(I guess Mr. Cusack won’t be expecting any large Hollywood contracts in the near future on propaganda pictures like Avengers, Battleship, Dark Knight, or Iron Man. Good for John. The following comes from something he wrote about the upcoming “re-election” of Barack Obama (yes, folks, it’s that obvious that he will be providing left cover for another 4 years) and an interview he did with Jonathan Turley. It’s a good read, very serious issues being discussed which NEVER make their way into polite “progressive” conversations.)
excerpt by John Cusack, Truthout
… One is forced to asked the question: Is the President just another Ivy League Asshole shredding civil liberties and due process and sending people to die in some shithole for purely political reasons?
There will be a historical record. “Change we can believe in” is not using the other guys’ mob to clean up your own tracks while continuing to feed at the trough. Human nature is human nature, and when people find out they’re being hustled, they will seek revenge, sooner or later, and it will be ugly and savage.
In a country with desperation growing everywhere, everyday — despite the “Oh, things are getting better” press releases — how could one think otherwise?
Just think about the economic crisis we are in as a country. It could never happen, they said. The American middle class was rock solid. The American dream, home ownership, education, the opportunity to get a good job if you applied yourself… and on and on. Yeah, what happened to that? It’s gone.
The next question must be: “What happened to our civil liberties, to our due process, which are the foundation of any notion of real democracy?” The chickens haven’t come home to roost for the majority but the foundation has been set and the Constitution gutted…
[read the rest here]
Filed under: Election 2012
Surprising but very welcome opinions (if a little overdue).
“By the way, we’re forgetting to kill even a foreign citizen is against the law. I hate to be so quaint…”
I like that he caught that point.
“The first time you’re informed that you’re on this (death) list is when your car explodes, and that doesn’t allow much time for due process.”
There is room for a dark satire to be made, hopefully Cusack will follow through on it.
Talmud Theatre. Hard to tell the restroom breaks from the real production. The Toilet is full to the Brim. Demonic Despot Diarhea duh. Cracks in the Dam. ‘Sunday Shopping’ Klanged the alarm bell for me @ only 120 months of age, 1960′s. Whitehouse Menorah, too funny. Payback for JFK is gonna be fun to witness. Holds nose. Pull the Lever. Hooyea.
Obama is campaigning in rolled up long sleeve shirts with the collar laying crooked and top buttons undone… guess he is trying to identify with the part time workers and out-of-job workers…..
his wife says, “Obama knows the American dream because he lives it.” and I guess the people on the streets are eating that up…
don’t they even know that Obama was born with a silver spoon in his mouth?