It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times. From Seymour Hersh's article in the New Yorker magazine to hit tomorrow's newsstands: "The operation had across-the-board approval from Rumsfeld and from Condoleezza Rice, the national-security adviser. President Bush was informed of the existence of the program." This refers to George W. Bush's knowledge of the secret program to kidnap suspects in Afghanistan and interrogate them using all available methods, including torture. It's not yet clear whether Bush knew about the torture going on in Iraq, but Bush clearly knew about the existence of a program centered in Afghanistan (and active in other countries) which worked outside American and international law, For this, Bush can be Impeached. So, as promised we have extended our line of Irregular Postcards to include not just a set of Impeach Rumsfeld postcards, but also a set of postcards with the banner headline Stop the Torture: Impeach Bush. A small graphic of the Impeach Bush postcard can be seen below. ![]() Folks, this is the test of American democracy in the eyes of the world. If we, the American people, do not get George W. Bush out of office, we will be regarded as supporting state-sponsored torture of prisoners. This torture is nothing short of terrorism. Who here remembers the lonely voice of protest in the U.S. Congress at the beginning of George W. Bush's War Against Evildoers? It said, "Let us not become the evil we deplore". That voice was Barbara Lee, and we thank her for the foresight that her colleagues lacked. Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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