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The plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty used to say, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Now it says, “Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here.”
Why did everything go to Hell so fast?
driftglass knows why, we ll know why . . .
We got the Bush Regime, arguably the most incompetent, corrupt and outright-treasonous Administration in American history. A regime so reckless, savage and gleefully bestial that it made the career-Nixon-hating Hunter Thompson actually pine for the good old days of Tricky Dick: “I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.”
And, like Nixon, it is more than likely that not a single one of the smirking traitors who nearly wrecked this country will ever spend a day in jail. Instead they remain lodged in our flesh like so many ricin pellets, oozing their poison into our national bloodstream, waddle from one fawning audience to another, worming their way into major media outlets, or dispatching their degenerate children and underlings out into the world the keep their poison pumping.
They soiled our good name, bankrupted the country, shredded the Constitution and kicked the crutches out from under the global economy on their way out the door, and while it is sometimes hard to focus on them through the flames of the world they set on fire, we must.
America could have had justice.
But America didn’t get justice.
America got Hopey McChange, who said he wants to look forward, not backward. Who said there must be no “retribution”, no “vengeance”, no “payback”, who said the era of “divisive partisanship” must end.
I don’t have to translate that for you, progressives have learned the hard way how to translate Hopey McChange Language into actual words with actual meanings. You know what he meant. So do the war criminals who set Iraq on fire, the Wall Street Ponzi Schemers who set the global economy on fire, the DOJ fascists who set the rule of law on fire, the Diebold criminals who napalmed the 2004 Election into a firestorm of fraud, the torturers at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo and hell only knows where else who torched the Geneva Conventions to ashes, and most of all, Bush and Cheney, who handed out blowtorches for 8 years to every halfwit RePug appointee in the entire federal government and smirked while democracy in America went up in flames.
Those criminals all heard him. They heard Hopey say no “retribution”, no “vengeance”, no “payback”. They knew what that meant, they knew exactly what that meant, it meant they’re home free, it meant they’re above the law and always will be, it meant they can lodge even deeper into our flesh like so many ricin pellets, ooze even more of their poison into our national bloodstream, escalate their rampage against democracy, against human rights, against equality, against the truth, against reality itself.
What else needs to be said? About Hopey McChange. About his moral cowardice. About his obscene refusal to defend the Constitution and the rule of law. About his complicity in wars of aggression, in torture, in massive financial crimes against humanity.
The truth has indicted him. The truth has convicted him. Nothing can exonerate him. His guilt is manifest. Speeches cannot wash it away, charm cannot wash it away, the scheming of Rahm cannot wash it away, the prattling of Gibbs and Axelrod and Plouffe cannot wash it away, the clapping of Obamabots cannot wash it away, nothing can wash it away.
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His guilt is manifest.
Nothing can wash it away.
What else needs to be said? About Hopey McChange. About his moral cowardice. About his obscene refusal to defend the Constitution and the rule of law. About his complicity in wars of aggression, in torture, in massive financial crimes against humanity.
That he’s a giant phallus worshipper?
We could go all the way back to old Rome, and start throwing people to lions in a gladitorial arena. Now, those guys knew how to do Bread and Circuses!
Of course, I will, and would. But the social pack mentality is strong. We will be told we are selling the country to the Republicans. We will be told we are destroying the Republic. It will be imputed as our solemn duty to “save Obama’s Presidency” completely irrespective of what he has done or failed to do, as if we are supplicants, and by not acting in the way in which our Democratic friends might wish, we are traitors.
I have listened to this siren song in the past .. but then I did have some small hope that this time things might be different, even if only a little bit. Resisting that pack of wolves will be harder for some people than others.
BTW, was listening to Robert Kennedy, Jr., on Ring of Fire Radio, Progressive Radio, yesterday afternoon. He had the Editor of Rolling Stones magazine on (I know he, RK, Jr. contributes there, too). Anyway, they were discussing the very thing I’ve said over and over. One was that Obama, over and over offers the “olive leaf,” while the Repugs do everything and anything to undermine every single thing he does — their ONLY bent, because they have no ideas of their own, other than becoming wealthier still, is to continue to point out Obama’s failure with this and that, as they do everything in the world to make sure he does not succeed at anything. They (Repugs) do not care about the country or anyone, their only goal is to make a failure out of Obama, so they get can in in 2012. And they’ve been busy “behind the scenes” with all kinds of things, particularly, aiming at governorships, etc.
[I’m totally amazed and disappointed in Obama. In an e-mail letter I sent to him some time back on his site, I expressed his mistake in his continual efforts at “bipartisanship” — I told him that he reaches out to snakes, who only wish to bite him and make certain that he does not succeed.
The other problem, among many, I have with Obama, is that he does not take a stand and take leadership — is it his nature? Does he really think he can be friends with everyone? More of a community organizer? Or, has he been sufficiently threatened?]
Whatever, the Obama government is complicit with the war crimes of Bush, Cheney, et al., by its failure to investigate and prosecute those war criminals. I wrote here yesterday on that. Also, note this (thinking of your referenced article here):
For me, it’s Ms. Pelosi, who laid the foundation for NO accountability, but she pointed the finger to Obama, saying he wanted to “move forward.”
Whatever, we’ve simply become a lawless, Constitutionless, depraved nation and since there’s never been the remotest of accountability, and Nixon pales to what we’ve experienced these last nine years, how can you expect that criminals will do anything other than continuing and even worsening our criminality? T’would be nice if we, somehow, had the power to gut the lot of them in our government and start anew — that’s just a dream!
Being a criminal in our society is not exactly fun, as Bush and Rove are finding out.
War Criminal Watch. Our criminals are being tracked — wherever they go, wish to speak, etc. This is good, as you can see by some of the protests above.
We really need a huge, progressive movement — where is it?
We also really need to break away from a party system — let people run on their own, with limited contributions for each, have run-off voting, etc.
The thing that will scare politicos of either mainline party shitless is the prospect of an effective third party. Both have arguably suffered from third parties recently. Bush 41 from Rosper Roe and Gore from Nader. A minor party that was deliberately middle of the road on social issues and that focused its energy on opposition to corporate and Wall Street power and insisted on fighting the baleful domestic effects of globalization could become one of the two mainstream parties in four to eight years.
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Stalled reform movements, or even worse the appearance of reform without real intent, is very likely the seed of a revolution. An aggressive third party seizing the White House and much of Congress would qualify, but the corporatists cleverly center themselves between the civil Coffee Party and the irrational, ignorant Tea Party.
…Please post this to PDA.!!!