I am surprised the republicans have not introduced a proposal to re-instate prohibition. It would seem consistent with their general policy of taking everything away from the working class. In fact it suits their profile perfectly because after destroying hope and any chance at a comfortable and dignified future by killing medicare, medicaid, social security, pension funds, union rights, and jobs, people will be driven to alcohol for relief. That is all they will have left. That's when the republican scum will outlaw booze once again just to further torture and humiliate the 99%. I can just picture low life fools like Gingrich and Perry and Bachmann and Romney and Cain standing outside jailhouses clapping, jeering and laughing as alcohol outlaws are herded into cells and eventually sent off to prison with murderers and rapists and politicians and corporate executives. And then GPBR&C would all prance off to the nearest speakeasy and consume gallons of high quality bootlegged booze while lighting their cigars with $100 bills and giggling uncontrollably over their good fortune and undeniable wisdom.
Have you listened to Gingrich lately? What an absolute and arrogant moron. I wasn't a lobbyist - I was a historian. "Did you get paid 1.6 million?" "I don't know - we're going back to look into that." If somebody paid me 1.6 million dollars, it would be hard for me to overlook. "The money wasn't paid to me, it was paid to the Newt Gingrich Foundation." You call that a defense? If you want to appear innocent for at least 3 to 5 minutes give your foundation another name. Like "The Destroying Middle America While Laughing About It" Foundation.
I have to air these rants from time to time just to keep you honest. I hope there are no republican sympathizers soiling the pages of my blog, but if there is even one, and I can knock some sense into your head and get you to vote FOR America (Democrat) rather than against it (republican), than my cup will runneth over.
The violence that is escalating at the Occupy Wall Street protests is beginning to disturb me. Greatly. Typically the power brokers can just laugh at civil protesters because most of them play the drums badly and wear goofy hats. When the privileged elite begin to respond with violence, you know they are worried. Which means the protests are getting attention. If not becoming effective, at least giving the impression that they have the potential to become effective.
Protesters were beaten bloody in the sixties, they were killed, jailed and stripped of their rights and their dignity. Break them up, threaten them, hurt them, rob them of any continuity, harass them and you can weaken the message. That whole OWS library bullshit in NYC really disturbs me. That is low level, petty, obvious harassment.
This is America, mind you. America. Rules and laws get bent and broken in this country when the status quo is threatened and the privileged elite get away with it. THEY GET AWAY WITH ILLEGALLY BEATING AND JAILING AND HARASSING CIVIL PROTESTERS AND FIRING TEAR GAS CANISTERS DIRECTLY AT PROTESTERS' HEADS AND TEAR GASSING 84 YEAR OLD WOMEN.
They get away with it because it is easy to make the protesters look like fools, easy to take advantage of their passion. Many people probably assume the police violence is a proper response to instigation by the protesters. That's what the police count on.
Take a closer look. The police response is often way out of line with the situation. Once those canisters start flying, once those clubs start swinging, evil human nature takes over and it becomes a sport. And the cops know they can lie about what triggered the violence with ease.
Did we learn anything in the sixties?
I have a sense of unease this time around. A touch of hope as well. The protests seem to be gathering momentum. Voters are striking back, repealing grossly unfair republican "reforms." republican scum politicians are being re-called, voted out of office. There are many organizations out there fighting vocally against the raping of the middle class. The whole thing seems more organized this time, more noticeable. Maybe forty five years of anger and frustration over the failure of the revolt in the sixties has fermented slowly and bubbled to the surface. I hope so because there is a lot of anger there.
I just don't know how far the privileged elite will go to maintain their stranglehold on this country. They killed in the sixties. I think that's a pretty good indicator of their concept of morality.
These are dangerous times and becoming more so. I am excited, worried and nervous.
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