Home | May 31, 2009 - June 6, 2009 »

Week of January 18, 2009 - January 24, 2009

Clearing Brush


Martin Luther King understood and often said that freeing the oppressed liberates the oppressor as well.  For myself, remembering that has come to be the never-to-be-forgotten part of celebrating this day.

So it is a hard lesson to hear in my head as I prepare to celebrate the end of the Bush administration (at long last!). It is hard because I desire revenge and the payment for stolen things.

But King had is eyes on a bigger prize. While it would be just if the Bushies were to answer for their acts in a court of law, the best result is if they could never talk the way they did, ever, again.

For that kind of justice, more is required and will be.



   
Home | May 31, 2009 - June 6, 2009 »

moat

user-pic

Following: 8
Followers: 10

Posts
Comments & Recommends


  • Location Brooklyn
  • Party Democratic
  • Politics I am pretty sure about a lot of things that it is not.

Favorites

  • Favorite Quotes "the worst error, the one committed by all our revolutionary strategists, is to think they can put an end to the system on the real plane: that is...the imaginary the system itself imposes on them, a system that lives and survives only by getting those who attack it to fight on the terrain of reality, a ground that is always its own. - Jean Baudrillard "People think the world needs a republic, and they think it needs a new social order, and a new religion, but it never occurs to anyone that what the world really needs, confused as it is by much learning, is a new Socrates." - Soren Kierkegaard

All Reader Posts
How to use myTPM

Advertise Liberally
Share
Close Social Web Email

"To" Email Address

Your Name

Your Email Address