> Letter to Dana Milbank about the Downing Street Memo and Corporate Media Complicity in War Crimes
22 June 2005, 15:13
After growing up in the Soviet Union and reading so much on the atrocities of both German and Soviet secret police, one remembers very well that there were always more than enough of people who cried support for the "noble goals" of the secret police. Nobody wants to remember that the Soviet concentration camps were sold by Stalin to the Western world as a perfect place to ’correct bad traits in bad people’. Same happened with the certain showy camp in Germany. Think Gitmo… Those who sang – and continue singing - with the administration in support of the illegal and inhuman Bush war can even find useful to claim ignorance of the lessons of history.
The USA is in a terrible position of a discredited demagogue: The precious achievements of the nation, that were hard won through strenuous efforts during the last 280 years, have been fast squandered by the oil-weapon-production interests that are controlling the immoral spoiled ignoramus in the WH. In fact, the USA gave up on most important principle of the Western legal system - innocent till proven guilty - and has lost the most important principle of democracy - accountability from the top.
The "patriotic GOP" - and "patriotic journalists" - lack any courage be truly patriotic.
After growing up in the Soviet Union and reading so much on the atrocities of both German and Soviet secret police, one remembers very well that there were always more than enough of people who cried support for the "noble goals" of the secret police. Nobody wants to remember that the Soviet concentration camps were sold by Stalin to the Western world as a perfect place to ’correct bad traits in bad people’. Same happened with the certain showy camp in Germany. Think Gitmo… Those who sang – and continue singing - with the administration in support of the illegal and inhuman Bush war can even find useful to claim ignorance of the lessons of history.
The USA is in a terrible position of a discredited demagogue: The precious achievements of the nation, that were hard won through strenuous efforts during the last 280 years, have been fast squandered by the oil-weapon-production interests that are controlling the immoral spoiled ignoramus in the WH. In fact, the USA gave up on most important principle of the Western legal system - innocent till proven guilty - and has lost the most important principle of democracy - accountability from the top.
The "patriotic GOP" - and "patriotic journalists" - lack any courage be truly patriotic.