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> John Kerry wimps out on bringing up Downing Street Minutes/Memo- Last chance for Dem’s credibility

7 June 2005, 21:40

There will come a moment when those who prize Democracy and Freedom will stand together and fight against the rising tide of Fascism.

There will come a moment when the clouds of obfuscation and deceit will clear for a moment and everybody will be able to see the base evil that those in Power are capable of.

In that moment, the corporate-controlled media will not be able to spin the truth or distract the masses with around-the-clock coverage of some insipid and silly fluff. The people will be talking to each other and passing information electronically to each other and calling each other and meeting each other in the streets and the halls and the stores and the offices and telling the story. The strategies of the BIG LIE (9/11 = Iraq) and the Baby-with-the-Bathwater (CBS Memogate, Newsweek Abu-Grab) will no longer work to mask the truth, for the truth will be so clear and visible that only the small percentage of people who are totally delusional will be able to look at it and not see it.

In that moment, the main stream media will be irrelevant, the police impotent, and the government no longer will stand unopposed. The 100th Monkey will have come around. The time will be ours.

That moment COULD have come in November or December of 2004, had John Kerry and John Edwards stood against the tide of election fraud that swept Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Iowa, New Mexico, and perhaps other states. If they had fought at every step for every vote to be counted and every vote irregularity to be investigated and corrected, that moment might have come. If they had stood tall and taken the slings and arrows of the media as they were pilloried as "sore losers" and "anti-American" there were millions who would have stood with them. If they had pointed to the exit polls and questioned the "post-election corrections" it would have been a bit harder for the Administration to use that same technology to denounce elections in the Ukraine only weeks later — it might have created that MOMENT. But they did not, and the opportunity for a moment of decision was passed.

That moment could have come as the DSM came to light. Those who are our supposed "opposition leaders" could have risen to point out that the big lie ("Democrats voted for this war too") was only true because they were LIED TO! That the American People were LIED TO. That the LIES are the true crime, and that if the Republicans in congress are more beholden to their PARTY than to their COUNTRY, then we must take back our Democracy by some other means.

OK, so John Kerry took more bad advice lately from his pathetic advisors and didn’t create join in a movement of opposition leaders to create that moment for us with a public discussion of the DSM. That’s OK. Personally, I don’t think John Kerry is the person to create that moment for us.

But that moment WILL come.

We must be prepared to defend America from the forces of Fascism that have taken over every branch of our government and even our media. We must be prepared to SHUT THIS COUNTRY DOWN until we can have it back. We do not need to be the ones to fire the first shots, but we must be prepared for the possibility (likelihood!) that those in power will NOT go quietly and may shoot at us. Surprisingly, we will find people standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us that we would have scorned a decade ago. The "true" conservative does not support a government that is run by corporations and runs up enormous debts to give money to the wealthiest few. The "true" Christian does not support a government that kills, maims, wages war, and stops progress in the name of religion. And, of course, there are the Democrats who will stand with us — those willing to take a chance on the worst happening in order to protect what was once the most amazing political experiment in history.

The moment will come.

We must be ready.

Charlie L
Portland, Oregon
CLL2001@Gmail.com