"For all that terrorism mishief look only towards the right wing and their pornographic patriotism and stupid ass jingoism."
koan, you need to start hanging out with some more educated progressives. tekek, chinu and wharf are Bushites in Pelosi drag. Even bentway justifies the brutal murder of Randy Weaver's wife by a sniper.
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He got Chiquita execs off with a hand slap for paying $1.7 million to rightwing death squads in Colombia, to slaughter 4,000 union leaders and workers.
For fucking Attorney General!
huffingtonpost.com.
Obama might as well appoint Albert Gonzales as A.G. That's what Holder and Gonzales do for a living--they get big powerful, multi-millionaire white men immunity for mass murder of the poor and the brown.
I was willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt on the appointment of Rahm Emmanuel as WH chief of staff--at least until we see who he wants as DNC chair (if Dean is leaving that position). Emmanuel is the DLC politico who went round dropping cash on pro-war Democrats, to defeat anti-war Democrats and real leftists (majorityists) in the '06 primaries. He is as responsible as Pelosi and Reid for Congress' 10% approval rating (worse than Bush!). This is to be Obama's "gatekeeper"--a powerful DLCer who hates the grass roots and the 70% majority of Americans opposed to the Iraq War, and likely would have done anything in his power to prevent Obama from getting the nomination? Yup! Him. Chief of staff.
But on the other hand, it may be a brilliant appointment. We don't know yet. Clearly, Obama had to make a deal with the Clinton/DLC faction of the leadership, to get the corpo/fascist vendors of 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines, and the corpo/fascist media, to back off and let him win. I understand what Obama's dealing with. I am not naive. And why not have your chief enemy in the Democratic Party close at hand, and on a tight leash, obliged to implement your legislative agenda? Benefit of the doubt, anyway. If Emmanuel gets the job done for Obama, maybe we can forgive his support for a million innocent people slaughtered in Iraq as a quirk in his character.
Sorry. I mean this. Obama has to work with a largely corpo/fascist Congress, made that way in no small part by Rahm Emmanuel. Emmanuel knows who they are. Maybe he can whip them into shape on Obama's behalf. And I was thinking, too, that, ok, Obama gets the left all riled up and pissed off over this appointment--making the DLC's boy WH chief of staff--so he can do something else that is more important. We don't know the full picture yet. It's only day 4 and he's not even president yet. And he's got the Bush Cartel to worry about.
But this...this is unspeakable! With all the attorneys in this country who are righteous defenders of civil rights, who devote their lives to good causes, who are smart and dedicated and for the people, he can't find someone better than Chiquita Banana's death squad attorney for A.G.? A man who might as well be a mafia attorney. A man with utter contempt for the law when it comes to killing union leaders and uppity workers--especially the brown kind. They count for nothing to shits like Eric Holder.
This is worse than Emmanuel, the DLC and the Iraq War, because of the POSITION--chief law enforcement officer of the U.S. What can we expect from such an A.G.? Two things, at least: Protection of Bush war criminals, and protection of global corporate predators of every kind, when they kill and oppress the little, unimportant people who get in their way. It also may signal the victory of the Clintonites/Bushites, within the Obama camp, on rewarding the horrors in Colombia with a "free trade" deal (that is, rewarding the rich fascists, drug traffickers and death squadders who run Colombia), and on demonizing and trying to topple the democratic leaders of the rest of the continent--particularly Chavez (Venezuela), Morales (Bolivia) and Correa (Ecuador), who control much of South America's oil and are using the profits to benefit the poor.
It raises the gravest question about Obama Latin American foreign policy: Is he going to repeat the mistakes of the last two hundred years, and the horrors of the Reagan and Bush regimes, and try to bludgeon Latin America--and particularly South America--into submission? Is he going to defy the peaceful, democratic aspirations of the poor majority, which are finally being realized on the most of the continent, but notably not in Colombia? Does he have no understanding of the bleak irony that this hideous, fascist regime in Colombia is virtually the only U.S. ally on the continent?
Obama certainly articulated a rather full-on "manifest destiny" outlook, with regard to Latin America, in his speech to the anti-Castro mafia in Miami, in May. But it had some hints that he might pursue restoring U.S. corpo dominance more peacefully than the bloodthirsty Reaganites and Bushwhacks. I don't have any illusions about Obama on this score. I voted for him despite his utter failure to understand the democracy revolution in South America (quickly moving into Central America). Latin American foreign policy is his most serious failure, as a leftist, as a thinker and as an educated man. But he is a learner--open-minded, welcoming toward dissenting views. And I had hope.
As Emily Dickinson has said, "Hope is a thing with feathers." Light, airy, will-o-the-wisp, easy to blow away. Beautiful, but so fragile.
This floater--Eric Holder as A.G.--is like a high-powered rifle blast to the little bird of hope that I had on Obama and Latin America. There isn't much left of the poor thing. A few bits of bird bone and feathers falling, falling to the ground, as I try to hope that it isn't true. That it's just a rumor. That they might (or somebody might) float such a thing for various reasons, but that Obama couldn't possibly be serious.
Of all the attorneys in the U.S..... |
