Everyone could witness the injustice occurring on our streets, in our schools, and even in our places of worship.  It was everywhere.  It was visible, but more importantly – the injustice was PROVABLE. 

IT WAS ALMOST AS IF WE WERE TERRORIZING OUR OWN CITIZENS!

However, when Malcolm X said those words to reporters, a firestorm ignited.  People turned on Malcolm X – white people feared and distrusted this man who, quite frankly, was telling some much needed truth. 

Now let’s take a look at Dick Cheney, the chief architect of the War on Terror.  On the September 16th, 2001 program of “Meet the Press”, the Vice President said he would hunt the terrorists “by any means at our disposal.”  At the time, it sounded good.  No one in the world – not even the most liberal citizens of our country – would ever have suspected that these means at their disposal would clutch us into a bullshit war in a country that had no ties to the attack and a country that the administration knew had no connection to 9/11. 

But there has been no real outrage toward Cheney X, who uses the same grandiose verbage to justify a bullshit war.*  No calls from people on the streets to out this dangerous man – this man who puts our nation’s kids on the streets of Baghdad for reasons no one can really capitulate (and it ain’t freedom). 

Why are we pussy-footing around impeachment hearings?  Did Ken Starr damage our gentle psyches that much?  Maybe it’s just me, I really don’t want to read about the bullshit we put up with in the annals of time.  I want to read about it on the front page … and I want to cheer when someone finally hands it these assholes.  Wouldn’t it be great if that accomplish belonged to the people, and not a prosecutor?

At least Malcolm X recanted some of his most volatile ideas; he was man enough to learn and grow as a human being.  I don’t see Cheney X becoming Cheney Wan Kenobi. 

*If you want to read about the intelligence of the Iraq War, please follow this link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/