on what he wants his legacy to be; we hope that he will not go down in history as ‘The Discriminator.’”
Founded in 1998, Equality California is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots-based, statewide advocacy organization whose mission is to ensure the dignity, safety, equality and civil rights of all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Californians.  Equality California is one of the largest and fastest growing statewide LGBT organizations in the country. We can be contacted through our website at www.eqca.org.

Is New Orleans in the US or Bangladesh?

Is New Orleans in the US or Bangladesh?

I am absolutely appalled by what I have seen on the TV over the past several days.  Poor, mostly black, people stuck in a flooded city.  And where is the almighty powerful US Government?  Nowhere to be seen until fours days after the hurricane is gone!!!  I am embarrassed by the ineptitude of it all.  If this occurred in Beverly Hills, you can bet that multiple helicopters would have been in the air as soon as it was safe.  Even just today, four days later, there are only 30 helicopters for the entire New Orleans area!

There is talk on all the talk shows about why this is the case.  Bush sent all the National Guard to Iraq, the local government screwed up by not taking care of business; Bush cut the money to the Army Core of Engineers.  Who knows how it happened, but I blame Bush.  There is no doubt that a lot more resources would have been available if so much money and manpower were not tied up overseas.

What scares me is the fact that if this had been a terrorist attack, the results probably would not have been much better.  What is going on with Homeland Security?  How secure are we if we are not prepared to deal with a hurricane, in hurricane country, during hurricane season.

I jusr hope a catastrophe does not happen where I live any time in the near future, because it seems obvious to me that our government is not prepared to deal with it.