the entertainment--it has little to do with what they believe or support. But I think we must also realize how useful this kind of statement is to the fascists who control our country. It makes people like Bush, Rice, Bolton, SEEM like moderates (by comparison), who are resisting some kind of outcry from the population--a thumbs down on Iran by the American PEOPLE--and are trying to be reasonable and diplomatic, in opposition to that pull from right in favor of bloodshed, when in fact, a) Bush-Rice-Bolton would incinerate millions of Iranians in a minute, if it suited them; b) they likely intend to use nuke strikes, avoiding the oil fields and facilities, to cripple the gov't, terrify the people and smash any resistance to a Bush junta takeover of Iranian oil.
It's like their Pat Robertson ploy--Robertson calling for Hugo Chavez's assassination. Anything Rice does--no matter how unjust, deceptive or destructive toward Venezuela--then looks moderate compared to assassinating a democratically elected president.
It makes me extremely sad and upset that a statement like this--calling for the nuclear incineration of an entire people--could be said on American TV without the immediate firing of the speaker. It is not just intolerable, on its face--it's more than that. It degrades us. It lowers the moral and ethical tone of the country to that of barbarians--looters and rapists. It encourages crime. It encourages "might makes right." It encourages the strong to loot and rape the poor. It encourages a despicable egotism--so reflective of Bush himself, and also Cheney and the rest--that flies in the face of all human feeling, all friendship, all community, all that binds us together. It's also pathetically and despicably weak--like old men, unable to get it up any more, blundering and blustering with their swords or guns against people and events they can no longer control. (Cheney comes to mind.) It is WEAKNESS to threaten such destruction against a small, defenseless country.
But for all the sadness and outrage I feel, I think we should focus on the power position of the fascists who foster and reward this kind of wretched propaganda. What strategy can we devise to remove their power over our public airwaves?
I think it has to start with our recovery of our right to vote--from the rightwing Bushite corporations that now control our election system with "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code--code so secret that not even our secretaries of state are permitted to review it. This is an outrageous circumstance. This latest twist in fraudulent elections is why asshats like Bush and O'Reilly can still be in power. A democratic country with TRANSPARENT elections would long ago have toppled them both.
Transparent elections are not just the key to ending unjust war and massive thievery by the rich, they are the key to controlling laws that control our public airwaves.
Transparent elections = good government, responsible, well-regulated business, strong "checks and balances" such as an honest press corps, peace and justice.
Non-transparent elections = the Bush junta, and asshats issuing nuke threats, and assassination threats, on TV.
Our "press corps" is so bad that it was COMPLICIT with the use of "trade secret" software to steal the last election. The war profiteering corporate news monopolies, acting in concert on election night 2004, through one polling organization (Edison-Mitofsky), FALSIFIED their own exit polls, FORCING the numbers to 'FIT' the results of Diebold's and ES&S's secret vote tabulation--thus denying the American people major evidence of election fraud (that Kerry won the exit polls) and squelching protests and calls for investigation (unlike in the Ukraine, where people could see the difference between the exit polls and the official results, and knew that something was very wrong).
That's how bad these news organizations have become. O'Reilly is an artifact of the utter corruption of American journalism by corporate war profiteers--an inevitable consequence of it. If you have all news and opinion monopolized by a few rich people, of course you're going to have, a) gasbags like O'Reilly shilling for them, and calling for nuclear incineration of millions of people, in order to steal some resource that the war profiteers want; and b) stolen elections for the same purpose.
To restore balance, we have first to restore transparent elections--the one thing that it is still within our power to do (for how long I don't know). Power over election systems still resides at the state/county level, where ordinary people still have some influence.
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Some resources:
www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.verfiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.UScountvotes.org (monitoring of '06 and '08 elections)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)
www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)
Sign the petition (Russ Holt, HR 550, great bill-has 169 sponsors).
http://www.rushholt.com/petition.htmlwww.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
www.votepa.us (well-organized local group of citizen activists in Pennsylvania, where important legal issues are at stake, including state's rights over election systems)
Also of interest:
Bob Koehler (-- four recent election reform initiatives in Ohio, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet; the election theft machines and their masters are now dictating election policy!)
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk
Amaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340
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Throw Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!
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