thedrifter
02-06-04, 11:01 AM
Take Your Politics and Stick It Where The Sun Don't Shine
By DOUG THOMPSON
Feb 2, 2004, 08:16
When I was asked to serve my country 35 years ago, doing so meant lying to my family and my friends.
Only my first wife knew some of what I was doing. I was in places where the government said we weren’t, doing things the government said we didn’t do and breaking laws the government said we were obeying.
Those years of service left me bitter about a government that considers truth an expendable commodity. It also left some members of my family equally bitter when they found out many years later, not because I violated the oath I took to my country but because of a bureaucratic screw up in a federal personnel department that resulted in records being sent to my mother.
My first wife took her life several years after our divorce and I have no way of knowing for sure if living a double life with me contributed to the depression that led to her suicide.
Afterwards, I tried to use a career in journalism to make amends, concentrating on exposing corruption and graft in government. But crusading didn’t stop the nightmares, so I tried drowning the memories in scotch, which served only to dull the senses and cause other problems.
A decade went by and I got talked into another try at government service, this time on the legislative/political side. I rationalized this second chance as a way to change things from the inside as well as a way to deal with the demons that had haunted me.
Didn’t work. New demons eplaced the old ones, demons driven by power and a lust for the heady excitement that dominates political life. For a while, I let the lust take over and drowned my conscience once again in a bottle.
It would take another decade to see the light, dump the bottle, take the 12 steps and walk away from the seductive world of politics. But these two different exposures taught me that those who control our government don’t give a damn about America or care a twit about the Americans they are supposed to serve.
So I turned back to journalism, using this web site and other venues as an attempt to, once again, expose our government and the political system that controls it as a rotting cesspool of power, greed and corruption.
But I found America doesn’t really want to know the truth about its government or its elected officials. Americans prefers to wallow in their own sewer of personal indulgence, embracing only those things that serve their personal lusts and attacking anything that seems different from their own narrow points of view.
Instead of thinking on their own, too many Americans prefer to let their political parties and their leaders think for them, leading them down too many crooked paths and keeping them in the dark when it comes to true intentions and agendas.
We uncovered many misdeeds by Bill Clinton as he dragged the White House and the Presidency down through his lust, lies and corruption. But American voters gave him two terms in office, a book publisher gave him a multi-million dollar advance and corporations, universities and associations pay him thousands of dollars to speak at their meetings.
George W. Bush took office and promised to restore honor and integrity to government, but Bush turned out to be just as corrupt as Clinton, dragging the country into a war under false pretenses, trampling individual freedoms and giving the country the largest deficit in history. His credibility on the world stage is shot to hell and, along with it, the credibility of a once-great nation.
Now, as Dubya faces re-election, the Democrats can’t find or field an honest man (or woman) to run against him. John Kerry, the current front runner, lies about turning in his medals to protest the Vietnam War (they belonged to a friend) and – like Clinton – changes his positions according to polls. John Edwards made his millions as a leech – a trial lawyer who obtained fat settlements (and equally-fat contingency fees) from questionable lawsuits. Howard Dean can’t handle a third-place finish in a primary without going ballistic while Joe Lieberman, Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton are jokes.
So it doesn’t really matter who we elect to the White House because there isn’t much value in trading one son-of-a-***** for another. As for Congress, the current Republican leadership on both sides of the Hill sold out the second they gained power – forgetting all about term limits, abandoning their promise to keep pork out of spending and sucking all the federal money they can back into their states and districts.
And what to the lemmings who follow these con artists do? They align themselves with one party or another, clinging to a decaying political system that spreads like cancer throughout the nation, killing the body of a once-proud place called America.
I’m tired of wasting my time trying to educate the masses because the masses are too damn dumb and stupid to realize what is happening to them. Republicans follow Bush into the morass and ignore the freedoms they are losing every hour this madman remains in office. Democrats present their own slate of political hacks when anybody with an IQ above that of an average plant should know that not one of them is worth the price of a cup of coffee.
That’s why I’m leaving Capitol Hill Blue and leaving this game to others who still want to waste their time trying to enlighten those who have no wish to learn. Continue your blind partisanship and foolish allegiance to despots who care nothing about you or your needs. These goons exist only for their own satisfaction and lust for power. Feed it if you wish.
Don’t come crying to me when you wake up one day and realize your freedoms are gone because you followed your party line so foolishly. Sympathy, my granddaddy once told me, is something you find in the dictionary between “****” and “syphilis.”
I’m going to concentrate on my photography, concentrate on my non-political web sites and travel America, telling the stories of people who don’t genuflect to a political god or keep their heads shoved up some politician’s ass.
I’m going to look and see if there any real America left, hoping the cancer called politics hasn’t spread too far.
© Copyright 2004 by Capitol Hill Blue
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4001.shtml
Sempers,
Roger
:marine:
By DOUG THOMPSON
Feb 2, 2004, 08:16
When I was asked to serve my country 35 years ago, doing so meant lying to my family and my friends.
Only my first wife knew some of what I was doing. I was in places where the government said we weren’t, doing things the government said we didn’t do and breaking laws the government said we were obeying.
Those years of service left me bitter about a government that considers truth an expendable commodity. It also left some members of my family equally bitter when they found out many years later, not because I violated the oath I took to my country but because of a bureaucratic screw up in a federal personnel department that resulted in records being sent to my mother.
My first wife took her life several years after our divorce and I have no way of knowing for sure if living a double life with me contributed to the depression that led to her suicide.
Afterwards, I tried to use a career in journalism to make amends, concentrating on exposing corruption and graft in government. But crusading didn’t stop the nightmares, so I tried drowning the memories in scotch, which served only to dull the senses and cause other problems.
A decade went by and I got talked into another try at government service, this time on the legislative/political side. I rationalized this second chance as a way to change things from the inside as well as a way to deal with the demons that had haunted me.
Didn’t work. New demons eplaced the old ones, demons driven by power and a lust for the heady excitement that dominates political life. For a while, I let the lust take over and drowned my conscience once again in a bottle.
It would take another decade to see the light, dump the bottle, take the 12 steps and walk away from the seductive world of politics. But these two different exposures taught me that those who control our government don’t give a damn about America or care a twit about the Americans they are supposed to serve.
So I turned back to journalism, using this web site and other venues as an attempt to, once again, expose our government and the political system that controls it as a rotting cesspool of power, greed and corruption.
But I found America doesn’t really want to know the truth about its government or its elected officials. Americans prefers to wallow in their own sewer of personal indulgence, embracing only those things that serve their personal lusts and attacking anything that seems different from their own narrow points of view.
Instead of thinking on their own, too many Americans prefer to let their political parties and their leaders think for them, leading them down too many crooked paths and keeping them in the dark when it comes to true intentions and agendas.
We uncovered many misdeeds by Bill Clinton as he dragged the White House and the Presidency down through his lust, lies and corruption. But American voters gave him two terms in office, a book publisher gave him a multi-million dollar advance and corporations, universities and associations pay him thousands of dollars to speak at their meetings.
George W. Bush took office and promised to restore honor and integrity to government, but Bush turned out to be just as corrupt as Clinton, dragging the country into a war under false pretenses, trampling individual freedoms and giving the country the largest deficit in history. His credibility on the world stage is shot to hell and, along with it, the credibility of a once-great nation.
Now, as Dubya faces re-election, the Democrats can’t find or field an honest man (or woman) to run against him. John Kerry, the current front runner, lies about turning in his medals to protest the Vietnam War (they belonged to a friend) and – like Clinton – changes his positions according to polls. John Edwards made his millions as a leech – a trial lawyer who obtained fat settlements (and equally-fat contingency fees) from questionable lawsuits. Howard Dean can’t handle a third-place finish in a primary without going ballistic while Joe Lieberman, Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton are jokes.
So it doesn’t really matter who we elect to the White House because there isn’t much value in trading one son-of-a-***** for another. As for Congress, the current Republican leadership on both sides of the Hill sold out the second they gained power – forgetting all about term limits, abandoning their promise to keep pork out of spending and sucking all the federal money they can back into their states and districts.
And what to the lemmings who follow these con artists do? They align themselves with one party or another, clinging to a decaying political system that spreads like cancer throughout the nation, killing the body of a once-proud place called America.
I’m tired of wasting my time trying to educate the masses because the masses are too damn dumb and stupid to realize what is happening to them. Republicans follow Bush into the morass and ignore the freedoms they are losing every hour this madman remains in office. Democrats present their own slate of political hacks when anybody with an IQ above that of an average plant should know that not one of them is worth the price of a cup of coffee.
That’s why I’m leaving Capitol Hill Blue and leaving this game to others who still want to waste their time trying to enlighten those who have no wish to learn. Continue your blind partisanship and foolish allegiance to despots who care nothing about you or your needs. These goons exist only for their own satisfaction and lust for power. Feed it if you wish.
Don’t come crying to me when you wake up one day and realize your freedoms are gone because you followed your party line so foolishly. Sympathy, my granddaddy once told me, is something you find in the dictionary between “****” and “syphilis.”
I’m going to concentrate on my photography, concentrate on my non-political web sites and travel America, telling the stories of people who don’t genuflect to a political god or keep their heads shoved up some politician’s ass.
I’m going to look and see if there any real America left, hoping the cancer called politics hasn’t spread too far.
© Copyright 2004 by Capitol Hill Blue
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4001.shtml
Sempers,
Roger
:marine: