WOW - Read this: "Hate America? You Bet - This One" (Mark Drolette)

[highplainsdem]

From Scoop:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00327.htm


It's all worth quoting, but since I can quote only a few paragraphs, I'll start with what Drolette writes after referring back to the movie "Network" and what it said about corporate interests overwhelming national interests, and to his visit to Normandy and the cemetery above Omaha Beach:


I think all war is lunacy, but since one never knows when the next apocalyptical madman with a powerful army will show up determined to squelch as many human rights, and lives, as possible, I also believe in “provid(ing) for the common defence” as delineated in the Constitution of the United States.

Ah, yes: the Constitution, the document that, when combined with its spiritual twin, the Declaration of Independence, forms a venerated tandem that embodies the soaringly beautiful ideals comprising the true essence of what our beloved America really is, or at least inspiringly strives to be. Or did, that is, until Dubya came along, twice got hisself appointed president, and like a cackling, drunken adolescent (in other words, a typical Bush), pissed all over the whole deal.

Oh, no: Dubya, our very own very insane very little man whose affinity for dressing up in military garb started taking flight only decades after he’d spent a year avoiding same, the neo-Napoleon who has chest-thumpingly authorized torture and the murder of 100,000 innocents while taking his own delusional stab at global conquest, a soulless nutcase of a silver-spooned twit who simply considers (as he considers everything) the aforementioned two manuscripts nothing more than dated, frayed papers full of so many words. (And we all know how trying he finds those pesky things, what with their being stuffed to the brim with tricky letters and syllables and all.)

Liberties, rights, justice, equality, and most of all, the rule of law: all viewed as merely gnat-like, annoying impediments by the Bushian thugs as they goose-step their way toward their sole goal, an aim that can be summed up in three words (well, four if you count the one in parentheses): (more) power and profits. Or, as the imperialistic imbeciles at the Project for the New American Century crow: “American interests and principles.”


And Drolette is just getting warmed up there as he talks about the "not-so-subtle and very real shift" in his feelings toward America.

[BiggJawn]

1. Thanks for the link

I'll read this fully later.

"...the imperialistic imbeciles at the Project for the New American Century..."

Sums up that bunch of "Stratego" addicts, I think.

[highplainsdem]

2. I agree.

[tlsmith1963]

3. He Says Exactly How I Feel

I loved the old America. I hate the new one. Enough said.

Tammy

[MN ChimpH8R]

4. Scoop has had some excellent opinion pieces lately

Goldhammer's piece about the fundamentalist shadow behind Chimpy is terrifying reading.

[highplainsdem]

5. Here's the link for that one,

for anyone who hasn't read it yet:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4818173

[BiggJawn]

6. But there will be those (even here) who discount Drolette...

...because of this line:
"So Bush hasn’t sent six million undesirables off to gas chambers. Yet. Remember, though, it took even Hitler a while to get those babies up and running. In the meantime, Bush can just let America’s “useless eaters” drown in their own homes..."

That's what we say here, we remind people that comparatively, we havent even gotten to the 1936 Olympics yet, and what do we get for our warning?

"Oh! you 'dishonor' The Dead by comparing Bush to Hitler! Bush hasn't killed 6,000,000 people!"

As Drolette said: "Yet."

[mandyky]

8. I have a comment but it would be called anti-semetic

but I know what you mean.

Sometimes living in poverty can be worse than death, esp. when there is money for tax cuts for the rich and endless wars. I think 44 + million people without health insurance has caused deaths, but George will never get the credit for it, he'll blame it on Clinton, like everything else that goes wrong.

[fooj]

10. Honestly, I get so tired of hearing that.

Hasn't he killed enough people? Isn't one too many? Six or six million...murder is murder, right?



Peace.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. This guy and I are on the same wave-length except he's getting out

3 years before me! Loved the piece. Feel exactly the same way!

[JohnyCanuck]

9. Time to shun USA says a Canuckistanian commentator

Shunning

by Paul Harris

<snip>

In modern times, occasions arise when one or several countries choose to ‘shun’ another nation as a way of trying to influence a change in that nation’s behaviour. Think of the United States’ embargo on Cuba, sanctions levied against bad actors by the United Nations (like Libya, Iraq), Canadian sanctions against South Africa, eventually adopted by most of the British Commonwealth. That last example is a model of what can be accomplished with international condemnation; although the world’s sanctions against Apartheid cannot claim full credit for the turnaround in South Africa, it was a powerful incentive to those who sought to bring about changes there.

This is an article about the United States of America. From the outset, let me state clearly that there is tremendous credit due to the US for a wide variety of social, humanitarian, artistic, scientific, intellectual accomplishments. But this small group of people, ruled by an even smaller group of thugs (a kleptocracy), is truly the epitome of the ‘tail-wagging-the-dog’ syndrome. The US comprises a small fraction of the world but it sees all the rest of the world – and, for emphasis, ALL the rest of the world – as its servant, its supplier of cheap goods and labour, its warehouse, its flea market, the place to play with its guns.

<snip>

At this point, thanks to George W. Bush’s September 2002 document entitled ‘The National Security Strategy of the United States of America’ (NSS), we know with certainty that the United States intends to rule the world. They will act unilaterally to attack wherever and whenever they wish and they have already demonstrated that they mean it. Given their propensity for field-testing their high-tech weaponry, should they really be surprised that most other nations fear them? And is it rational for them to think that those who fear them are going to like them?

But it isn’t quite as simple as worrying about American bombs because they don’t drop them everywhere. There are actually some places that the US considers to be alright. Canada for one, although they often think we are cheeky buggers who they’re one day going to have to squash. Britain for another, although one wonders if the US only thinks well of them because of the recent lapses of British common sense in supporting Bush’s military adventures.


http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20050918204323413

[defiant1]

11. Absolutely fantastical piece....

I couldn't have said it better.

:thumbsup: :patriot:

[highplainsdem]

12. Kick!

:kick: