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| Letter from Tahrir |
Excerpt, minor editing by Carolyn Bennett
We must “let the powers that be know that, back of them, there is
something called ‘We the people of the United States.’ All sovereignty rests in us; not in the board
rooms of [political parties].”
It makes a great deal of “difference if millions of Americans say ─
We are fed up!
We don’t like what
you’re doing to the country and what you have done to the country.
We don’t like to
live in a lawless land where the rule of law [is] bypassed and hacks are appointed
to the federal bench who carry on and carry on and carry on the illegalities … of military-industrial corporate masters.
War without end
“… This is an unpatriotic government. This is a government
that deals openly in illegalities,” whether it is attacking a country that has
done no harm to us (Iraq, Afghanistan) [my insert and emphasis: Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Iran] or declaring war not through Congress,
as the Constitution requires; but through the Executive branch of government,
the U.S. President.
We are now engaged in “new wars, ongoing wars in the Middle East.”
Gore Vidal
A prolific novelist,
playwright and essayist noted for irreverence in fiction and insightful analysis
of contemporary U.S. politics, Eugene Louis Vidal was born in West Point, New
York, October 3, 1925, and died in Hollywood Hills, California, July 31, 2012.
Among his latest
works: The Second American Revolution
(1982), United States: Essays,
1952–1992 (1993 National Book Award), Imperial
America: Reflections of the United States of Amnesia (2004); autobiographies:
Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995) and Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir,
1964 to 2006 (2006).
Sources and notes
Gore Vidal in an address he recorded for Democracy Now! on the State of
the Union.
“Gore Vidal Delivers State of the Union: ‘Let the Powers That Be Know
There is Something Called We the People of the U.S. and all Sovereignty Rests
in Us,’” January 31, 2006, http://www.democracynow.org/2006/1/31/gore_vidal_delivers_state_of_the
Democracy Now co-host JUAN GONZALEZ: “Author Gore Vidal delivering his
traditional State of the Union address in advance of [former U.S. President
George W] Bush’s State of the Union.”
Gore Vidal biography in Wikipedia
and Britannica
“Call-Out for
Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution: A letter from Cairo to the Occupy
movements & other solidarity movements,” November 6, 2011, http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/11/call-out-for-solidarity-with-egypt-defend-the-revolution/
“After three decades
of living under a dictatorship, Egyptians started a revolution demanding bread,
freedom and social justice”
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