mtmynd wrote:Deb: "And McCain wants to send us all back to the dark ages “…for our children's safety. He's full of shit!"
Yes, I agree. I used to have respect for that man, despite our political differences in parties, but he has become such a fucking slug... I have no respect left for him after hearing him talk within the past year or two. He has become just another politician that cares only about his political future over all else. Too bad.
Cecil, you are 100% correct. Their political careers are the reasons why they are pushing now for bans and controls over the internet; they don’t want to become the next George Allen. They saw and felt the power of genuinely free expressions …. They saw the power of what one single video can do … and this is what they really want to stop:
Salon Person of the Year: S.R. Sidarth
The Virginia native and son of Indian immigrants changed history with a camcorder and introduced Sen. George Allen -- and the rest of us -- to the real America.
By Michael Scherer
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/20 ... index.html
Dec. 16, 2006 | Sometimes, for just a moment, nothing makes sense. The senator who would be president stands on the dais. It is a bright summer day. The branches of trees, still green, sway gently in the breeze. Republican George Allen is feeling good, and the crowd likes him. Almost everyone thinks he will win reelection. Then he says something. "Let's give a welcome to macaca here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." No one knows what has happened.
But the confusion does not last long. Over the next week, people consult dictionaries in several languages. They find that the word "macaca" is a term for monkey, used in some places around the world as a racial epithet. At first, the senator recoils from the claims of insensitivity, refusing to apologize. Then he apologizes hesitantly, then profusely. At first, the senator's advisors say the word was a nickname for a mohawk haircut. Then they say the word meant nothing at all.
As days stretch into weeks, a video of that moment, with the senator onstage, spreads over the Internet like a sickness, entering popular culture and political history. Months later in the fall, when the votes are counted, it becomes clear that a successful politician has stumbled badly over a 20-year-old with a camcorder. The career of George Allen, the former front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, is in shambles. And when he finally concedes defeat two days after the 2006 election, he has not only lost a seat that was considered safe but also handed Democrats control of the Senate, completing their takeover of both houses of Congress.
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This law he’s trying to get passed has nothing to do with sexual predators and protecting our kids, it’s all about protecting themselves and their careers – stopping this type of freedom of expression where people exposes themselves as they really are - stopping the chance of their own exposures.
That's what he's really after, his own protection - not 'our kids.'
And yet the disguises they are using continue to wear thinner and thinner every time they use it. “You can’t fool all the people all the time” (Abe Lincoln)
The last thing Michael Scherer writes in this article is this …
Macaca and all the missteps that followed helped convince voters in these affluent, well-educated and increasingly diverse zip codes outside Washington that they had grown tired of George Allen. But the same voters may also have recognized Sidarth, born and raised in northern Virginia, a straight-A student at a state college and a member of the local Hindu temple, as their neighbor. Allen was just a California transplant with dip and cowboy boots who had glommed on to the ancient racial quirks of his adopted home. Sidarth was the kid next door. He, not Allen, was the real Virginian. He was proof that every hour his native commonwealth drifts further from the orbit of the GOP's solid South and toward a day when Allen's act will be a tacky antique. Allen was the past, Sidarth is the wired, diverse future -- of Virginia, the political process and the country.
He’s accurate, Cecil … The people are tired of this crap; tired of these old ways of doing things; they see that people like Allen and his ways really are the past, not what they want … and that people like Sidarth and the rest who do things these new ways - their own kids and grandkids - are the future.
When people actually get to see and hear what happens, not just read about it in print – the truth of the of their intention of the moment are obvious and no amount of spinning can change it
once it’s been seen and heard. And that’s what McCain and the others are trying to prevent - not sexual predators. He's not working to protect ‘our kids’ –– but as you say, to protect his own and others like him political careers.
And people are able to see this, and are tired of it all.
It’s sad (for them) really - but it is of their own doing.
The idea of leaving behind their old ways is given to them daily, but they choose to ignore it. The facts that others have already left it behind, long since left it behind is in their face daily, but they ignor that as well. The baton that they think was just recently passed actually passed a long while back … but only now are the effects beginning to be felt by those like Allen; and they scared – and what do they do when they're sacred ... they same crap that put them in this mess in the first place.
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“… every hour (America) drifts further from the orbit of the GOP's solid South (old ways/views) and toward a day when Allen's act will be a tacky antique. Allen (is) the past, Sidarth is the wired, diverse future -- of Virginia, the political process and the country.
Yes it is.
