Letters to the Editor

• Some time back, Glenn,

  [Read the article: Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  over at UT, I wrote something flippant about how I would sure like it if you wrote a "Manifesto" for change in this country. You've come close to it with this piece, but you're leaving off the critical part of a Manifesto: action. What to do about it.

  That's been the sticking point, not just with your work, but throughout the Lefty Blogosphere. Action -- beyond simply waiting passively for things to change, writing furious LTEs and blog posts, and calling out Fitz! every few minutes -- is dreaded more than almost anything else. And those who take action, or try to, or advocate it are routinely ridiculed and denounced throughout the Lefty Blogosphere... for being Dirty Fucking Hippies at the least, addle-pated revolutionary traitors who should be clapped away in the camps at the worst. This from the so-called Left. The wingnuts would just have those who advocate action shot, that is if they could pry themselves out from under their beds.

  The Libby commutation is SOP for the regime, and there is literally nothing whatever any lover of law and justice can do about it. We are ruled by a very successful criminal conspiracy; Libby is a made man; he is protected till the end of days. And there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it. He will not personally pay a fine, nor will his "supervision" be onerous. One can expect him to start making the Big Bucks at the neo-con think tanks any day now, and we should be seeing him swanning about as if he were the Duc D'Orleans by Labor Day if not before. And nothing you have to say about it will have any effect.

  The Plame-Wilsons had better commence fortifying their compound in Santa Fe. No doubt the seige will commence after Independence Day.

  This is a demonstration -- as if another one were needed -- of pure, naked, contemptuous Power. They -- our corrupt and decadent rulers -- have The Power; We The People do not. Not because we don't have sovereignty according to our law, but because, primarily We The People and our Representatives in Congress Assembled have -- for many years now -- declined to exercise the Power we hold and are now declining to require our rulers' adherence to the Law.

  And at least for now -- or at least till after the Holiday -- there is contentment at Things As They Are.

  For now.

  But any spark may touch off a conflagration that cannot be controlled.

  Permalink Tuesday, July 3, 2007 07:50 AM