Dove feathers in the President's mouth etc

[Eddie Bettano]

The radical anti-bush people could care less about
historical record, facts, policy, ethics.... And jbor
is correct on this too, they don't really care about
the helpless millions suffering under regimes like
those in Iraq and North Korea. They only want to make
Bush out to be a Nazi and a bloody murdering idiot and
sell their radical rags and conspiracy fabrications. 
They should know better but they don't because they
are self-centered, self-rightious, self-serving
radicals who believe in themselves with a religious
zeal. 


 The self-rightousness in the name of God or innocent
children or civil rights or whatever it is the  people
hold dear and sacred is nothing new to politics left
or right. It's how they play the game. 

Don't play, it;s a waste of time.  If you beleive the
death penalty is a crime against humanity you can do
something about it.  It's an on going debate in the
USA. The annihilation of native americans is not being
denied or ignored, it's being taught to school kids in
Texas and every other state in the Union. The history
of slavery? Jeeeez, have you ever read _Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave?
Well I've read it and taught in NYC to HS students and
I'm teaching it right now to college students in a
class that is being taught in unversities and colleges
across the United States, Race, Class, Gender (or
something like it). It's being taught to kids too and
in places of business where diversity classes and
history classes and diaspora are taught, supported and
funded by this administration. 

In America we don't deny, silence, avoid, moral
questions. Issues of reform. We simply are not like
most nations in this regared.  We don't hand out
issues over to an elite to decide. We struggle with
them. We argue. We debate. We are a nation of
fundamentalists. We often argue in absolutes. But we
are pragmatists. And while the 60s left-overs, the
baby-boomers would like to take credit for making
issues moral in America, caliming that values and
moral issues were pushed to the for by their efforts
and their superior moral vision, they are wrong. This
is one of the reasons they are now falling back on the
old establishment class struggle argument. Because the
nation knows they are wrong and isn't listening to
them. Because they are not really interested in
pragmatic reform, they are out of the struggle. They
are cheer-leaders and fat internet potato spectators
and yahooing googleers. 


Off with their Ties! 
They will never grow up and be real men and woman.   


"Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform.
The whole history of the progress of human liberty
shows that all concessions yet made to her august
claims, have been born of earnest struggle...Those who
profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation,
are men who want crops with out plowing up the ground.
They want rain without thunder and lightning. They
want the ocean without the might roar of its
waters..." 

(Excerpted from Frederick Douglass's speech
celebrating West India Emancipation Day, August,
1857.) 

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