globally, nationally, locally; from the white house to the county courthouse.
it’s like that talking heads song….”and you may ask yourself, well, how did i get here?”
i ask: how the fuck did we get here?
to a place where shopclerks are killed by marauding bargain-seekers.
where the mainstream media conspires with special intereststo knowingly propagate lies about the wages of unionized workers and lies about our trillion dollar bailout project.
where state democrats campaign on a pro-gay platform and, after election, promptly quash the issues they pledged to bring to the table while our religious institutions conspire with one another in order to deprive certain people of the most basic civil rights.
where the executives who make the decisions that cause companies to fail still walk away with multimillion dollar bonuses — while the employees of the workplace they destroyed go off to stand on unemployment lines.
where there is actually a debate about whether or not to bring the masterminds of the US torture project to justice. where there is actually talk of advance pardons.
we torture people. i still can’t quite get my mind around the fact that we have american civil servants trained to torture. authorized to torture. we have become a nation that tortures, and even some of the black-hats themselves are disgusted by what we have done. we are ALL responsible for this.
where new york’s former slutty governor was persecuted for his romps with high-dollar hookers. why do i say persecuted rather than prosecuted? because the persecution came first: spitzer was targeted for political reasons. so our immoral governor is brought to his knees by an equally immoral payback squad, and the US criminal justice system is nothing more than one small element in a vast political toolkit.
imagine: if prostitution were (as it should be, as it is in many civilized nations) legal in this country, none of this crap could have gone down the way it did. I’m no fan of spitzer, but entrapping him with his pants down for reasons completely unrelated to the sex he’s paying for is pretty sickening. don’t you think?
where bloggers lose their low-end dayjobs for the crime of speaking the truth and an entire city is left for dead. for years. where all of your shit can be confiscated at an airport, for no reason, and kept from you forever.
where the supreme court actually has to decide — years after the fact — about a the legality of “indefinite detention” for a person not yet charged with any crime. (and who knows how they’ll rule on it. after all, these are the same people who brought you bush2000.) seems we are expected to be grateful that this question even reached the docket. right.
where homeless people quietly riding public transportation in chicago simply to stay warm are considered criminal, subject to ejection and fines. FOR RIDING TOO LONG. FOR BEING ON THE FUCKING TRAIN TOO LONG.
where our government knowingly allows poisoned food into this country for distribution and regulatory agencies look the other way when the evidence shows that GMO corn impedes fertility. even, perhaps, results in sterility for women.
where running a prison is just another way to make a buck– and where the big-money prison administration behemoths are so brutal and corrupt that the big moneymen behind them, LIKE VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, are being indicted. what did anybody think would happen when prisons were privatized? or rather, did anybody do any thinking?
where one california town actually resorted to putting “don’t dump babies in here” stickers on public trashbins. you see, people need to be educated about this, otherwise the dumpsters will be brimming with infants.
where there is little or no access to quality care (emphasis on quality) for returning vets, many of whom become, and remain, homeless. shellshocked vets sleeping in the streets. one-legged panhandlers.
where everyday road rage costs a street bicyclist his leg and our president is nothing more than a punchline for the inside jokes of other heads of state.
where the good old NYPD shoots a man dead for threatening one of them with a chair – a fucking FOLDING chair. officers, schwarzenegger himself couldn’t do much damage with a folding chair. are you kidding me here? but it’s par for the course in a city where a subway cop found it acceptable to shove his radio antenna up the ass of one unlucky farebeater, landing said farebeater in the hospital for almost a week. must’ve been some heavy-duty farking radio. or a very heavy-handed cop.
unfortunately, i could go on. this post could be as fat as the bailout, as long as our already maturing recession.
what offends you most about the downward spiral of our culture? what turns your eyeballs red and gets your fist pounding the table on thanksgiving day?
and how did we get here?
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Reading your posts is like falling into freezing water… it kicks the air out of you, it stuns you while simultaneously waking you up, it makes you feel momentarily helpless and also damn angry with yourself for not having been a better person. Amazing links.
God…that post really made me depressed, Jaxx. I don’t even know where to begin. Did you see the big article in the NYT about how Google is removing YouTube videos because the politicians in places like Turkey are demanding they be removed or YouTube will be blocked to all citizens of that country? And Google is caving. I think blogs, YouTube, etc. are going to come under even more scrutiny and I can imagine a political battle brewing over freedom of blogspeech very soon.
As for New Orleans, that’s one of my homes away from home. I love that city. But even before Katrina, it had an unimaginable crime rate, crooked politicians, etc. Now it’s just amplified after Dubya and Co. let the city drown. I’ve walked alone in big cities all over the world, but only in NO have I actually felt like something might happen to me. And that was Pre-K. There needs to be a full swabbing of the deck in NO, starting with Nagin.
Great post! I didn’t know corruption existed till I got online a few years back. Real eye-opener!
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you have expressed my outrage and disbelief to a tee!
This continued corruption, violence and greed is gonna sink this nation.
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