You are absolutely right. Start by kicking out the easiest leg of the stool. The corrupt media.

Ted Rall has a thing going where he is taking donations for a legal fund to sue the c*nt Coulter for slander and libel. He’s up to $21,000 –

RYAN NEAT ROCKS!

do we need another revolution to oust the dangerous and powerful?

Probably not…but the fear of such a thing might.

Yes, but if the MSM put out the video 6 months ago, it would have deprived the whiners of another rant.

Do you think we do this just for something to rant about? God that is a fvcking clueless statement.

Yeah, I just love having the worst president in history, so I have something to rant about.

Do you know how stupid that sounds.

And the beat goes on…La Da Dah (whatever)

Many people like myself (and most here) have got to be wondering “where’s the outrage”? BushCo is being exposed daily but their deviant policies keep beating on…why? No fear.

Someone recently posted a rant about taking it to the streets with bullhorns in hand. Kinda 60’s style. That might be somewhat effective but getting enough people joining in to make a difference would be difficult at best. Protesting in public takes a lot of guts and most people don’t care enough to do so. BushCo’s policies are destructive (I’m preaching to the choir) but few see how these policies affect them personally so they don’t care enough to be more than privately vocal…if they care at all.

As much as Viet Nam is compared to Iraq there are obviously huge differences in social attitudes. The mass protests of the 60’s and subsequent sympathy for them, in my opinion, was spurred by one thing. Fear. That is- of the draft. When you, your son, boyfriend, etc. might have to unwillingly die in a bs war, enough fear is instilled to cause outrage.

The draft was the unifier that is lacking today. Most people are too distracted and divided among emotional political issues (another topic all together) to pay much attention to politics. College campuses were the hotbed of activity during the 60’s. I live near a college town and see little activity at all. Of consideration is that entertainment today doesn’t require social contact like it did in the 60’s. Then you had 3-5 channels of TV- now you have 150, the internet, cell phones, etc. From what I understand by talking to them, most students do little after classes but download music, play video games, and surf the web (mostly for porn). I’m not ripping on them for being distracted- it’s just the way it is. No fear.

I could go on and on but to get to the point- Little is going to change until the government once again fears the people. BushCo fearlessly uses fear daily. What do “they” have to be afraid of? There is no significant numbered force opposing them, they control congress, and there isn’t much social upheaval. The unions are all but broken, etc. etc.

But what might BushCo and their republican enabelers fear? I’d like to think it’s not getting re-elected but is it really? If a republican Sen. or Congressmen gets unseated what happens? He/she gets a WAY better “private sector” job. I guess what I’m saying is that things must be done to put a little fear into “the establishment”. One way to do this is through exposure. Such as why TP and others are having an effect. As Sen. Daschle said:

One last word: I believe in the noise of democracy, and that noise eminates in part from what you are all doing here. But it also must come from our elected representation in the checks and balances created by our Founding Fathers and the Constitution. There are few too checks and balances today at a time when we need them more than ever.

Hate to say it but aside from internet blogs and discussions- one of the answers is the “MSM”. The good thing is that it looks like they are starting to roll on BushCo.

Well, I did hear it on TV. Keith Olbermann was all over this fact on last night’s Countdown on MSNBC. (I saw the later edition, don’t know about the first.)

On the other hand, I’m appalled to see the NY Times burying its story about the video on page 16 this morning (National edition). What’s more, their story doesn’t lead with the pre-Katrina warnings that were ignored, and lied about, by Bush — the headline reads “Unaware as Levees Fell, Officials Expressed Relief” — instead, it’s about “federal and state officials” not knowing that the levees had been breached after the fact.

Phooey.

Hehe, anyone else see the irony in this post. Psychologists say the unenlightened can only see themselves, looks we have proof of this in our midst :)

Phenga, I suppose you don’t care about the dead americans, and the fact this tape further proves the reichwing sat on their hands instead of acting? Once again you ‘attack’ and offer nothing of value to say. Same old Phinga, accusing others of your own crime. You’re definitely in good company with your fellow republicans.