As I watched the last story on Rachel Maddow tonight I was left with a true sense of disbelief and rage. The governor of Michigan and his corporate toddies in the state house have enacted and executed a law that suspends democracy in Benton Harbor, MI. This is just the first action taken under what is called "financial martial law."
I had to share this, write about it, scream about it, do something to vent the outrage I feel toward what I perceive as nothing less than a fascist corporate movement building and gaining real power, if not credibility, in the American political landscape. If you missed the story on Rachel's show I will provide links after the jump.
In #Michigan, 'financial martial law' in action. Report says #Wisconsin's next
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/...
What's at stake in Benton Harbor
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/...
The same guy that has promoted a golf community for years in this economically beaten down community is the same guy handed all political power stripped from local elected officials. It is a corporate coup d’état pure and simple. They do it to a poor community only because they can. They think no one will speak up. This is the moment to stop this lunacy in its tracks.
Rachel also provides the text for the entire Langston Hughes poem, “Let America Be America Again” taken so cynically out of context by Santorum and his idiot friends. Here is that link:
http://www.poets.org/...
Watch these stories about the political power grab in Michigan and then read the poem, all of it. Good God I'm mad at these thugs.