a half hour execution, unaccountable government, and waiting for "peace with honor"...

Jeb Bush wants everything his slower brother has...including the record for signing the most death warrants. Accordingly, Florida murdered another man...twice. Almost three decades ago Angel Nieves Diaz (notice, not exactly a white-european name...he was Puerto Rican...not that our system executes minorities at a higher rate or anything) was convicted of murder, without a single eye-witness, and, despite his claims of innocence up until the very end, Florida authorities took the man's life. That alone would be disturbing enough, having the gumption to once try to slaughter a human being while he is strapped down to a gurney (I mean, at least make it a fair fight and have the Governor put in a ring for a knife fight...if you want the guy dead, you should have the balls to do it yourself). Apparently Diaz was a fighter though...because he just would not die. Almost 30 minutes after the first dose he was still alive...and it took a second dose to kill him, 34 minutes after the execution started. So this is American "justice" for you...an agonizing slow death for a man that nobody saw kill another man. Let's hear it for progress...

Privitization means one thing and one thing only...less accountable government. But that is exactly what Bush and Co. want for you, a government that is completely unaccountable to you...a government that rules over you, not a government that works for you (because those crazy old kooks had it all wrong when they signed that silly, out-dated scrap and called it the "Constitution"...as if the people should have a say in anything). And in keeping with furthering that ultimate goal of an government entirely free of any accountability (which is funny, because if the same government were run by brown folks in a nation south of the equator we would be hearing all about how it is "illegitimate"...but then Bush has already declared that legitimacy does not come from the people when he went after Chavez...just out of curiosity, what fucking country did this schmuck grow up in?) the administration has subpoenaed records from the ACLU, including "any and all copies" of leaked documents. If you can't stop whistleblowers from pointing out to the nation that you are breaking the very laws you are sworn to uphold then you best suppress it before it can be published. Only there is a little problem with that...it's a little thing that America was built on called open government and accountability.

See, if it were a corporation trying to suppress like this, they would be violating federal laws which protect whistle blowers, because whistle blowers play an important role in society...they let you know when you are being fucked in the ass. Like say when the President got his panties in a hizzy because someone leaked information vital to "national security" - that he was violating FISA and had been for years, a federal crime punishable by five years in the prison. This administration likes to tell us that if we aren't terrorists and are law-abiding citizens we have nothing to worry about...right back at you assholes...if you are doing your job, not violating any laws or civil rights and upholding true American values, you have nothing to worry about. If there is anything we have learned from Republican presidents over the last few decades it is this...when they tell us we don't need to know because of "national security" it most likely means they are involved in some seriously illegal activity.

Which brings me to my next point...Bush won't be pushed around when it comes to the Iraq Debacle...because that would just make him a flip-flopper, and it is better to spend the nation into oblivion and order tens of thousands to their deaths than to acknowledge this might end badly. Thus, the talking heads (none of which have actually seen war) are calling for an escalation of the numbers in Iraq rather than a recognition that this has been royally fucked up and cannot end favorably. Remember all that talk about how "this was not Vietnam"? Hmmm...a few years of limited American casualties, an occupation of a foreign land where the people have proven they would rather die in mass than be subject to foreign occupation, government abuses of power (including spying on American citizens - the reason we got FISA after Vietnam)...and now escalation....nah, that doesn't sound like an exact repeat of the Vietnam timeline at all. But take comfort, once we are told "peace with honor" is just around the corner we are only about 20,000 dead American soldiers away from simply declaring victory and leaving the country in shambles and civil war.

I'm here to take you now.

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