Thunder on the Mountain: The Murderers of
Democracy
By Chris Floyd
“Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked
schemes.
I tell you this right now, I don’t give a damn about
your dreams.”
-- Bob Dylan, “Thunder on the Mountain” |
From the New York Times:
The Senate today rejected an
amendment to a bill creating a new system for interrogating
and trying terror suspects that would have guaranteed such
suspects access to the courts to challenge their
imprisonment. The action set the stage for final passage of
the bill, which was approved on Wednesday by the House of
Representatives. The bill’s ultimate passage was assured on
Wednesday when Democrats agreed to forgo a filibuster in
return for consideration of the amendment. (For what the
bill really means,
see this excellent piece from Glenn Greenwald.)
Who are these people?
Who are these useless hanks of bone and fat that call themselves
Senators of the United States? Let’s call them what they really
are, let’s speak the truth about what they’ve done today with
their votes on the bill to enshrine Bush's gulag of torture and
endless detention into American law.
Who are they? The murderers of democracy.
Sold our liberty to
keep their coddled, corrupt backsides squatting in the Beltway
gravy a little longer.
Who are they? The murderers of democracy.
Cowards and slaves,
giving up our most ancient freedoms to a dull-eyed, dim-witted
pipsqueak and his cohort of bagmen, cranks and degenerate
toadies. For make no mistake: despite all the lies and distorted
media soundbites, the draconian strictures of this bill apply to
American citizens as well as to all them devilish foreigners.
Who are they? The murderers of democracy.
Traitors to the
nation, filthy time-servers and bootlickers, turning America
into a rogue state, an open champion of torture, repression and
terror.
Who are they? The murderers of democracy.
Threw our freedom on
the ground and raped it, beat it, shot it, stuck their knives
into it and set it on fire.
Who are they? The murderers of democracy.
If there was an ounce
of moxie left in the American system, these white-collar
criminals would be in shackles right now, arrested for high
treason, for collusion with a tyrant who is gutting the
constitution, pushing terrorism to new heights and waging an
unholy, illegal war of aggression that’s killed tens of
thousands of innocent people and bled our country dry.
There is no honor in
them. There is no decency, no morality, no honesty – nothing but
fear, nothing but greed, nothing but base servility. Cringing,
wretched little creatures, bowing to the will of a third-rate
thug and his gang of moral perverts. This is their record. This
is their doing. This is the shame they will have to live with.
And this is the darkness, rank, fetid and smelling of blood,
that now covers us all.
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