American people fucked again

I haven’t got the energy to summarize it or go into detail about why this is such a fucking outrage, but Glenn Greenwald, ever the energetic young man, has an analysis of the current selling out of the American people by the lay-down Democrats in congress:

“So all the Attorney General has to do is recite those magic words — the President requested this eavesdropping and did it in order to save us from the Terrorists — and the minute he utters those words, the courts are required to dismiss the lawsuits against the telecoms, no matter how illegal their behavior was.

That’s the “compromise” Steny Hoyer negotiated and which he is now — according to very credible reports — pressuring every member of the Democratic caucus to support. It’s full-scale, unconditional amnesty with no inquiry into whether anyone broke the law. In the U.S. now, thanks to the Democratic Congress, we’ll have a new law based on the premise that the President has the power to order private actors to break the law, and when he issues such an order, the private actors will be protected from liability of any kind on the ground that the Leader told them to do it — the very theory that the Nuremberg Trial rejected.

If that isn’t hard enough to stomach, Digby has more on the FISA laydown along with the currently running McClatchy series on torture by the Bush administration.

If you’re thinking “why doesn’t she just shut up about this?” “Can’t she write something about Betty and Bill, about the garden? Where did Lynette go?” If you’re thinking that, well hell, I’m thinking it too. How are you all surviving this? I can hardly bear to wake up in the morning because each day brings a new travesty, a new injustice. I find myself screaming at the stupid bloviating fools on what passes for cable news. I read books that tell me what I know to be true, just for confirmation that I’m not really losing my mind, that I’m not imagining things.

Are you staying sane while this nation is being destroyed? If you are, tell me how to find some balance in all of this. I am lost.

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This should be a post about the coming New Year, full of optimistic words, a shedding of the old for the bright shiny new. Look else where for that.Perhaps it is just me~ the 10 Th of December the death of my son Kelsey, the 13 Th of April my son, Christopher’s death ~ has only been three years or three thousand? The world around me plummets into darkness; there is only bad news it seems. Death and madness stalk those close to me and those far away.

Our world is drowning in our refuse, and nature is something we go “visit”. Any hope of good is snuffed out as quickly as it arises… people are stupider than ever it seems. Nations are headed by lunatics, who care only for money and power. We buy our leaders here at home as much as they buy the offices they seek. We call each other terrible things, cannot agree on the most simple of ideas, and cannot for a second imagine what the “other” is thinking or feeling. I want to shake off this feeling as a dog does the water clinging to its fur. I do not want to honor my despair; I do not want to feel how I feel. I want to be other than what I am.

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