Everything from how we choose our leaders to how we manage the public areas of our neighborhoods.
During a recent public hearing, a leader of the La Crosse County Republican Party made references to the Green Party that fell somewhere between fighting words and slander.
This is something we can expect to see a lot of during the upcoming debate on the Bring the Troops Home referendum: with no rational arguments to support their case, they will resort to irrational ones. Expect a lot of lies, distortions, distractions, insults and personal attacks.
Consider a scenario in which partisan roles are reversed:
What if the election process in Ohio and Florida was supervised by the chairman of the Kerry campaign in each state?
What if the computerized voting system was designed and built by Apple Computer, where CEO Steve Jobs is a known Kerry supporter? What if there were countless “irregularities” involving these machines, all favoring Kerry?
The mandate is a myth. Ignore all the jabberwocky about the rise of “Jesus voters”, or the yammering about the young voters “failing to materialize.” These are the corporate propaganda machine’s diversions, designed to distract us from the real story of the presidential election of 2004: Non-verifiable electronic voting machines were used to steal the election.
The vulnerability of these machines to hacking and manipulation is well-documented. The lack of an auditable paper trail invites cheating, and the Bush Crime Family could not have won this election without cheating. All they had to do was to tip Florida and Ohio (where their operatives conveniently stood watch over the election process), and the coup was complete, with no pesky evidence proving the people’s will.
I am an atheist, but I grew up with enough Catholic indoctrination to recognize that there are both good people and bad people who call themselves “Christians”.
The “Good Christians” can be found feeding people, comforting the sick and their families, or working for peace and justice. They spend more time practicing than preaching, and they don’t impose their faith onto others.
When George Bush travels to read to kids or to lay a wreath, he always pops in to a party fundraiser afterwards. It’s as if he’s doing a fundraiser because he happens to be in town. In truth, the ceremonial appearance is an excuse to bill the taxpayers for Bush’s round trip on Air Force One, which would otherwise be billed to his campaign.
This kind of thinking is in play locally, where the richest campaign organization in the history of the world is passing its expenses onto local governments who can least afford them. Mayor Medinger must be applauded for standing up on behalf of local taxpayers in the face of shameless Republican operatives on the Common Council and mean-spirited ranters on the letters page.
Close to 500 demonstrators came out in La Crosse on Friday to show the Bush regime and their puppet press that not every American is a brainwashed drone. By the end of the day, our vocal chords were drained, but we were charged by the warm and fuzzy feelings of pure joy that comes from pissing off Republicans.
According to the latest edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, a lie is defined as “A false statement deliberately presented as being true”, or “Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.”
Members of the Bush regime have been showering our airwaves with so many lies that responsible and astute citizens can no longer trust a word they say. Unfortunately, the lies are still effective on Bush’s most important constituency: America’s vast population of loud and gullible morons.
To say that “money is the root of all evil” is a tired old cliche. But it still seems that the easiest way to find evil is to follow the money.
This cannot be forgotten when analysing political constituencies these days. I remember a time early in my political life when political horse races were studied on the basis of constituencies… who had the blue-collar votes, women’s votes, black votes and so forth. Now the talking heads are saying, “this candidate will be difficult to beat because he has a huge pile of money,” or, “that candidate will have a tough time staying in the race without raising some more money.”
Saddam Hussein’s chess game with the Bush family is down to its last move. Unfortunately, the Bush family isn’t playing chess… they’re playing cowboy diplomacy. For what seems like years now (it’s actually months, I think), Bush has been Dirty Harry – his gun pointed at the bad guy’s temple – saying, “Give me an excuse! Make my day!”
America’s boy emperor gave his annual State of the Union speech tonight. We didn’t have the patience to watch it or listen to it, so we read the prepared text. This carefully-worded propaganda – written to deceive without actually lying – is much easier to decipher without the distractions of the Repugnantan cheerleading section. The first half of the speech was spent trying to sound like a kind benefactor to the poor and unfortunate, while actually regurgitating tired proposals to line the pockets of his rich buddies.