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.
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.
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Whoops, I accidentally recommended my own post. Rookie mistake.
January 19, 2009 7:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think that's bad. Would you post something that you wouldn't recommend to other readers?
January 19, 2009 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
How stupid can you get Moat. You are supposed to only recommend my blogs.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
Just kidding.
Although Pseudo is pretty hard on that kind of thing. But after all, he is only an ant.
January 19, 2009 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Overlooking criminal acts is not good for the nation. I still feel Nixon should have been subjected to a trial and never been pardoned. His crimes were piddly next to the ones committed by the Bush regime. I say investigation, trial, and punishment are in order.
January 20, 2009 1:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that justice should be done. By bringing up the element of language and rhetoric, I didn't want to argue that changing our society happens by not prosecuting criminals.
But the Bush years should not only be measured by what the administration did and did not do. They put all their chips on framing what was happening in the world in a very fixed manner. They enabled and were enabled by a desire for the frame itself.
Martin Luther King had a profound understanding of this dynamic. It was the scale he used to decide what had to happen now and what would come only after a long time.
The dynamic is not just a matter of political change (although it is always about that as well). It is about how we talk to each other and define the lines we use to locate the people we see.
January 20, 2009 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Such as?
January 20, 2009 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink