F___ YOU, Dick!
by Frank Pitz
According to news reports
Vice-President Dick Cheney claims that the obscenity
that he directed towards Senator Patrick Leahy was "long
overdue." As everyone knows by now it was just a couple
of days ago on the Senate floor that Cheney - perturbed
at Leahy and others questioning his role in the
Halliburton shenanigans - told Leahy to "go fuck
yourself." Cheney told Fox news that he "felt better"
after uttering the epithet. Following the
Vice-President's logic, and me being a private citizen
and all, I want the chance to ask Mr. Cheney my own
questions regarding his role in Halliburton's rape of
the American taxpayer.
Me - Frank Pitz
- Private Citizen:
Dick, I really need to know just how much money you are
making through Halliburton's crooked business dealings?
Mr.
Cheney, Do you have a private phone line to the
corporate offices of Halliburton through which you
direct the rip off of the American taxpayer or do you
just use email for those dealings?
Dear
Mr. Vice-President, Would you tell us citizens just how
much blood money - given 850 dead soldiers so far in
Iraq - you would be comfortable depositing in your
various bank accounts; and, is there a limit which -
either death or accumulation of lucre - makes you
uncomfortable?
I
have a plethora of questions I truly would like to ask
you Mr. Cheney, as well I have a lot of questions for
that puppet George of yours but then, if I have the two
of you I just need to ask the questions once. I have
questions also for Donald Rumsfeld and that gang over in
the Pentagon, gosh what's a private citizen to do?
You
know, I just love the arrogance you guys exhibit I mean,
it must be great to just be able to tell any damn lie
you please, as long as you please and then if anyone
questions you can just say: "go fuck yourself."
Really, like isn't that just the epitome of the old
'Robber Baron' mindset Dick; you know the old "hooray
for me and fuck you." You guys there in Washington and
your corporate pimps do it so damn well, I mean you
really hold the patent on it Dick. What chance does a
private citizen like myself stand against such a united
front of political and corporate malfeasance? There is
no getting around the fact that you and your crooked
bedfellows have a lock on all things political,
corporate and moral. Damn, such absolute power must be
mind boggling Richard. I'll bet you have wet dreams on
a nightly basis just thinking about having a license to
kill and plunder. Nothing in Wyoming to compare to
this Mr. Vice President or is there? Shooting ducks in
a barrel maybe?
Now,
just being a private citizen Dick, and not having a hell
of a lot to hold onto since you guys came to town I tend
to get a bit frustrated at my lot in life. I'm hoping
that you might be able to understand that, though
somehow being the good corporate rapist that you are any
understanding I might get from you would be in the
dictionary between "tough" and "shit." I haven't all
the high powered friends you have Mr. Vice President,
I'm just a 66 year old guy here in South Florida trying
to make it like so many others.
We
are the constituency that you and your friends keep
dumping on and it is really getting old Mr. Cheney.
Just like your corporate pimp friends, we also need a
break. We are not asking for millions in blood money, we are not asking anyone to die for our sins, small as
they may be, we are not running hither and yon telling
lies in order to wage war on anyone. All we want is
access to decent and affordable medical care. It would
also be nice to have a prescription drug plan which is
affordable, and makes sense. A suitable price for a
gallon of gas would also be nice; it pains us to be
underwriting your good friends in Saudi Arabia. Oh,
while I'm thinking about it I (as well as others) would
like to know just how much you got from selling us all
down the pike during those oh so secret energy meetings
you held? Gosh, I just keep thinking of more and more
things I want to ask Dick, dealing with a crook of your
caliber just brings out the interrogator in me.
I
really have to go now Mr. Vice-President, the more I
think and write about all this treachery generated by
you and your corporate bedfellows on the good citizens
of this country, the more disconcerted I become. Not
unlike yourself Dick, being badgered by Patrick Leahy
until you reached the end of your patience and decorum,
I find myself in that same predicament. I feel
frustrated. helpless, and tormented by lies and thievery
in our government, all of which you are a part and
parcel of Mr. Cheney. I'm not a big, powerful person
like you Mr. Vice President, and I don't like to think
of myself as arrogant, however I can cuss like you sir.
Citing your example as related to Mr. Leahy sir. I have
to tell you that what I am about to direct towards you
is "long overdue." Mr. Cheney, sir: go fuck yourself!
There, now I feel better after saying that.
Peace
Frank Pitz fpitz(at)comcast.net is a
66 year old iconoclast, writer, poet, cynic and on top of all that a Buddhist
as well. He lives year round in Pompano Beach, Florida,
is an alumnus of the glorious "cut and paste" newspaper
days - Lancaster Independent Press, has also worked for
a living from bricklayer, to truck driver to Housing and
Urban Development Professional. He's a grant writer,
and has been known to run a political campaign on
occasion.
