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Edited on Sun Aug-27-06 03:40 PM by realpolitik
Ok, stay with me here for a minute while I lay out where we are.
In 2001, the Democratic Party was subjected to a terrorist attack by an as of yet uncaught terrorist, though evidence points to someone with access to military strains of Anthrax.
Assuming that no one in al Qaeda is working at fort dix, let us say that it is more likely that someone affiliated with the Neocons was responsible. If that can be proven true, it far outweighs the reichstag fire as an illegitamizing act of war on the part of the neocons, abrogating them to the status of a terrorist state.
In the wake of Sabra and Shatilla, the Hezbullah rebuilt as a political organization of significant strength in Lebanon. It did so by providing humanitarian assistance and a measure of stability to the Lebanese after the Civil War, and Israeli occupation. This built up a well of goodwill in the population despite the military presence, which traditionally, in this highly prismatic culture, represents security from the other armed militia down the road.
We, as Americans are only recently in the wake of Katrina, beginning to understand the dilemma of the resident of a 'developing' nation. In a modern pluralist, defracted society, you can more often than not trust institutions to fulfill their functions non-preferentially. But in prismatic societies, neither the traditional deprecated and corrupt cultural institutions, nor the official corrupt government institutions, whose role they ape, can be trusted to fulfill the needed role. In these nations, often the only effective instituions *are* the extra-legal ones, because they are the only institutions not subject to the bite. Instead, they are subject to arrest or massacre.
In light of the unilateral, extralegal, state terrorist actors in all three branches of government, what can we as Democrats do? We can learn from the sucessful insurgents.
So what can we learn from the Hezbullah.
First-- We need to become direct actors among the people. We need to push for organized labor, universal health care and education. Like the Jackson County Democratic Party in the late 19th century, we need to be seen as being four-square for the interests of the working person, and we need to support their aspirations for their childern, and their hope for a secure later life. We need to fill the gaps left by the criminal Rethuglican mis-administration any way we can. And we need to stamp the powdered milk carton-- this life saving food is a gift of the Democratic Party. This bus pass so that you can get to work this week is provided by the Democratic Party of <insert State name here>. And any business that contributes gets to stuff a flyer in the package, as it were.
Sexond--
Like the Hezbullah worked with Syria, we need to find our natural allies in the EU, Russia, China, and work multilaterally toward restoring human values and human dignity to government world wide. Canada would surely help us fight the good fight. And that brings us to the actual fight. I am not advocating assasination or terror, but I do think the time has come for individuals to defect from our corporatist terror state. You don't create Democracy at the point of a gun. You create democracies elsewhere by doing it right here. They don't hate us for our freedom, they hate us because we are free to prevent corporations from subverting their governments, and we do not. The Hezbullah shell the Israelis as a deliberate provocation. Then, when the Israelis roll accross the border again, they cannot repel them, but they can wear them down. And boy, Lebanon was the mother of all debacles, it may have even slowed the invasion of Iran by a week or two.
More importantly, they force the Israeli government to show itself for the terror state that the Hezbullah claims it to be.
The non aligned world knows the difference between a truck full of Kate rockets, and the full force of the United States war machines in the hands of an amoral proxy. Was the Hezbullah right to attack Israel? No. Was the Hezbullah highly successful. Yes. Was doing the right thing better than winning? Here is the question. Who was the victim here in the eyes of the world? Our NeoCon oppressors know no restraint. They do not regard the nicities of legal institutions and they find the Constitution quaint. What, I ask is beyond the pale in stopping them? It is not up to the UN to stop the NeoCon/corporatism, it is up to us, the putative owner/operators of our government.
The Rethuglikans will have to mount the GOTV effort of all time to get the election within stealing distance. They showed us how vulnerable these are last cycle. They need far fewer voting machines and much longer lines in republican districts. I predict a high failure rate in vehicles carrying red district voting machines. Many of these failures may result in spontainious combustion.
Mega-church busses will, in particular, experience multi systems failure, and lots of photo shopped photos of local pastors engaging in biblical behavior will show up around the web. A large number of jump drives with database tables will enter voting booths.
Posters of Repug benefactors in bed with Jack Abramoff will appear in targeted districts. The jobless will be hired and fed to put them up on telephone poles all over. The Democratic Party Free Health Clinics will work they butts off. And voters will be registered, documented, and supported.
That my friends is what the Hezbullah knows that is really dangerous to the Barons of this new gilded age. They support the people, and they fight back. And guess what? They learned it from F.D.R., Harry Truman, and Tom Pendergast.
It is time we do our part. Keep a wooden shoe packed in your backpack or briefcase, for an opportune moment.
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