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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
Two examples of blatant political hypocrisy:
Lefti: "The U.S. and E.U. are imposing sanctions against Belarus because they are 'cracking down on a protest' over the recent election."
TheAge: "As Israel goes to the polls today, the spiritual leader of the country's largest Jewish religious party is promising heaven to those who vote for him and hell to anyone who supports acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert."
12:57:24 PM 
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The American Conservative: "The president moves about like Caesar Augustus, with a vast, graded court of civil and military aides, doctors, secretaries, valets, hairdressers, makeup artists, bodyguards, drivers, baggage handlers, cooks, food tasters, Praetorian guards, snipers, centurions, bulletproof limos, a portable hospital, and an armored rostrum. And that's when he travels in the U.S.
The paranoia of the Bush circle has infected the whole regime. The entire government - elected officials, appointed staff, permanent bureaucracy - has shifted in the last decade from pretending to be the people's servants to admitting that they regard the people as a threat. Thus do we see the stream of legislation permitting ever more powers to spy, confiscate, and jail without trial.
The impulse to empire helps make sense out of our huge deficits and debts or such costly and obvious blunders as the invasion of Iraq or the war on terror. It is as if America were committing suicide, our authors say, first by bankrupting the economy and then by creating endless enemies all over the world.
With this comes a belligerent and blind nationalism that has affected the whole culture in one degree or another. But then, in an empire, the people must become 'hollow dummies', said Orwell. They must believe they are superior to others, and have a right to tell others what to do."
(Review of Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis by William Bonner and Addison Wiggin)
Can someone tell Bush he is just human?
Maybe this musical parody helps.
12:49:14 PM
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UPI: "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by making a hand gesture some consider obscene.
A Boston Herald reporter asked the 70-year-old conservative Roman Catholic if he faces much questioning over impartiality when it comes to issues separating church and state.
'You know what I say to those people?' Scalia replied, making the gesture and explaining 'That's Sicilian.'"
Whatever words one uses to describe those rogues in the Bush administration, they never keep pace with reality. The Bush mob is true to their rogue status. Remember George's one-finger salute?
WashingtonPost: "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia reportedly told an overseas audience this month that the Constitution does not protect foreigners held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
When the legislative, executive and judicial powers are all in the hands of one rogue group of politicians, democracy has de-facto ceased to exist.
12:38:28 PM
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