A Righteous Christian Gulag
Fuck you, George W. Bush. Fuck you, Dick Cheney. Fuck you, Donald Rumsfeld. And fuck you, Condi Rice. Fuck you for all of your incompetence, your heartlessness, your secrecy, and your mysterious commitment to an internment policy that revolves around torture and the further degradation of human rights. Just in case the Abu Ghraib revelations were not damaging enough to the world's perception of America and Americans, news now comes that the Bush administration and the CIA have been running a new Eastern European gulag.
The process of rendition as practiced by the current regime involves kidnapping and forced relocation of those classified as "enemy combatants" to various locations around the world. Though these actions are contradictory in spirit to almost everything that the American system of democracy claims to represent, outrage has not been forthcoming. The apathy that has greeted the news of these secret strongarm processes has been one of the most shameful aspects of the mainstream media's abandonment of its purpose in recent years.
Not many media types saw fit to comment on the bitter irony of the USA and its involvement with secret prison camps in Eastern Europe. The same region that saw humanity abase itself in pursuit of bizarre ideological utopian dreams now sees the one country that could call itself a true liberator after WW II opening prisons on its soil. Not just prisons, mind you--these are houses of torture that use extralegal tactics to break down and destroy human beings. Tactics that were used by the interrogators of the NKVD and the SS mere decades ago in these same areas. It's all part of the proud legacy being developed by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and the New Christian Primitives.
The USA, prior to GW Bush and Co., had at least managed to maintain an image of intellectual and spiritual freedom around the world. Bush has soured that image forever. Most insidious is the way in which our most basic principles of free conduct, principles we that we had extended to other countries around the world (in slightly truncated, colonialist form of course), are now being contravened by an administration that knows no other solution to a problem than to shoot at it or lock it up.
This country once threw off the shackles of a foreign king; it fought a war to end human bondage; it once helped stop poisonous, fraudulent, and violent political systems from dividing the world amongst themselves. Does anybody really see GW Bush measuring up to men like Washington, Lincoln, and FDR? This weaselly little oil failure has more in common with creatures like Nikolai Yezhov, Reza Pahlavi, and Augusto Pinochet. And like these bringers of death and destruction, he speaks of how many he is saving while at the same time his security forces are torturing and murdering those under their merciless care.
Like a true totalitarian, Bush says the exact opposite of his true intentions. He is neither compassionate nor conservative, neither Christian nor pragmatist. When he claims to defend freedom he means that he defends the right of governments to oppress other nations at the behest of multinational corporations. He should be impeached before he becomes any more dangerous to the future of this planet.
The process of rendition as practiced by the current regime involves kidnapping and forced relocation of those classified as "enemy combatants" to various locations around the world. Though these actions are contradictory in spirit to almost everything that the American system of democracy claims to represent, outrage has not been forthcoming. The apathy that has greeted the news of these secret strongarm processes has been one of the most shameful aspects of the mainstream media's abandonment of its purpose in recent years.
Not many media types saw fit to comment on the bitter irony of the USA and its involvement with secret prison camps in Eastern Europe. The same region that saw humanity abase itself in pursuit of bizarre ideological utopian dreams now sees the one country that could call itself a true liberator after WW II opening prisons on its soil. Not just prisons, mind you--these are houses of torture that use extralegal tactics to break down and destroy human beings. Tactics that were used by the interrogators of the NKVD and the SS mere decades ago in these same areas. It's all part of the proud legacy being developed by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and the New Christian Primitives.
The USA, prior to GW Bush and Co., had at least managed to maintain an image of intellectual and spiritual freedom around the world. Bush has soured that image forever. Most insidious is the way in which our most basic principles of free conduct, principles we that we had extended to other countries around the world (in slightly truncated, colonialist form of course), are now being contravened by an administration that knows no other solution to a problem than to shoot at it or lock it up.
This country once threw off the shackles of a foreign king; it fought a war to end human bondage; it once helped stop poisonous, fraudulent, and violent political systems from dividing the world amongst themselves. Does anybody really see GW Bush measuring up to men like Washington, Lincoln, and FDR? This weaselly little oil failure has more in common with creatures like Nikolai Yezhov, Reza Pahlavi, and Augusto Pinochet. And like these bringers of death and destruction, he speaks of how many he is saving while at the same time his security forces are torturing and murdering those under their merciless care.
Like a true totalitarian, Bush says the exact opposite of his true intentions. He is neither compassionate nor conservative, neither Christian nor pragmatist. When he claims to defend freedom he means that he defends the right of governments to oppress other nations at the behest of multinational corporations. He should be impeached before he becomes any more dangerous to the future of this planet.
posted by alyosha mcbain at 7:54 AM
5 Comments:
This wins Blue Gal's Don't Sugarcoat It Award. (that means a big mention and a post with link all to yourself one day in the next week.) I'll email ya when it goes up. Oh, and yer blogrolled.
Award is up. Congratulations.
Found you through Blue Gal - great post. It is incredible that people are not screaming about this, but I no longer have any clue as to what it would take to outrage the comatose conscience of this country.
I think Bush would actually have to start randomly torturing, killing, and eating small children to 'outrage the comatose conscience', Alicia.
Then again, O'Reilly might think that's OK. I wonder if they taste like falafel?
If O'Reilly defended Bush on charges of eating children I think he would say that the consumed children tasted like freedom, rather than falafel.
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