The American Experiment: a short eulogy.

Today my heart marks a passing of sorts. The granting of immunity to the telecoms for their complicity in the most outrageous violation of the fourth amendment in the nation's history creates a godzilla sized moral hazard that violates the social contract between the governed and the governors by way of unsupportable tyrannical governance.

The telecom bill is somehow more dispiriting than all the rest of the long cavalcade of stupidity our government has foisted on our reputation, our desires, and our rights. It marks in my mind, an end to the American experiment in representative government, and the birth of something else.

A Corporatist State.

Who among us, after Bear Stearns, Enron, Halliburton, KBR, CACI, Choicepoint, Blackwater, Diebold, et al-- will deny it?

Now comes the procession of what follows democracy, the parade of vices unleashed by granting of immunity for crimes so horrible, that even not knowing the full scope of their intrusion, cry like the wailing figure in Guernica by Picasso, implores to the heavens for justice.

And in the vanguard of that whorish criminal horde, stands a pack of what too often passes for Democrats, who either do not appreciate the enormity of their error in granting this or do, and do not care.

Behind all this, follows at a distance, a small train of mourners, who do not go with the festivities, and hence are ignored.


The American Experiment cannot function without the bill of rights. And we live in government by Supreme Executive Fiat, Served by a craven, cowed Soviet.

all's fair in loven war, but getting conned in order to rip us off is ....that's so rightwinger! as in purest evil! colder then a born agin xian. And it sucks. Everything else (the lost $13 trillion etc, the fixed neilson ratings, murdering Sen Wellstone and Hunter Thompson etc, now immunity for these scented creeps etc ad nazism) just pours more ritewinger shit over the peoples' heads...go for it, junyer!

Just like this thread. We mustn't point out the rapists nor ever acknowledge that they are us, that is far too uncomfortable.
:kick: & R

Had a Bill of Rights, on which Bush farted.

so poignant, so sad... and worst of all, so true. :cry: