Did you hear that two massive corporations with ties to Republicans are airing a piece of propaganda commercial free on 9/11 that blames the whole thing on Clinton?
Oh for fucks sake, this is a surprise to our friends on the left? Really? Man, that's what fascist regimes do... propaganda. Hell, the entire past 5 years have been one massive psy-ops campaign with the support of the Democrats (exceptions being Conyers, etc.).
The country was lost in December 2000 when American citizens did not take to the streets to defend their Constitution. Everything that's been done since then is predictable and most certainly NOT surprising.
Come on now, no one anticipated that Karl would have a trick up his sleeves for the 2006 mid-terms? And of course that trick would involve 9/11? HELLO??? HAS NO ONE BEEN PAYING ATTENTION FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS?
Whining on blogs and sending money to pseudo-liberal candidates has gotten the "progressive movement" exactly what in the last 5 years?
Nada.
But at least everyone has something to do IN THIS MOMENT, for the SHORT TERM, to feel like they're helping to take their country back... they can send an angry letter to Disney and ABC... and watch while it's still aired, becomes an even bigger phenom due to all the other networks coverage of the "drama unfolding", and watch those other networks distort the truth enough that it will seem like the Dems are just trying to cover for the incompetence of Clinton.
Bet on it.
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I agree with you about the ultimate cause not being 2000, but that in my mind was the watershed moment when the chance to break free of the propaganda and actually defend democracy and their constitution was possible and crucial to prevent the total slide into fascism.
And yes, that would be a good strategy for the Dems... Hilary will probably get on board regime change in Iran just to prove she always had more cajones than Bill...
On second thought though.... I wonder if Gore would have turned out the same if he hadn't spent the last 5 years in the wilderness... probably same shoe, different colour.
Hey NL, CookTing and I started watching the documentary last night and will finish up this eve (thanks to your link on BooMan). As DTF notes, the process began a long time ago and it is so very hard at this point to see if there is a way to reverse the inevitable flow that is engulfing America (and the world by proxy). I think the only thing that would do any good at this point is a general walk out, strike, and sit in. Refuse to participate in the capitalist dream society until it is no longer run by blood thirsty and power mad traitors. Even that may not produce all the desirable results, but it would be the only hit that may institute change -- a financial one.
Well Ductape, enjoy Finola, me personally I'm planning on watching the CBC's answer to "The Path to 9/11" -- they're showing "The Secret History of 9/11" and "9/11: Toxic Legacy"... well, that and play playstation tiger woods golf.
Well didn't the world have that smoking-gun moment when the Iran-Contra proceedings were aired on television? hell, if i counted all the missed opportunities where 'the people' let the warlords off the hook, I'd have a hard time keeping it down to one hand. it seems that once people are committed, deep down, to a certain path; when they make that decision in life to join the team, no amount of reasoning or evidence will break that trust and remove that steadfast support that is so willing to forgive and forget a little atrocity or ten.
I don't think there was a failure to organize labour on a grand enough, and honest enough, scale. Rather, I think that 'the state' cultivated the development of the labour movement into a pattern where the most committed and active social democrats became joined at the teat to the industrial-military oil machine. No movement ever developed which actually put forth an immediately implementable alternative course of action which could provide the support and sustenance that The System does for the masses. Even as it sucks them dry.
You won't see a general strike or a labour uprising. That evokes shades of the dreaded communism monster that many still fear. And, beyond that, as Father Bush reminds everyone every chance he gets the US is a civilized nation and mass expressions of dissent are just so, well, 'uncivilized'. Just look at how immigrants and their supporters were tarred and feathered by the right-wing when they held their protests.
There is no passion in America (or Canada for that matter) on a large scale. There is anger in America but that's handled by writing letters, writing on blogs, grumbling to ones friends and those other so-called civilized ways of expressing uncomfortable emotions - including developing addictions to drugs, alcohol, food, gambling and whichever other escape there may be to choose from. It's collective neuroses and, ironically, if you can't afford health care in the US, there's no therapy available. On and on it goes and the dysfunctional government keeps on winning. How depressing.
I think for so many - it's easier to be angry and ignorant than it is to become aware and find solutions.
I no longer can trust in the lines of "Home of the Free & the Brave"... it's clear that we Home of the Lazy and Apathetic.
Still out on the streets...
I'd rather die in the streets marching against this regime than live forever not doing what I could for Peace.
I refuse to believe that all hope in humanity should be lost. But there's a danger of heartbreak in being too hopeful about seeing positive change come about to topple the corruption of the status quo. I think this quote is quite relevant to the juxtaposition of catnip's comment and mine.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
I'd rather die in the streets marching against this regime than live forever not doing what I could for Peace.
This is why I adore you Janet... :)
In all seriousness though, that I believe is a fundemental flaw (or design, take your pick) of western capitalistic societies. We think we have more than we actually do, or our priorities over what we actually have to lose are so skewed as to be nonsensical. It means more to hang on to your satellite-enabled Plasma screen then your right to free speech or assembly? And that I think is a fundamental difference between North America (well, actually on 2/3 of N. America, Mexico excluded... they still know how to stand up for themselves) and Ukraine for example. The Ukrainians have nothing BUT their freedom and they sure as hell aren't going to sell it for a few Yankee dollars or a new contract with the Ruskies.
We are a victim of our own 'success' I guess... and it's so much easier to be apathetic and/ or bitchy than it is to stand on the street corner and make people pay attention day after day.
I think that we've fallen for the story of greatness that we've been filled with. With such a superiority complex the wires don't connect, or as DTF would say, that's a file not found. It could never register that our country's been hijacked and that something needs to done about it. Let alone realize that it's WE who needs to be doin the doin. For too many of those who do realize everything's not as it should be, there's a naive hope that the democrats are gonna save us....if we can only get them enough money, canvass those neighborhoods just a little more energetically. Get out the vote! That's just a small part, and that's banking on a fair system. A myth.
Well I adore you too Spidey!
As Janis belts it out... "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"... and many are too afraid they will lose their Monday Night Football or worse... they won't get more crap which will mean they have to get storage to store all their other crap to make room for more crap when they have a Crap Sale.
America is anything but free.
That is why we know this "war" isn't about fighting for freedom, because they are taking freedom away from us here as well as other places.
Mr Regime Puppet,
If this is all about freedom, then why are you taking it all away?
Signed,
Up Yours...
Cause I've got nothing left to lose....
Cookting: Iran-contra? bingo! 1980 is when I mark the demise of possibility. I suppose it took them another 20 years to consolidate that.
The brouhaha over this docudrama will quickly pass.
The brouhaha over this docudrama will quickly pass
That arcturus is precisely the problem. Everything quickly passes from Iran-contra on back... My Lai? A few bad apples. Chile? Fuggedaboutit. And so on ad infinium.
I guess my whole point about the 2000 election being the watershed moment where change could actually be affected and the brainwashing held in check is that it was so blatantly a violation of the Constitution and the principle of one person, one vote that I really thought there was no way the indoctrination was so complete to override that criminal act.
Never underestimate the ability of humans to go with faith over reason any day of the week I suppose.
Putting it in a made for tv movie for most is the same as it being written in stone sadly.
Course the world is flat - just as God made it... and no amount of conspiracy theorizing is ever gonna change that...
:)
Have you guys seen that Greg Palast was arrested????
http://www.gregpalast.com/section/articles
ACCKKKKKKKK
Journalists are dangerous! Unlike politicians. ;)
Yep, kinda like that freedom stuff citizens are always clammering about.
Rummy Sez: Don't they know - You get the freedoms you're allowed not the ones you have or want.
or something like that...
I adore Greg Palast. My husband reads his stuff constantly. He was here in Portland recently.
Nancy,
Can I come for dinner tonight? I'll step up! :o) Kinda even up the odds?
Seriously,
I can't imagine what that must be like. My own family(extended) is generally liberal, with some in laws more moderate. But even the couple of repubs in my wife's family are aware of what's happening, and not happy about it. In fact they all voted democrat in 04. Why do feel it's better to keep quiet? Are they that hard to put up with? Especially in (I'm assuming) your own home?
ACKKKK Kick em out Nancy and have us over for din din :) I'll bring the pink drinks and cookies. :)
From the person related to people who think that people who protest such a "great man like Bush" should be "shot in the head in public".
Yes, it is sad, Nancy. I miss what I might have been able to have had with my original family too, if only we didn't come from different planets, or so it seemed. But eventually, I had to pretty much leave them out of my life. The cost it exacted from me to be around them got just too high. Hope you are shaking off the after effects ok..
Me too, scribe. (Good to see you). To paraphrase Rummy as well: you come into life with the family you have, not the family you wish you had. And, sometimes, you just have to find a new family if things are intolerable. Yes, it is sad, but we have the right to have people in our lives who support and accept us.
Oddly enough, I had my yearly 10 minute convo w/ my father the other week (a man I'm convinced the last repub he didn't vote for prez would've been B Goldwater), and even he expressed the opinion that W wuz 'the worst prez since Warren Harding -- & he was just a thief' - words that offered me the fleeting hope that mebbe, jes' mebbe, the total slide into FascistUSA might yet be avoidable ...
as 'they' say, we'll see
I dunno Ductape, no matter how I lived my life, my family felt I was going to hell. Cut my bangs, listen to Jewish folksinger, daughter of divorced parents... hell, I have friends who are gay AND black... heaven forbid.
These people were never around anyways, just there to criticize and cluck their tongue in judgement.
I'd rather live my life as a FREE person than hide in someone else's shadow. If I'm going to hell because I'm not their religion or fill in the blank... I might as well try to live in peace outloud while I can. I'm damned if I do; damned if I don't.
I will not be terrorized.
I will not be silenced.
I will remain free.
I will not be a slave.
(not saying others are if they CHOOSE to keep the boat from rocking within their own seas) :)
And... I looked at my diary in BT and I dunno... I've had people scream at me, call me names and then turn and be all sweet before... been there done that.
Tomorrow I'll be with Veterans for Peace. Cradled in the arms of sanity and integrity.
SuperSoling, I emailed you news from UFPJ, dude. Looks like you guys are "free" to march at the UN. Go kick their ass!!!!
Thanks Janet,
Yeah, I saw that. Email is a hassle for me right now becouse I had to go to dial up temporarily. But, something doesn't seem right about the NYPD's flip-flopping. Why would they do that? I doubt that they backed down because we planned to march in spite of their denial of a permit. Hmmm, smells like a setup. Cool!!
Hey, I'd love to plant a boot on Bush's ass :o)
I've been called names, had things thrown at me... people saying that I hate the troops... lost friends...
Yesterday I got to hear "BOHICA" (from DailyKos and Veterans for Peace) sing folk songs and play his guitar. His eyes close mostly as he sings, with his face right up to the microphone. His army green field jacket on and the pins of peace and love.
I've been screamed at.. .but I can hear the warriors of Peace sing.
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