A lot has happened since I last checked in. The most superficial primary and fall presidential elections ever to be held in the United States are over. Despite this fact we may have elected an amazing candidate despite the superficiality of the process. It's that moment where you wake up after a bad dream and you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming. It could be either. Everyone here in my new state of Minnesota reminds me that even Paul Wellstone voted for the Patriot Act. Whoa! Definitely still asleep. I'm going to wait till 2012 to see if its time to wake up yet. Most of the true seem to be in the same state of mind: mild caution. But then there are all these people who aren't politicos and they're all celebrating. All the politicos are calm and watchful. Its not yet time to wake up. As superficial rhetoric moves towards action and results, then we'll finally see what we've got. Until then, this lazy patriot will only stick his neck out of the cave long enough to duck back in when we become the Fourth Reich.
On the other hand it's not going to be hard to impress me. If we can make it out of these next 8 years without a significant portion (over 100,000) of the population being rounded up into concentration camps or declaration of martial law, I'd be willing to step out for a night on the town again. Until we make it through a modest 8 years while avoiding my modest caveat we really won't know if we're the Republic or the Empire.
I'll try and check in sooner rather than later for all those fans who've waited so long for this post.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Guantanamo Bay is Hella' Tight.
American democracy for all!
And our wishes have finally come true. The Middle East is about to taste US justice in Cuba. Suspected terrorists are due to appear at the accredited 'high-security courthouse' in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A jury of their peers will no doubt, try, try, and try them again. If our shit ever stunk, it stinks like hell now.
Air Force Brigadeer General Tim Hartmann:
"In the course of trial they'll have opportunity to present their case, any way they want to present it subject to rules and procedures. That's a great freedom and a great protection we are providing to them. We think ... it is the American way."
Five suspected Middle Easterners, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are due to be prosecuted for planning the September 11th attacks. That, my friends, really rounds things out.
I wish I still believed in terrorists. I really do. I believe in money. I believe in media for money and infotainment. I believe in capital and the politics of capital. I believe in spin like you believe the sun will rise tomorrow.
The interesting thing to note here is that the suspected terrorists will be tried not in an international court, but in a unilateral court. This is just one more unilateral American act of genius that will win us world wide accolades and international kudos. I have to piss.
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Anderson Cooper is playing Wii Fitness right now on the television. Cut to commercial. Motherfucking CNN.
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Bottom Line:
Whether these guys did the deed or not, they should be tried by a court that has legitimacy. I can't really say that an American military tribunal has that kind of legitimacy. Especially when confessions obtained through coercion and hearsay are permissible evidence. I mean, I'd tell you my balls are made of polonium if properly coerced. Fake justice doesn't justify anything. Supporting fake justice supports the end of freedom and the end of democracy. If I remember past the multiple walls of amnesia to the months after 9-11, I can remember when there was international political capital behind American policy. And then we spent that political capital like math class fun dollars on two wars, the Patriot Act, and all kinds of other bullshit. We have no more fun dollars.
There are international courts. If the American government has any kind of real case against these 'fools' we need to send it to an international tribunal. If not we might as well just send them to Brooklyn and have them gunned down by the NYPD.
And our wishes have finally come true. The Middle East is about to taste US justice in Cuba. Suspected terrorists are due to appear at the accredited 'high-security courthouse' in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A jury of their peers will no doubt, try, try, and try them again. If our shit ever stunk, it stinks like hell now.
Air Force Brigadeer General Tim Hartmann:
"In the course of trial they'll have opportunity to present their case, any way they want to present it subject to rules and procedures. That's a great freedom and a great protection we are providing to them. We think ... it is the American way."
Five suspected Middle Easterners, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are due to be prosecuted for planning the September 11th attacks. That, my friends, really rounds things out.
I wish I still believed in terrorists. I really do. I believe in money. I believe in media for money and infotainment. I believe in capital and the politics of capital. I believe in spin like you believe the sun will rise tomorrow.
The interesting thing to note here is that the suspected terrorists will be tried not in an international court, but in a unilateral court. This is just one more unilateral American act of genius that will win us world wide accolades and international kudos. I have to piss.
...
Anderson Cooper is playing Wii Fitness right now on the television. Cut to commercial. Motherfucking CNN.
...
Bottom Line:
Whether these guys did the deed or not, they should be tried by a court that has legitimacy. I can't really say that an American military tribunal has that kind of legitimacy. Especially when confessions obtained through coercion and hearsay are permissible evidence. I mean, I'd tell you my balls are made of polonium if properly coerced. Fake justice doesn't justify anything. Supporting fake justice supports the end of freedom and the end of democracy. If I remember past the multiple walls of amnesia to the months after 9-11, I can remember when there was international political capital behind American policy. And then we spent that political capital like math class fun dollars on two wars, the Patriot Act, and all kinds of other bullshit. We have no more fun dollars.
There are international courts. If the American government has any kind of real case against these 'fools' we need to send it to an international tribunal. If not we might as well just send them to Brooklyn and have them gunned down by the NYPD.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
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