Gore Vidal's State of the Union: Dictatorship. Dictatorship.

[kpete]

Published on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 by Democracy Now!
Gore Vidal's State of the Union: "Let the Powers That Be Know There is Something Called We the People of the U.S. and All Sovereignty Rests in Us"
Democracy Now's Transcript of Gore Vidal speaking today

Today, the 31st of January, in the hallowed year, election year 2006, could be a memorable day if we all do our part, which is simply to concentrate, among other things, and do perhaps what a couple of groups have decided would be useful for the President, I guess his State of the Union. We might give him some idea of our state, which is one of great dissatisfaction with him and his regime. And there's talk of perhaps demonstrating in front of the Capitol or here or there around the country to show that the union is occupied by people who happen to be patriots. And patriots do not like this government.

This is an unpatriotic government. This is a government that deals openly in illegalities, whether it is attacking a country which has done us no harm, two countries -- Iraq and Afghanistan -- because we now believe, not in declaring war through Congress as the Constitution requires, but through the President. "Well, I think there are some terrorists over there, and I think we got to bomb them, huh? We'll bomb them." Now, we’ve had idiots as presidents before. He's not unique. But he's certainly the most active idiot that we have ever had.

And now here we are planning new wars, ongoing wars in the Middle East. And so as he comes with his State of the Union, which he is going to justify eavesdropping without judicial warrants on anybody in the United States that he wants to listen in on. This is what we call dictatorship. Dictatorship. Dictatorship. And it is time that we objected. Don't say wait ‘til the next election and do it through that. We can't trust the elections, thanks to Diebold and S&S and all the electronic devices which are being flogged across the country to make sure that elections can be so rigged that the villains will stay in power.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0131-35.htm

[EFerrari]

1. Thank you, Maestro.

:kick:

[LSparkle]

2. Wow! I knew I should have listened this a.m.!

Going to the archives RIGHT NOW. Thanks for the heads up!

[Cleita]

3. I love Gore Vidal and his patriotism and his great writing

talent that let's him put the truth out there in clear and elegant terms.

[LSparkle]

4. I wish he'd come up with a new SCOTUS/dirty words code

like he did in "Myron". I don't know if I remember them correctly, but ...

Burger = ass
Keating = shit
Powell = balls
Rehnquist = cock

etc., etc. I'd LOVE to see what Gore could come up with for Scalia, scAlito, Thomas, et al.!!!

[Just Me]

5. Yup! 21C American Dictators,...that is EXACTLY what they are.

I still have to remind myself that,...this is real,...I'm not dreamin'. Nevertheless, I find myself in a constant state of "stunned" and "flabbergasted" because, never in my wildest dreams did I think this SOTU would come to pass: a dictatorship. I just did NOT see it coming. I wish I had. ;( I would have started fighting much sooner.

[kpete]

6. It is not too late

Remember, we are in the majority now. (I still have hope that eventually that will pay off) Hopefully, 2006 will show them they are through. Until then, well, more of the same.