Kay,
Far from justifying the Nick Berg story, we're actively trying to understand it:
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Unlike some astonishingly gullible people on the Right, we actually can prove that the White House cynically and deliberately manipulates the news cycle with false stories, fake news and other acts of treachery.
What has the Right proven about the duplicity of Bush's White House? Butkus. Nada. Zilch. The Right is completely worthless to a democracy. It is far too wrapped up in its insane ideological fantasies and paranoia about real people. Except for some terrifically paleo-conservatives like Lew Rockwell, Justin Raimundo, Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, Karen Kwiatkowski and others who are exposing the rotten heart and shriveled soul of the neo-con fascism that is so corrosive to our democracy.
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On Democracy: "I have spoken hitherto of the possibility that democracy may be a self-limiting disease, like measles. It is, perhaps, something more: it is self-devouring. One cannot observe it objectively without being impressed by its curious distrust of itself—its apparently ineradicable tendency to abandon its whole philosophy at the first sign of strain. I need not point to what happens invariably in democratic states when the national safety is menaced. All the great tribunes of democracy, on such occasions, convert themselves, by a process as simple as taking a deep breath, into despots of an almost fabulous ferocity." — H.L. Mencken
What do we need foreign enemies for? We're in a struggle for our nation's future and our nation's sanity with the ogre in the White House. |
