The Republican speeches coming out of Washington (via Utah) as the anniversary of 9/11 approaches are, in my opinion, reprehensible. Keith Olberman has written a response that says most of what I want to say. Read it here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12131617/
He closes with a quote from Edward R. Murrow that bears repeating (again and again and again, if necessary).
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty."
Evidently now we need a new version: We must not confuse dissent with stupidity, just as we must not confuse a person's occupation of high office as proof of his intelligence or honesty or, indeed, morality.
Here are some other quotes that bear contemplation:
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."
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"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
--Joseph Goebbels
"What luck for rulers, that men do not think."
--Adolf Hitler
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These people are not neo-conservatives; they're neo-Puritans. What they want is a radical, right-wing (soi-disant) "Christian" theocracy. If they had their way, we'd have a return to burnings, pressings, and the like. They've already sanctioned torture for prisoners and subverted many of our constitutional rights with their arrests and incarcerations without due process, eavesdropping on our private communications without benefit of warrant, and on and on.
These vile ideologues are worse than Nazis or Fascists; they're Christian fundamentalists and they're precisely equivalent to the Muslim fundamentalists they've painted as the enemy who is most to be feared in the world. They are, as usual, wrong. In the words of Pogo (Walt Kelly), "We have met the enemy and he is us."
Christian neocons are the greatest evil in the world today.
Although, I will grant you that they're not as purely evil as Ayn Rand-style anarchocapitalist libertarians. But that's another rant.
Frank
P.S. If you wanna know what happens to a country when Puritans take over, simply remember your English history. In case it doesn't spring readily to mind, research Oliver Cromwell and what he did there. Those of us who have Irish ancestry remember him well.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
I wish we'd try really, REALLY hard to avoid doing that with this gang of Cromwell-wannabees presently in power.
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