Unresolved questions in the Cheney shooting incident

[IndianaGreen]

Unresolved questions in the Cheney shooting incident

By Patrick Martin
16 February 2006

Cheney’s four-day silence demonstrated the vice president’s arrogant indifference to public opinion. His eventual decision to give an interview with Fox News expresses both contempt for the public’s right to know and personal cowardice—Cheney is willing to be questioned only by a network which has repeatedly demonstrated a slavish political loyalty to the Bush administration and its ultra-right policies.

The rejection of accountability—for the 9/11 attacks, for the lies which were used to engineer the war with Iraq, for the failures in the response to Hurricane Katrina, for the devastating social and fiscal impact of Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy—is the hallmark not only of an administration, but of the ruling elite as a whole.

In that sense, Cheney’s conduct at the Armstrong Ranch and its presentation by the media provide a vivid example of the social relations that prevail in contemporary America, ruled by a financial oligarchy that feels itself as far above the common people as the Russian Tsar or the French aristocracy before 1789. There is one set of laws, one set of prerogatives for the modern equivalent of the ruling estates of the feudal past, and another for the rabble.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/feb2006/chen-f16.shtml

[opihimoimoi]

1. We are the Rabble..... they be the MASTERS.....

[Erika]

2. So Dickens, So Hugo, So Zola

But that is what W has turned this country into in five short years. The elitist lords and ladies have games at their feudal estates. One of the lords gets hurt and is chauffeured off in a royal way for the best doctor money can buy.

Meanwhile the King and Queen are having a royal Valentine celebrity ball serving caviar and an exquisite cosine, paid for by the commoners.

The help is not mentioned. Maybe they hope for a little left over quail or caviar to make ends meet.

W's America.

[eugene5debs]

3. A partial answer to the questions

There is a transcript of Cheney and Whittington talking during the hunt, to be found here:

http://www.staggeron.org/tattlebytes.html#deadeye_dick

[Erika]

4. Fantastic - Needs to be read by all n/t