I recently wrote an article about the Bush administration and their attacks on our Constitutional Rights. One of the things that I mentioned is that we are all Americans Left and Right, and that as Americans, we are all in danger of permanently losing the rights and freedoms that we won in the War of Independence. For over 230 years, the Declaration of Independence has stood as a document that explained why we separated from Great Britain and what we were trying to accomplish. In 1789 we ratified the U.S. Constitution, and that working document has served us well for 226 years. The idea of removing safeguards that prevent a dictatorship of the executive branch or an7y other branch is abhorrent to most Americans. Yet, since September 11, 2001, we have steadily weakened the very cornerstone of American liberty.
This is not a left or right issue. On the MSM in the last few weeks, I have constantly heard the talking heads that find a need to explain everything that is happening to Americans, as if we cannot think for ourselves, that the Democrats are not going to “give-in” to the “left-wing” of their party. That the Democratic win in 2006 was because the people wanted to “change the course of the war and not to impeach the president”. That is a very subjective observation, and the people that made this observation on Wolf Blitzer’s show on CNN last night, had no right to say what it was that the American people did or did not vote for. For many years now, we have been told what Americans are thinking, and why we do the things we do. The analysts have gone way overboard when they make these comments. The woman that said these things should have began that statement with some kind of modifier. She could have said that “Some believe that the American people did not vote for the Democrats to impeach Bush”.
Besides the gutting of the Constitution by the executive branch and the 109th Congress, the mainstream media acts as if it has a crystal ball and can read the minds of the American people. Both of these assaults on our values have got to stop. I don’t believe that it is just “The Left” of the Democratic Party that wants this President impeached. I also don’t believe that the election was won by the Democrats because we just wanted to change the course of the war. I believe that Americans may be just about sick and tired of our rights being taken away by the government under the guise of “The War on Terror”, and this executive throwing away the resources of the American people on this war that in reality was a huge error of judgement by the intelligence community and George W. Bush. This is not opinion, this is fact. Do I have to repeat the FACT that NO weapons of mass destruction were found?
What I had set out to expound on before I found myself diverted, is that the is just not the left wing of the Democratic Party that wants this war to end and our rights restored. There are people on the right and there are Republicans that also support this. This idea that the MSM is trying to deliver to the American People that it is just the “fringe” of the Democratic Party that is demanding that is a cover-up of the truth. I saw the same tactics when the nation decided that it had enough of the Vietnam War. At first, the media claimed that people who wanted out of Vietnam were “radicals”. This went on until the government and the media could no longer deny that the majority of the people in this country thought that the Vietnam War should be terminated.
It is not only the “left” that want this war over. I served 21 years in the Army. I am no Democrat. Am I part of “The Left”? I am tired of people being marginalized by the far right by applying ‘labels” to people. Regardless of peoples political affiliation, they can see what we have done to the Iraqi People. We at first told them that we were going to free them from a terrible dictator. We then invaded them, and instead of leaving, we disbanded their Army and Police, occupied the country, and put people that we chose to be their leaders. Now, instead of having a free and stable Iraq, these people are dying by the hundreds each day, with no military, and no police to stop different warlords from trying to seize power. You don’t need to be “of the left” to understand that the average Iraqi is worse off than before we invaded their country. Any sane and responsible human can understand that the people of Iraq have become victims here. Victims of this administrations need for oil, for power, and for God knows what else.
This is no longer a “radical leftist” movement. I believe that the majority of ALL Americans want this President out of office, and this war to end. I believe that if voted on today, that Americans would vote to be free of Bush and Cheney and to be out of Iraq. It is unfortunate that the Mainstream Media must use labels to describe people that are sick and tired of the status quo. It is a sad situation to hear them minimize this nations discontent, in fact it is almost criminal. I believe that a large majority that don’t consider themselves “leftists” would agree with me. I might agree with the left, sometimes I can agree with the right. Labels simplify complicated matters do everyone determent. The sad fact, is that the Iraqi and the American people are worse off than they were before this war. I think most can agree on that.
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The MSM is terminally corrupt. It is in effect the voice of
the American Establishment, which IS the political Right. A handful of corporate media giants comprise the MSM, & they are integral parts of the Establishment. They naturally want to ridicule impeachment, conceal the abundant evidence of US crimes abroad, & minimize the extent of serious domestic dissent.
Unsurprisingly, the MSM are not at all what they present themselves as being. The pretend to be neutral & objective sources of information, but are immensely & inevitably political. Their priviliges & clout are inseparable from the current configuration of power in this country, & they obviously would resist any sharp changes to that.
Portraying any kind of Democrats as "the Left", and antiwar pro-impeachment Democrats as "the fringe Left" is a sad & ridiculous joke, possible only in a society like the US which has been so thoroughly brainwashed for so long that most people no longer really know what terms like "the Left" and "the Right" actually mean.
You say "It is unfortunate that the Mainstream Media must use labels to describe people that are sick and tired of the status quo..." but I wouldn't use the word "unfortunate," which makes it sound like an accident. It's no accident. The MSM has everything to gain from maintaining the status quo, & everything to lose if the masses of ordinary citizens got it in their heads to demand that large corporations be subordinated to considerations of the common good.
When you hear the MSM using its Wolf Blitzers to ridicule dissenters, what you're hearing is the ruling class fighting their side of the class war. What motivates them is their entirely reasonable fear that one day soon, as social inequality & power abuses mount, that ordinary citizens may start fighting back. They are trying to preempt this by confusing the public -- a technique they're very skilled at.
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Richard Mynick (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 1232 comments)
on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 6:34:01 PM
There are some issues that are above the fray of the current two-party monolith call "party politics". Those issues consist of anything that may break the stronghold of either party over us.
I think you will find that, until "big box" campaigning is obliterated, we will have the problems we currently have. From the couple posts and comments I have read of yours, I would tend to say that our core principles are vastly different, but we both agree that a core principle to our existence as U.S. citizens is that the citizens drive (er, should drive) the electoral process.
At Patriots & Tyrants, we are starting to discuss issues with the focus on solving them, not just understanding them; our first issue is campaign reform. Leave your labels and politics at home; just come ready to discuss and help address the current topic. To show that we are serious about removing labels and categorizations, see our Rules of Engagement.
Thanks,
Rick
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Rick (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 6:34:38 PM
The statement: "It is unfortunate that the Mainstream Media must use labels to describe people that are sick and tired of the status quo. It is a sad situation to hear them minimize this nations discontent, in fact it is almost criminal." does not go far enough. They ARE criminal. And someday, perhaps, they will pay the price for suppressing 9/11 truth, for supporting criminal wars, for promoting the new world order. For excusing the death of 650,000+ deaths of Iraqi moms, kids, dads; for 3000+ dead U.S. soldiers and 25000+ wounded. For all the dead elsewhere due to U.S. operations to quash democracy around the world. Nuremberg set the standard for all those who support evil and death. The media is not excused.
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richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 905 comments)
on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 8:51:18 PM
When you hear them say, the American people think one way or another or this is what the people think, you are supposed to say to yourself, self I must have been thinking all wrong. I must think the way the media says that the people think. I feel ashamed. I shouldn't be thinking for myself. "IT'S PART OF THE BRAINWASHING." Participate, it's mind boggling.
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Ron McCallie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 74 comments)
on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 3:08:18 PM
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