The News

While the American people have been riveted (with the active aid of the corporate newsmedia) by the Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson and Robert Blake trials, as well as the Atlanta Courthouse shooting, Martha Stewart's release and the Terry Schiavo tragedy/circus, Congress has passed a bill giving over $150 billion in new tax breaks to the corporations, instituted a new round of tax reductions for the wealthiest Americans, passed a punitive bankruptcy law which allows loopholes for the more well off, allowed drilling in a sacrosanct Alaskan nature preserve, curtailed the ability of the citizens to file class action suits, and who knows what else.

In broad daylight they’re looting the country and fleecing the lambs. Speaking of wool, it’s been successfully pulled over the eyes of the populace.



Did the people elect George W. Bush in 2000 (well, semi-elect) and then re-elect him in 2004 to run up the biggest deficits in history, loosen environmental guidelines to allow more pollution, increase corporate welfare by umpteen billions of dollars, blur the formerly inviolate lines between church and state, allow 45 million working Americans to live without health insurance, start a new doctrine of preemptive war, mishandle the military and diplomatic missions attached to that war, turn America from a respected super-nation into a resented super-bully, and keep the homosexuals down?

Well, at least one of those things, the one that’s obviously much more important to some people than all the others.