Thursday, June 03, 2004
Goodnight, moon
Free LOVE Park! (Philadelphians, the names of your City Councillor are here).
The News of the Weird recently—Tenet being heaved over the side, the FBI going after Chalabi, Inerrant Boy getting lawyered up over Plame—remind me again of John Marshall's percipient comment that what we're seeing is "the outward signs of deep tectonic shifts within the US government... [T]he struggles that are giving rise to all these leaks and tergiversations of the state are the real story - one that it is difficult to see directly, but possible to glimpse in what we can infer from its effects and repercussions."
We don't know the real story, of course, because "our" embryonic Jeebofascist government is necessarily run in a way that is utterly contemptuous of democratic values. All we proles on the outside can do is practice a species of Kremlinology.
The News of the Weird recently—Tenet being heaved over the side, the FBI going after Chalabi, Inerrant Boy getting lawyered up over Plame—remind me again of John Marshall's percipient comment that what we're seeing is "the outward signs of deep tectonic shifts within the US government... [T]he struggles that are giving rise to all these leaks and tergiversations of the state are the real story - one that it is difficult to see directly, but possible to glimpse in what we can infer from its effects and repercussions."
We don't know the real story, of course, because "our" embryonic Jeebofascist government is necessarily run in a way that is utterly contemptuous of democratic values. All we proles on the outside can do is practice a species of Kremlinology.
