The case of Jane Harman
In a better world, a member of Congress caught on tape agreeing to obstruct justice at the request of an agent of a foreign power would have stepped down as soon as the news hit the headlines. In our shameless era, however, that isn’t likely to happen. Instead, the spies will get off, Israel will continue to steal us blind, and a trial that would have shocked the American people and portrayed Israel in a far more realistic light than our news media dares will never take place.
How’s that for change we can believe in?</em>
Indeed. A must read, although I have to differ with Raimondo on one point. A trial about this surely wouldn’t “shock the American people”, simply because the American people are too ill-informed and lazy to actually give a crap about who actually runs this country, and what is done in their names. In a “better world” our torturers would be in jail, not on TV, Israel would be the champion of human rights and dignity, not apartheid, and traitors like Jane Harman would be treated as the criminals they are.
But as recent history shows, we loves us some traitors. We keep inviting them on television and actually listen to the vile lies they spew. A better world, indeed.
