I need you guys. Right now, I need you guys and I'm not kidding.

[tzikeh]

I originally thought I'd be able to maintain two journals - one for fandom and one for politics, because so often people don't want to see politics on their flists and I don't want to bring people down who come to lj for fun. But for some reason, all having two ljs has done is kept me from making any political posts at all. So, I'm going to delete politzikes, and go back to posting political stuff here, but always with an icon which clearly warns of oncoming politics, and always posting under an lj-cut.


Let me warn in advance that this might be a tad over-emotional because I got my period today and it's a very, very bad period indeed.

W gave a speech in Australia. He couldn't remember what country he was in, he couldn't remember what the speech was for, and once he finished babbling incoherently, he nearly took a header off the stage. A recounting of THIS GODDAMN FUCKING TRAVESTY, with video (if you can stomach it), is here.

Usually, when I use a lot of capital letters and exclamation points and curse words in my lj, it's not me being angry -- it's just me being my usual hyper self; over-excited, or hyperbolic, or waving my arms over my head like Kermit. Not this time.

I can't take it. I seriously can't take it one more day. I am sitting on my couch and weeping in absolutely incoherent rage. I cannot fucking take it one more fucking day. I want to purposefully seek out people who voted for Bush and PUNCH THEM IN THEIR FACES, because they fucking voted for this vile mass of vomit and all of the fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fuck that came with him.

I want to commit violence because this man exists, and because other people like him exist around him, and because 30% of the citizens of this nation still think he's a good president, and because 40% of the citizens of this nation still believe Saddam was behind 9/11, and because my countrymen have had fucking bullshit shoved down their throats for six-and-a-half years, and so many still don't care. And the fact that some people are finally realizing the truths which many of us had been shouting since the beginning does not make up for the fact that they have never given any of us a GODDAMNED FUCKING APOLOGY for calling us traitors and treasonous and "just as bad as them A-rab terrorists."

All we have to show for six-and-a-half years of being hated by racist ignorant fuckheads is the taste of ashes in our mouth and a Pyrrhic, I-told-you-so "victory".

Soothe me or join me in my fury; give me hope or scream in concert with me -- but someone please talk to me.

ETA More from Wonkette here.

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[apathocles.livejournal.com]

It never fails to astonish me that this man has managed to find work at all, let alone a job as ruler of a fucking country.

The thing that's been really shitting me off about APEC is the truly ridiculous security measures, and the way that the police have been going on about how these security measures are there because of the dangers posed by protesters. (Yes, they've also talked about the dangers of assassination attempts and terrorists, but 90% of the interviews I've seen with the police have been about protesters.) And I just... what. Large parts of Sydney are locked up tight; people can be arrested for going into certain areas without what the police consider 'good reason'.

Which is why I'm so damned glad that the main protest went off with only minimal arrests. HA. The police were trying to talk it up beforehand, going on about the huge number of people that would be there (thus justifying the truly ridiculous size of the police presence); now that it's over, of course, they're saying that hardly any protesters turned up, because to say otherwise would demonstrate that there's actually widespread opposition to Bush and Howard and their cronies. Oy.

Some of the protesters were chanting 'OPEC out of Austria', which amused me greatly. *g* And I'm wondering if you guys've heard about the Chaser stunt (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/09/07/1188783496428.html), and its sequel (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/09/07/1188783497265.html). And also Bums for Bush (http://www.bumsnotbombs.org/), which (IIRC) did result in a performance of the twenty-one bum salute. And also George Bush dress-up (http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/bush_dressup/index.html).

I... am taking positives where I can find them. Because, when this (http://www.smh.com.au/news/apec/jailed-for-jaywalking/2007/09/08/1188783554892.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1) happens to someone who crosses the road in from of the APEC convoy? I just want to cry.

[apathocles.livejournal.com]

Semi-relatedly: this (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004892.html) just popped up on my friendslist.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Bill Maher referenced the Chaser stunt in his opening monologue last night -- one of the great lines of the evening. "They knew it couldn't be the real Bin Laden because they managed to catch this one."