Is Palin the New Evita?
Sep 24th, 2008 at 9:37 pm by Susie
Naomi Wolf believes it. She says Palin has been picked as the titular head of the new police state. Go read the whole thing.
Me, I’m way past the point where I ascribe benign motives to these people:
Under the Palin-Rove police state, citizens will be targeted with state cyberterrorism. Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda, a former Reagan official, warned me three years ago that the Bush team went after a Republican who had crossed them through cyberstalking: they messed with his email, messed with his phones and I believe messed with his bank account — he became a cyber-pariah, unemployable and haunted. With modern technology, there really is less place to hide from the state than there was in East Germany in the Cold War era. I remember feeling a chill: of course. That is the wave of the future once we breach the protections around citizens of FISA and the fourth amendment. That way lies the abyss for us all.
Am I trying to scare you? I am. I am trying to scare you to death and ask you to scare your Republican and independent friends most of all. How do you know when it is war on citizens? When there are mass arrests, journalists are jailed, the opposition is infiltrated, rights are stripped and leaders start to ignore the rule of law.
Almost everyone I work with on projects related to this campaign for liberty has been experiencing computer harassment: emails are stripped, messages disappear. That’s not all: people’s bank accounts are being tampered with: wire transfers to banks vanish in midair. I personally keep opening bank accounts that are quickly corrupted by fraud. Money vanishes. Coworkers of mine have to keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected. And most disturbingly to me personally is the mail tampering I have both heard of and experienced firsthand. My tax returns vanished from my mailbox. All my larger envelopes arrive ripped straight open apparently by hand. When I show the postman, he says “That’s impossible.” Horrifyingly to me is the impact on my family. My childrens’ report cards are returned again and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back; and my daughters many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one arrived. Try explaining that to a smart thirteen year old. Try explaining it in a way that still makes her feel secure and comfortable.
I am not telling you this because it’s about my life. I am telling you this because it is about your life — whoever you are, Conservative or Liberal, independent or evangelical. Your politics will not protect you in a police state. History shows that nothing protects you in a police state. This is not about my fear and anxiety: it is about what awaits you and everyone you love unless you see this for what it is.
Scharansky divided nations into “fear societies” and “free societies.” Make no mistake: Sarah “Evita” Palin is Rove and Cheney’s cosmetic rebranding of their fascist push: she will help to establish a true and irreversible “fear society” in this once free once proud nation. For God’s sake, do not let her; do not let them.
So any woman who dares run for national office absolutely MUST be scary, scary, SCARY! Omigod! She’s a Dominionist! She’ll force us all to have babies! Omigod! She advocates a police state. She’ll have us all in a gulag!–despite the fact that the kind of harassment described by Wolf has been seen more from the Obama people than from anyone else in this campaign.
Bluegal at Crooks and Liars thinks it’s funny to post The Scream in relation to her.
Why can’t we just disagree with the woman on the issues, and refuse to make her an object of derision? Why do we insist on helping to destroy any respect for our gender?
Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
She’s a half-assed, intellectually lazy (in the manner of Bush) governor who’s been bought and sold by the oil industry and clearly aligns herself with the wackiest of quasi-religious political types. I should refrain from mentioning any of this because she’s a woman? I’m not writing about her because of her gender but because she’s so very simpatico with the fascists who are destroying our country even as we speak.
Argh. Now you have “Don’t cry for me Argentina” running through my head.
you know, my latest theory is that McCain’s effort to delay the debate is about Palin more than anything else.
They proposed that the presidential debate replace next week’s VP debate, I think Sarah snake handler is still not ready for prime time–they still won’t let her answer questions from the press–and they are desperate for more time for her to woodshed.
Delaying the VP debate may be a factor for them.
Also, I am sick of the knee jerk cry of misogyny and sexism here. The GOP is using Palin just as cynically as they used Clarence Thomas. She is totally unqualified to be President and holds to policies that would usually be anathema to any good democrat/liberal/progressive/thinking person.
What little experience she does have is the exact opposite of what is needed. Someone that is totally focused on extracting all resources at the maximum rate possible–whether that resource be oil, gas, timber, or dead animals shot from the air–is a joke.
The last thing we need in the oval office right now is a not very stealthy christian-right nutjob.
And, these claims of harassment re: obama people seem to be based on little more than fantasy and hyperbole. These typically come from people that claim Tim Russert asking HRC to explain her position on driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants was like a gang rape of a white woman in Central Park by a group of black teenagers (”wilding” was the word used.)
Now, I am sure I will hear a story about how some dead ender at the Confluence had their cat killed.
PS
evita leads to “don’t cry for me argentina” which is BAD…
but that leads to Madonna which is GOOD!
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