"We work to make this country the kind of America they [U.S. veterans] were willing to die for. That's an America where the idea of sacred honor still has the power to stir men's souls. My solitary, solitary hope is that 100 years from today people will look back at what we've done and say, 'They kept the faith.'"
Henry Hyde, Senate trial of Bill Clinton. Hyde's summation of his effort to win conviction of Bill Clinton in the Senate is worth reading in full, as are those of the other House Managers. Whither Henry Hyde?
Monday, October 8, 2007
Degeneracy
Echoing some posts of mine on Digg: A nation is well on the path to tyranny or irrelevance when it is willing to become more worked up over a man who lied, even if under oath, about a sexual affair than one who has led us into a disastrous war that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands and who has instituted a program of spying, torture, and arbitrary detention. When we are more prepared to prosecute sex scandals than to avert such profound constitutional and moral crisis, I fear we have become truly degenerate.
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You need a page counter. How much attention is your blog getting? As much as any I suspect, which in the grand scheme of things, probably isn't much...:-(
I honestly don't know how much traffic it's getting. Maybe not much, but some folks on digg have checked it out. Help spread the word!
To succeed in meatspace, you need to act in meatspace. Try printing leaflets with a URL to your blog. Mind you, for all I know, you need a license to hand out leaflets in the US. And I don't know how strangers would respond to handing out pieces of paper. They'd probably think you were a t'rr'st or something...
No license is needed for such things here... thank goodness. There are many ways of spreading the word. And, after all, I don't aspire to be a leader of a movement or anything, just one more point of nucleation, even if small. Hopefully others will read Keizer's piece - or others like it.
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