Friday, March 9, 2007

Liar's Poker

"Mueller admits fault in FBI intrusions
AP - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions."
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We've become uncomfortably numb. We're lied to so often that we have lost the power to be outraged. The administration knows this and does whatever it wants with a ready lie in their pocket. Libby is convicted of perjury instead of outing a working CIA officer and all we do is wonder when Bush will pardon him. We elect a Democratic majority and when they only pretend to serve our interests, we shrug and go on.

I remember seeing interviews with common people in the old Soviet Union. When asked about the crimes of their government, they invariably gave a hopeless response that I came to think of as "The Soviet Shrug," an ineffable expression of their powerlessness to reign in their criminal government.

Our own outlaw government goes on as it did before last November. Instead of stopping the illegal Iraq War ( A war becomes illegal when the reasons for initiating it are proven false.), the Democrats are giving George Wicked Bush more money for his criminal wars.

And while we fuss and fume over Wicked's crimes, he and his gang go on with their outrages against us. Upon the eve of the conviction of Cheney's top hand in outing Valerie Plame, Bush goes on the road to distract us from his culpability in the outing. Huge protests rage around "the Rich Boy in the Bubble," and his incurious ass sits in splendor and thinks of all the money he's stashed for his private life after he goes out of office.

That the FBI used the Patriot Act provisions illegally would have been enormous news a decade ago. But now it's just another spot on our windshield obscuring our view of what's really going on.

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