I'm staying out of this whole trying-to-second-guess- the-legal-system-based-on-nothing-more-than-the-crap- you-read-in-the-papers thing.
It's already starting to sound like the pissing and moaning about the fraudulent election results in the last election. And all the big talk about how "we're not going to stand for it," and "we're going to do something about it." Yeah, right. We all know how that turned out. A buncha people expressing righteous anger at Karl Rove, revealing more about themselves and their desperate need to believe that justice will finally be done in America than about Karl Rove and the (IMO) obvious outcome of this case. Rove's gonna walk. Nothing bad will happen to him except possibly being forced to resign and phone in his puppeteering of George W. Bush instead of being able to do it from within the White House. Done deal. From where I sit, and the history of the Bush administration and America's ball-less reaction to it for the last few years, there is no other possible scenario. They can't *allow* any other scenario. I'd like to see the guy take a fall, too. I'd like to be surprised by America actually doing the right thing for a change. In the biz, we call it hope in a time of hopelessness. But whether "justice is done" doesn't really affect "me" any more than whether it isn't. I'm not really attached to America, or to any idealized image of it. It is what it is, a crying shame, and a real and present danger to the continued existence of the planet. I don't see this changing overnight, just because a lot of people *do* identify with the fictional version of America, and would like to believe it's not fiction. They might even give Rove a medal. And America would stand for it. Or, more accurately, sit for it, in front of their televisions. And watch the fictional versions of the American Dreams instead of coming to grips with the reality of the American Nightmare. I'd like to be proved wrong. But I honestly don't think it's gonna happen. IMO it'll take actual star- vation in the streets to get Americans off their asses at this point. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
