Here is an excerpt from In These Times magazine from, "I Love You Madame Librarian" by the iconic author Kurt Vonnegut:
"In case you haven’t noticed, and as a result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily disenfranchised, we now present ourselves to the rest of the world as proud, grinning, jut-jawed, pitiless war lovers, with appallingly powerful weaponry and unopposed.Posted by Paul Hina at August 11, 2004 11:01 PM"In case you haven’t noticed, we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were.
"With good reason.
"In case you haven’t noticed, our unelected leaders have dehumanized millions and millions of human beings simply because of their religion and race. We wound and kill ’em and torture ’em and imprison ’em all we want."