A Letter to America

By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring

Dear Americans,

With your election of Barack Hussein Obama, you have almost realized the dream of Martin Luther King. Now truly you have a chance to rise up as a nation and live out the proper meaning of the creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

Now you have an opportunity to ensure that 'on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners indeed are able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood'. Now is the time to make certain that your great country does really get 'transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice'. Now is that moment in time to become color blind forever to the skin tones of not just your countrymen but of all the citizens of our planet. Do that and you have arrived.

But before you can join Barack Obama's sweet lilting voice in singing, Free at last! Free at last!, Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!, you have one last ritual to perform. And that is the killing of the demons of your recent past lest they come back to haunt you yet again. Unless you perform that sacred rite too, this transformation stands incomplete.

Look around yourselves and you will see on your national scene the authors of your misfortunes still strutting about in full vigor. Your dictator president with a God-complex, your conceited leaders with a talent in exploitation, your self-righteous and egotistical political elites who dived to the murkiest depths to perpetuate their villainous rule and your bigoted religious leaders who poured venom in the name of God; all are there.

Switch on a TV channel, read a newspaper report, listen to the radio and you will find that the supporting cast of parasites, plunderers and human lowlifes, who helped your previous masters put on the gaudy show full of blood and gore, are fast camouflaging themselves to ensure the survival of their craft. With the latest change in the political landscape of your country, they are about to merge with the background wherefrom they will stalk your great nation, lying in wait, for a chance to seize its jugular once more; this time for good if they can help.

Let it not be forgotten that they seized power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law and in the process they lied not just to the people of the U.S. and to the U.S. Congress, but to the whole world through the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war. They violated and subverted the Charter of the United Nations and international law to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in orchestrated wars.

Do not forget that these are the original sadistic authors of the Afghan and Iraq wars and the resultant mass genocide, the usage of horrible weapons of war, the Patriot Act, torture, water boarding, Abu Ghuraib, Guantánamo, falsified intelligence, the global economic depression, the Katrina debacle, wire tapping, loss of Habeas Corpus, vetoing of stem cell bill, Blackwater mercenaries; you name it. There is not a crime in the book that they did not commit.

You simply cannot gloss over the fact that they authorized, ordered and condoned assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torment and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain fraudulent statements. And that they themselves made, ordered and condoned phony statements and propaganda about the conduct of other governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel, manipulated the media and foreign governments with bogus information and concealed information vital to forming informed public opinion in order to create a sham climate of fear and destroy opposition to their wars of aggression.

It is not a secret any more that in the past eight years, along with ordering indefinite detention without charge of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, they also authorized secret military tribunals and summary executions of such persons. Not only that, they acted to strip you, dear Americans, of your constitutional and human rights, ordering your indefinite detention, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention.

It is common knowledge now that other than Abu Ghuraib and Guantánamo Bay, where detainees have included children as young as 11-years-old and where some detainees were held for half a decade without charge or trial, America's torture trails at present crisscross the entire globe. In the last eight years, America became the biggest patron of torture by proxy in the history of planet earth. There was no depth low enough to which America did not plummet in that period.

The horrendous irony of it all is that due to the idiotic conceit of your previous rulers, the arc of crises, instead of being contained, now extends from the seashores of the Mediterranean to the borders of Pakistan and beyond. Not just Pakistan, which is now in the fits of near fatal spasms for choosing to be your most allied ally, almost half the world is in turmoil with America stoked flames of unrest devouring innocent human beings at will. If the phony 'war on terror' was meant to contain radical Islam, your last administration has now given it a violent momentum of a magnitude it could never have hoped to achieve on its own.

So misgoverned and misinformed have you been these past eight years that without your being aware, America today has become the most despised country with you being the most reviled people despite being the most insecure in your history. Your economy is in shambles with depression looming large on the horizons. Your wars are almost lost with your country firmly stuck in the desolate wastelands of that graveyard of Empires; Afghanistan.

Now, however, you have done yourselves proud by showing to the rest of the world that only in America would millions of white voters turn out in hordes to elect the son of a Kenyan Muslim Negro as their supreme commander, only in America. By this singularly remarkable act of supporting him in his journey from the lynch mobs to the White house, you have once again launched your country firmly on recovery path from the dank depths of the fascist swamps to the glory heights that should have been America's always.

But you are not out of the dumps, not just yet.

And that is because the charlatans who destroyed the lives of millions of people when they were at the center stage of the world still abound. You can see of course, unless you are blind to color red as a nation, that now that the curtain is about to fall on their act, rivulets of blood are flowing every which way on the stage. You need to ask yourselves a simple question; can these killers be forgiven?

On his website, your President-elect says, "Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inherited." How can that be if the murderers of today are left to roam scot-free in the world of our children?

You, dear Americans, are being seen as the accomplices of these ruthless killers unless you ask for the hangman's ropes.

What shall it be my friends?

Thanking you in anticipation,

Sincerely,

Anwaar Hussain