I guess I’m not well informed on the conspiracy against her!!!

Thanks for reading.

I was just saying that if a murderer calls you a murderer, it doesn’t mean you are not. Truth is truth and isn’t dependent on the one speaking it. If Wendy thinks Cindy (this is sounding like logic 101…hehehe) is a war profiteer, that doesn’t dismiss Cindy’s contention that Bush is.

Hue Longer. Nice work, as uusal. And your “war profiteer” question got to me.

Many are the extreme BushCo critics that are “making a living” off (criticizing) Bush. See Chris Floyd’s website, for example, with its Christmas Tree collection of advertisers. And yet, when I said to Chris in a personal email that he was making his living off Bush, he seemed so abashed it was as if he’d never had the thought before.

I had in mind a contrast — between Arthur Silber and Chris Floyd, who icidentally thinks relatively highly of Chris — and in mind how most of the posts at Chris’ website seem sycophantic in the extreme — not in mind to criticize Chris’ politics, much less his very readable and occasionally brilliant anti-Bush pieces.

Was I being wrongheaded?

The bizarre group that follows Cindy Sheehan is made even weirder by the inclusion of liberal Democrats (not saying you are one of these for sure, Wendy… after all, you believe someone you consider to profit from war is unable to call Bush a war profiteer…do YOU think he’s a war profiteer, Wendy?)

All that is happening now is a logical result of what preceded it for the last 40 years, and more. There was a brief period of hope, from about 1965 to 1975, though it was throttled from the start by our fascist government. And, the government took its repressive actions with the support of an unthinking majority, the folks who gave us Nixon, Reagan, Bush I … and Slick Willie and George II.

Folks, what little democracy ever existed here is doomed. Get used to it, or be prepared to risk your lives to stop further advancement of the police state. The slightly-left-of-far-right wing of the ruling corporate party would not have sold us out as they did after 2006 if they did not believe they had the support of a majority of the herd. They would not be selling us corporatist candidates and pushing aside any voices of true progressivism if they truly thought we would reject them. And, indeed we welcome them, with their lies about “change” that is used to conceal their complete and utter devotion to continuation of the corporate police state, to complete privatization of everything, and to establishment of a formal feudal system here. We will exist only to serve the wealthy.

You get exactly the government you deserve.

To paraphrase Arthur Silber (and with apologies to him): BushCo’s threat and ability to do this is quite sufficient to silence all but an infinitesimal fraction of truly radical American dissidents.