I hope the next generation will do what this one has failed to.

I sure the hell hope and pray that the next generation is made of better stuff than this one. We, the contemporary citizens of the United States, will be referred to as the generation that failed to stop gross tyranny and treason.

One can look to the future with hope, or one can simply despair. I hope like hell that the younger generation that will soon be in charge will do a better job of keeping an eye on the clock tower. I hope they don't make the same mistakes, and harbor the same apathy as this current crowd of consumer cattle did. I hope they learn from our mistakes and lack of action, I hope they make the best of our poor example.

They will certainly have to do it while living on the carcass of the slim pickin's we are most certainly going to leave them to scrounge on after we, as a so-called civilization, are done exploiting it, mortgaging it, and leaving little else but landfills and nuclear waste in our wake.

I would not be a child or teenager in this era if you could turn me into one. It is just too much of a Brave New World garnished with Road Warrior on the horizon for me to contemplate.

As Agent Smith noted, humanity is like a virus! We have shown ourselves, (be it by our own complacency or the manifesto of the powers that be) to be like parasites that breed and multiply and suck everything around us dry until it can sustain us no more. Then we move on and find a new area to drain and defile.

Problem is, we didn't get to exploit the stars. We didn't get to go out an spoil the rest of the Universe with our insatiable and unreasonable desire to never get enough of what we don't really need to make us happy.

Darn it!

I think we have done pretty good. The country and the world is more free and better off but not where I want it to be. After all when I was born Japan was moving into take over China and Germany had taking back the lands it lost in WW1. Most of the 'white' people are out of Asia even if it took 68000 dead for us to see we should leave Asia to their own people. Not counting Korea. Now if we could see the Middle East is for their own people we could move on. I will face the fact that I do not ever wish to go back to'the good old days' as they were no better than these. Just not the same.

The verdict is still out on this generation.
Not all of this generation has failed to stop tyranny.
Plus more than one generation is involved in this fiasco.
You can look at any generation and say that parts of them failed to stop tyranny.
Tyranny is not exactly a new thing.

(god, I get so tired of purists in the political scene, painting everything with a broad stroke)

age 40 and under (like Gonzales and other BushCo enablers including neo-cons) who are in office now; especially if they lose their power for any length of time in the future.

Cheney, Rumsfield, and Wolfie (and many others) stayed around long enough after they got their start enabling Nixon in the past to create the hell hole we're currently in.

more than a criminal enterprise. There is a need to label it as such and impose jail time for even being associated with it. 'Are you now or have you ever been a neo-con', is a question that needs to be asked of all present and future public officials once the true nature of the movement is made widely known and judged illegal like the National Socialists of WWll Germany. The need to weed this cancer out of our government is crucial to its future health.

Over here, the schoolchildren of Oxford took to the streets to protest against the war just as it began, before any organized adult group did so, and while our 'Labour' government was rolling over and licking Bush's feet.