Guantanamo? Drones? We have to think these things through.

In fact, it provokes me to think our corporatist neo-fascist government is
dragging our whole nation a harsh limelight, to become a mockery of what
we say we stand for, to become criminals in the courts of international
legal and moral opinion.

Does thinking ^this^thought make me a "suspected terrorist"? How can
things have become so distorted and surreal?

I know it's a rough world out there, but Spencer Tracy's monologue challenges us to be our best. I think we ought to strive to live up to it.

we wouldn't stand for what our government is doing if it were a republican in charge of the executive branch.

I had a thread locked yesterday saying pretty much this same thing.

Header: When W was President, progressive Democrats used to give a rat's ass
(about civil liberties,, pointless endless war, over-reaching surveillance & spying on
private citizens for the "crime" of caring and acting out of compassion for the nation
and the innocents that are always the victims, the collateral damage, et. al)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022343055 <--link to my OP
It was a hefty OP, with three "Exhibits A, B & C" featuring Chris Hedges,
along with this 3-4 minute powerhouse, that I just discovered yesterday:
&feature=player_embedded

I'm super-curious if anyone else (such as yourself) can still access this OP &
string of conversation, or is it ONLY ME who can access it, since I was it's author?

Would you be so kind as to try that first link above and let me know?

We see the exact same thing you see.

One less mystery in my Universe.

are condemned to repeat it..." - George Santayana

The director really needed to get another couple of takes out of Tracy.

...that the issue is survival....survival at any cost...we inch closer and closer to becoming the type of people...skilled, honest, patriotic people...who were sitting in the docks at Nuremburg...

it is not without cost....the cost is our individual humanity and our collective, national soul.

In those days just about everyone that walked out of that movie would have agreed with the good Judge...it would not be so today...the right wingers would have called him a communist socialist Marxist and said his weakness was ruining the country.

It was a slow process from then to now, but slowly they eroded all that idealist stuff right out of our culture and replaced it with self interest and greed...and a cold disregard for humanity...and we let them.

Also, since our government feels it represents corporations and corporations are psychopathic...

we had had a mind such as this, counseling those administration people post 9/11. I do hope innocent people will stop being 'droned' by this administration. And no they are not collateral damage, they are human beings with dreams, hopes and positive expectations of life. Bushmonkey, Darth, Rumbucket, Rice and the rest, should be tried in the Hague. But won't happen. Concerning the children and innocents in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the 100,000 civilians killed in Iraq they are not collateral damage, as I see it. I wish for peace really and I hope people in the present administration come to their senses but that probably won't happen either. Privy to information we don't have or not, the indiscriminate killing has to stop. Right on Faygo Kid.

Now any American family can turn their heads on what our country is doing because ti doesn't affect them.