Dear America ,

As a friend of the family I can't sit back and watch you do this to yourself
without saying something. Consider this a long distance intervention.

Your man is no good. He treats you like crap, lies to you, abuses you,
bullies you, exploits you, takes your money. As a friend I want to tell you
that you deserve better. You deserve a person that treats you with respect,
cares about your welfare, and your children's welfare, but that's not George
and it never will be.

Do you tell yourself that he'll stop, or that it won't get worse? He won't
ever stop, every insult, injury and death he has caused are a line that once
crossed will never be uncrossed. Forget the dream. You will never have the
American dream with George. You have to forget about what might have been,
what George might have been, and realise that at the end of the day you are
what you do, and look at George's track record.



Notice how he's alienated all your friends? Who can blame them, they can't
understand why you stay with him when he treats you like shit and
embarrasses you in front of everybody. The more his public behaviour
overshadows yours, The more doubt creeps over them, they wonder if they knew
you as well as they thought they did. You seem to have changed - if you
condone his behaviour- and your silence can create the impression that you
do. People are more inclined to take things at face value when they feel
alienated. Your friends remember the good times you had together, the heroic
battles you fought together, all of the intricate interweavings between
their families and yours through time and space. Do you even recognise
yourself anymore America ? He is a drunken, coke-addled loser and he always
will be, you should kick him out of your house today before he can destroy
any more members of your family, your history, your culture, before he
decimates your bank account so irretrievably that China and Saudi Arabia
repossess all your stuff.

YOU CAN DO BETTER! You are an amazing country, beautiful, interesting,
funny, positively glamorous, you wouldn't stay single for five minutes, you
know that suitors would be competing for your affections and any one of them
would be ten times better than George. And how can you stand his god-awful
Stepford's answer to Marie-Antoinette mother, piping up with another casual
atrocity every time she opens her mouth.

Because of George and his friends global warming is now upon us - I know
what it has cost your family already, combined with George's complete
uselessness and indifference in a crisis. It would probably now be possible
for a mathematician to calculate exactly how much of all of our futures we
are losing for every minute you stay with that sick,twisted, idiot.

I see you doing what everyone in your position does - you end up looking to
the perpetrator for comfort because theres no one else left, and look at how
he reacts for Christ's sake, look at what he did to New Orleans, and you
should know that yet again he did it in front of all of your friends, all of
us saw nothing happening whilst thousands died, all of us heard Ray Negen
and the president of Jefferson Parish (I must heard him 30+ times now and I
still cry every time) and all of us heard George's bloody mother. We have
been trying to help and he won't let us. We are all appalled and aghast, it
breaks our hearts to see him hurting you like this, and you not fighting
back, you just take it and take it as it slowly spirals down into the pits
of hell. What will it take America , will you let him kill you before you'll
kick him out? This is not rhetoric America , he is killing you every day you
stay with him. If I had described your relationship with George to you back
when you were still with Bill you never would have believed me. He degrades
you in little increments, every day he erodes your assets as well as your
dignity, your reputation, your legacy and your life America .

All of our TV crews were rescuing survivors as they filmed the devastation
because there was nobody else there to help them, all of us saw the victims
being treated like some sudden new insurgency. with suspicion and hostility.
Those poor people, the heart & soul of New Orleans, the very people whose
culture and history made New Orleans beloved around the world, He just left
your brothers and sisters to die. Can you really continue in your
relationship with George after this? There is a degree at which cognitive
dissonance becomes outright delusion. He is a maniac, he is destroying your
life, please, please leave him, just leave him, only you have the power to
make it stop.

He is selling out your family business, if you let him continue like this
how are you going to live? How are you going to feed your children, what
happens if you get ill? Everything he has ever touched has turned to shit,
he puts any idiot that'll kiss his ass into positions of power and New
Orleans is the result. Kick him out America ! Do it today! I know it feels
like you would be leaping into a void, but I promise you, you will be
leaping out of one. Your friends will come back as soon as they see you are
back to your old self, they really miss you. I know that less than 36% of
your heart is still in it. Go with the 67% of you, that 36% is just that
vestigial, primitive part of the brain that clings to the familiar no matter
how badly the familiar sucks.

It all comes down to you, America . I know no-one likes other people passing
comment on their relationships but this is an extreme situation. You are in
very real danger, he is hurting you everyday and he is hurting us, your
friends as well. But only you can make it stop. We are all rooting for you,
although we don't get to talk to you very often anymore, because he cuts us
off from you. We are on your side, we will all be over the moon the day you
finally kick him out. You know he really should be thrown in jail for the
things he has done to you. Him and all of his gangster friends.

Please, please, do it America , you know I am right. If not for yourself then
do it for your brothers and sisters and children. Do it before he kills any
more of your family or anyone else's. We are all really worried for your
welfare.

Your friend,

Gail

Gail Thomas is am a British/Australian dual national living in Sydney with
her American partner. Her website is http://www.12thharmonic.com.


"... In the long term, organized violence is futile ... The losers of the
two most important wars in American history - the Confederates and the
Nazis - now occupy the White House." - Michael Hasty, Nov. 25, 2004