When I despair . . .

For sure there are times when we all get discouraged. Over the last seven years or more, there has been plenty to be discouraged about in America, with the current people who took over not just he White House, but the whole US government, and seemingly every check and balance that we’d installed in our country to make sure they never could do what they’ve done.

It’s been a source of madness, an unjust and murderous regime in our country.

Can we call it anything less than a tyrrany? There is no doubt that there has been surface justification for Mr. Bush’s actions: His ‘primary job to protect the American people’; the threat  of more killings like the 9/11 attacks; the upheaval in Iraq and Iran, (caused in large measure by our own unjust invasion there); the shifting of global resources.

Perhaps some American citizens, foreign leaders, and Saudis can say it is a ‘just tyrrany’. All I know is that if it walks like a tyrant, quacks like a tyrant, it’s a tyrant, justified or not.

And we aren’t supposed to be having tyrants here in America. We are a free and sovereign people unto ourselves, and we elect our leaders, not place ourselves subject to them. We’re subjects of nobody, and never will be.

That is the whole point of the dream of America, to never be fooled again into thinking that some person, or family, or government, is somehow more sovereign than we are.

Mahatma Gandhi said this about tyrants:

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it–always.

I think it’s beyond dispute that Mr. Bush and Co. have tried to create an American Empire, and to place himself and his cronies at the top of this empire, to establish it as the new way of "America" across the world, and do so without any justification or impunity upon himself or his friends.

The question for us now is: can we find our way through the despair that their actions have caused for us, reclaim our purpose and direction and return to an America that is finding its way toward our own ideals?

There are millions of people around the world leading this kind of journey, together and individually, leaderless and with passion. There’s no shortage of courage and determination to find a non-violent, sustainable path toward a just future. When humans get stepped on for so long, as this horrible administration has done around the world to so many, we will ultimately rise up and reclaim our humanity.

We are people here, too!

It’s time for our humanity to shine! As Gandhis said so eloquently,

 There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it–always.

This regime will fall as well, and I predict that they will fall hard. Their savagery has been overwhelming, from illegal wars to torture, from murders and justified assasinations to the ellimination of basic freedoms, from the destruction of environmental safeguards to intimidation of whole populations, this group of men and women will stand out in history as one of the most blood-thirsty, short-sighted, and power-hungry to ever take the reins of a country. Ever.

And they will fall.

We continue here at GanghiGuy to hold that non-violence is the path to take, that truth-telling is what’s necessary, and that love and harmony will always win in the end.

Come join us in that quest.

In Peace,

Don, aka ‘Gandhi Guy’