Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00084)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "prmoliveira" <prmoliveira@y...> 
wrote:

> Thanks for your comments Jerry. After seeing the video and reading 
> the posts commenting on it here, I am left with a (probably) naive 
> question in my mind: what happened to the legacy of Martin Luther 
> King, Jr and the Civil Rights Movement, 

It has been coopted by the radical right to mean "if you object to 
an incompetent and deceitful warmonger for the post of Secretary of 
State, and the person happens to be black, your objections will be 
dismissed as race-based. If you object to a torture enthusiast 
nominated as Attorney General, and that person happens to be 
Hispanic, your objections will be dismissed as race-based." And a 
good number of elected officials who know better will vote for the 
warmonger and torture enthusiast rather than be portrayed as racist.

the strong Feminist 
> Movement, the Fist Amendment, the Counterculture, among others?
> 
> How come a nation that with fierce and courageous struggle 
enshrined 
> the fundamental principle of individual freedom under the law, has 
> now become exposed to the rule of a political, economic and 
> religious oligarchy that is out to destroy everything America has 
> stood for? 
> 
> Can you identify the historical turning point that has led to 
this? 

December 12, 2000. Election theft enabled by a partisan 5-4 vote in 
the Supreme Court, abetted by extreme media bias and inexplicable 
cowardice on the part of Democrats. Once that happened, the door 
was wide open to the theft of everything we thought was secure in 
this country. 

> Or has Christian ultra-fundamentalism always been that strong and 
> influential in America? 
> 
Definitely not. Still isn't. Fewer than half of Bush voters have a 
clue what they're enabling, based on public opinion surveys on 
issues.

> It seems virtually impossible for two other traditional 
democracies in the world - England and France, for example - to 
undergo a similar process: a theocratic domination. People would be 
out in the streets in their millions at the very first sign of it 
and there could civil wars. On the other hand, a civil war in the US 
today is unthinkable as a Christian ultra-fundamentalist already has 
his hands on the WMDs codes and controls.
> 

"Seems virtually impossible" is a phrase that has lost all meaning 
to liberal Americans in the last 5 years. Nothing is impossible. 
Impeach a popular, competent president over six blowjobs? Sure, why 
not? Turn a huge surplus into a huge deficit, and have the media 
pretend nothing is out of line? Sounds great! Start a war based on 
*fairly* obvious lies and get reelected based on *extremely* obvious 
lies? GO TEAM! Destroy Social Security and call it "saving" it? 
Pee on 600 million legs and convince 51% that it's rain? Piece of 
cake! If there is such a thing as truth making people free or karma 
stopping villains before they destroy everything in sight, BRING IT 
ON!

Paul