SCOOTER LIBBY INDICTMENT
It's just the chickens coming home to roost. The arrogance and incompetence of the Bush Bowl is slowly, but surely emerging into the clear light of day. The republicans, and their shills in the corporate media are continuing to stonewall, it's only a matter of time before the next few scandals erupt.
I could take heart in this, but people are still dying in Iraq.
On that note- I have to go and get to work on the new animation- hopefully out on monday...
CINDY SHEEHAN FACES MONTHS OF INTERNMENT IN DC, AND ISN'T BACKING DOWN.
Cindy Sheehan has followed up on her promise to be arrested, time and again, until Bush agrees to meet with her. On wednesday morning, she led a "die-in" in front of the white house, and was promptly arrested. She went back, and was arrested again.
Now, DC police have said that the next time that Sheehan is arrested, they will hold her in jail, until January.
What will be the charge? "Excessive public mourning?" This is downright absurd.
Do the DC police have any knowledge of history? The Alabama police put Martin Luther King in the pokey, and well- did that stop the civil rights movement? The communist regime in the erstwhile Czechoslovakia jailed Vaclav Havel for years- did that stop the Velvet Revolution? They put Nelson Mandella in Jail for 25 years- did the ANC just shut down, and go away?
The threatened incarceration of Cindy Sheehan will only add logs to a fire whose flames already lap at the walls of the white house.
These folks just don't understand whet they're dealing with- it's downright childish- they assume that if the symbol is removed from public view, the movement will die- and it just ain't so.
I was fighting against this war for two years, before I even heard of Cindy- do they think I'll shut up, if she's put in jail? Do they think Mykeru, BradBlog, Crooks and Liars, Dickeatsbush, Peacetakescourage, The World Can't Wait, and the majority of americans opposed to this war will turn to other pursuits, if they put this brave woman in jail?
Do they think that Air America Radio will stop broadcasting, if they just put this troublesome gadfly behind bars? Do they think that Code Pink, and the American Friends Service Committee will shut down, and just give up?
The powers that be just don't have one inkling as to what they're dealing with here. It's greater than Cindy Sheehan- it's greater than any of the organizations or blogs I've mentioned above.
They're dealing with a force greater than any corporate media outlet. Greater than the bombast of Hannity, Limbaugh, O'reilly, Beck, and the rest of the sorry bastards that the mainstream media have relied upon to frame public discourse.
They're having to come face-to-face, at long last, with us- the majority of the american public who have stood against this administration, and this war- this senseless charade that has claimed the lives of so many of the innocent- but this great and dishonest betrayal of the people's trust will not be defeated, without a fight.
Much like a cornered rat, the right wing punditry has begun lashing out, indiscriminately, while the their dreams of empire and unquestioned power crash about them.
The democrats seem unable, or unwilling, to press the initiative, and put an end to this sorry chapter in american history. The greens are too weak. The republicans have sold out, on every level.
Who then, is to lead this country out of this sorry state?
Look in the mirror.
You are the one you have been waiting for. Buck up, gird yourself for battle, and get into the fray- if you don't know how to get involved, just type "activism" and the name of your state or town into google. Yeah, it may mean losing an hour of TV time, or an hour away from your favorite blog or message board, but it'll pay dividends that will enrich your life, beyond measure.
Become the change you want to see, and we'll all meet in better times...
Until then- keep fighting.