11.16.05
just like winston smith’s blues…
two years pass between the initial exposure of a covert CIA operative, and any indictments related to the issue… "related", so stated, because the only indictments to date have nothing to do with the exposure itself, but the lying afterward…
yet, only weeks after the Washington Post reports that the CIA may be holding detainees in secret prisons in undisclosed locations — an illegal action should it prove to be true — both the Senate Majority Leader and the Speaker of the House of Representatives are calling for immediate investigations… into the source of the leak?
can you say "shoot the messenger"?
this is the sort of bullshit that’s passing for politics and public policy these days… the EU says, in essence "we won’t investigate the claims that member nations may be hosting these prisons: there are none because we say there are none… but, yes; they would be illegal, were they to exist…"
check my memory here:
- don’t we call the WW II veterans the "greatest generation" because they fought against torture, terror and the use of force to impose one’s nation’s agenda?
- don’t we (childishly ) despise the french because, according to our self-congratulatory skewing of history, they either surrender or collaborated? now, we adopt the worst behavior of our supposed enemy: kidnapping, torture, and the compromise of privacy and free expression in the name of "national security"…
- don’t we make such a big fucking deal, every Memorial and Veterans day, about the noble sacrifice "our boys" made, liberating Europe from totalitarian rule and making the world "safe for democracy"???
how does this all reconcile with a preemptive war that reads like a page from Hitler’s "to do" list? how do we whine about being compared to Nazis when we invade a nation unprovoked in an assault we blantantly label "shock and awe"? are we fucking stupid, or didn’t it occur to the folks in Washington who picked the name that it might be easy to make blitzkrieg analogies?
how do we claim to be the nation which embodies the rule of law, and at the same time
- argue that the actions of our military and intelligence agencies are not subject to our own constitution, or Supreme Court review?
- protest vigorously that "we do not torture" — and in the same breath, argue strenuously for exemptions to an official torture ban…
- incarcerate people for years without trial, without release… without charges? what the fuck is that, people: we rob somebody of their fucking freedom for years, because we’re fighting to make them free?!!
we claim that we must do whatever will ultimately occur, no matter how unspeakably horrible, because we have to protect ourselves from the potential of being attacked, by an enemy that is… what? so immoral that we must do immoral things to prevent the immoral things they may do?
we wouldn’t accept this kind of self-justifying circular reasoning from a five-year-old… yet this is the fundamental policy driving use of ameriKKKa’s military… how did we end up becoming everything we fought the cold war opposing? someone explain that to me…
Dokterr Gonzo said,
November 16, 2005 at 12:21 pm
You ask "how did we end up becoming everything we fought the cold war
opposing?" In answering this question, it is important to note that
there has essentially been only one international policy since the dawn
of civilization, predicated upon a fallacious and ultimately
destructive syllogism;
Such was the philosophy of Egypt, Rome, and Great Britain, (to name the
primary examples) and each of these empires collapsed in a massive orgy
of death and destruction which claimed the lives of countless millions.
The collapse of Rome triggered 1000 years of black, unrecorded European history, and the decolonization of Great Britain was one of the primary triggers of 2 world wars.
So the dust of WWII has cleared, the tensions of the cold war have dissipated, and the United States stands tall as HNIC. This of course leads those godless evil bastards in Washington to the nefarious conclusion that the United States is God’s country, and that we are thus entitled to exploit the precious resources of the world by whatever means necessary. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Dokterr Gonzo said,
November 16, 2005 at 4:02 pm
Oh, and one more thing. I was, like every other thinking person in New York City, horrified by the post 9/11 random subway searches. well, those dickless santorum felchers in albany have gone one step further, and now the NYPD search units are accompanied by attack dogs.
Jesus bleeding god on crank!! First, they posted soldiers with M-16s at various points in the NYC subway system; then, they instituted a random search program in flagrant violation of the New York and Federal constitutions, and now they have trained fucking animals ready to attack on commmand!!!
well, shit. I dont know about you, but men with guns and attack dogs searching through my bags for no reason at all doesnt make me feel safer.