V For Vendetta

[Pisces Queen]

I saw it yesterday and it effected me to the very core. It makes you stand and look around. It's like the united states are sleeping at the wheel. I think to myself. What can I do too make a difference. I voted ~ was my voice heard? George Bush is still in office, we are still at war, the twin towers are gone, and we are being spied on here in our own country, we are afraid to stand up against our government ~ the fear is never ending. But that's what they want - fear and consumption. The more the American people are scared the more we dig our heads in the sand with our plasma TV's, big houses, and huge SUV's. We care more as a nation if Brad and Angelina are getting married than the boys dieing in Iraq and George Bush running our country into the ground. Something has to give. The movie shows how an idea can snowball into change if we do believe in something. Do we stand for injustice as people of same sex unions are denied the right to live their lives as a married couple with rights? Do we allow people to stand up and protest the president? Not anymore. What about the Patriot Act? How many constitutional rights were stripped away for that? We don’t want to have to worry about terrorist. We want the government to make that go away so we can go to Starbucks in peace. I will get off my soapbox now ~ I want change and I am going to figure out a way for my voice to be hear. I have never been political before but I am at the point for myself that I just can’t sit here and let this happen. I am taking my self off cruise control. For the first time in my life I am going to write my congressman. I am fed up. How about you?