Tuesday, May 06, 2008

St. Laurita and The Borrowed Halo

I really tried not to listen to the occupied White House presser on Burma, but my hands were full during the NewsHour so I did hear St. Laurita declaim how she'd been drawn by the house imprisonment of Democratic advocate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party was elected to lead Burma in 1990. Needless to say, that was quite intriguing, and I do hope that the Clinton and Obama households are well equipped with home entertainment and nutricious snacks in November of 2008.

When the white-clad St. Laurita went on to diss the repressive tactics of the military junta in establishing a false constitution, I did have to turn off the sound although it meant putting away the digital camera/binoculars I'm working on setting up. This from the cabal that has falsified its oath to uphold our now falsified constitution?

They have no shame. Or else, they simply have no respect for the demonstrated lack of powers of comprehension of anyone who supports them after their demonstrated uselessness. The military junta in D.C. that has imposed a war on this country, and denies American people their freedoms and the benefits of their taxed earnings hardly is in a position to criticize another of the same ilk, yet they did.

"The response to the cyclone is the most recent failure of the regime to meet its people's basic needs," Bush told reporters.

She asked the Burmese government to admit US state department disaster response teams that so far have been barred from entering the country. The regime has accepted targeted foreign cash assistance through the US embassy in Yangon.

The administration of Bush's husband has levied harsh economic sanctions on the senior members of the regime, leading to concerns that the Burmese would refuse aid from their American foes.

Bush acknowledged the tension between sanctions and disaster aid, saying economic blocks "seem to be the only kind of pressure the US has put on Burma". (Emphsais added.)


That parallels the economic blocks that the regime in the occupied White House has put on the American people. Perhaps we would be in a better position if we had a delegation to negotiate for our interests ... oh, right, we elected Democrats to Congress. There, the junta has its minions to keep them cut off from the administration of all programs, such that even basic repairs and education, economic parity and rights, legal redress and constitutional powers are denied.

If only New Orleans had been represented by a military junta, the St. Lauritas would have been bewailing not being able to get in and assist.

Somehow, it looks as if that happened in New Orleans. The St. Lauritas showed their true colors. Response teams were on the scene, there. They worried about their camouflage shirts. The true colors of this cabal are still flying in the destruction that lives on there.

When disaster strikes in America, it has been in the form of continuing violation of our constitution, our rights, the misallocation of our taxes, and undermining all the rights we have as a people.

If the democratically elected President Suu Kyi in Burma is ever able to regain the control she won, she might be well advised to keep the tight and damaging hold of this junta off the controls there.

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

But, but...what about all the benefits?: the privatized public schools, the closed hospitals upon which the poor relied, the new hotels and gambling casinoes. The central gulf coast is now a speculator's paradise, now that those pesky poor have been 'removed'.

3:14 PM  
Blogger Ruth said...

Larry, it seems now there's looting - the peasants persist in wanting to eat even when the food belongs to someone else.

4:13 PM  

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