Cultural Direction
Today, someone sent me further evidence in support of that thesis in the form of a clip from the television show Boston Legal. One of the program's lawyers, defending a woman who refused to pay her taxes in protest of the war in Iraq, gives a very powerful and eloquent closing argument that is well worth watching. (click on freshest video) If this is the kind of message being put out during prime time on mainstream media then I believe there is some hope of ending the fiasco in Iraq in the near future.
As well there should be, my friend also sent me the latest post by Scott Ritter who constituted a voice in the wilderness throughout the build up to our most recent invasion of Iraq. In the article Ritter, who has been right on this issue from the very beginning, devastates both the historical and present cases for war. To those who say the world is better for our invasion and occupation he replies, “Iraq has come to this: a human and social disaster of enormous scale, where unified central governmental authority is not only non-existent, but unachievable under current conditions.”
In an argument very similar to the one used by the above television attorney, Ritter closes his piece with this statement; “If, by writing a book exposing the lies about Iraqi WMD or submitting an essay to Al Jazeera (or for that matter, to AlterNet or any other outlet that publishes a dissenting view), the Bush administration construes my actions as representing a threat to the United States and as such worthy of covert monitoring, so be it, for it is their actions that are seditious to the ideals and values set forth by the Constitution, not mine. When faced with the scale of the criminal activity undertaken by the Bush administration in the name of bringing freedom to the Iraqi people or defending America, the only real sedition I could commit would be to remain silent.”
Hat Tip Kenny Rodgers