Bush spectacle at Scout jamboree had little to do with reality

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/082005/08052005/mercier

SOMEBODY PLEASE tell me I’m not the only one who saw the coverage of the Boy Scout Jamboree arena show Sunday night and thought: Yikes, that’s a bit too much like some of the scary weirdness that torments me in my sleep.

I mean, isn’t there something nightmarish about our misleader swooping down on a steaming pit of sweat and testosterone and whipping a throng of brown-shirted youths into a nationalistic frenzy?

And what’s not surreal about the author of an unnecessary, costly, and wholly counterproductive war claiming that his policies are “laying the foundations of peace for decades to come”?

But President Bush’s appearance at the jamboree was more than just a bad dream. It was one of those grandiose expressions of state power that, at least briefly, transforms a bumbling and dishonest politician into protector of all that is good and true in the fatherland.

Despite the patriotic fervor, there’s actually little about these kinds of events that marks them as distinctly American. Swap out the little American flags for little Cuban flags, and Bush’s visit with the Scouts would have seemed a lot like one of those government-orchestrated rallies in Havana over which Fidel Castro presides (although if el jefe had been speaking Sunday, he’d have gone on for hours and hours, precipitating another rash of heat-related illnesses at the jamboree).

Read to the bottom of the article for the 1 19 year old scout leader who protested the visit by taking off his uniform shirt. I applaud him.

to keep his philosophy alive. Just like Hitler and all the rest.

We still have free thinkers out there like the 19 year old.

Made me sick.

What we must all understand is that this President and his constituency are not from a world or culture that is based in reality. Rather, these are people who have had the benefit of wealth, status, power, or any combination of the three for most, if not all, of their lives.

The reality of these people is one of complete ignorance and lack of understanding for what I assume they would call "the common man." The only method these people can use to try to assimilate with the reality of the typical American is to bring up the hard working "steel mill" and "Jim Crow" histories of those whom they appoint. In all actuality, the President has never experienced a broke month, an African American community., nor an Islamic value. He has had no struggle. He has earned no character nor dignity for himself. He has never unwillingly been forced to accomplish anything to sustain himself nor his family.

His world is nothing short of imperial. He is a noble in his own mind. One who feels he and his counterparts have been appointed by the creator to choose and delineate the morality and direction of the world. To him, everyone outside of his world is "they." To him, the complexity of our great and diverse world can only be seen in black and white. And so, he has chosen to ignore the desperation and poverty that leads young men and wormen to serve these atrocious organizations who slaughter innocent people, who hold the same disturbing belief in their own divinity. He merely condemns them all as "evil," just as those despicable men of power on the opposite side do.

The result is what we see today. Thousands of American heroes robbed of their greatest possession. Tens of thousands of innocent people lying in vast graves. Thousands more tortured and falsely imprisoned. Millions of American citizens holding on to the last scraps of their civil rights.

We must put an end to this imperial culture within our highest offices in government. The alternative, which we shall all witness, will be a grave and detrimental legacy to our children.

so I'm getting rusty.

Aber danke!

Calm down.

Christ.

This reminded you of Hitler because it is EXACTLY like a Hitler youth rally !!! Please let your contacts in other countries know that the Fascists have taken over America and that they MUST get their governments to resist. Nazi's with Nukes are dangerous !!!

the kind of thing that Hitler did.

Sweet mother of God, even Reagan never managed this level of Hitleresqueness.

Kick a Boy Scout's ass.
(Sorry - bumper-sticker mentality again)

blind to the damage and loss that he is inflicting upon the world.