Saturday, March 08, 2003

International Women's Day, he sobbed

I commend to one and all Amber Howard’s op-ed piece in Saturday’s Seattle Times, in which she lists eight bulletpoints highlighting the severe and unremitting damage inflicted on women, both in this country and around the world, by the craven boors inhabiting the executive branch of the government of the United States.

Following the litany of heavyhanded anti-woman (and anti-human, and anti-American, and anti a whole lot of other things) Bush administration actions, Ms. Howard closes with these words:

And, unfortunately, the list goes on. It is astonishing that this administration has so quickly and easily turned back the clock on women’s rights � especially the right to control their family size and protect their health and well-being.

Giving women the power to control when or if they have children is essential to slowing rapid population growth, maintaining healthy children and slowing environmental destruction.

We must ensure that women have access to the information and resources they need to make healthy choices for themselves and their families, which will lead to a better world for us all.

The Bushian monsters must be turned out of office ASAP.  Their misdeeds and missteps must be noted and reported upon day and night.  Their attack on our values and ideals, on the very fabric of our nation must be countered before it’s too late.  We must mobilize the good people of our nation to understand what is being done to them and to the entire world by these arrogantly simplistic, self-righteously demagogic bastards.

One suggestion, which I should probably put into its very own entry, is that on Shock-and-Awe day, when we the people assemble freely in whatever public space we choose to express our vociferous objections ... we should go there armed to the teeth with voter registration materials.  Sign up thousands upon thousands of voters who will remember that day and those activities come November 2, 2004.