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

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

State Dept Fall Guy Resigns Over Private Contractors

i.e. over princeblackwatermercforces.

To be expected, the story doesn't say that.

That's o.k. though.

Because plenty of other stories DO say that.

We canNOT have mercenary military forces located within our national borders.

We canNOT.

[ NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. security contractor Blackwater said on Wednesday it supports recommendations by a State Department panel to boost oversight of contractors in Iraq. ]

Do you believe this for one second?

dems and all the rest of us really need to go after this over and over and over. It is an achilles heel that just about everybody understands.

If they don't just give 'em some of those grade b toga and sandal movies to watch.

She says.

Cynically.

4 comments:

Graeme said...

How long until the corporate army takes over the public one? Perhaps they have already.

Frank Partisan said...

I returned the favor and linked back to you.

Some lackey has to be sacrificed.

Foxessa said...

Renegade Eye -- A friend is in Buenas Aires this fall, supposedly on a sabbatical to study something to do with the Spanish language (she teaches Spanish at the university level). Instead, she's studying tango!

Indeed, the sacrifice of lackeys.

Love, C.

Foxessa said...

Graeme -- In the meantime princeblackwater's lobbying really hard to get into the drug wars -- they've already gotten many millions of contracts, if I got that right -- to dance down to Colombia. They are lobbying like crazy to get into border and immigration fed money. And now they are insisting that if they'd had that ranch land in Potero THEY WOULD HAVE KEPT OFF THE WILD FIRES.

Jeremy Scahill, he who has done the big investigative book on the blackops'prince, laid out the information yesterday in a long interview on public radio that prince's getting millions in contracts from the feds EVERY FARKIN' SINGLE DAY RIGHT NOW.

Love, C.