Netroots Summit Grapples with Bipartisan Attacks on Rule of Law A quote.... "It seems evident, at this point, that there will be no comeuppance as a result of the excesses of the Bush administration. There will be investigations; they will investigate. There will be subpoenas; they will simply be refused...We know misrepresentations were made that led us, apparently inexorably, into war. In the end, we are as a nation (public, press, and government) not particularly interested in hearing the particulars of how or why; the truth is that we were aching for a good war, and the rationale was an afterthought not just for the Bush administration, but for most of their audience. -- We know the rule of law itself was politicized, made into an apparatus of partisan advantage, a weapon for the ruling party to use against opponents. We know who did it, and we know it was not just unethical, but illegal. But to push it farther than that would require taking the last step -- from investigation, to prosecution -- and that step seems illusory, at best.... There will be reconciliation, and reconciliation will be defined by the conservative punditry as letting bygones be bygones -- anything but that will be unacceptable and partisan, in itself." -- *Mr. Hunter*, a popular "front-page poster" on DailyKos -- Also posted at CommonDreams They Won July 20th 2008 mpg They Won.....they came, they saw, they conquered. They planned for thirty years after Watergate and Vietnam on just how they would get their revenge and then they got it, while making more money than even they thought was possible. They stole the 2000 elections and than with the help of the Saudi Royals they set-up 9/11, murdered 3,000 Americans, took hold of the US's vast war machine, it's Military Industrial Complex, drove up oil prices, created the housing bubble, destroyed every international treaty this nation every signed, plunged this nation deeply into debt, made a mockery of the election process, corrupted the judicial process, obliterated the United State's constitution, engaged in torture, murdered millions of foreigners while reducing their nation states to utter ruin. And now they'll just leave....for awhile anyway. The Neocons and their Republican ilk have finally worn out their welcome. But they’ll be back. It was all soooooo easy after all, and now that their appetites have been whetted they'll soon get hungry once again. Really, really hungry. But they have the other elites to replace them now, the "other" faction to be backed by the MIOC Consortium of Power ....However there's always the thought in their minds that maybe they could both share the country this time around, although that's something they don't normally want to do, after all for the past sixty years they've separated themselves into two castes. The tear-down, conquer new territory and force them to take our currency caste....and the build-up re-capitalize, suck those now deflated dollars back home, reconsolidate and re-absorb them caste. But there's so much more "meat-sheep" to go around these days, maybe the build-up caste wouldn’t mind if a few more "meat-sheep" were culled from the herd by the tear-down caste. A few hundred thousand would do in a pinch; a few million would be much nicer though. After all, the tear-down caste is always so very hungry -- Always, incessantly, voraciously, constantly, relentlessly, endlessly...HUNGRY. And the meat-sheep that once used to be called the "American People" are so weak, so stupid, so easily corrupted, so easily manipulated, so indifferent to the rule of law, or their own conscience, or what's right and wrong, or the difference between propaganda and truth or even their own collective well being that they've all become easy prey. And even though they've been left with a fifteen trillion dollar tab because of their masters most recent feeding frenzy, they could care less. "America" truly is the land of opportunity. Yummmy. Baaaaa, baaaaaa Welcome to the New Roman Empire. |