Imagine - go back in your mind...
From Op Ed News - click here to read the whole article...
Imagine, for a moment, that you could transport yourself back to March of 2000. You land around the block from your home at a point in time just before the 2000 election campaign really begins to heat up. Imagine that you are going to walk around the block and talk to the version of yourself for whom that point in time is their current reality. Take a moment to remember and reflect on what you, the US and the world were like back then, what you believed, what you thought, what your reality was. Then imagine that you would try to explain what was going to happen during the future six years.
Imagine that you would have to explain that as a new President was sworn in, the country would swoon into a forty plus month depression and the new President would not do anything to relieve it. Imagine that you would have to explain to 'the you of the past' that the US would be attacked in the near future, 2400 civilians would die, and the US would respond militarily. Instead of concentrating on retaliating against those who attacked us and the people who harbored them, the new President would expend most of our available forces in the attack on a different country on justifications that turned out to be false. Imagine that you would have to explain that the new President would ask for and pass laws allowing unprecedented invasions of our privacy by the government and secret courts to provide secret warrants and wiretapping of citizens. Imagine having to explain to yourself that despite having passed those laws, the President would exceed even those boundaries and order the NSA to wiretap citizens without even going through the secret courts.
Imagine that you would have to explain that as a new President was sworn in, the country would swoon into a forty plus month depression and the new President would not do anything to relieve it. Imagine that you would have to explain to 'the you of the past' that the US would be attacked in the near future, 2400 civilians would die, and the US would respond militarily. Instead of concentrating on retaliating against those who attacked us and the people who harbored them, the new President would expend most of our available forces in the attack on a different country on justifications that turned out to be false. Imagine that you would have to explain that the new President would ask for and pass laws allowing unprecedented invasions of our privacy by the government and secret courts to provide secret warrants and wiretapping of citizens. Imagine having to explain to yourself that despite having passed those laws, the President would exceed even those boundaries and order the NSA to wiretap citizens without even going through the secret courts.
1 comment:
I love the GOP charity cartoon. How ironic that the "values" party turned out to be a bunch of snake oil salesmen.
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