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Logical Consequencse
Robert Koehler 9/4/2008
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Call it creative self-destruction, maybe.

How surreal it's been this week to watch the Republicans reap a small portion of the divine comeuppance due them, first from a hurricane, then from a pregnant teenager. Surely more of the same is on its way, but no one wins, because what is lying in a shambles around the McCain campaign is a harvest of suffering.

The bad ideas of the Republican right, or rather the consequences of those ideas -- from pre-emptive war to abstinence-only sex education to the merger of church and state to let's-drown-government-in-the-bathtub -- started taking over the Republican National Convention, bursting the levees of managed news and disciplined hypocrisy. Suddenly eight years of extreme cynicism began generating (it's a miracle) . . . bad press.

But before we go down to the convention floor, let's take a moment to revisit the worst of neocon Republicanism -- militarized paranoia, First Amendment shredding parties and pre-emptive war -- as it manifested itself in the Twin Cities as the convention was getting under way. This got almost no press at all, but it's crucial to our understanding of the context in which the party
that inflicted George W. Bush on America is choosing his eerily unstable would-be successor. Republicans just can't get their clean, fresh, smiley-face message across to the nation without squashing protest and making arrests.

"Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city," Glenn Greenwald wrote for Salon, "involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets."

When you believe in war, sooner or later you bring it home. This is called a police state. The agents of the state, in the name of security, fight words and ideas with guns and teargas. On the first day of the convention, 280 people were arrested, including a number of journalists. One of them was Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now!," who had tried to intervene when two producers for the show, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, were arrested as they filmed an antiwar protest.

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GUSTAV Shakes Up GOP
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Posted By: fencerider rob  on Friday, September 05, 2008

I saw the u-tube video of Goodmans arrest and she and her camara crew deliberately disobeyed a police order to not proceed into an area that had been cordoned off. When you disobey a police order (especially when many politicians are in town and there is a heightened security atomosphere) whatever happens you got coming to you. Where is the documentation of the rest of your claim of police on media bias, no where to be found because it probably doesn't exist in the way you say. More liberal blather why we should elect an empty suit (Obama) as the next POTUS.

Posted By: Jonathan Colb  on Saturday, September 06, 2008

I like this writer a lot, but he's more or less spinning his wheels with this piece.

Okay, so the GOP is a party of thuggish, paranoid fascists.

Come on. Who doesn't know that by now?!

Posted By: Good Life  on Sunday, September 07, 2008

So, why didn't the "liberal press" (as Rush likes to call them) cover the story as they did in '68.  Could it be that the press is owned and controlled and is now the "conservative press"?

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