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October 27, 2006
The Olbermann Chronicles: Stockholm Syndrome Sets In
7 am, October 26, 2006, The Fascist States of Amerikkka
I wake to a grim thought.
Most Americans do not believe the Bush administration has gone too far in restricting civil liberties as part of the war on terror, a new CNN poll released Thursday suggests.While 39 percent of the 1,013 poll respondents said the Bush administration has gone too far, 34 percent said they believe the administration has been about right on the restrictions, according to the Opinion Research Corp. survey. Another 25 percent said the administration has not gone far enough.
Asked whether Bush has more power than any other U.S. president, 65 percent of poll respondents said no. Thirty-three percent said yes. Of those who said yes, a quarter said that was bad for the country.
The America I loved is gone. Vanished, without a trace:
We have lived as if in a trance.We have lived as people in fear.
And now—our rights and our freedoms in peril—we slowly awaken to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing.
Therefore, tonight have we truly become the inheritors of our American legacy.
For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:
A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.
How can this be? How can my fellow countrymen be blind to the mass internment of Muslim-Americans under this administration? To the large-scale prosecutions under the Espionage act of 1917? To the virtual shut-down of the New York Times over the publication of classified information: all incontrovertible evidence of an administration visibly exceeding its authority and trampling the constitution? How can they be so blind when history is repeating itself?
We are numb: brainwashed. This is what happens when hate-filled partisans hijack the historical record to serve a twisted agenda. Fools! How dare they!
This is the end, my only friend
The end of our elaborate plans
The end of ev'rything that stands
The end
No safety or surprise
The end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of
some strangers hand
In a desperate land
Ride the snake
Ride the snake
To the lake
To the lake
The ancient lake baby
The snake is long
Seven miles
Ride the snake
He's old
And his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us
Driver, where you taking us?
If it were not for the support of my loyal readers, sometimes I do not think I could go on.
Posted by Cassandra at October 27, 2006 12:47 PM
Comments
Well, I guess it's a good thing that our Lefty Brethren don't believe in the 2nd amendment if this is what they consider the death of democracy.
Even with the supposed warrentless anal-probing by Airport Security (looking for smuggled lipstick) we still have more civil liberties than we did in the 50's.
Posted by: Masked Menace at October 27, 2006 04:26 PM
The Friendly Skies just got a whole lot friendlier... yee ha!
Heh.
Posted by: Cass at October 27, 2006 04:36 PM
MM, that line of yours is begging for a snark.
Being's as it is the weekend, and the Engineer has all the CLUs, I will let it pass.
Heh.
Posted by: Cricket at October 27, 2006 06:18 PM
You know, one day, very soon we can hope, the pressure of all of the manure built up between those ears of his is going to explode. I wouldn't want to be the poor soul whom has to clean up that mess. I'm not sure which is more sad, that he spews this bovine scatology over the airwaves, or, that he, and the dhimmis that follow him, truely believe it.
Posted by: Edward Lunny at October 27, 2006 06:29 PM
Edward, my friend.
Ride the snake.
Ride the snake to the lake.
The snake is long...
Pass it on.
Posted by: Cass at October 27, 2006 06:50 PM
Some snakes are longer than others.
(Quoth he, largely...)
Posted by: camojack at October 27, 2006 07:19 PM
Isn't Olberman supposed to be joining Babs, The Meathead, Martin Sheen, and Alec Baldwin for some protest rally or another? Maybe he should threaten to flee to Canada, or France, if the Republicans retain control of Congress.
Posted by: a former european at October 27, 2006 07:31 PM
It is your fault I'm having flashbacks. As I recall Mr. Morrison was arrested for displaying his trouser snake on stage.
Posted by: Timothy Leary at October 28, 2006 01:03 PM
I have decided that Keith Olbermann is God's gift to me for putting up with all the insanity that is my hometown, Washington DC. I was really, really good and didn't comment on his recent romantic problems, and I won't. But the man is just too funny for words.
And "Timothy", I'll thank you not to remind me of that - it's a mental image I can live without, thankk-you-very-much!
Posted by: Cass at October 28, 2006 01:21 PM