He did it again today, and I'm going to go out on a limb today to predict that within six weeks, he will find a way to up the Terror Alert. Will there be a real threat? Doesn't matter - the neocons have turned the terror alerts into a joke and no one will believe them anyway. Just look at the history of the alerts vs. Bush administration problems. Somwhere on Frankenbot I've got a list I was compiling and as soon and I'll post it as I find it.
The speech today was given before the National Endowment for Democracy, a doublespeak group founded during Reagan's WH. To find out the skinny on the group, click here for the Cato Institute, or if you are in a Googling mood, click yourself silly.
Here are some highlights and some of my heckling of his speech.
In this new century, freedom is once again assaulted by enemies determined to roll back generations of democratic progress. Once again, we're responding to a global campaign of fear with a global campaign of freedom. And once again, we will see freedom's victory. [I didn't think the definition of a global campaign of freedom was lying to the American public and the UN about WMD and then going to war about it while many of our friends opposed us. I guess they just don't love freedom like we do.][snip]
I appreciate Carl Gershman. [Carl Gershman? The same Carl Gershman who was a member of the Socialist Party USA in the 70s? The answer to that is apparently yes.][snip]
The government of Russia did not support Operation Iraqi Freedom, and yet the militants killed more than 180 Russian schoolchildren in Beslan. [It might be prudent to note that the militants who did this were Checnyan rebels; so because the Russian government did NOT support Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Checnyan rebels killed the 180 schoolchildren? What would they have done if Russia had supported it?]
There's more, but it's the usual warmed over rehash of old material. You can read the full text here.
I wonder why some people in this country play the danger down. I don't want to suggest to stay behind the door all day long with a knife in your hand. I immigrated from a communist country, and I can attest that societies can go bad, real bad. And the biggest irony is that the fear, the uncertainty and the guilt so many people have to live through is caused a few mad men who happen to be in power.
ReplyDeleteThe title of your blog struck me as a comment of a spoiled teenager who can't stand listening to the same message over again however it may carry some hard earned truth.
I guess some people just learn too slowly.
I think they play it down because they are afraid of being considered reactionary or nuts or both.
ReplyDeleteIt's unfortunate that in this country people just don't pay attention to what's going on around them, as if politics is for "the other guy" to worry about. They don't do anything until things are out of control, and even then they seem to start off by pointing fingers.
I got the idea for the post title from Ronald Reagan's "Now there you go again" debate comment. And the Lair is a voting booth - somewhere on "frankenbot" I've got a graphic I made for it. I have absolutely no idea what inspired that bit of insanity!