Ray McGovern: John Conyers Is No Martin Luther King

[babylonsister]

I'm torn because I respect both these men. McGovern does need a platform to be heard and discussed.



http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/072407a.html

John Conyers Is No Martin Luther King

By Ray McGovern, www.consortiumnews.com

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Three years ago Justin Frank, M.D., a psychiatrist here in Washington, wrote a book “Bush on the Couch” in which he provided keen insights into the president’s mode of thinking—or not thinking.

Eager to use every tool at our disposal, VIPS recently asked Dr. Frank to update his observations, with a view to forecasting, to the extent possible, how Bush is likely to react to the building pressures of the coming weeks and months. We will issue, perhaps as early as this week, Dr. Frank’s latest analysis, fortified by our own input. But we already have his preliminary analysis; there is no other word for it: Scary.

In a quick note to us this morning , Dr. Frank noted we are “dealing with a potentially cornered man could lash out, and it is possible that the best way would be to bomb Iran.... Whatever the root causes of Bush’s pathology, we have a dangerous man running things...grandiose and unchecked.”

Some snippets from the Memorandum that Dr. Frank is drafting for issuance under VIPS auspices:

“George W. Bush is without conscience...and destructive, willfully so. He has always likes to break things...most shocking is the way he is breaking our armed forces.

“He doesn’t care about others, is indifferent to their suffering...He is almost constitutionally missing the ability to sympathize or empathize...More indifferent to reality than out of touch with it, he makes up whatever story he wants.

“Ultimately, he is psychologically unstable...His goal is to destroy things without experiencing anxiety or a sense of responsibility. An equally important goal is to protect himself from shame, from being wrong, from being found small and weak.”

So what do we do?

At a similarly critical juncture, Dr. King was typically direct: "We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.... there is such a thing as being too late.... Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with lost opportunity.... Over the bleached bones of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: ‘Too late.’"

There is today another Edmund Pettus Bridge to cross, John. And it has fallen to you to lead us across.

With respect,

/s/
Ray McGovern (for VIPS)

[bbgrunt]

1. yes. k and r

[Buzz Clik]

2. McGovern would have been wise to sit on that piece for 24 hours.

As it is, any points he was trying to make have been lost in outrage and hyperbole.

Ray -- for the record, no one has ever confused Conyers with Martin Luther King, Jr. Are we to gather that if a Black polician does not rise to the level of Dr. King in your eyes that somehow he is worthy only of contempt?

Next time, Ray, sleep on it.

[babylonsister]

3. This is one of several scathing articles I've read about Conyers

today. Maybe they're trying to light a fire they thought they'd ignite yesterday?

[Buzz Clik]

4. Yeah, okay. As a politician, he probably needs a little "inspiration" on occasion.

But in this instance, if the votes for impeachment are not there, what's the point?

[babylonsister]

7. Maybe if he stood up for the Constitution and the majority of

Americans who have had it with this admin, others would follow his lead.

[puebloknot]

10. How many votes does it take for impeachment?

[Bitwit1234]

5. Of course he isn't. Martin L. King was an activist

he was confrontational and that is what he should have done. Conyers has to work in a diplomatic way to try to get things done. I think he is doing what he can WITHIN the law and parameters he has to work in. I LIKE HIM.

[mikelgb]

8. a reasoned cogent response

thank you

[ellenfl]

6. kick for later eom

[Turn CO Blue]

9. this is a dupe to this thread

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