I was working outside and came in for a break. I checked in here, and read the following diary:
and I just came unglued.
What follows is what "stream of consciousness" really looks like when you don't stop typing because you can't stop - it just flows like a firehose and you can't keep up with the rage. I did not spell check it or parse my grammar.
I invite you to read what's below the fold. I do not apologize for anything in it, and if Kos wants me to take it down and fold my tent, all he has to do is ask - but I'm not reading comments today.
This one just stands for what it is.
This is the stupidest, the saddest, and the most
unthinkable diary ever written.
I guess the Nuremburg trials were a waste, too - I mean after all, the war was over...
I guess every trial in every crime ever committed is a waste of time, after all, the person who was killed is already dead, having a trial won't bring them back.
NO FCKIG WAY
OUR country, your name, my name, and everyone in it, regardless of the state we live in or our skin color or our political affiliation now wears the sad, sick, tragic, and un mother fucking forgivable reputation of a man who pissed all over our Constitution (remember that thing that made us great? That thing that made us so different than all the other countries?) is now saddled with the nightmare of what we had suspected was being done in our names, and now is being confirmed.
War crimes were committed.
Subversion of the Constitution.
The balance of power was abandoned.
Those who knew, betrayed us all.
Those who did not want to know betrayed us, too.
And now we - no, you - want us to validate the denial by saying you don't want to know about what we've done - ??
-- As if those it was done to can forget?
and now, for the sake of political expediency (worst reason), for the sake that some people (like you) don't have the stomach or the patience to find out just how fucking back it really was, we're going to do a Gerald Ford 2.0 and think the country can claim "our long national nightmare is over?"
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
jESUS CHRIST ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
So we can have hundreds of thousands of people in this country locked up in prison for a dime bag of pot or coke or crack, but if you commit mother fucking war crimes you get a free pass because your country really just doesn't want to know?
I am so sick right now, so unconscinably enraged right now - only because this is a blog do I dare right this.
Our country is becoming a joke.
A sad, sick, stupid, tragic joke.
I don't even know why we spend all that money protecting the Constitution under glass in a sealed case at the National Archives - after all - we're really not paying any attention to anything that is written on it any more.
We are simply building a society that ensures that if you have enough money, or your propaganda and fear mongering convince enough stupid, gullible, or cowardly people, what the Constitution says doesn't mean a goddamn thing.
Nor does the Geneva Conventions (which we signed)
Nor does the Convention against Torture (which we signed)
And because Nancy Pelosi took impeachment off the table, and now people like you are hoping we move past it,
Not only did George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfield and the entire cast of the rest of the cabal get away with violating those treaties, they even got away with their solemn obligation to uphold them.
Jesus fucking Christ this country is a joke.
I can't believe you even wrote this.
Move forward?
Only if you stand in front of whatever you think is moving, sweetheart -
You first.
I want the right people
THE RIGHT PEOPLE, THIS TIME
to hang or be shot or imprisoned for life for their crimes.
Otherwise you can take this goddamn delusion that we're the "Greatest Country in the world" and just choke on it, becuase it doesn't mean a goddamn thing.
Does it?
Does it????
You can commit "high crimes and misdemeanors", you can commit treason, you can commit war crimes - in fact - you had better commit all three and in as many forms as you can manage - that way, the country will be so shocked and horrified it won't dare even hold an investigation because they don't want to know how bad it was.
A little bit of bad, like a lie about a blowjob? Oh. we'll ride that train for two years and think we're conducting the most noble investigation in history.
But War crimes? Well, let's see here...if there were war crimes, and the Constitution really was subverted, that means that the "greatest country in the world" will all it's freedom of speech and the press, all of it's freedom to protest the government for a redress of grievances, all of it's "fourth estate" and media and technology - well none of that meant a goddamn thing, did it? Because just like in a fascist dictatorship, the evil prick at the top got away with it, didn't he?
I can't believe what is happening in this country.
The fucking RW who claims to honor Abraham Lincoln - who's Gettysburg address is notable for it says "these honored dead shall not have died in vain",has members of Lincoln's own party treatening to tear the "union" apart and secceed -
Maybe those honored dead did die in vain. It just took 140 years to find out.
and we've got Democrats who sat through the two years of prosecuting Bill Clinton for at first a real estate deal that took place before he was president, which turned into Monica Lewinsky, which turned into "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" -
He gets impeached. Because Queen Victoria's prudishness is more important than Tomas De Torquemada's sadism.
The ones who authorized torture in the spirit of Torquemada (yawn) - but who didn't get a blowjob (Gasp!)- they're going to go free.
Because this country is filled with cowards who can't stand to look in the mirror and be honest about what they see.
I am sickened.
I am ashamed.
And I, unlike you, am fucking outraged that we, as a country, have surrendered our courage and our integrity becuase we can't fathom our own shame.
And that, ironically, is more shamefull still.
I am so sorry you put up this diary. But don't you dare take it down, because I want this comment to be at the top of the list whenever anyone reads it.
Forget and move on?
Only if I can waterboard you or throw you in a cell for six years without you even knowing there is a lawyer working on your behalf.
Then we'll "move on".
You can "beg" for that.
But I'm pretty sure it won't be the same kind of begging that you would be doing had you been forced to endure all of the things that the Bush administration did to whomever they goddamn well pleased to -
You beg that we move on?
Wow. Of all the things that have been begged for, closing our eyes and sticking our fingers in our ears and allowing the "Bush Legacy Project" to rewrite our history is going to get your vote, eh?
I'm very proud of this comment.
I'm ashamed of your diary.
George Orwell is banging on the lid of his coffin and screaming, "1984 was a cautionary tale, you dolts, not a motivational speech!"
by snafubar on Sun May 17, 2009 at 03:10:42 PM EDT
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