The Last Chance Dance

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The Last Chance Dance

Postby JerkyLeBoeuf » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:21 am

To understand the driving force behind the right-wing disdain for trial lawyers, one need only understand that, at this point, the possibility of civil litigation is the last remaining obstacle to the Conservative Movement's goal of taking over every authority-vested institution in American society.<br><br>The White House is theirs, and with it all the awesome power of the executive branch, more popularly referred to as "the administration", which encompasses all the various regulatory departments and enforcement agencies that make up the federal government, not to mention the military. They control the legislature, with majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, giving them complete control over the nation's legislative agenda. They are also in the process of dismantling and reassembling the judiciary branch in their own image, stacking lower courts with conservative activist judges in a project already more than halfway completed vis-à-vis the Supreme Court.<br><br>Above and beyond this tripartite domination of government, the Conservative Movement also holds considerable sway over the Fourth Estate. They maintain an incestuous network of activist media outlets releasing a ceaseless torrent of synchronized propaganda, and their so-called media watchdog groups have successfully intimidated the mythological "liberal biased media" into a timid, acquiescent silence.<br><br>However, despite all that, there remains the possibility that, at some point, barring any deep, structural changes in the mechanics of American jurisprudence, they might be forced to defend their actions and articulate their loopy beliefs before a jury of their peers, at which point their movement's powerful, cumulative momentum could very well crumble against skeptical common sense. This infuriates them, making the blood boil in their absolutist, revolutionary veins.<br><br>It is disturbingly indicative of the Conservative Movement's success that America now finds itself at this final failsafe point, with all other checks and balances having already failed miserably, due to incompetence and/or sabotage from within. And so, on many fronts, involving some of the most vital issues of our day -- with all other venues being hamstrung or corrupted -- it has come to this...<br><br>For obvious reasons, The Powers That Be have no interest in investigating election fraud. The sham U.S. Election Assistance Commission established in the wake of 2000's Florida debacle only served to heighten confusion and apprehension over the legitimacy of America's elections. And so it is left to Robert Kennedy Jr. to launch a lawsuit against the perpetrators of 2004's most heinous and heavy-handed election theft, in Ohio.<br><br>With a radically partisanized Justice Department treating the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame as a trifling spat rather than a nefarious and wanton breach of national security, Plame and her husband, ambassador Joe Wilson, have been forced to initiate a civil action against Creepy Veepy Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby for violations of their Constitutional and other legal rights. Disclosure in this case, should it not be dismissed by one of those aforementioned activist judges, should be a real eye-opener.<br><br>There are more examples. For instance, there is Dima Tahboub, who is suing the White House over her journalist husband's death when the US purposefully and illegally bombed the Al-Jazeera station in Baghdad. There are a number of democracy activists and organizations suing to block the use of hackable electronic voting machines in upcoming elections. The Native American tribes that Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his 'lil buddy Ralph Reed ripped off are filing court cases, as are the thousands of Ground Zero workers who are now sick and dying because Dubya's EPA lied, declaring the air quality at the site was "safe" after a scant six days.<br><br>And how is the Conservative Movement reacting to these developments? Why, they're disolving into hysterical paroxysms of blithering, inchoate rage, of course, with a perfect example being Washington-area crypto-conservative Wes Vernon's meditation on the merits of the Wilson/Plame lawsuit:<br><br>"Like the clown-faced jesters that dance out onto the front of the stage during a classic Shakespeare performance, as if to say, "Don't forget us! We're here!", an unemployed ambassador and his wife filed suit Thursday against Vice President Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and unnamed others, blaming them for the fact that the clown-faced jesters are all washed up."<br><br>It certainly is difficult to argue with that kind of elegantly reasoned, rock-solid logic, isn't it? As these last-chance lawsuits continue to pile up, expect more of the same. A lot more.<br> <p></p><i></i>
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