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at what point is enough enough?
it seems to me that, functionally speaking, in the united states of late 2007, six years into a brave new world of neo-fascism american-style, three or four (i repress) years into being mired in a war based on false premises, managed with breathtaking ineptness, 7 years into the campaign to stack the judiciary in order to institutionalize neo-fascism american style and protect the administration itself from the consequences of its own idiocy and disengenuousness, there is no point at which enough is enough, there is no limit on the magnitude of the disinformation, no limit at all.
i think in political terms we, the people, are in serious trouble in the states.
this latest concession of the obvious fraud that was the bush administration's line simply demonstrates it.
the administration has to spin this report in a way that maintains a veneer of legitimacy--whence the surreal line that ustwo dutifully repeats and which no doubt will be repeated by others who confuse the line of the moment from the bush people, and its echo within the shambles that is the conservative media apparatus, with something legitimate.
but this is no more than spin.
this newest bit of pathetic theater from those specialists in self-serving disinformation wrapped up as bromides about national security represents is a very sobering lesson in the extent to which we, the people, are irrelevant, the extent to which we, the people, who allegedly "are sovereign" in a democratic system, have allowed ourselves to be herded first here, then there---we are as cheney once said we are--a management problem. so this bunch of disengenuous neo-fascists are still able to operate. so this bunch maintains some veneer of legitimacy.
personally, i think that if this administration had even the slightest bit of integrity and cared at all about the integrity of the system they have done so much to damage, that they would be talking about resignation.
call new elections for the good of the system.
it would be unprecedented--but so is their disengenous incompetence.
conservatives talk about checks and balances as if they were abstract mechanisms...concretely it seems that there are no checks, there are no balances.
that is why i find this report sobering and depressing and alarming.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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