Thursday, December 9, 2010

D'you come here often?

There it is. Dixie and its satrapies, throttling the nation again today, in eternal schadenfreude. The New York Times portrays the failure of a bill in the Senate of the United States, to repeal the discriminatory exclusion of gay men and women from the nation's service. Not, need it be said, by a failure of majority will, as if that should be enough to perpetuate discrimination. No. By the exercise of arcane institutional privilege, not even contemplated in the Constitution.


If you live where these red pustules defile the map, this is how you are being represented. By three dozen pimples in an insufferably constant pattern on this country's copious ass. Is this the government you inherited, paid for, voted for, gave children for, and suffered for? 


It's the one you're being given, by sharecropping sectarian stalking horses of plutocracy. But such a state needs its young to die unnatural deaths, in wars it daren't end. If not today, then when the beast is bled enough, it may begin to live.
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  1. Nic NieuwoudtDecember 9, 2010 at 9:43 PM

    They call that progress over there and yourselves a modern nation? Hardly! Us here in Aus suffer, as you do, from an over-supply of UK stock that is "so disinclined to consider human nature" in their uptight fear of the unknown. How sad that humans have advanced so little in the last 800 years....

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  2. LaurentDecember 10, 2010 at 5:57 AM

    In precisely the time frame you specify, less 5 years, UK stock gave representation its fundamental document, Magna Carta, last year ruptured by the Bush Family's Supreme Court in the "Citizens United" case, endowing corporations with overweening power in Federal political contests and nullifying the competence of the electorate to achieve self-government.

    In a briefer time frame, UK stock gave descendants here Habeas Corpus (the right to confirm the charges against oneself before an independent magistrate), cast aside by the Bush regime, in the deepest gutting of human rights to due process since Carthage was churned with salt. (Senator Barack Obama voted for this "conciliating" betrayal, in the infamous and ineffectual compromise engineered by Senators Graham, McCain, and Lieberman, to suspend the Bush regime's practice of torture).

    In a briefer time frame still, UK stock gave descendants here the right against self-incrimination, which grew out of resistance to English canon law torture and which compels the State to procure evidence without resorting to extractions from the throat of the accused. Senator Barack Obama pledged to end this grotesque process and as President has only outsourced it. Meanwhile, the only vestige of the American Constitution's 5th Amendment which is of the slightest appeal to "Republicans" is the phrase against the alienation of property.

    Whatever Australia's problems may be, it is not a compulsive belligerent; whatever America's problems may be, they do not derive from the hard-spilled blood of Englishmen. They are sui generis.

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