Be careful what you read! Most Australians have a speech impedement that prohibits the pronounciation of ll’s

I think I have now worked out the sick excuse for “morality” that those who have done this have used to jusify their conscience (nothing you will read in your tabloids). If any are watching, you will not be rewarded in the afterlife, so make sure you don’t pass too quick.

It was sad to realize, the last time I watched the movie, that thanks to George Bush and Dick Cheney, none of this is true any longer. It seemed to me on this recent viewing that the movie addressed morality from the point of view of a country that no longer exists. Then, we were the good guys, with a clear moral prerogative. Bush and Cheney have robbed us of that, and now we are, to one extent or another, Ernst Janning–or, perhaps, the frightened servant couple in the movie who keep insisting, “We never knew, none of us knew about the camps.” Now, however, we know. Jane Mayer’s New Yorker article on renditions tells us; the photographs from Abu Ghraib tell us. We can’t say ‘we didn’t know.’

It’s nearly intolerable to watch the Democrats fumbling with a response to the crimes of the Bush-Cheney administration. War crimes have been committed; orders have been issued, signed by people still in power, but held in the deepest secrecy at least partly because of war-crimes implications.

I wonder, since our politicians don’t seem to have the spine for it, if the rest of the civilized world will insist on an accounting from us about our war criminals. I wonder, indeed, if someday, someone will make a “Judgment at Nuremberg” about US.

Anti-Social Personality Disorder

#7: Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another

Quacking like a duck indeed.

This is where I want to scream at the Dems: Oppose the war, damn-it, and withdraw all our troops! What is their problem? They want to play it politically safe? We’re talking lives here.

Didn’t know that about Scalia’s father, but it doesn’t surprise me. W’s grandfather, Prescott, was in business with the Nazis. Hate to imply generational complicity, except that the W apple didn’t fall far from that tree.

Both ABC News and Fox broadcast stories about the gun confiscation. Check this link http://www.sdgo.org/alertarchive/2005_Dec20.htm

It will direct you to the videos.

Good Day!

Still, I really would like to see some thoughtful discussion of just how Bush/Cheney would go about doing it. Make an announcement on the Bill O’Reilly Show? Nail plywood over the doors to the Senate and House? Arrest the ringleaders of the Democratic Party? Just how?

Keep in mind that a huge portion of the National Guard is not available for service within the US. Would they use mercenaries? Do you think all the Bubbas and the armed left-wing radicals are going to go quietly at the demand of hired thugs? And how many hired thugs would it take to suspend all elections?

Your comment about the National Guard seizing weapons in the aftermath of Katrina is interesting. I had not heard this and would like to know more. Just my own opinion, of course, but the disaster brought on by Katrina (and the incompetence of George Bush), is just the kind of thing that could justify the most scrupulous of Presidents to declare martial law in a particular area of the country. Wonder why Busheney did not do that….

“I’ve taken an informal poll inside the government,” Baer told Fox. “The feeling is we will hit the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”….

“We won’t see American troops cross the border. … If this is going to happen, it’s going to happen very quickly and it’s going to surprise a lot of people,” said Baer. “I hope I’m wrong frankly, but we’re going to see.”

I sure hope he’s wrong! If not, Iran will be the second nation we’ve attacked, which hasn’t attacked us. We’ll be broadening the conflict to the region, providing al Qaeda with more excuses to exist and boosting their recruitment, and we’ll be committing another war crime. It’s against international law, or it used to be, to attack a nation that hasn’t attacked you and isn’t even thinking about it. You can bet Iranian casualties won’t be limited to the Revolutionary Guard, but will include innocent people.

The main protagonists are two Resistance moles within the Internal Security Force (our homegrown Gestapo), an officer and his driver. They have to find out what the secret is and alert the Resistance in time to stop it. The chit-chat between the two is effective in explaining what has happened. The officer says that everyone with a house and a two-car garage was willing to give up their freedom in order to keep what they had, or so they were told.

Some of the images are striking. A Stormtrooper Xing out the Constitution with a paintbrush begins the movie! A Resistance raid on an ISF concentration camp ends with dying Resistance members lowering the totalitarian ISF Flag and partially raising the democratic U.S. Flag in a last gesture of defiance. The ISF symbol itself, a sinister spread eagle with “ISF” on it. The life-and-death struggle taking place while surrounded by Christmas decorations–as if nothing has changed.

I thought John Forsythe was particularly effective as the ISF General, with perhaps the best line in the movie. As the wounded Resistance mole/ISF officer reports to him that the rest of his ISF Strike Force is dead and that the entire power plant scheme has ended in a stinky fisco for which he thinks the General is responsible, Forsythe manages to keep it all in perspective. “You’re bleeding on my desk,” he chides the angry man.

Not a great film by any means, but an interesting one. The scheme is foiled by ordinary individuals helping the Resistance because it’s the right thing to do. In a veiled warning the Resistance mole tells the ISF General about the Greek Hero Jason, who planted the Hydra’s teeth in a field only to have each tooth instantly grow into an armed soldier. Each time Jason killed one of them another would spring up in his place . . . and another . . . and another . . . and another . . .