Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Security, Snow, and Stagnation
So the party of homeland security caved to industry pressure and rejected a bill to scan all cargo entering the United States.
This should come as no surprise. Both political parties have been beholden to industry for generations, but only the GOP has completely abandoned all pretense of being a party interested in democracy or the welfare of the country. Bush and the GOP-controlled congress have resisted protecting our borders, ports, and railways for years since 9/11. This story is only the latest chapter of what has happened on a monthly basis for four years.
I simply shake my head at the sad ignorance of the majority of conservative voters and the rabid blindness of the others. While their party lied to the country, led the nation into an illegal and disastrous war, and then bullied the media and smeared critics they deliberately abandoned any efforts to protect the people of the country from terrorist attack.
This is treason, not the caustic words of administration critics rightfully lambasting the most brutal and dishonest administration in history. If the honest voters of America knew what was going on, and what was needed, they would purge the Republican Party from existence. They would strip it down to its broken bolts and then unearth the foundation.
This is a political party rotten to its core, down to its roots, down to the level of staffers for state representatives. If the honest voters of America did what was needed we would not stop until we had torched their houses, shot their dogs, and sent their children off to reeducation centers. We would send librarians into libraries and public records and erase all mention of the Republican Party from history.
Disgrace is too mild a word to describe the Republican Party over the last thirty five years.
Remember Ken Starr’s investigations that leaked like a New Orleans levee? Fitzgerald’s investigation is turning in Karl Rove’s direction, but no one knows if he’ll be indicted, because competent prosecutors don’t leak their findings.
It’s funny how when government is working well it is quiet and unobtrusive.
But when it’s run by a misshapen mob of festering, scabrous political whores it oozes constantly into the limelight with pork-laden bills, scandals, bungled responses to natural disasters, odious wars, and the opprobrium of the world.
Take a long look at Human Rights Watch’s lead story, as of today: 600 implicated in the abuse and sometimes murder of 460 detainees, and only 40 have been sentenced to prison time. That’s quite a few “bad apples.”
If a prosecutor, under normal circumstances, had a conviction rate of under 10% he would lose his job without any further discussion or review. In the U.S. chain of command, however, a 7% conviction rate is okey dokey. Just keep it quiet, boys, despite the fact that the entire world is looking, and is utterly disgusted. This, of course, is not encouraging terrorists at all, either, nor has the indefinite detention of thousands of Iraqis on no specific charges whatsoever, or the 100,000 of them we have killed, or the ruin we have made of their country.
European Union officials have concluded that over 1,000 flights took place over EU airspace involving rendering terror suspects to client governments for torture in a program that rivals Operation Condor for the scope of its activities.
There’s a funny post over at Huffington about Tony Snow (BTW, Orifice and O’Liar weren’t offered the job because they are actually major radio and TV polemicists. Snow’s radio show has suffered from mediocre ratings for years). The FOX News/Bush presidency connection is too good to pass up. Check out another good stab at it here.
Also, more news slips into the mainstream about that whole lied-a-country-into-war thing. At this point in the degeneracy of the United States, however, more evidence from a highly-ranked CIA guy that points out the bottomless depravity of the administration is just not worthy of a headline.
A little story on the stagnation of the president’s administration.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 7:37 PM 
