[Peace-discuss] Thoughts on the coming 'discovery' of Bin

[Ricky Baldwin]

I think you're right, Jen.  And the suggestion below,
that 'we' (and 'the Democrats') start accusing the
Bush Administration of sitting on bin Laden for
political gain, could easily be phrased as a 
question, to be repeated over & over.  ("Are you
sitting on him?")  I think to SAY that they are, with
no proof, is to act like - well - crackpots, which
doesn't go unnoticed either (except when the
Republicans do it).

And, not to sound like a broken record, but this
article assumes something I don't think we can assume.
 I still think there's a serious question of whether
supporting ANY Democrat (like, say, Lieberman) is
worth our efforts.  Most of them would probably be
somewhat better, but aren't our efforts better devoted
to supporting movements (anti-war, etc.) we expect the
winner to have to take into account?  They do have a
tendency to "move to the middle" (i.e. to the right)
after election day, or even right before it.  And I
think it'd no accident that this year we have half the
Democratic candidates calling themselves anti-war. 
Don't we need to keep the heat on them?
 
Ricky

--- jencart <jencart at mycidco.com> wrote:
> Boy, does this hit the nail on the head.... And
> if/when the Republicans do find Bin Laden, it won't
> matter what ANYONE sez about much of anything --
> unless the media undergoes a major transformation
> betw now and then.....Unlikely. The Demos prob
> shouldn't be emphasizing that the Republicans have
> failed to find Bin Laden, like that's as bad as
> their lies which justified the war against Iraq and
> all the other stuff, 2000 election scams,
> fraud/voting election machines 2002 and 2004......
> 
> Jenifer C.
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 04:35:21 +0900
> From: Eric Smith <snowdog at juno.ocn.ne.jp>
> To: ppatton at uiuc.edu
> Subject: Thoughts on the coming 'discovery' of Bin
> Laden: the best
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> OPINION: THOUGHTS ON THE COMING "DISCOVERY" OF BIN
> LADEN --The Best Propaganda Money can Buy
> 
> Unless preparations are made for its eventuality,
> the announcement of Bin Laden's capture will be the
> death-knell for the 2004 Democratic campaign. And,
> like the "heroic rescue" of Jessica Lynch or the
> toppling of Hussein's statue by "jubilant throngs"
> of Iraqis, it needn't even be real:
> 
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/3028585.stm
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-scheer20may20,1,2187120.column
> http://www.startribune.com/stories/1762/3907255.html
> 
>
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2838.htm
> 
> So Democrats must have a pre-emptive strategy in
> place; the most obvious being, early in the game, to
> accuse the White House of sitting on Bin Laden for
> political gain.
> 
> A better one is to launch an independent
> investigation to find Bin Laden first and announce
> the discovery before Rove's political operatives;
> this would be a huge coup.
> 
> In case you haven't been paying attention, this
> election year, Republicans are playing a deadly game
> of attrition -- death by a thousand tiny cuts, so to
> speak: extreme gerrymandering in Texas, the recall
> of a governor in California, the installation of
> inauditable, easily "preprogrammed" DRE e-vote
> machines in as many counties as will allow them to
> be stuffed down their throats, relentless and bloody
> character assassinations in a bought-and-paid-for
> Murdoch-dominated media empire, absentee ballots
> counted by an untouchable firm in Kuwait, stacked
> courts ready to deliver decisions for which 2000's
> Gore vs. Bush set the precedent.
> 
> The odds look dire for Democrats (and, by extension,
> the majority of Americans, though they are as yet
> blissfully unaware of the slender thread from which
> all our liberties hang).
> 
> But, in case you haven't connected the dots, this
> time the GOP is playing for keeps.
> 
> Once the fix is in, there will be no turning back:
> by an invisible, carefully planned coup, the
> neoconservatives will have transformed America into
> an autocracy, and any remaining political opposition
> will be window dressing.
> 
> And so, I challenge you: this is a battle we perhaps
> cannot win, but, at all costs, MUST NOT LOSE.
> 
> The consequences of surrender will be incalculable:
> one by one, like dominos, institutions we c
> 
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