Democracy is a three card monte
05/25/05
'Lord lady ... you are so far left, you're off the dial,' said a recent email from a person who identified himself only as 'Mattei.' 'Bemoaning the president, day after day,' he wrote. 'Just stand in the corner and stomp your feet, crybaby ... 2008 is going to put you over the edge.' That's what I'm afraid of. We're living in a time of smoke and funhouse mirrors, of prestidigitation, of democracy as three-card monte. Watch the middle card, folks, keep your eyes glued to the middle card. And when they turn it over, it's never really the Queen, is it? Keep your eye on the horrors of gay marriage and you don't see the billion-dollar no-bid contracts going to Halliburton. Be terribly afraid of nonexistent weapons of mass destruction and don't notice that the convicted con man who misled the war-hungry administration now controls all the oil in Iraq...
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0525-29.htm
from Common Dreams, by Joyce Marcel
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
'Lord lady ... you are so far left, you're off the dial,' said a recent email from a person who identified himself only as 'Mattei.' 'Bemoaning the president, day after day,' he wrote. 'Just stand in the corner and stomp your feet, crybaby ... 2008 is going to put you over the edge.' That's what I'm afraid of. We're living in a time of smoke and funhouse mirrors, of prestidigitation, of democracy as three-card monte. Watch the middle card, folks, keep your eyes glued to the middle card. And when they turn it over, it's never really the Queen, is it? Keep your eye on the horrors of gay marriage and you don't see the billion-dollar no-bid contracts going to Halliburton. Be terribly afraid of nonexistent weapons of mass destruction and don't notice that the convicted con man who misled the war-hungry administration now controls all the oil in Iraq...
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0525-29.htm
from Common Dreams, by Joyce Marcel
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 26. Mai, 16:01
