MIke Malloy's blog: Has he mentioned yet tonight.......

[Greeby]

It is not quite noon on Tuesday morning, the 31st of January, 2006, and the Senate vote to confirm Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court was just tallied. Mark the day and time. The vote in favor of Fascism was 58-42. The number of votes needed to sustain a filibuster and preserve what shreds of democracy remain was 41. Do the math. But, on the other hand, this is what a majority of the American people seem to want: an end to the messiness of democracy and the firm hand of a dictator. The fact that the dictator is George W. Bush seems not to bother those who no longer have the courage required of living in a democratic society.

CNN online reports "A majority of Americans said the Senate should confirm federal appellate judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court, with just 30 percent opposing his confirmation, according to a poll released Monday." Astonishing. Mind-boggling. How can a majority of Americans truly be in favor of an end to democratic freedoms and ideals? Their own democratic freedoms and ideal? This inability of the public to be clear on Alito's malignant agenda rests squarely on the media. Their compliance in the Bush Crime Family's insistence on keeping Alito's disdain for democracy secret, hidden, disguised, was an act of criminal conspiracy.

Their refusal to inform the public precisely what Alito's record indicates he will do as a Justice, and their sycophantic non-reporting on the unavoidable consequences of an Alito confirmation, worked together with the lies and unquestioned distortions of the Republican Party to produce this sickening confirmation. The insult added to this gross injury will occur tonight when the Federalist Society and all the other right-wing organizations (and they are legion) who worked so diligently since the US overwhelmingly rejected Republican Fascism in 1964, celebrate another half-witted, clearly menacing, oratory from the least qualified man ever to hold the office of president.

The American Nazis will have succeeded beyond anything they could have anticipated 40 years ago. Shall we raise a glass tonight, then, and join with the majority in the American version of the scream let loose so often by the Brownshirts and the SS and the German people of the 1930s? A roar that will reverberate repeatedly through the Senate chambers and sound hideously like: Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fuhrer!

Or shall we resist?

[LSparkle]

1. Gave me chills ... thanks, Mike

Resistance -- NOW MORE THAN EVER!

[Selatius]

2. If people questioned their sources of information, then it wouldn't be...

this way. I would submit the idea that if the people had been given all the relevant information about Alito's record, something that should have been given anyway, then they would not have supported his nomination.

However, it is very tempting to simply let others do the work one can do collectively with others. It is easier to have news delivered neat and pre-packaged than it is to go out and collectively gather information in a network of peers and share that information with each other. This is simple human nature.

The corporate shareholders on the various board of directors own the means of information dissemination, so they can mold the views of the public. They may not fool everybody, but they can fool enough. I would argue this is a case of social engineering. I would say it is perhaps one of the greatest examples of social engineering ever conceived. Hitler and his propaganda machine are crude compared to the information control and manipulation of today.

Making a population think they live free in a nation slowly slipping under corporate authoritarian tyranny. Impossible! It can't happen here! ...right?

[ClayZ]

3. It is a dark day in AMERICAN history!

The whole world is watching!

Here is "The Deal" by arendt


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2391803




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[deminks]

4. Sieg Heil, y'all.

When they come for you, I will resist. When they come for me will you resist?

We are about to be tested for our character. I am thinking that today, 39% of us would fail.