Subject: Re: an appeal to decency
Omlor@aol.com
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 08:10:49 GMT
Scottie writes:
"All W. has done is mildly upset the most extensive tyrrany in the world & -
at home start keeping his promises."
Oh, right, I remember that promise about easing the restrictions on
"acceptable" arsenic levels in the drinking water, now. The old "a little
arsenic never hurt anyone" promise. No doubt made to appease the powerful
and economically vital arsenic lobby. I had forgotten that one. This must
come directly under the heading of an administration primarily concerned with
"moral considerations." And that's only a tiny one, you want to talk about
education funding? Of course, he *does* apparently have a soft spot, a
genuine and warm "moral" sympathy for those in the top 1% of the tax bracket.
He feels their pain, I suppose. Fair enough.
OK, Scottie, he hasn't proven to be as morally bankrupt and as completely
paranoid and hypocritical as say Richard Nixon. He no doubt has not yet had
to say anything like "I know where we could get a million dollars in a brown
paper bag. It can be done." Or actually written a memo to the INS
instructing them to deport a popular English musician simply because the
musician was actively speaking out against his foreign policy, or directly
and personally ordered the FBI and the IRS both to investigate a long list of
his political opponents and then turn around and threaten that same FBI if
they looked too closely into crimes perpetrated by his own administration,
including office firebombings, theft of people's private psychiatric records,
illegal surveillance and wiretaps of political opponents, numerous assorted
illegal break-ins and burglaries, refusal to comply with court orders and
Congressional subpoenae and a list of more routine, petty criminal acts that
reads like the perp sheet of a third-rate hood. The litany is too long to
even begin. After all, Richard Nixon made Bill Clinton look simply like a
mischevious, and badly behaved little school-boy.
No, I agree that George W. may not be poor Richard, but to suggest the man or
his administration brings anything like serious "moral considerations" to the
political table really does sound a bit naive. Optimistic, but naive. Let's
talk about Texas and the recent history of the public school system there and
the smug, frat boy chuckle as he told jokes about one of his own executions
and signed death warrants at an all-time record pace. Moral considerations.
Right. Let's talk about that exemplar of moral considerations, the oil
business.
Nah, never mind.
But I'll keep watching and hoping...
-- John
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