Garrison Keillor’s essay, in a local High Point, NC newspaper, on lying tells us the horrendous truth we’re not telling- It’s no longer Bush’s lies that are heading us to fiscal and foreign hell in a Halliburton handbasket woven in China– it’s  our feeble refusal to call him on the crimes he continues to commit…right under our nationally nincompoopic noses.

We’ve known for two years now there were no WMD’s and no Al Quaeda connections,  but our criminal occupation of—and killings in–Iraq continue.

On the domestic front, Bush has not lied to us about his felonious violation of Federal Law in tapping our phone and e-mail communications.   He readily admits  the Federal law requires a determination of probable cause before a Federal Judge, and that he has directed the NSA to ignore the law, and then he says what he has done is “legal”.

It’s not—exactly–like the idiot in Keillor’s parable…driving his family into the afternoon sun swearing to his wife they’re headed East.  Bush is telling us the truth.  He’s admitting  the criminal acts but denying the criminal responsibility.  A wise man asks:  “Who’s the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows the fool?”

We don’t have the defense of being “forced” as were the denizens of Orwell’s  1984 fictional extrapolation of corporate American Democracy. When “Big Brother” in that prophesy declared “black” was “white”, citizens who disagreed disappeared. We don’t have that excuse. We’re just fools, sheep…and cowards.

By the way- For those wanting to quit being fools, letters and calls to our Congressmen’s local offices work. Communications to D.C. (especially e-mail) are pretty much a waste of time.

Dusty Schoch

High Point, NC

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