== Free Tibet? Hell, free America! = By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Support the humble monks? You bet. But oh, let's not forget our own wonderfully abundant atrocities

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/04/16/notes041608.DTL&nl=fix

I know I know I know — we don't exactly have huge platoons of nasty jackbooted soldiers storming through the streets in riot gear and gas masks and large sticks bashing down on the shiny heads of peaceful monks.

We don't exactly have smashed and burning vehicles and dead bodies in the streets and vicious martial law, ethnic cleansings and curfews and media lockouts and blocked Internet access and all sorts of nefarious, disturbing reports of brutality and beatings and death. Well, except for parts of Oakland. And Los Angeles And Chicago. But never mind that now.

Overall, even under the deformed and wretched Bush regime and despite how much Dick Cheney's dead raisin of a heart leaps with excitement when he sees the videos of those bloodied and dead Tibetan protesters ("Damn hippies had it coming"), America is still far from the brutality and inhumanity happening right now in Lhasa and beyond.

Or maybe not. For here is what we do have: We have torture. We have a frighteningly simpleminded cowboy-wannabe president who supports and endorses the most inhumane treatment of prisoners imaginable despite its utter failure as a tactic, and this violent belief, this dark energy infects the national bloodstream like prehistoric malaria. ...

[unhappycamper]

1. Morford hits it out of the park

again.

[malaise]

2. Morford nails it

This morning I heard a Zimbabwe government official saying he didn't see the UN getting involved when the US took six weeks to count the Florida votes or when the Supreme Court handed the elections to Bush.

The moral high ground is long gone.
K & R

[ladjf]

3. Bush and his fellow gangsters should be in prison.

[Echo In Light]

4. K&R