Who is Brain-Dead?

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Who is Brain-Dead?
by Alan Kobrin

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Brain-dead are the neo-con Right and their theocratic minion. They wish to Save the World from Reality and shape it to their own desires, showing neither pity nor respect for Facts, Law, or anyone outside their circle of the Saved. They could care less about such silly human experiments like Democracy, which for them is merely a word, a bullet point on a marketing brochure for Empire. The tens of thousands of Schiavos whose lives hang by a thread? Starve ‘em by pulling the tube on health care, minimum wage, and bankruptcy protection.

But brain-dead, too, are all too many seemingly progressives, liberals and moderates who enable the hijacking of our nation by ignoring it, or by cutting deals with our homegrown Wehrmacht. Brain-dead are those members of Congress who have stood silently by as a procession of would-be war criminals march, nearly unopposed into crucial life-controlling positions of authority and power. Abrams, Rice, Negroponte, Reich, Gonzalez, Bolton. Now they want Wolfowitz heading the World Bank?

Did of them say “No! This is a disgrace!”? Did any say “This is unacceptable!“? Did any of them warn us of the REAL dangers of this neo-con war trust? Where is an alternative vision? Which ones have said, ”Here, follow me! This is the way out.“? Except for Barbara Boxer, who among them even defended democracy and the votes' integrity by seeking a vote recount in Ohio lead by the Green Party's David Cobb?

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Brain-dead, too are the media, most of whom played along with this latest toy of Mass Distraction. Who was talking or thinking about Social Security, the plans for Iran, or the appointment of John Bolton as we were force-fed hourly images of a woman’s end-of-life drama?

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More at
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0402-21.htm

[cidliz2004]

1. Right on, my sentiments exactly!