2 thoughts on “John Edwards”

  1. Not just New America they have been going on forever. It’s just that there are more people like you out there noticing and commenting on the hypocrisy. The problem is that the criticism strengthens the system and they use your criticism to strengthen the system they are perpetuating. They incorporate it, digest it and make muscles from it.

    Marcuse: The capitalistic system is like Pac-Man. It devours its “enemies”. Marcuse never thought his books criticizing the system would become best sellers. Moore has said the same about his documentaries. They make money for what they denounce so they distribute them.

    Edwards is a scapegoat. What else is new. He is the “swine sent over the cliff” holding all the sins getting dumped overboard. Edwards is Deterrence in Baudrillard language. His trial is a “floating sign” masking the emptiness of the justice system.

    Guerrilla Law is the response to this. Foucault has written a lot about it, the justification for the resistance to it, the method of using judo against it. Gene Zimmerman taught $500 2 week – 10 hours a day – seminars on how to do it. If we all did it we would get justice in this country as our Constitutional Rights are practically impregnable. But if you don’t know your rights, you may as well not have them.

    Edwards is now a victim of what he did in the court system as the aggressor. He is being tried for fucking outside of marriage while Elizabeth played the victim out loud. This is what he is being tried for.

    It shows how very very moral and ethical the system is to try a former candidate for president of the United States. Even idols can be tumbled off their pedestals.

    You are always so close to full understanding.

  2. Also, is this a message to any Democrat, whether possibly hypocritically or, worse, completely sincerely, who raises the issue of economic unfairness in this nation. Edwards campaigned on the idea of Two Americas, one able to flout the law because of huge wealth, indeed able to make the laws and influence its use because of their huge wealth, and the great many others who cannot do such things, who have the law used as cudgels against them.

    Well, Edwards had money, but, it seems, not enough. And certainly not enough money to influence even his own party.

    But he was certainly a burr under the NeoLibs’ saddles. Including Obama. Could he have continued to be effective as a spokesperson and agitator for the 99%? Probably not, but, as abbeysbooks notes, this is a huge warning.

    And it is a Dem administration’s legal action behind this. Just more of Obama’s Bush III.

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