Across the Aisle

We need to take a lesson from our Republocrat brothers and sisters. They have learned how to organize themselves from the top down and the ground up. They know how to drive a wedge between comrades, and leave faction where solidarity once was.

We need to cause factions within the Two-Headed-Beast-Party. The Republican Party is right now without leadership. They are a ship adrift, with no real vision of who they are and what they represent. They are viciously fighting over whether or not Rush Limbaugh is the Leader of the Party and the vision; they are desperately grabbing for women and people of color they can haul up to vindicate their assholery. Across the spectrum of elected Republicans and talking heads, there is no cohesion and no central loyalty.

The Democrats are likewise in a precarious position. They swept through the general elections in the autumn-with the legacy of their trillion dollar bail out for Wall Street. They now have a "Recovery Plan" that, like all else they do, will be scorned, manipulated and and rendered dangerous by Republican shenanigans. The bail out was, after Republican maneuvering, laden wit porkola...much like the Recovery Act. Even though they now dominate Congress and the Executive Branch, they are quite aware of their limitations, their lack of imagination and their fear of losing power to the Republicans in 2010. They took the Congress in '06-and instead of acting on their pledges, they suspended the Constitution and began campaigning for the '08 general election. Well-the campaign never stops-and Iraq, Afghanistan, health care, unemployment-they really stand a chance of continuing to be campaign rallying points.

These two parties play ball with our lives needlessly. The power struggles they engage in, not only with each other, but with the People and with all other Parties. The way that they attacked Ralph Nader, a man who has done more for this country than any other American, was accepted on the grounds of Ralph Nader being of the Green Party-and a nut. That is their game with us, those of us who will not accept their theft of our country. If you dare stand up and speak truth, even if you have been praised and lauded for it for forty years (like Mr Nader), if you stand up and speak the same truth while running for office, you are a fool, you are the other-not to be trusted. How can anyone who sees as clearly and with such dedication to equality before the law as a Nader or a McKinney, how can they be deemed crazy. The crazy are those who continually vote for these liars and thieves. The only way you will get a parties ear is by not voting for them-by proving you will vote for those who have the cajones to stand up and speak for you.

While the Demopublicans who have run for office for the last eight years have attacked anyone outside their fold, their hypocrisy has been excused and condoned by the press and the public. Obama or Bush may collaborate with whatever corporation or organization to bar the other candidates for the Presidency from debating. They may surveil these people; intimidate and threaten; smear, slander and degrade. Their mockery for anyone who seeks to attain that office without leaving behind the People is contempt for the People themselves. They preach, they intone their Gods, yet they turn and offer nothing of the love of their Lord to their worthy opponents.

Electoral politics are not the be all, end all...but they play a big role. If we want a society where we are truly free and equal, then we must drive wedges between these Republocrats. We must find the Progressives within, and strengthen them-show them how real their dreams can be. And the minority of assholes bent on owning all of us-well they will have no choice but to form a hideous coalition, and finally bed down for the long haul. That is how we seize power-that is how we take back Congress and the Legislatures; we divide and conquer. We dispel with idiocies like the electoral college and give to ourselves a world made new.

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"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of Patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
Herman Goering

Hear, Oh Israel-

My, my. The growing unrest around the world is becoming daily more tangible. The deterioration of the Middle East only one example. Since the institution of the State of Israel following WWII, we have, as a matter of US foreign policy, guaranteed a state of strife, genocide and constant war in the once fertile crescent.

For more than a year now, with the aid of America's never ending military might, Israel has kept Gaza under constant siege. As in our policy in Iraq, civilian targets make up the majority of casualties. Schools, mosques and hospitals are fair game, and no amount of misery is too much to inflict on the enemy. It is, after all, only through their misery that they will surrender.

Now Netanyahu is conflicted. He is Prime Minister designate-but what coalition will rule Israel? Should he continue with his hard right, proto-fascist path? Should he bring in some moderates? How much does he need to change to accomodate the Obama administration? The policy of genocide carried out on behalf of the Jewish state against Muslim and Jewish freedom seeker alike are beginning to draw far too much negative press. The pictures of dead children, blown apart in the school yard; the stories of families murdered by Israeli soldiers; the constant siege of terror on Palestine-this is reaching the rest of the world-and we are not pleased.

Chances are that even by bringing in Israeli moderates, the approach to domestic policy in Israel will continue as is-with our tacit approval. Obama has made clear that he supports the use of monumental force in the oppression of Palestine. He has made his token gesture to the "humanity" of the Palestinians, and then warned them not to resist. As long as our special relationship with Israel continues, so too shall the genocide of its inhabitants. And as long as American made artillery is used on the People of Palestine, they can look at the spent casings and know who's bullets killed their children.

As we continue to dawdle down the road to economic ruin, we need look at Israel (and Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan) seriously. We support states that use military rule to enforce their wishes. They willingly imprison, torture and murder their citizens and our leaders praise the actions. The fact that we have been passing legislation to do away with our Constitution and have begun deploying the Army on American soil expressly for containing civil unrest are signs we cannot ignore. As we draw closer to the razor's edge, the reaction of our government seems to be already decided in favor of military law. If we do not wish to live in a state of terror like that suffered in Israel, Iraq or any other dictatorship that survives with our aid, then we need to strike the heart of the beast while its vulnerable.

Chew on that for a moment. Then chew on what was going on in the Delta after Hurricane Katrina. Consider Guantanamo and the rapid building of detention centers all over the US. Consider the Patriot Act, and how many thousands of people WITHIN the United States have been disappeared under its auspices.

If we do not want to watch the rise of Big Brother-then we better get busy.

Pelosi-You Moron!

So, somehow this week, Madame Pelosi has somehow acknowledged crimes against the Constitution committed by the Bush regime. Now, not two months ago, this bitch was saying that there was no evidence that Bush had done anything wrong; if anyone happened to know of any, to please pass it along. Perhaps someone forwarded Lady Pelosi a link to youtube.

While she is not saying an investigation will take place, while she is not saying anything will happen, she is saying "possibly" this can happen. Possibly we can hold war criminals and people who have committed crimes against humanity accountable. Possibly.

The initial reaction is what you would expect. People saying "gee, whore, you could have started this process years ago. We know you are just as guilty as everyone else". And of course, there are millions of Americans who know that just as many Dems have dirtied their hands with their Republican war criminal buddies. And the Pelosis (Mr & Mrs) are pretty dirty!

We need accountability. In the first month of his administration, President Obama has said he will close Guantanamo, whilst continuing to render prisoners to other countries, to be tortured by our allies. His Attorney General, Eric Holder, has taken the Bushite position in defending the US government and allies from lawsuits pursuant to their collaboration in rendition missions, that ultimately led, of course, to torture. How is closing one prison, and saying we will not torture any change at all, when we are in fact continuing to send innocent civilians off to foreign lands to be tortured by our closest dictator-allies??

Anyone walkin' around still saying the Democrats are the party of progressives is clearly deluded. We are just as enmeshed in fighting the Corporate interests of the Democratic Party as we are fighting of fascist Republicans. The "New Direction Democrats" have sold every principle we hold dear down the river. Obama may stand for us on one or two issues-but We the People are still on our own.