[Peace-discuss] Quo usque tandem abutere, America, patientia nostra?

[C. G. Estabrook]

    How long, America, will you abuse our patience?
    How long will your madness continue to frustrate us?
    When is there to be an end to your violent "Audacity of Hope"?
    --after Cicero...

On 7/22/10 3:29 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit
> "AUDACIA SPEI"?
>
>
> On 7/22/10 2:17 PM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
>> Glenn Greenwald:
>>
>> That's really the only relevant question: how much longer will Americans sit
>> by passively and watch as a tiny elite become more bloated, more powerful,
>> greedier, more corrupt and more unaccountable -- as the little economic
>> security, privacy and freedom most citizens possess vanish further still? How
>> long can this be sustained, where more and more money is poured into Endless
>> War, a military that almost spends more than the rest of the world combined
>> <http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/26/defense>,
>> where close to 50% of all U.S. tax revenue goes to military and intelligence
>> spending
>> <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MnYI3_FRbbQ/S17GGwQ1TrI/AAAAAAAACSY/X2bs4rpZpWU/s1600-h/spending.png>,
>>
>> where the rich-poor gap grows seemingly without end
>> <http://obrag.org/?p=1758>, and the very people who virtually destroyed the
>> world economy wallow in greater rewards than ever
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/business/18wall.html>, all while the
>> public infrastructure (both figuratively
>> <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61K2I520100221> and literally
>> <http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/going-backwards-say-good-bye-to.html>)
>> crumbles and the ruling class is openly collaborating on a bipartisan,
>> public-private basis even to *cut* *Social Security benefits*?
>>
>> * * * * *
>>
>> The answer, unfortunately, is probably this: a lot longer. And one primary
>> reason is that our media-shaped political discourse is so alternatively
>> distracted and distorted that even shining light on all of this matters
>> little. /The New York Times/' Peter Baker had a good article
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/weekinreview/18baker.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
>> this weekend on how totally inconsequential squabbles dominate the news more
>> or less continuously: last week's riveting drama was the bickering between
>> the White House and Nancy Pelosi over Robert Gibbs' warning that Democratic
>> control of the House was endangered. Baker quotes Democratic strategist Chris
>> Lehane as follows: "Politics in D.C. have become Seinfeldesque. *Fights about
>> nothing*."
>>
>> http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/19/secrecy/index.html
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