Saturday, March 19, 2005

Wake Up, Sheeple!

It amazes me that people do not realize the seriousness of what is going on around them.

When the government has a aggressive reactionary social agenda to further advantage the wealthy at the expense of the middle and working class and when there is an alignment between the government and the mass media and large corporations, such as corporate suborning of so called democratically elected officials, and reciprocal crony capitalism and administration sanctioned graft extending into the billions of dollars is the rule, that in sum is fascism.

Elections are stolen, the media covers up and ignores the theft, and political parties are organs of corporate political influence. Day after day we get new examples of the same lack of democracy and lack of a balance of interests in government.

This is an administration that distributed fake news releases to promote its Medicare legislation, which were cited by the GAO as illegal propaganda;

The same administration that distributed fake news reports to promote its drug policy, which were cited by the GAO as illegal propaganda;

The same administration that paid a public relations firm to promote its education law with fake news reports, and to rank newspapers on their coverage of said education law;

The same administration that paid Armstrong Williams to promote its education law (a payment he never disclosed);

The same administration that paid a National Review columnist to promote its marriage legislation (a payment she never disclosed);

The same administration that paid another columnist to promote that same marriage legislation (again, a payment he never disclosed);

The same administration that is forcing the Social Security administration to promote its own destruction;

The same administration that allowed a male prostitute with no journalistic experience to get White House press credentials using a fake name, from a fake news source, so he could ask fake ideological slanted questions; (link)

The same administration then gave said reporter access to the classified documents that led to the outing of a CIA operative who was married to a critic of the administration (link);

The same administration that engaged in all of these acts of propaganda and intimidation of critics is now threatening stations if they run a MoveOn ad that opposes their plan to destroy Social Security.

And they are creating do-not-admit lists for public (and publicly-funded) events based on perceived political views.

And their allies are calling us traitorous for suggesting troop withdrawal.

And they think reporters should not be allowed to use anything except administration talking points.

And their allies want to censor a children’s cartoon for supposedly being too pro-gay.

And they want to regulate what can be taught in colleges and universities on ideological grounds.

And they support torture policies.

And they support internment of minorities.

And they support pre-emptive war.

I am sure I left out a bunch of stuff.

There is a crisis in this country, but it is not Social Security.

A new storm is rising.
These are dangerous times for our country.

- Bob Woods