Every day after another, these big and small stories about injustice in the USA against regular people and impunity for the powerful and the rich, the rigging of law to favour their greed and their cruelty, force one into the conclusion that the country has regressd to a feudal state where birth and bank accounts are all that matter. Nice work, Mr. Fish. You are a beacon of hope, a candle in our deepening night.
The logic of empire : one can either have an Empire (but not, perhaps, for long) or a Republic (no one knows how long such can last), but hardly both (as present experience in the United States demonstrates) !…
Every day after another, these big and small stories about injustice in the USA against regular people and impunity for the powerful and the rich, the rigging of law to favour their greed and their cruelty, force one into the conclusion that the country has regressd to a feudal state where birth and bank accounts are all that matter. Nice work, Mr. Fish. You are a beacon of hope, a candle in our deepening night.
Beware: a republic is not the same thing as a democracy.
The logic of empire : one can either have an Empire (but not, perhaps, for long) or a Republic (no one knows how long such can last), but hardly both (as present experience in the United States demonstrates) !…
Henri
George Washington warned us about days like these.
Lady Liberty, looking forward to her share of multiple orgasms in the Army of Mr. Leon Panetta.
Look out world: she is free at last, free at last.