The long, cold fingers of Chicago’s conservative school, founded by Bloom and with Ashcroft and Wolfowitz as the current standard bearers, have been slowly strangling the Civil Rights Commission to death.
Voting. Such a simple and pure idea. But for how much longer will every work-a-day citizen be able to effectively vote?
Long ago, in a Fascist country far away, a man named Strauss was honing his verbal sword and creating just the sort of rhetoric that one hears today from the mouths of his followers (the now deceased neo-con Bloom being the martyred intercessory) such as Ashcroft who are quick to curtail Civil Rights under the argument that in a War on Terror there has to be a suspension of Civil Rights from time to time.
Now, with Bush appointees using just such rhetoric to eviscerate the Human Rights Commission, we as a nation must come to grips with what is happening.
Vote now, for you may not always be able to do so.
Commit a crime, lose your vote. Have a name that sounds like a criminal who did commit a crime, lose your vote. Live in a low income neighborhood with faulty or lacking machines, lose your vote. In the past, you could have asked your state to intercede on your behalf. But now all intercessions are granted via those post-Straussian neo-cons who respond to any complaint like the Inquisition responded to pleas for mercy. (Unless you are counted among the Blessed Faithful , in which case you get appointed to a commission or court for which you have no viable skills - except your faith.)
We are witnessing an erosion of the Civil Rights that we are supposedly fighting for, and we can’t even see it.
Today we have the perfect conditions for a proto-totalitarian state to emerge. We can’t see it because there are so many distractions. We don’t want to see it because we don’t think of ourselves as neo-Nazis. But we are allowing neo-fascist policy to be made to made all around us.
Rather than predict doom and gloom, it is best to give the neo-cons this caveat – The Screw Can Always Turn.
Many of us hope that it will, but the reality is that we lose avenues for redress like the rain forests of the world lose trees. At some point, we won’t be able to breathe.
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Posted on 10/6/2005
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