Today I'd like to offer you three links of essential reading. All three issues are straightforward examinations and interpretations of incontestable reality, and yet all would likely be immediately dismissed as extremist hysterics by most everyone I know. People who genuinely prioritize truth and morality are rare.
1.) At Harper's, Scott Horton has Six Questions for Mark Crispin Miller. The discussion is about how election fraud, and the media's failure to report on it except derisively is an ongoing scandal that undermines our (already thin claim to) democracy. I'd note that while Republicans are overwhelmingly the perpetrators and direct beneficiaries of these dirty tricks, Democrats have done very little to oppose them. For me the most shocking example of Donkle capitulation is Al Gore's blocking the attempts of few Democrats from the House of Representatives to contest the 2000 Presidential election, and every single Senate Democrat siding with Gore.
2.) Chris Floyd discusses the bloody doings of "the most dangerous terrorist organization at work in the world since the Second World War," the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Your tax dollars pay for an unaccountable Presidential army that has "overthrown governments, sponsored wars, carried out assassinations and terrorist attacks, organized and financed death squads, kidnapped and tortured, trafficked in drugs, bribed and blackmailed, even worked with the Mafia." If America was even the least bit serious about fighting world terrorism, it would take Chalmers Johnson's advice and abolish the CIA.
3.) Winter Patriot makes the point that needs to be made every single day. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Ari Fleischer, and Scott McClellan "by any civilized standard... are obviously guilty of mass murder, war crimes, and crimes against humanity." I don't share his hope that they all be tortured to death in front of a worldwide audience of billions (life in prison in the strictest sentence my conscience can allow to even the most vile criminal, a category to which all of them clearly belong), but I do share the outrage behind the sentiment. And I also share his frustration that nothing will ever happen about it.
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"George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Ari Fleischer, and Scott McClellan "by any civilized standard... are obviously guilty of mass murder, war crimes, and crimes against humanity."
Death row in Texas is filled with individuals who killed someone. Sometimes it wasn't even intentional, but was part of a lesser crime gone wrong. They are doomed, for Texas is a state with a voracious appetite for sanctioned death.
As you recall, George Bush, as governor, exhibited unabashed enthusiasm for each and every execution. It should come as no surprise, I suppose, that the being responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis doesn't faze him much.
Yet none of those on death row have committed crimes as massive as the people named above. Why can't the same people who demand the ultimate vengence for singular killings, extrapolate that to the massive crimes committed by those named above? Is it because most criminals on death row are usually poor and often of a different race. Are we punishing them or are we subconciously trying to rid ourselves of what we consider a criminal element? Is it because we assume the poor are violent by nature and must be punished harshly, but when a rich white male kills, it's an abheration? Or, maybe in the case of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, ect, we know WE let them do it. We know we all have innocent blood on our hands. If you punish Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld, and Rice and Wolfowitz, where do you stop? What about those in Congress who knew they were being scammed but went along with it? What about the MSM who led the cheers, what about the American people who scorned those of us who had the audacity to oppose our war machine?
We all may be punished yet. Besides the war, we've let our politicians trample on our rights, we've let them suck the vitality from our middle class,and scorned our poor. We may have let them doom our country to third world status, doomed to become a pariah nation and a laughing stock around the world for decades to come. Will the United States appear in the history books of 2050 as the true axis of evil?
(Sorry. I'm angry at every scum sucking politician and their slime covered lackies today)
"Why can't the same people who demand the ultimate vengence for singular killings, extrapolate that to the massive crimes committed by those named above?"
I definitely think instinctive deference to authority plays a big part. Also, people have a strong desire to believe that the system they're a part of us is essentially just.
"(Sorry. I'm angry at every scum sucking politician and their slime covered lackies today)"
No apologies needed. Anger is the appropriate response to honest observation of our world. I'm angry every fucking day.
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