Le premier pleure du beffroi lunaire - Democratic Underground

hootinholler

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Fri Sep-21-07 08:41 PM
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Le premier pleure du beffroi lunaire

For the French impaired like me, it's The first Cry of the Lunar Belfry. (I'm trusting babelfish on that.)

This is the first in what I hope will become a series of random cries from the inhabitants of the lunar belfry. The Moonbats, if you will allow, I hear them squeaking sporadically, kind of like Harry Potter and his parseltounge gig. Usually they just point out stupid shit, but once in a while they do have a point, so, I hope to pass along their more lucid moments.

So here's the idea, Dan Rather is on to something with his lawsuit. I swear I heard a group talking about this.

The jist of the whole thing is that we might proceed as a class when Mr. Rathers assertions are demonstrated, we the people, with reasonable expectations that the news is presented without bias by those advertising themselves as news organizations. Thus, we are a wronged class. We bought from their advertisers, we were lured into thinking we were informed, that they were presenting an objective view of the world. That's what they told us. Bastards.

So we have Rather's suit to add to the instances where actual tax dollars went to produce favorable news reports (none dare call it propaganda) as I recall. There's something else to be thrown into the old synaptic matrix to add a little spice. It comes in the form of a recent post by arendt with a lovely morsel from recent history. Please go look at the context, I don't want to quote the entire OP. I'll wait here on this tab while you have a look.

Back? Good. Didn't go? Well then, that this really hit home for me might confuse you.

Just check the points:

1) Message doesn’t get out - has the Democratic Party had any message discipline, or are some Democrats constantly sabotaging every attempt to tell the truth about Bush’s lies on the grounds that “we” can’t look “angry”?

2) Lot of time wasted - like six bloody years of the Neocons robbing us blind.

3) Activisits discouraged - yeah, like me.

4) Nothing good accomplished - no SC justices blocked (by Dems that is - just Harriet Myers, and she was probably part of some Rovian scheme.); no tax cuts for the rich blocked; no meaningful investigations of the Plame Leak, the WMD lies, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, etc;.

Finally, as progressives start to rebel against DLC mis-leadership, what do they tell us?
“You’re dividing the party.”

So they were talking about the whole Dan thing when I was reading that, and then putting 3 and 5 together plus the super secret fudge factor of 9, I got 7: "The Courts are our last defense."

Stop and think about this a moment.

The corporations have taken over enough of Congress. For a progressive takeover we need to overcome the DLC in addition to the GOP. There's clearly no other explanation for their behavior flying in the face of popular opinion.

The executive branch is clearly a criminal fascist order, who has subverted Justice to Just Us.

Our last defense before revolution is the Judiciary.

We have been harmed! We have been harmed by a criminal enterprise. The GOP meets the definition of "Corrupt Organization" under RICO law. They met it in 2004 when I researched it. The citizens are a pretty big freaking class, that's us, you know, you and I, and bill over there in the corner, just fucking everyone has been gravely harmed by this organization. Monetarily and psychologically.

We cannot compel an investigation of this, can we? A grand Jury? A citizens convention?

It's clearly time to get creative to resolve this shit.

-Hoot