05-01-2009, 02:17 PM
Ed Murrow calls to us from the grave.
For surely he must know that the moral outrage he generated within the American people when he exposed, with courage and dignity, the excesses of McCarthyism, has atrophied.
The Bush-Cheney war crimes, among other similar and even greater horrors, have been exposed. Cheney has all but confessed -- fearlessly, and with good reason.
The revulsion has been cancelled.
The real coup has succeeded. It was a coup aimed at what Albert Schweitzer described as the "ethical spirit," and at the height of the Cold War Schweitzer sensed its vulnerability and urged us to renew it.
Too late.
Keith Olbermann, Murrow's putative heir, is shouting in the wilderness. Night has fallen, and we're out of luck.
Have a nice day.
For surely he must know that the moral outrage he generated within the American people when he exposed, with courage and dignity, the excesses of McCarthyism, has atrophied.
The Bush-Cheney war crimes, among other similar and even greater horrors, have been exposed. Cheney has all but confessed -- fearlessly, and with good reason.
The revulsion has been cancelled.
The real coup has succeeded. It was a coup aimed at what Albert Schweitzer described as the "ethical spirit," and at the height of the Cold War Schweitzer sensed its vulnerability and urged us to renew it.
Too late.
Keith Olbermann, Murrow's putative heir, is shouting in the wilderness. Night has fallen, and we're out of luck.
Have a nice day.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene