I DO NOT ACCEPT

by Harry Tuttle
(used w/o permission)

I do not accept the death of my republic.
I do not accept that innocent children in distant lands must be murdered for gasoline.
I do not accept that people decide for me to know about what my country is doing.
I do not accept the need for mor parking lots and less trees.
I do not accept continuous warfare.
I do not accept that my government thinks it can lie to me every day and get away with it.
I do not accept that we can’t get along with every single last living creature on this planet.
I do not accept a unitary executive.
I do not accept that we can’t find better sources of energy.
I do not accept the No Child Left Behind Act.
I do not accept that tax money is spent on campaign conventions.
I do not accept that 9/11 was anything but an inside job.
I do not accept doublethink.
I do not accept wars of conquest, based on lies, started in my name.
I do not accept the lack of a paper trail in my country’s elections.
I do not accept the wholesale destruction of my environment.
I do not accept the suspensions of habeas corpus.
I do not accept a president who is less articulate than my 12 year old video game-fanatic son.
I do not accept torture. Fucking period.
I do not accept pedophiles in government paid to protect children from pedophiles.
I do not accept that women need to get married to combat poverty.
I do not accept corporate welfare.
I do not accept free speech zones.
I do not accept fear as a primary political tool.
I do not accept that all of my communications can be monitored.
I do not accept aspartame.
I do not accept signing statements.
I do not accept nuclear weapons as a reasonable alternative.
I do not accept the teaching of the religion of intelligent design instead of the science of evolution.
I do not accept an American aristocracy.
I do not accept that there are black and white answers to everything.
I do not accept that religious organizations can receive money from the government.
I do not accept the Military Commissions Act.
I do not accept the categorization of my people by skin tone, gender or sexual orientation.
I do not accept the criminalization of free thought.
I do not accept that we are hated because we are free. (we are NOT free...jr)
I do not accept a rubber stamp legislature.
I do not accept that New Orleans has been forgotten and left to rot.
I do not accept the lack of universal health care.
I do not accept that the Iraq War is a comma.
I do not accept the lack of a living wage.
I do not accept the reversal of the separation of church and state.
I do not accept that Al Gore was not my President.
I do not accept that women can’t make choices about their own bodies.
I do not accept the trickle down theory.
I do not accept that people who love each other can’t get married.
I do not accept the cultivation of a slave labor force in the guise of immigration.
I do not accept that our way is the best for everyone.
I do not accept that Kerry wasn’t in on it.
I do not accept that the people making the rules usually are the ones not following them.
I do not accept that we can’t buy medicine from Canada.
I do not accept that Condi didn’t get the memo.
I do not accept that this is a Christian nation.
I do not accept color-coded terror alerts.
I do not accept a President who is on vacation almost as much as he is not.
I do not accept more meat and fewer grains.
I do not accept that military service is becoming the only option for our young people.
I do not accept that women are penalized for having children.
I do not accept that the United States has a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
I do not accept that education is not free.
I do not accept fascism as a form of government.
I do not accept the lack of basic supplies in our schools.
I do not accept a President who thinks the internet is plural.
I do not accept that Israel always seems to get away with it.
I do not accept monosodium glutamate.
I do not accept a complacent and subservient press corps.
I do not accept war as a business.
I do not accept that only one side gets a say.
I do not accept that a plant is illegal.
I do not accept that I am only a consumer.
I do not accept that the levees just blew.
I do not accept that it’s everyone for themselves.
I do not accept that you are so different from me, that we can’t understand each other, that we have nothing in common, or that we can’t see eye to eye.


"Harry Tuttle" was the character played by Robert De Niro in the cult classic, Brazil.<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/>. "Harry Tuttle" was the monkey wrencher in the government works. The 'real' Harry Tuttle, the friend of a friend, lives off the grid, on cash alone, and under assumed names.