Why so many US citizens conveniently pretend to be ignorant about Bush?

[kster]

VHeadline.com commentarist Arthur Shaw writes: In an historic address titled "US Constitution in Grave Danger" delivered on January 16 in Washington, to countless standing and thunderous ovations, former Vice President Al Gore Jr. exposed the savage hostility and habitual contempt of the Bush regime for the democratic principles of accountability and of the rule of law. Gore described in detail the illicit concentration of power by the executive branch of the US government. Gore gave a comprehensive account of the anti-democratic policies and practices of Bush dictatorship, although US capitalist media portrayed Gore's speech as a "wiretapping speech."

Gore started off with the wiretapping story: "The Executive Branch of our government has been caught eavesdropping on huge numbers of American citizens and has brazenly declared that it has the unilateral right to continue without regard to the established law enacted by Congress to prevent such abuses. It is imperative that respect for the rule of law be restored."

The unconstitutional invasion by the state into the privacy of US citizens is not only a crime, but the arrogant insistence by the GOP regime that it possesses the "right to continue without regard to the established law" is more than just a crime ... it is the overthrow of the law that defines crime.

"During the period when this eavesdropping was still secret, the President went out of his way to reassure the American people on more than one occasion that, of course, judicial permission is required for any government spying on American citizens and that, of course, these constitutional safeguards were still in place."



http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=47722

[lvx35]

1. He LIED.

Not about an affair with his wife, or a youthful mistake, on any of the faux scandals politicians usually go through, but about spying on the people. About secret police. About tactics that have been associated with every shitty totalitarian state for the last 80 years. It is way more important than other things. I would rather find out Bush was smoking crack and let that slide than anything like this!!!

[roguevalley]

2. its like there were no Nazis after Germany lost.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Most Germans chose to ignore what their government was doing

These "good Germans" can be seen today in the "good Americans" that support Bush's wars and power grab because they fear their own shadows.

[depakid]

4. Maybe the better question is

Why are so many Americans ignorant period. It goes far beyond Bush. Or Republicans.

[barb162]

8. That's what I think. Lots of Americans don't care about politics

and then wonder why certain political things happen, like anti-worker legislation

[purji]

11. they are ignorant

because we have been cutting funding for public schools for decades.

[Dover]

5. I think Gore's speech is not only a call for awakening from the illusion

but also a direct message to the citizenry that their protections are no longer in place and it is up to THEM to root out this evil.
I don't know if it's innocence they cling to. Perhaps the illusion that the government is still intact and functional...?

But I think if you are going to 'give up' an illusion and lift the veil, it's necessary to consider what must be done to address the problem....the ugly truth...which gives rise to fear. And so it is, in part, a question of HOW to address the problem most effectively that have so many feeling frustrated and powerless. The usual lines of action, defense...the checks and balances... have been dismantled. This was the lesson the GOP took away from Watergate...there is no means to enforce the laws and decisions handed down by Congress. They laugh in it's face and refuse to cooperate. Blasphemy!

Simply finding a clean politician with integrity to represent us, or forming a third party is not going to be effective when it is the system itself that has been essentially gutted. And when the laws are no longer upheld, and the military and policing force do little to contradict the holder of the highest office, then seeking that remedy is moot as well. And of course one of our main lines of defense, our citizen soldiers, have been sent to a foreign land and 'spent' for a bogus cause.

I don't think the American citizenry is quite ready to face what must be done....so they cling to the illusion.

And I don't know that the more 'enlightened' citizenry should count on the internet anymore as the prime place/means to organize, because it too is quickly being turned against them and used as a weapon and intelligence gathering tool by Bushco. Of course it must be, from the Bushco perspective.

And I think to focus overly on the GOP and not on the individuals and the corporate bodies within our own ruling class who would see the citizens of this country or any other, dead in the streets before giving up their precious booty and agenda for global dominance, is missing the root cause. They are not only traitorous, but have and are committing crimes against humanity that must be rooted out and extinguished.

At any rate, this article hits some nails pretty hard on the head.

[Contrary1]

6. Unfortunately, most are not pretending. n/t

[AtomicKitten]

7. because they are ignorant

and because they have been programmed to consider Democrats the enemy and the media liberal and to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[Nomen Tuum]

9. Millions of Americans don't care because the Rapture is coming next week

They are totally brainwashed by Christian propaganda to believe that the Rapture is coming, and the worse things get, the sooner Jesus will come back to take them away.

What is even more dangerous is that 90% of the Nazi Republicans in Congress believe this Rapture crap, too!

[BlueCaliDem]

10. Why? Cuz they can't handle the truth, *that's* why! n/t

[Tesha]

12. What makes you think they're pretending (ignorance)? (NT)