Ted Rall gets it right
Bob Morris @ Jan 16th 2006 05:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for January 16th, 2006
Martin Luther King quotations
Bob Morris @ Jan 16th 2006 04:30 - Category: Unfiled ;
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked - and rightly so - what about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.
You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism.
The non-opposition party
Bob Morris @ Jan 16th 2006 04:30 - Category: Unfiled ;
House Democrats appoint ethically-challenged House Democrat to lead ethics reform fight.
The House Democrats this week chose a Democrat, who is being forced to explain his own involvement in a trip related to Jack Abramoff, to be their chief spokesman and strategist running the House Democratic effort to pass ethics reform.
What? Jim Traficant wasn’t available?
This is beyond belief.
This following item is bizarre too. Will Democrats ever tire of be run over by Republicans? But then, this particular Democrat has a billionaire husband. You think someone like that wants to rock the boat about anything? Goodness, any serious political uproar might impact their investment portfolio. Can’t be letting that happen.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi does the two step shuffle
"This war in Iraq has been a grotesque mistake in my view — a tragedy," Pelosi told a crowd of about 1,000 that overflowed the Marina Middle School Auditorium for the event.
Yet, as she explained that she doesn’t want to immediately cut funding for those troops already in Iraq.
In other words, despite her words of protest, by her actions she still completely supports the war and will do nothing substantive to end it, even though her constituents solidly oppose it - a clear example indeed of the politics of this non-opposition party.
Abramoff fallout continues
Bob Morris @ Jan 16th 2006 04:28 - Category: Unfiled ;
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay tried to pressure the Bush administration into shutting down an Indian-owned casino that lobbyist Jack Abramoff wanted closed — shortly after a tribal client of Abramoff’s donated to a DeLay political action committee, The Associated Press has learned.
Georgia Lt. Gov. candidate Ralph Reed can run, but he can’t hide.
Ohio Rep. Robert Ney personally lobbied the then Secretary of State Colin Powell to relax U.S. sanctions on Iran. Who asked him to? A convicted airplane broker who had just taken the congressman and a top aide on an expense-paid trip to London.
