Exposing this utterly revolting, open talk of assassinating Obama is necessary and crucial.
But it’s not just about Obama. Obama’s just the tip of this rapidly melting iceberg.
You have a UC Berkeley Constitutional Law Professor – John Yoo – writing memos that give the President of the United States carte blanche to commit atrocities, including crushing the testicles of a young boy, as long as it’s in the “national interest” as defined by “The Decider” himself.
You have a Supreme Court Justice – Antonin Scalia - saying that “so-called torture” isn’t cruel and unusual punishment.
You have scores of raids being carried out against immigrants, the unilateral invading by ICE of university dorm rooms of suspected “illegal” students, as happened recently to a University of California, San Diego student, dissident professors such as Norman Finkelstein (and Ward Churchill) being fired, banned from campus, and their books removed from university libraries, the driving mad of an American citizen in custody, Jose Padilla, and indefinite imprisonment of professors such as Sami Al-Arian, University of South Florida Professor of Computer Science, on trumped up charges.
You have Hillary trying to outdo Hundred Years War McCain in her saber rattling.
Who’s in charge of this madhouse?
Mad Men (and Women) are in charge of the asylum, except that these particular mad men and women aren’t benign; they’re extremely malignant.
As David “the Octopus” Addington, Cheney’s chief of staff, and one of the chief architects of the Bush regime’s torture policies, has said: “We’re going to push and push and push until some larger force stops us.”
These are the words of someone who has no regard for quaint niceties such as Constitutional rights.
These are the words of someone out to roll over you, and laugh about it in derision, if you let him.
As the movie Recount recalls, the 2000 presidential race came down to a fight between one adversary willing to do anything to win (W) and the other adversary (Gore) - the guy and his party who actually won the Florida vote - trying at all costs to remain civil, including paying the price of losing an election that they in fact won.
What was conspicuously missing from the Gore camp’s assessment of this scene? They didn’t seriously consider the fact that giving up the presidency to the GOP suit-wearing bullies wasn’t merely a matter of the political fate of one man and his career. It wasn't merely a matter of the Democratic Party trying to preserve its (mistaken) sense of its dignity. It was a matter of turning over the highest office in the land to cheats, liars, and thugs and nullifying the majority’s wishes.
What monstrous things have flowed from that fateful abdication since!
How characteristic this abdication has become of the Democrats!
If Gore had called on his supporters to march on the U.S. Supreme Court to demonstrate and demand that all of the votes should be counted, would this have mattered?
