In case it's lost on the thought-disabled, the link in the post below goes to at the moment two hits with quotes from "State Department spokesman Sean McCormack" on the recent Bolivian outbreak of democracy and morality. The news confirms the sad truth, that the US is the enemy of democracy and morality in Latin America.
So screw democracy and morality, right? Go USA!
Another pertinent bit is The arrest today of opposition leader Leopoldo Fernandez
which is a line from this paragraph:
The arrest today of opposition leader Leopoldo Fernandez, governor of the remote Amazonian province of Pando, abruptly ended efforts by the president and opposition leaders to talk about compromises after anti-Morales protesters ransacked government offices in Pando and three other eastern provinces last week. It also prompted the United States to evacuate its Peace Corps volunteers...
Most pertinent of all is that he's been arrested for the massacre of unarmed poor people, 30 at last count, with more than a hundred still missing and unaccounted for, who had gathered and marched in protest at their treatment by the wealthy landowners in Fernandez's prefecture. They were attacked by armed men who had dump trucks ready to remove the expected bodies quickly.
Those unarmed poor people were shot down in cold blood by thugs acting at the indirect direction of the arrested Fernandez, who was acting at the indirect direction of the wealthy landowners in the states of Pando, Santa Cruz, Tarija and Beni, who were themselves acting like debutantes in a ballroom, waltzing in the arms of the US State Department.
The villains are all up and down the line, but the power's in Washington. If the US had said "Don't" those poor people,
unarmed men women and children, would still be alive.
Instead the US, in the person of the most execrable and ignominiously banished Philip Goldberg, a man whose job it is to impersonate as best he can an international diplomat, while acting as the servile gofer-stooge for a criminal conspiracy as big and violently evil as, as, as, as - I don't know, the Roman Empire - encouraged, financed, armed, and instructed the would-be slave-owners of Bolivia's eastern states to do what they had to do to maintain control of...the oil.
The fucking oil.
And it is all as well also very much about slavery, make no mistake. Latin America's been a slave plantation in one form or another for the last 500 years.
And it's over now, that time, thanks to rock and roll and the internet - so the pigs are very excited and unhappy.
Which brings us to the real subject of today's address, the Rosenbergs.
Deathbed-like testimony by aging Morton Sobell puts paid to the question of the Rosenbergs' guilt or innocence in atomic spy case of early 50's.
The Rosenbergs, husband and wife Julius and Ethel, were executed at Sing-Sing. It was a pageant of anti-Communism and anti-Semitism, a celebration of blood lust and hysteria. The fact of their spying would seem to give a solidity to the moral stance taken by those who approve of their execution.
But it doesn't.
And it doesn't matter to whom they gave or sold whatever those secrets actually were.
What they worked against has proved itself evil, and that's never addressed, never will be, because evil is in charge of what gets debated, and debating whether or not the evil in charge is in fact evil is not allowed.
But it is, evil, wrong, whatever term your conscience uses to separate what should be from what shouldn't.
Finding out you've committed your life to the defense of something that by any accurate definition should have been your enemy is a dilemma faced by many military professionals.
It drives them to drink, suicide, madness, or small hobbies and retirement.
Any US military professional who's looking at the news today and not feeling soul-conflicted is a weak-minded pussy.
Which is for whom and why I wrote this.
Hey, soldier, wake up!
