[Vision2020] Fw: On Ron Paul and Racism

[Sunil Ramalingam]

That election is done, Tom. From the column I cited yesterday, now it's a matter of electing a person who is doing this:

'He has entrenched
 for a generation the once-reviled, once-radical Bush/Cheney Terrorism 
powers of indefinite detention, military commissions, and the state secret privilege
 as a weapon to immunize political leaders from the rule of law. He has 
shielded Bush era criminals from every last form of accountability. He 
has vigorously prosecuted the cruel and supremely racist War on Drugs, including
 those parts he vowed during the campaign to relinquish — a war which 
devastates minority communities and encages and converts into felons 
huge numbers of minority youth for no good reason. He has empowered 
thieving bankers through the Wall Street bailout, Fed secrecy, efforts to shield mortgage defrauders from prosecution, and the appointment of an endless roster of former Goldman, Sachs executives and lobbyists. He’s brought the nation to a full-on Cold War and a covert hot war with Iran, on the brink of far greater hostilities. He has made the U.S. as subservient as ever to the destructive agenda of the right-wing Israeli government. His support for some of the Arab world’s most repressive regimes is as strong as ever.'

George Bush is gone. His damage lives on, perpetuated by the guy I voted for, as I think you did, Tom.

I won't attack Bush any more for the things Obama is continuing to do, without attacking Obama for it too. I don't want to be that kind of partisan. I criticized Bush supporters for that kind of conduct, so I'd better not do it myself.

Again, it seems to me that the only person running for President who is against what I've described above is Paul. If he weren't running, we wouldn't even talk about these things; we would give it our silent blessing. Isn't that what our silence amounts to, a blessing?

Sunil

CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
From: thansen at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fw:  On Ron Paul and Racism
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 11:02:12 -0800
To: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com

Sunil suggests:
"I think we ought not to elect people willing to abuse their power, and seize power they do not constitutionally possess, with the hope that the court will reign them in."
Like declaring war . . . on "terror"?

Seeya later, Moscow.
Tom HansenSpokane, Washington
"If not us, who?If not now, when?"
- Unknown
On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com> wrote:

I think we ought not to elect people willing to abuse their power, and seize power they do not constitutionally possess, with the hope that the court will reign them in. 		 	   		  
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