When you throw out Bush, be sure to throw out his corporate bathwater too.

When you throw out Bush, be sure to throw out his corporate bathwater too.
by arendt

While the media is finally making life uncomfortable for Bush, anyone with
a brain cell functioning should be asking who is pulling the media's strings.

Item: Eli Parser is given the "aiding Saddam" harrassment treatment on CNN.
Item: The press gives Bush's blatant lie about "Saddam refused inspectors" no traction.
Item: The California Recall and the Texas Redistricting go ahead with minimal national
coverage. (Example, NPR repeats GOP line blaming Davis for financial woes.)
Item: The press gives minimal coverage to Ashcroft's umpteenth contempt of court in
the Moussaoui trial.

BOTTOM LINE: The corporate barons may want to get rid of Evil King George,
but that won't make life any better for the peasants. And, any peasant whose criticism
goes beyond the line set by the barons will be slapped down for impudence.

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Here is a signaure arendt historical analogy:

...."On the death of Edward I the barons succeeded in gaining control of the Curia
....Regis, a mixed body of powerful magnates and competent (royal) Household
....officials. They set up a committee called "the Lords Ordainers", who represented
....the baronial and ecclesiastical interests of the State....There was a temper
....which would submit to the rule of a King, but would not tolerate the pretensions
....of his personal cronies."

...."It is the nature of supreme executive power to withdraw itself into the smallest
....compass; and without such contraction there is no executive power. But when
....this exclusionary process was tainted by unnatural vice (Edward II's notorious
....homosexuality) and stained by defeat in the field (the disastrous loss to the
....Scots at Bannockburn) it was clear that those who beat upon the doors had found
....a prosperous occasion, especially since many of the Lords Ordainers had prudently
....absented themselves from the Bannockburn campaign and could thus place all the
....blame for its disastrous outcome upon the King."

- Winston Churchill
..."A History of the English-speaking Peoples" Vol. 1

The return to feudalism is coming. Feudalism happens when the central authority
loses control over powerful local authorities. In our case, the legitimate democracy
has lost control of the powerful "artificial persons" known as corporations.

Today we have the corporate media and the corporate Congress. We are nothing
more than bystanders to the history being manufactured in TV studios and intelligence
agencies.

The corporations have decided Bush and the neocons sold them a bill of goods.
So, the corporations have given the green light to the media to get rid of Bush
while keeping the corporations gains and locking in democracy's losses. Don't
expect the corporate barons to spare a tear for the peasants who got trampled in
this civil war among our nascent nobility. I.e., no tax cut repeal, no anti-PATRIOT
act repeal, no money to research our way out of oil dependency, no money for
state governments, etc.

Everyone in America who isn't a corporate executive or independently wealthy
is on his/her way to political peasant status here. We are having minimal impact
on the corporate media. I repeat MINIMAL IMPACT. They still tell the story
the corporate way. They still hire Rush Limpdick as a sports commentator. They
will anoint some yet-to-be-revealed GOPer or DLCer as our savior from Evil
George. History is written by the winners. Or, as that great American, Henry Ford,
said: "History is bunk."

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I'm with matcom and others who say we need to be out demonstrating. Screw
the corporate media. They blew off the biggest anti-war demonstrations ever.
I hardly expect them to give us any positive air time, no matter what we do.
But, if we go into the streets now, I would love to see some freeper out there
trying to defend Bush by waving a flag. What a joke!

Its the height of summer. Time for some fun. Time to test and see how the cops
are feeling about respecting our Constitutional right to peacefully demonstrate.
Time to see which Democratic candidates have the balls to give a real speech
in front of a real anti-corporate-government crowd. Time to picket the headquarters
of all these media assholes.

Its time to flex our muscles to support our troops by bringing them home and
impeaching Bush and all the neocons and the royalist theocrat Antonin Scalia.
Lets lance this boil before its too late- which reminds me of a final historical analogy:

....If a King had to be killed, no mark could be left on his body, therefore:

...."Edward II's bowels were burned out by red-hot irons passed into his body
....(via his anus)." (Churchill, ibid.)

Think about it - it works on so many levels :)

I'm all for it.

n/t

looks like this got stepped on by the Cheney Energy papers.

I'm humble enough to deal with that :-)

arendt

n/t