Lew, that video of dancers being arrested inside the Jefferson Memorial is priceless. Their harmless motion can hardly be distinguished from strolling or holding hands while walking. How is it that an armed revolt against Gaddafi becomes a matter for Washington approval and armed support at the highest levels, or that masses of unarmed people protesting Mubarak become the legitimate voice of Egypt, or that Obama stands on the side of all sorts of human motions in the streets of Arab countries against government officials (some elected), but in America the least little thing that makes a statement or presents a challenge to authority is suppressed with force? How do we explain this disconnect? By American authorities being utter liars and hypocrites.
Are America’s leaders going to stand aside if some “minutemen” or some other massed group appear who take over an armory or stop traffic somewhere or dance around the steps of the Supreme Court temple, or simply appear en masse in the streets of Washington and demand that Congress disband or Obama step down or that the Supreme Court justices pack their bags and leave town? Are they going to hail that as democracy and the legitimate voice of the people? Of course not, as they cannot even stand people moving around inside the Jefferson Memorial. They showed their true colors at Waco. They showed it again in that video. So what is all this talk about democracy that they are feeding us? Why is Obama promising billions of American dollars to support these emerging Middle Eastern democracies and “human rights”? What’s the real agenda, for it sure isn’t what he says it is. I think we all feel the real agenda intuitively or in our bones: the power to control events and keep people in their place. If the dictators no longer can control the people in these countries in accord with U.S. aims, then switch over to “democracy,” in which the control rests in the hands of representatives and parliaments. America is a prime example of how that works out.
