Watching CNN late at night makes your realize how correct the New York Times is in reporting that the news network’s ratings are in the toilet as you watch these blasé talking heads blindly regurgitate poisonous Republican claims that the situation with the dissident in China is a humiliation to President Obama.
This nonsense comes direct from the people who brought you torture, indefinite detention, the death of an American city, the destruction of the social safety net, the crash of the world economy, rabid homophobia, feverish misogyny, an unprovoked war that resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians and a botched war effort in Afghanistan along with a corrupt privatized war machine that went with it.
Yes, these are the degenerates who dare speak with flowing crocodile tears of human rights in China as they sit behind closed doors gleefully wishing for war with China so that they and their minions can make billions of dollars off another unwanted war at an untold cost in human lives along with the devastation that goes with such acts of madness.
500 years before the Declaration of Independence and 700 years before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a group of British freedom fighters in 1215 A.D. forced a King to sign the Magna Carta a document that was a cornerstone of Western Democracy and that among other things created the right of Habeus Corpus a right that was torn to shreds in the early 2000s by an imbecile president put in place by mad dog neo conservatives and their adherents bent on the implementation of an alien and extremist ideology on the world’s greatest democracy at a time when the country was truly vulnerable.
And these same maniacs now push America and China to the brink of war in an effort to topple our president. Conservatism is a cancer that has ruined civilizations and it now threatens the well being of America and the world. NYU professor Norman F. Cantor in his book Antiquity goes so far as to accuse conservatism of toppling the mighty thousand year old Roman Empire saying that its fall was due to, “…in general, a conservative backward looking frame of mind hostile to critical…innovation…widening the gap between…elites and the…masses,” much like the differences today between the all powerful greed driven and war hungry one percent and the disenfranchised impoverished 99%.
It is time for Americans to wake up from this screaming nightmare and push these fanatics into the sea drowning them on the beaches of reason thereby invoking an age of peace and prosperity unheralded in world history. Republicans calling for human rights is indeed a laughable folly.