Stranger than fiction

Is our current political situation truly not stranger than fiction? Who would have thought there could be a country, supposedly democratic, where the leadership is known for months if not years to have committed war crimes and blatant violations of its laws and constitution, and yet nothing is done about it. This in spite of the fact there are rules and laws and mechanisms for dealing with just this sort of thing. Just today there were two more examples of how this administration runs roughshod over everyone and everything. The previous Surgeon General of the country testified before Congress that while he was in office he was muzzled by the White House when he wanted to speak out on matters of public interest like stem cell research, drug laws, and other such matters. Then it was discovered that Alberto Gonzales, our Attorney General, lied to Congress (again). This time when he claimed there had been no violations of the law under the Patriot Act when he had been informed before his testimony that there had been. So once again, he is either lying or too moronic to know what goes on in his own fiefdom. Many Senators and Congresspersons have demanded that he resign or be fired. Bush simply ignores them. And nothing happens. Bush pardons Libby which is said to outrage many, but nothing is done. Cheney runs the country from underneath a rock someplace as if it were his own private set of tinkertoys. Nothing is done. The vast majority of citizens, as well as a majority of our leaders in the Senate and House, rail against the "war" in Iraq. Nothing is done about it. A CIA agent is outed in a treasonous act of punishment. Nothing is done about it. A known male prostitute is given free reign to enter and leave the White House. No explanation has ever been offered. No one could ever have made up a story like this with no outcome in sight. It is surely stranger than fiction. If you had submitted the outline of a movie or book about what is going on it would certainly have been rejected as implausible.

It is true there is talk about doing something. But so far that's all it is, talk. I know the wheels of justice are said to turn slowly. But the violations involved under Bush/Cheney are so egregious they should long ago have been treated as an emergency. These stupid, greedy, evil men still have 18 months left in office. They can easily end the world if they choose (and what they might choose is entirely unpredictable now that they have been slightly wounded). No White Knight has emerged to slay these dragons. Indeed, their only challengers are just like them (except for a couple who are not allowed in the fraternity). We are trapped in a gigantic conspiracy run by huge international corporations that are dedicated to the status quo and will fight to the death to maintain it, little people be damned. Years ago it used to be common to hear people say, "when the revolution comes." You don't hear that anymore. Strange, that.

LKBIQ:

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