LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Lynch Rallies

Just like the gop nom con was a lynch mob -- their howling wasn't cheering, but blood lust and hatred.Why is this not being reported more, one wonders. It's on the Ron Paul website and others, and now the huffpo has reported it.

It has been reported in the New Mexico papers, according to those who live there. It was absolutely chilling, they have said.He and she are howling at their rallies that Obama -- HUSSEIN -- is a terrorist, a traitor, a muslim and not an American, and he's supposedly startled that his audience that he's whipped up these people (that begs to be whipped up) to lynch mob state, to where a member can howl "Kill him!" How can he be surprised, and how can he not be held responsible? Just. Farkin'. How. Can. McCain. Not. Be. Responsible.

[ Judging by McCain's slightly startled reaction, he clearly didn't anticipate that reaction, and McCain's in no way responsible for the utterances of anybody in his audience. But he must have some idea of how deeply this fear/outsider/other meme has spread. A tripartite strategy isn't needed. ]

Even now the media cuts him undeserved slack. Je chooses to target such words to describe his opponent to people like that and then is surprised by the reaction? Then why use those terms?

No, this is what he wants to happen. There large elements of belief and behavior in each of us here that he could characterize in such a way to these same people and get the same response. Remember there were some white people lynched too during that long century of lynch seasons in this nation post the Civil War.

He chose to fly missions to bomb innocent people because it would advance his career. That was a choice just like this one. He was not ordered to fly those missions. And just as he was no war hero he's not fit to be dog catcher, much less POTUS, a judgment made on the basis of the choices he has made all his protected and indulged and entitled life.

His lynch mob mentality is also part and parcel of palin's displays.

Both of them are doing it. She doesn't flinch, not even the first time. This is who she is. You saw it at the gop nom con -- she reveled in bringing up the howls.

1 comment:

Foxessa said...

Well, it turns out that they've already started to throw 'commie' around -- Sunday, in Virginia, da mavrik's brother. Then they tried to tell us it was a joke.

They've been flogging the surrogate words for the n-word forever already: traitor, terrorist, not like us, muslin, who is he etc.

So it's just the Jewish population they've left out so far of our traditional flashpoints for mob violence of the sort we saw in the Depression post torchlight rallies to whip up the jobless and the very, very, very angry and uneducated, which today are now called 'the low-information' voter.

Then today in Florida palin informed the population that the way da mavrik's health plan will be paid for is to cut Medicare and get rid of 3 million 'fraud' users. This will go over very, very well in Florida, I assure you. Brilliant move.

Love, C.