Mandatory disclosure: I tend to see a small bit of good in ANY person. I also feel a sense of loss at each and every death.

Now that Strom has been wheeled off (wheelchair-bound, so he can't shuffle off) this mortal coil, one small benefit: there is one more room available at Walter Reed Army Hospital for our increasing wounded, arriving daily from Iraq, where our Great Warrior Leader(tm) has determined that the Mission is Accomplished.

Sidenote to revisionist historians: remember that it was the Captain of the Abraham Lincoln who had that great big "Mission Accomplished" banner strung up on the island. When it becomes necessary to start the Mighty Wurlitzer explaining that our Leader was misled and betrayed by snakes he trusted (similar to what happened to Cleopatra, but let's not mix metaphors too much,) said snakes misrepresenting the situation in order to dupe him into declaring *that which was not true* then it will be necessary to excoriate that poor devil Naval Captain as part of the deception process that fooled our Great Leader.

Where was I?

Oh yes, Senator Thurmond. So sad, too bad. But, he was a living witness to history, spanning a century in which he saw America grow from a small isolationist Democracy under threat of Plutocracy from industrial cartels to a nascent Republic bent upon Empire, to a nation devastated by the travails of unregulated financial markets, through a war fought to save other democracies from the dangers of international fascism, then involved in the fight to save the world from international communism, and finally to see his nation, transformed from Democracy to What We Got Here Now, once again bent upon Empire.

We live in momentous times, my brothers!

The best thing 'ole Strom ever did was play the straight man for Trent Lott.

that's right, re strom jr. prosecuting the anti-war protester. i forgot about that. my local peace group frwded that article through their listserve last week.

that was just so wrong. can you imagine the uproar if clinton had jailed one of his protestors? what irony. this is what the black helicopter crowd used to intimate, that clinton would bring about a police state, when that's what we're living through right now. ok, so it isn't a police state yet, but there certainly is a crackdown on our rights. why isn't that old crowd decrying bush fascist tactics? suddenly their paranoia against government has been cured.

isn't there a write-in campaign to pressure against this prosecution? not that it'll happen, but people should picket strom jr's house around the clock. if they're allowed to get away with this, things will just get worse from here on.

p.s. checkout soa watch. the years of jail time soa protesters are racking up is even more stunning.

i don't what can be done about it but this cannot stand. god help us if we don't win in '04.

pity strom didn't pulled a lee atwater and leave us with a deathbed confession. but strom's mind died long before his body did. and that's assuming strom even had a conscience to relieve guilt about. that monster never apologized for any of the shit he's pulled.

and media had the nerve to air respectful eulogies. russert's at the end of MTP was the worse.

that damn strom. he couldn't even die right.

amen jo. rot in hell is exactly what that man deserves.

He will be missed----A man who landed at Normandy as a Capt.----2star general----an american hero!

In response to the SF Chronicle's "Quarantining Dissent"- 1/4/04

How dare Bursey be prosecuted for exercising his freedom of speech? I can’t believe I'm living through such a bogus autonomy. It's as if Douglas Adams is implementing lunchtime on Thursday and everyone walking around is like "Duh." I hate this regime. Can we stop Thurmond's spawn from spreading?!
...I’d recommend "Fear's Empire - War, Terrorism and Democracy," By Benjamin Barker
...come on Dent, can we leave this planet
already--I've started burping like the natives...Duuuhhh!!!

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

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