Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Re: What's the Difference?

Examples of the harmony between the comments of Democratic lawmakers and activists and the comments of the most vicious madmen on the face of the planet abound. For instance, the text of the random Ted Kennedy speech below was simply from the first item that popped up in a google search.

As a further example (and posted primarily because it will take little effort on my part), put your hands together for...... AMERICA'S FIFTH COLUMN!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!
Their website is here.

HELP! HELP! The house is on fire and we are all living in it. The United States
government and its dependent organizations, such as the National Endowment for
Democracy (NED), have responded to the fire... by pouring more oil on it. They
call it "democratic nation building"—a fancy name for the perpetual wars, theft
of the commons, exploding economic inequalities, weakening civil liberties
(including the introduction of torture), and the intensifying degradation and
outright destruction of our natural environment that lie hidden behind "free"
trade and the promise (seldom fulfilled) of a "free" election. Billions of
people outside America want this madness to stop, but what can they do? Our new
and independent organization, the International Endowment for Democracy
(I.E.D.), believes it will only stop if democratic nation building (the real
thing, not the oil) is applied to the U.S., which is the country most
responsible for these frightening global developments, and that people
everywhere can play a role in bringing it about.