Our blogs about
America's Wars
War on Iraq
War on Drugs
War on Afghanistan
War on Columbia
War on Philippines
War on Venezuela

MORE
Matrix Masters
Blogs
World Events
Katrina's Aftermath
US News
Bush Crime Family News
Science & Health
Earth News
Free Speech
News from Africa
News from Palestine
Bill of Rights Under Attack

Support Bloggers' Rights!

Lorenzo's
Random Musings
. . . about Chaos,
Reason, and Hope

 

California conservatives appoint a Nazi-admiring sexual predator to terminate democracy
In a replay of the 2000 presidential election, the Republican party again circumvented democracy by ousting (in a bloodless coup) the candidate who received the largest number of votes with a figurehead of their own. Although the final vote count is not yet in, it is obvious that Gray Davis, while failing to stop the recall, still polled a significantly larger number of votes than did the Republican candidate. Democracy has failed in California. Things are about to get really interesting. The gloves are off. There are no more rules. Anarchy slouches toward Sacramento.

So what do the people who voted for Arnold believe in? One can only assume that they hold to the beliefs of their new leader, which may be summarized as follows:

Arnold on Hitler: "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it." Of course, this just runs in the family. Arnold's father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, joined Hitler's notorious storm troopers six months after they helped launch Kristallnacht.

Arnold refuses to repudiate his close friend Kurt Waldheim, who is Europe's leading neo-Nazi. In fact, he even invited Waldheim to his wedding.

Arnold admits to being a sexual predator as recently as 2001. (His supporters seem to believe that there is nothing wrong with these criminal acts since they all took place before the campaign ... interesting morality there, I'd say.)

Arnold met with Enron pirate Kenneth Lay in a hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off.

Arnold has accepted large sums of money from special interests to promote the rights of corporations over the rights of the people.

Arnold supported the anti-immigrant Prop. 187 despite his claim of having a uniquely empathetic understanding of issues facing immigrants. Welcome to the "I got mine, screw the rest of you" school of politics.

Arnold is a bigot, for example: In 1996, he said: "I used steroids. It was a risky thing to do, but I have no regrets. It was what I had to do to compete." This guy was in charge of Bush Sr.'s President's Council on Physical Fitness? What a great role model for kids who want to really pump up!

I could go on, but you get the picture. Those who voted for Arnold, whether they realize it or not, are now partners in the above consciousness. I feel sorry for them, but they are perfect examples of the shallowness of American politics and of the voters in the US. Sound bites from an ego-maniac who is supported by some very dark forces can win anywhere in the US right now. Elections can be nullified by any rich conservative who didn't get a big enough share of the pie. Democracy is finished in the no-longer-United States of America. Let the revolution begin!

posted by LoZo 9:08 AM