Hypocrisy Rules in Republican America

[glarius]

Only in America.....Apparently it's acceptable that American soldiers and Iraqi citizens are dying daily, but Janet Jackson exposes a breast for a flashing moment and almost immediately there's a full blown government investigation.
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Federal Communications Commission head Michael Powell said he feels investigating was the right thing to do and that the comments he has heard so far seem to bear him out.
Powell said he has "had much more applause than negative comments."
Powell's comments came during a visit to the University of Colorado in Boulder.
He said he believes in letting things happen, but added, "The mark of a civilization is what it doesn't let happen." Really?....Does that include not letting unnecessary wars happen?

edit: It was the italicized line that got to me and made me post this..


http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/entertainment/2836377/detail.html

[Bandit]

1. "The mark of a civilization is what it doesn't let happen."

Could he possibly be referring to counting the ballots?

[Cat Atomic]

2. Someone else here posted a quote from Thomas Jefferson

a few weeks ago that I found incredibly insightful. I think it really explains Powell's remark.

Here it is:

"Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties:

1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes.

2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests.

In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call them, therefore, Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, Republicans and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same parties still and pursue the same object. The last one of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all."

--Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 1824.

Conservatives often openly express the idea that humanity is essentially bad- that it must be restrained by powerful men. It comes out in lots of little ways, and Powell's remarks illustrate that sentiment very well.

[glarius]

3. Right on!.....n/t

nt

[Terran]

4. Michael Powell is an idiot

Yet another son of the powerful, promoted into a position he has no business being in.