Stoopid Stuff

Life gets Tejus, Don't It?

I've just gotten fed up. Still arguing about torture. As if there were two sides to TORTURE! As if there was an honest and righteous and defensible position in support of torturing people. And while we find ourselves still arguing, after years of argument nobody's said anything new in years.

"No one is above the law".

"Ticking Time Bomb".

"Torture Doesn't work".

"24".

No. No more. I just don't want to repeat myself again. Even more so, I just can't listen to the liars lie any more.

Bellicose talk about Iran. Saber rattling over a Nuclear Weapons development program that doesn't exist.

The US Congress voted 390 to 5 to vigorously support Israel's slaughter of Palestinian women and children in Gaza. And if you say "War Crimes", if you question the savage, brutal, horrendously disproportionate nature of the Israeli onslaught, there's still, even today, somebody prepared to declare you an anti-Semite worthy of Hitler.

The US Treasury is still shoveling money into the most greedy, rapacious, incompetent financial firms, the ones who drank too much for too long at the trough of ridiculous, unsustainable business models, while people lose their jobs, their health care, their homes. While poverty and desperation climbs among Americans, the very American Corporations that CAUSED the problem in the first place just keep getting all they need, over and over again.

The same arguments. The same lies. The same crimes. Something new has to be injected into the discussion. Some cost must apply for being wrong, for breaking the law, for violating the constitution, for forgetting who you work for. Because while we have the same argument over and over, while we make the same statements and listen to the same lies, while nothing, not one little thing changes, it just seems like fiddling while Rome burns...

posted by mikey @ 11:17 AM