Friday Questions for Diane, April 11, 2008

This week we learned that the Bush/Cheney Justice Department has again given preferential treatment to corporations that should have been indicted for criminal activities. So much compassion is demonstrated for industry, wanting to help the corporate world avoid “catastrophic collateral consequences and costs” that can be a “corporate death sentence”.

Yet, we have seen extremely little of that compassion for human beings, either here or abroad.

I am not usually one to use inflammatory words, because they tend to turn people off. However, given this complete deference to industry over the law of the land, I can’t help but think of Benito Mussolini’s own definition of Fascism: the merger of State and corporate power.

What are we to think?!

Know Bush Fact #29

Based on the belief that the truth shall set you free:


Yesterday, Michael Moore's film, "Fahrenheit 9/11", opened in over 900 theaters across the nation to sold out audiences and standing ovations.

On the same day, the apparently desperate Bush-Cheney campaign began an ad called "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party - The Coalition of the Wild-Eyed" as the main feature on its official website. It shows very brief images of Gore, Kerry, Howard Dean, Michael Moore, and Dick Gephardt, all in the peak of impassioned speeches, followed by the sound and images of Hitler.

The Bush-Cheney ad also parenthetically states that the images of Hitler are from a MoveOn.org ad.

They're not. According to Wes Boyd, of MoveOn.org, the images are from two of the more than 1500 submissions from ordinary Americans to their ad contest last December and posted for the public to review, criticize and vote on at bushin30seconds.org. They were never chosen, endorsed, or sponsored by MoveOn.org.

However, during the 2002 Senate Race, supporters of President Bush used TV ads morphing the face of democratic Senator Max Cleland into that of Osama Bin Laden.

Sen. Cleland (D-GA) was the victim of this offensive attack because he had voted against Bush's preferred legislation on the creation of a homeland security department, in committee, without an amendment guaranteeing labor rights for federal workers.

To confirm/verify, Google: Bush +Hitler