I think that, considering that we have an administration who had already orchestrated a judicial coup d'etat in which they stole an election, had already screwed California out of billions of dollars (if you weren't here during the rolling blackouts, sweeties, look it up) for their ever so reliable and honest buddies at Enron, since they lied about weapons of mass destruction and uranium yellowcake and pretty much everything else?
I think that an automatic belief that "gasp shock horror our government wouldn't do anything like that" is naive and dangerous beyond belief.
Short form: you have a government that has already proven it has about as much use for ethics, conscience and truth as it has for any of its actual high-ranking members actually, oh, say, serving in the military at some point in their lives.
So honestly, if George Bush told me the sky was blue? I'd open a window to check. That's how unreliable he's proven himself.
Also - and no, not going to argue this with you, or anyone else, so don't bother, because the only point to a debate is to reach an accord, and I don't much care how the rest of the world feels about it - there are many people out there who believe the administration knew something huge was coming down the pike, and decided to let it go down. Not quite the same thing as orchestrating it. I don't generally put my own take on it forward, but you asked.
But if you can look at the current administration's track record of contempt for the truth and be outraged that people suspect them of stuff, no matter how silly and over the top?
I think you need to pay closer attention to what's been happening.
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Date: 2006-03-26 02:53 am (UTC)I think that, considering that we have an administration who had already orchestrated a judicial coup d'etat in which they stole an election, had already screwed California out of billions of dollars (if you weren't here during the rolling blackouts, sweeties, look it up) for their ever so reliable and honest buddies at Enron, since they lied about weapons of mass destruction and uranium yellowcake and pretty much everything else?
I think that an automatic belief that "gasp shock horror our government wouldn't do anything like that" is naive and dangerous beyond belief.
Short form: you have a government that has already proven it has about as much use for ethics, conscience and truth as it has for any of its actual high-ranking members actually, oh, say, serving in the military at some point in their lives.
So honestly, if George Bush told me the sky was blue? I'd open a window to check. That's how unreliable he's proven himself.
Also - and no, not going to argue this with you, or anyone else, so don't bother, because the only point to a debate is to reach an accord, and I don't much care how the rest of the world feels about it - there are many people out there who believe the administration knew something huge was coming down the pike, and decided to let it go down. Not quite the same thing as orchestrating it. I don't generally put my own take on it forward, but you asked.
But if you can look at the current administration's track record of contempt for the truth and be outraged that people suspect them of stuff, no matter how silly and over the top?
I think you need to pay closer attention to what's been happening.