Moral Cowards In Hiding

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Moral Cowards In Hiding
by Butler Shaffer

“Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.”
—Thomas Jefferson

Many Americans are acting like members of a lynch mob who later become aware of their viciousness and attempt to disguise their involvement. When President Bush finally got his long-planned Middle East war games going, most Americans hid their erstwhile sense of decency and responsibility behind the statist flag. Once the war mania was underway, eighty percent of my neighbors had flags flying from their homes. One household even took to holding occasional revival-like meetings in their front yard, with patriotic songs helping to reinforce the statist mindset.

Just as the lynch mob later discovered, to its embarrassment, that the hired hand they had hanged had not murdered his employer, the whooping-and-hollering chorus of flag-wavers slowly became aware that there were neither WMDs nor an Al-Qaeda connection in Iraq. Mr. Bush and his neo-anderthal co-conspirators had fed the world a steady diet of lies. The flags began to disappear from homes and cars. Now only ten to fifteen percent of my neighbors continue to fly the statist symbol.

Increasing numbers of Americans now realize that they had allowed themselves to be gulled. But so deep was their psychic investment in Mr. Bush’s necktie party, that most were unwilling to cut their losses, admit to egregious moral error on their part, and demand an end to the continuation of the deadly fraud. Because the flag had become an expression of war-mania, these people no longer felt comfortable hiding behind it. What evolved from this foggy state of moral confusion were the bumper-stickers with the words “peace is patriotic” superimposed over a picture of the flag. One could thus appear to be both a patriot--even as the government continued its butchery--and an advocate of peace!

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1. To say moral and intellectual cowardice are rampant in this nation would

be a gross understatement IMHO, for the Congress, the MSM, and the American people have been unwilling to hold those responsible to account, line by line, for what they have done again demonstrating we get the government we deserve.

[pretzel4gore]

2. yet some kid's sent to jail for 'terror' threats!

meanwhile, rush limbah-humbug, friedman, woodward, the kristol nighters, anus of coulter, bill orally, tim bushpig russert, brite hum of fox bushnews and a mob of other criminals gets fat on the corpse of the USA.
face it, bush represent the USA better then hitler could even: the prosperity of the pigmedia proves it.
there's nothing to fight for...nothing
like the guy said in 'deer hunter'- fuckit!

[wli]

3. actually I overestimated how bad it was

The instant I saw the burning towers I thought it was going to be a pretext for a military coup. Which it may have covertly been, but there weren't tanks in the streets or anything.

And basically I never suspected anything but oil for Iraq or Afghanistan. The Euro/oil connection and Afghan opium production had to be pointed out to me later.