U.S. Infiltrated by Poison Candy Salesmen

The incredible sway of this country to the Right has occurred because the so-called voices of the Left have gone silent, only to pipe up once in a while to talk about increasing the minimum wage and other marginally Left band-aids. The elections, which could be used as great forums to help change the conversation in this country to the concerns of the people (see Left) have become nothing more than pageant shows, as candidate after candidate tries to appear moderate (see mediocre) while making appeals to the non-existent “Center.” The media is increasingly seen as “liberal” even as the stock tickers and constant market updates drone on and on, while employment issues are virtually ignored, labor unions are viewed as scourges despite all the benefits that today’s workers have derived from them and government “regulation” is the enemy of business everywhere, though it is the only thing that stands between us and anarchistic fascism. This country is clearly dominated by the Right and as far as those of us on the Left are concerned, it’s for all the wrong reasons; like the failure to observe that to speak on issues on the Left requires tremendously greater amounts of courage than speaking on the simple ideas of the Right, something tantamount to selling free candy to children.

Washington Post Wants Us to Believe the Story is the “Other” Protestors

When all of the polls have finally confirmed that the overwhelming sentiment is against the Iraq occupation and after 4 long and deadly violent years the mainstream press finally starts giving some real attention to the anti-occupation movement. Then the Washington Post produces an article like this. This is a piece of garbage.

Is the intention of this article to have us believe that those protesting the occupation, those attempting to remove our soldiers from a untenably violent and chaotic situation don’t support the troops when the (fiction) writer contends that those protesting “stood in solidarity with U.S. troops?” The truth of the matter is that the polls tell us that that the overwhelmingly majority of the soldiers in Iraq don’t support the illegal occupation and want our forces to withdraw immediately. That’s a fact.

But what about critical reporting? Why not ask how many of these supposed protestors actually served in Iraq or when was their last tour? Were they involved in the initial invasion or have these protestors been to Iraq recently? Are the alleged protestors a part of the 90% of the active troops that still erroneously believe that the Iraq invasion and occupation is in response to Iraq’s involvement in 9/11? Or how about asking who paid for the buses for them to get to Washington and who organized it? I’ll bet it was a group that was politically or economically motivated.

How about asking how many anti-occupation protestors were there? What did they have to say? What groups did they represent and were they representing the truth? And how about asking whether or not they represented American values?

In an ideal article the author would ask the rhetorical question, do these pro-occupation protestors realize that the people that they’re calling “terrorists” are actually the Iraqi people whose country has just been destroyed by an illegally invading and occupying force? Shouldn’t the Iraqi’s voices be heard? With all the blood that they’ve shed, shouldn’t they have a say?

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