Hollower Men For a Hollower Planet

ThePrairieCenterForGlobalStudies
Saskatchistan

Cathie from Canada knows how to cut through the gunkitude to get to the heart of the matter.

And unlike me she rarely resorts to bombast or snarkolepsy to get her point across.

Like this, on Mr. Bush and his expanding circle of sycophants:
(sorry Cathie, hyperbole there all mine)

"...Bush just doesn't get it, and neither do the people around him. "Protecting the people" is the corrupt justification for illegal acts that we hear in the speeches of every tin-pot dictator from Stalin to PolPot to Idi Amin. The idea that one person is actually responsible for protecting an entire nation is romantic megalomania. It leads to the pretense that the country is surrounded by and infested with enemies who must be beaten regardless of any illegality. Without the Constitution, in fact, the very concept of illegality becomes hollow. Thus Bush turns Americans into a nation of hollowmen who promote the demonization of Muslims and pregnant women and gay people, deny the legal authority of judges, support religious zealots, and justify torture."

Sheesh.

I feel a lot better about the British Columbia Election already. At least all we're dealing with, for now at least, is a dismantling of the social safety net b/w a simultaneous sell-off of every public asset imaginable.

So while we may end up becoming hewers of wood and drawers of water once again, at least our limbs and torsos will still be solid.

Won't they?

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