53 Comments

1. m.c.:

   Kudos! The text of George Galloway’s speach is on Counterpunch. A large part of the blame lies with the lack of courage of most of the mass-media in the U.S. They tend to scrub & marginalize stories like Galloway’s either by not covering the story at all or by not giving enough background by failing to put his stance into the larger context of the whole system being ‘bent.’

   Can you imagine Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post back in the day doing what Newsweek did in the face of WH pressure? The Washington Post owns Newsweek.

   18 May 2005, 8:22 pm

2. Tom:

   It is true that Galloway’s statements apply to nearly all of our “representatives” in Washington. As a Minnesotan, however, I find it particularly fitting that the bulk of his comments were directed at Mr. Coleman. I can think of no other politician (which is not to say that there aren’t thousands of them) that more richly illustrates Stan’s point, that the Democrats are not helping.

   Norm started his political career as the moderate Democrat mayor of St. Paul. He then switched to the Republican party (truly not nearly the shift that many here made it out to be) and ran for governor, thankfully losong to Jesse Ventura in 1998. In his 2002 senate campaign, Norm was 9 points behind Senator Paul Wellstone when Wellstone’s plane (some would say mysteriously) went down in the North Woods, killing all aboard. He is also, I believe, one of the up and coming Republicans that we will all be hearing more of in the future.

   He started out as a Democrat and he’s ended up a Republican. His goals have remained the same. The only real change has been how he frames his rhetoric.

   18 May 2005, 9:47 pm

3. Ralph Johansen:

   Thanks, Stan. You speak - eloquently - for me and a whole helluvalot of people, Democraps and beyond, to many of whom I have forwarded your comments.
   Ralph

   19 May 2005, 12:34 am

4. cecile leneman:

   congress might consider going to balls school with Galloway. meantime, we’ve got our streets and our pots and pans. caserolazo to the rescue.a

   19 May 2005, 12:51 am

5. Danny:

   So you’re saying we can do without a revolution because we’ve got some puffed up Scotch popinjay to speak?

   19 May 2005, 7:09 am

6. Stan:

   Danny,

   I’m letting this slide as an example of how NOT to waste people’s bandwidth. Did you even read this post, or did you decide you needed to try out a new word in the context of a meaningless bit of revo-posturing?

   To Cecile , while I get your drift, think hard about the genderedness of your metaphor.

   19 May 2005, 9:18 am

7. Dorsey:

   Trouble is Stan, that if our version of the Demmykkkrats were all George Galloways abortion would be illegal. And the need for a ‘Bolivian method’ is not obviated by the presence of an anti-war popinjay among our elected representatives, no matter how entertaining his shit-stirring is. I enjoyed your post, mind.

   19 May 2005, 10:28 am

8. Stan:

   Nothing in my piece suggested what you seem to have read there. It’s a rant, not a manifesto.

   19 May 2005, 11:12 am

9. Doug Anderson:

   Dear Stan Goff,

   Thanks for your work (which I frequently read on Counterpunch and which I think is absolutely brilliant) and especially for the comments on Galloway and the Democratic B-team of the ruling class. I suspect that there are millions (maybe tens of millions) of us in the U.S. who took great delight in Galloway’s trouncing of the two parties of war and austerity for working people. I’m a longtime member of the International Socialist Organization but have been stuck for the past couple years in a rural corner of Minnesota. Here’s to the next big national antiwar demonstration and to all the little and big strikes you mention in your Galloway piece.

   In Solidarity,
   Doug Anderson

   19 May 2005, 11:44 am

10. Partridge:

    I just wrote this piece as a response to someone on a forum I frequent (a forum with nothing to do with politics, but where politics is often discussed).

    It is basically a response to hatchcet-job piece that appeared in the NY Sun. So I offer it here for all to see.

    The original article can be found here (at TownHall because the Sun wants money to read it). The 5th paragraph was quoted, as a response to some generally positive comments about the HUAC-style showdown.

    —

    Oh way to go. Quote the NY Scum! Not a partisan pro-war conservative Bush-backing rag at all at all.

    I will however address your [The NY Sun’s] points. First though I have to say that I’m not a Galloway fanboy, I have many political criticisms of him, Respect and the SWP (the main force in Respect). Oppurtunism and LCD politics being the major ones.

    Levin’s committee has documents, mounds of documents, linking European officials to profits from the oil-for-food scam that now appears to be the largest case of political graft in history.

    First - ‘mounds of documents’ indeed. However, Galloway’s name appears on very few of these. And indeed, documents proporting to show Galloway as a beneficiary of the Hussien regime have in the past been proven to be forgeries (as I already said, the Christian Science Monitor and Daily Telegraph have had to cough up lots of money for libelling him using such documents in stories).

    Now, according to the newspaper Socialist Worker [UK] - as quoted in the Scotsman (NOT a friend of Mr. Galloway to say the least)

    Ahead of Mr Galloway’s appearance in front of a committee of US senators in Washington, his party said the committee was relying on a counterfeit document created in Baghdad.

    It said Mr Galloway’s name had been pasted on to a list of people and companies alleged to have made money out of the Oil For Food programme.

    His name appeared in a different typeface to other words on the same line, the print was lighter in colour and Respect suggested it had been stuck on and then the page re-photocopied.

    His name also appeared at a slight angle and Respect said that would be impossible on the computerised document unless it had been artificially added.

    Or to quote directly from Socialist Worker:

    The typeface (font) used for “Mr George Galloway” is different to the rest of the line. Indeed the only time the font is used in the entire document is for George Galloway entries.

    “Mr George Galloway” does not line up with the rest of the words in the entry, it is at an angle to the other words.

    The spacings between “Mr George Galloway” and the rest of the words are inconsistent.

    The dash after the words “Mr George Galloway” touches the following word.

    The words “Mr George Galloway” are at a different density (lighter) than the rest of the line.

    The most likely explanation is that the words “Mr George Galloway” have been imported after the list was prepared, perhaps stuck on and then photocopied to produce the list in the Duelfer Report.

    Elsewhere the Duelfer Report revisits this same contract note and, citing an internal Iraqi document, says the allocation was to “Fawaz Zuraiqat — Mariam’s Appeal”.

    To see what they mean, look here. Its also worth reading the other articles in the Socialist Worker, especially re: past smear campaigns by the state against leftists.

    Back to the NY Sun piece. Oh incidently, I believe the NY Sun was partially set up by disgraced media tycoon Conrad Black, who at the time was also owner of the Daily Telegraph (sheer co-incidence!).

    The piece tries to go down the ‘guilt by association’ road - ie “Theres documents about kickbacks and European ‘officials’ - Galloway is a European - Galloway opposed the war - so even though there’s not a shred of evidence that he personally benefitted he simply must be guilty.” Its circumstansial ‘evidence’ at best.

    Now, lets look at what the NY Sun piece absolutely did not pass a single comment on. The FACT (backed up with documentary evidence) that, I quote the Guardian here:

    The United States administration turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil, according to a new Senate investigation.

    A report released last night by Democratic staff on a Senate investigations committee presents documentary evidence that the Bush administration was made aware of illegal oil sales and kickbacks paid to the Saddam Hussein regime but did nothing to stop them.

    The scale of the shipments involved dwarfs those previously alleged by the Senate committee against UN staff and European politicians like the British MP, George Galloway, and the former French minister, Charles Pasqua.

    In fact, the Senate report found that US oil purchases accounted for 52% of the kickbacks paid to the regime in return for sales of cheap oil - more than the rest of the world put together.

    “The United States was not only aware of Iraqi oil sales which violated UN sanctions and provided the bulk of the illicit money Saddam Hussein obtained from circumventing UN sanctions,” the report said. “On occasion, the United States actually facilitated the illicit oil sales.

    Now isn’t that wonderful. The US on its own provided more kickback money to Hussein than the evil tryannical anti-US pro-Sadam United Nations! Who’da thunk it? Of course commentary on this little scandal is absent from the NY Sun piece. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia!

    Saddam used it to arm himself, buy political allies around the world and fund terrorists

    Arm himself? I don’t read the NY Sun, but is it still living in the neo-con WMD fantasy land or what? Fund terrorists? Who would these terrorists be then? Not Al Qaeda anyway. Perhaps its a reference to the fact that Hussien used to give money to the families of suicide bombers in Palestine - these families must be terrorists by association. But hey, if we want to go down the ‘funding for terrorists’ route we can. Afghan Mujaheddin, Contras, KLA, Alpha 66, Commando F-4, Omega 7, the Haitian Latortuists, and dare I say it… the Israeli State (thats just a random selection from 1979 onwards).

    Galloway admits that he met repeatedly with Saddam’s Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and even with Saddam, twice — as frequently as did Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Galloway admits puckishly and pointlessly.

    ‘Pointlessly’? One suspects the NY Sun is deliberatley omitting the context of this remark. The initial report (before Galloway got a chance to testify) stated that he had met “many times” with Hussien - As Galloway pointed out: “By no stretch of the English language can that be described as “many meetings” with Saddam Hussein”. And of Rumsfeld’s meetings, he points out:

    As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second of the two occasions, I met him to try and persuade him to let Dr Hans Blix and the United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country - a rather better use of two meetings with Saddam Hussein than your own Secretary of State for Defence made of his.

    Hardly a ‘pointless’ comparison now is it? As to his meetings with Aziz - well as Galloway had set up a campaigning political-charity organisation (the Miriam Appeal) whose goal was to end the sanctions on Iraq - (need I remind people that these so-called ’smart sanctions’ killed in the region of 1 million Iraqis, most of them children [source: UNICEF], a price ‘worth paying’ according to Madeleine Albright [source: 60 Minutes] - and a death toll dwarfing Hussien’s 350,000 [source: HRW]) - its hardly unusual that Galloway would meet with Aziz on a semi-regular basis. And personally, I don’t think Galloway should have had those meetings, or cosied up to the Hussien regime - even if his intentions were altruistic - but to use these meetings as proof of anything is ridiculous. Another ‘guilt by association’ ploy.

    Galloway does not deny the import of documents showing him working with a Jordanian businessman, Fawaz Zureikat, in various deals in Baghdad.

    The use of ‘documents’ here is entirely misleading. Zureikat, not a person I’m a fan of, was a patron - along with the King of UAE and the Suadi Prince (both US allies it should be noted) - of the Miriam Appeal. He donated some £350,000 to it, and became its chairman in 2000 or so. The fact that he was doing business (legally) in Iraq was no secret, in fact it was advertised openly by the Miriam Appeal in its literature. There is zero crime here, yet the NY Sun attempts to portray it as a crime (one can only assume that in the NY Sun fantasyland, its obvioulsy a crime to try and end a murderous sanctions regime).

    He simply denies that he received money from the 20 million barrels of oil documents say he and Zureikat got.

    ‘He simply denies’. Now, let me ask the NY Sun a question… nice and slowly…

    Q: What. Was. The. Reason. Galloway. Testified. At. The. Hearing?

    A: Because the Report had accused him, without a shred of concrete proof, of personally profitting from the Oil-for-Food system. So OMFG, Galloway ’simply denied’ this allegation. Shocking, that he’d go all the way to Washington, appear at the sub-committee meeting, and then have the sheer effrontery to ’simply deny’ allegations of which there is no proof. Imagine that!

    To quote Galloway again:

    Your Mr Greenblatt was absolutely correct. What counts is not the names on the paper, what counts is where’s the money. Senator? Who paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars of money? The answer to that is nobody. And if you had anybody who ever paid me a penny, you would have produced them today.

    Now thats just adressing one short paragraph in this trashy piece of hatchet-job journalism that the US press is so adept at.

    The rest of the article is in the same vein. It even goes so far as to be both racist against Scots and to insinuate that Galloway is a drunkard.

    Blustering and shaking in what sounded to me like a Scottish accent — though it could have been the consequence of strong drink.

    Its full of words like ‘buffoon’, ‘ritualistic leftist’ (what’s that then?), ‘tumescent’, and it also praises the HUAC!

    And I just have to address the final paragraph of this atrocious journalism.

    Up until the revelations of the oil-for-food scam, I had thought that the Europeans’ refusal to attack Saddam was simply another example of European cowardice.

    As yes. Those cowardly Euroweenies. Two wars killing more people than had been killed by almost every previous war put together is JUST NOT ENOUGH! Europeans should learn to love the state of permanent warfare like REAL MANLY AMERICANS do! Death is purification of the weak! Long live the Triumph of the Will!

    There was only the Europeans’ feigned claim that we had not exhausted every diplomatic approach to Saddam.

    Which - as has been proven numerous times, including by the Iraq Survey Group, which was the offical US weapon finding group - was entirely correct. No WMDs, no Al Qaeda. Casus Belli out the fucking window, into a taxi, onto the airport and flying into exile.

    He rejected international inspections.

    Nope. Who was Hans Blix again?

    Yet at the UN, officials refused to take action. Now we know why: There and in many foreign capitals officials were on the take.

    YES! Now it ALL MAKES SENSE! Some 450 people ‘on the take’. These 450 people also happen to be the very 450 people who control every descision in Europe and the UN. And hacks like this had the cheek to say people with anti-war views were ‘conspiracy theorists’.

    We were right, they were wrong. Fact.

    Is this what passes for serious journalism? Give me a fucking break. You want to talk effrontery? This guy described himself as a “professional observer of Washington politics”! A professional neo-con shitbag shill more like. This guy should have his NG union card revoked. Then again, he probably doesn’t have one, he likely thinks unions are a communist plot to take over America.

    19 May 2005, 1:25 pm

11. Leander:

    Mr Galloway’s address was just what this country needed, a forceful indictment of the hypocrisy and lying of the Bush administration.
    The media have generally neglected to report it, of course, or, when they have done so, they have done it in a censored manner (leaving out Galloway’s most to the point and cutting remarks) and by introducing it with a heap of abuse on Galloway as a “lefty-thug”. A perfectly disgusting example of this was provided by that piece of ordure, Fox News.
    The state of America is disastrous because of the media’s intentional failure to inform the American people; worse, by the media’s concerted misinformation of the American people. Not surprising, though, given that the media are owned by the same corporations and “Americans with a double national allegiance” who were behind this criminal war to begin with.

    19 May 2005, 3:16 pm

12. Bob Boldt:

    Thoughts on Truth, Justice and George Galloway

    It is sad, I know, but the Brits need Galloway even more than we do.

    The irony of the situation is that he may not be as lilly-white as he would have us believe. It does appear that one of his major fundraisers is neck-deep in the Oil for Food scandal. I do believe Galloway was willing to take money from the Devil himself if it would alleviate the suffering our sanctions were visiting upon the dying children of Iraq.

    The exchange with Dem. Senator, Carl Levin was unnecessarily confrontational. Senator Penguin wanted a black and white trap question and Galloway was, I thought, successful at a nuanced response. It almost sounded like Levin had bought into the Republican party line. It is truly a delight to see someone stand up on his hind legs and boldly (and not a little undiplomatically) tell the truth to power.
    This is how the Democrats should be responding. They need to add a Galloway chapter to their playbook. It’s a pity we no longer have a free press in this country. The corporate press corps remains fearful of offending their masters and apparently they were willing to set aside their own maxim of “If it bleeds, it leads.” Ask Minnesota Republican Senator, Norm Coleman what it’s like to be bloodied. I suggest on his next trip to Scotland, he stay away from the Glasgow pubs where Galloway learned his debating style.
    I no longer watch the commercial networks, so I was not able to confirm the coverage or lack of same by the big three. A Google news search revealed that the only domestic ink on the subject of the Galloway battering of our benighted Senators came from the London edition of Time. Otherwise there was no lack of coverage from the British Isles, Australia, Europe and the third world press. Most interesting of all, was a wonderful account in the Indian press (1) that compared Galloway’s candid assessment of the lies and crimes of the President and the Congress to Joseph Welsh’s courageous pillorying of “tail-gunner Joe” McCarthy during the famous Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1950.
    “Like Galloway yesterday, Welch broke the norm on Capitol Hill and lashed out at the Senator: ‘Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness… Senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?’”
    That episode began a process that ended McCarthy’s career. Would that this current truth telling might have the same impact on President Coo Coo Bananas (2). Sadly, our domesticated press has no interest in disturbing either their masters or the public with such disturbing material.

    An interesting sidebar took place when, prior to Galloway’s appearance before the Senate Committee, he was confronted by Mirror correspondent, Christopher Hitchens who’s questions he ignored.
    “I should perhaps declare a small bias here: on spotting your own correspondent (Hitchens), Mr Galloway shouted that he was a “drink- sodden ex-Trotskyist popinjay and useful idiot”, some of which was unfair.” (3)
    I wonder which of Galloway’s characterizations he considers fair. I thought he was off the sauce.

    All in all, it sounds like a day of wonderful theatre at the Capitol. It’s too bad no one knows it happened. If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to report it, does it make a sound? At least there is a blessed part of Heaven where Paul Wellstone is looking down and smiling.

    Peace,

    Bob Boldt

    Notes:

    (1) A very good article by the Telegraph of Calcutta. It is ironic that we must be reminded of the important moments in our own history by foreigners:
    
    (2) From The Wit and Wisdom of Bart Simpson:
    In the concluding episode of the Simpsons, after Bart is kicked out of elementary school, his parents enroll him in Catholic school. Homer warns that if Bart is again expelled, he’ll be forced to join the Army and be shipped to America’s latest military quagmire. “Will it be North Korea? Iran? Anything is possible with Commander Coo-Coo Bananas in charge.”
    (3) The Hitchens’ piece in the Mirror is worth the read:
    

    19 May 2005, 4:30 pm

13. steve savitch:

    two days in a row I walk away from the news HAPPY. yesterday watched Galloway mop the floors with those asses and your letter to the democrats. salute you said it great! I used to say “tired of white men in suites” but I like “cornpone nazis” better. Keep the pressure on

    19 May 2005, 5:55 pm

14. Joe Franc:

    Excellent comment, Partridge - indeed many of the above comments though I find myself thinking that the “little” and “big” strikes that Stan mentions won’t happen because of many of the reasons mentioned above - Media collaboration and kowtowing to BushCo being the most notable. To see what has happened (and is happening) to America since Bush was first elected is astounding. A democracy that is turning into Orwell’s fictional Big Brother. There is resistance out there, the information is out there, the majority outrage is not.

    A survey just a few days ago reported that 61% of the population get their news information from Tv. The difference between Vietnam news reporting and current news reporting is that the population actually saw what was happening and were informed across the board, plus and minus, and eventually, the majority said “Enough!”. Since then government media management has become an artform. Bushco has mastered it. There can be a million blogs, a thousand damging and incriminating leaks but if the population do not hear it or it is “softened” for public consumption, if there is no energetic public debate and discourse on issues, the fight is lost.

    This does not mean I have given up - not while these slimeballs are in office - just that I can’t see what it will take that is worse than what is happening to bring things around. Even then I fear too many of the democratic freedoms previously enjoyed have been lost and there can be no return.

    19 May 2005, 5:56 pm

15. Lawrence Boxall:

    Dear Stan,

    Your article made my day in relieving the frustration that has been building since the US left went into tailspin supporting Kerry as a solution to the greatest threat our global civilization has ever encountered. I feel inspired by your article to address some remarks to my American comrades.

    As a citizen of the rest of the world, I have watched in horror (since 9/11) the ruling elite in the US inexorably plodding their path to the total marginalization of the institutions of legislative government, the orchestration of a culture of fear to facilitate the abandonment of the revolutionary founding principles of the US culminating in the current “debate” on the moral imperative to torture individuals for the “benefit of society.”

    The “horror” of the previous paragraph is occasioned by the paralysis of the left in the face of this agenda. From outside we speak of the “belly of the Beast” in the context of looking to the working class of America for salvation from the predations of imperialist America. So what are we seeing?

    The most powerful military power that has ever existed is peopled by the most abysmally ignorant working class in the world. It would seem that the average uneducated South American peasant has a better grasp of the nature of globalization than the average US university graduate. Tell the average American that you are a revolutionary socialist, and communication becomes impossible.

    What is going on here? All these erudite intellectuals writing so engagingly, an enviable intellectual tradition going back to Benjamin Franklin, Art, Music, Dance, and an abundant technological expertise coupled with fabulous wealth are all negated by the insularity and ignorance that characterizes that statistical entity: the average American. What, indeed, is going on here?

    A corporate media that is criminally accountable in its dissemination of news and information for doing exactly the opposite of what the enlightenment philosophers prescribed for the Fourth Estate.

    The first time I saw an American high school history textbook I was immediately struck by the fact that the text just dripped with the plain intention of promoting patriotism rather than teaching history. The first book I ever took out of the library (the year was 1958) was a history of the British Isles. I adored Britain. I thought the British were the norm with everyone else not quite making the grade. (Granted, the Americans did have James Dean and Elvis Presley at the time, which made them seem almost as good as the British to my puerile eye.) Strangely, it was the study of history that completely cured me of my patriotic feelings. Patriotism is an absurdity and Americans are drunk with it.

    Besides the propagandistic nature of what passes for news and education in the US, there is that opiate of the masses, television, which functions like the medieval morality play in giving viewers the most vacuous moral sensitivities—the morality of the unexamined life. It also seems to substitute for life.
    As this unfortunate “average American” is being ripped off left right and centre by their ruling elite, they persist in imagining that they live in a democracy when, in fact, it would seem more accurate to speak of a de facto oligarchy dressed in the trappings of a de jure democracy.

    With the complicity of their politicians, the jobs and wealth of Americans are being transferred abroad and beyond their reach by corporations who, while championing patriotism for the masses, give their allegiance only to the bottom line. For more and more people, the only way to put bread on the table is to offer yourself up as cannon fodder for the US military or to work for the merchants of death. Those at the bottom drop out in disillusionment while the elite grow ever more powerful and wealthy. With no hope of becoming like those comfortable TV characters they watch so much, the oligarchy’s economic victims turn increasingly to religion and thus present the oligarchy with another opportunity for manipulation. Callously pretending to represent Jesus, the oppressor persuades the victims to vote for the continuation of their own oppression.

    I attended a South African university in the 60s and participated on campus in the anti-Apartheid struggle. American students were our primary inspiration. When we heard of incidents like American student demonstrators being killed by state troopers we were inspired to occupy our university administration building in defence of the appointment of a Black lecturer. (The apartheid regime had persuaded the admin. to rescind an appointment simply because of race.)

    The American antiwar movement of the Vietnam era was an inspiration to youth around the world. Everyone loved Bob Dylan and Mohammed Ali was celebrated as a man of selfless honour when he sacrificed his boxing title for his principles.

    Now, sadly, everyone loves Raymond. Dark, dark days indeed.

    Still, we look to the belly of the beast for signs of light. We are here. We are with you. We will sacrifice as much as we ask of you. Without you, the struggle takes a greater toll. The real mistake in the Kerry campaign, from my perspective, was that it was bound to fail and heighten disillusionment and its attendant passivity.

    I hope that the American working class (and that includes those many workers who call themselves “middle-class”) will abandon the Democratic Party as soon as possible. It should have happened during the Vietnam war, but it didn’t. It should have happened after the Democrats acquiesced in the invasion of Iraq. The left in the US has found excuses to put this off for a long time. The right time has always been now.

    Now is the time to abandon the parties of Capitalism, but just as important is the need to abandon the egoistic and self-righteous sectarianism that paralysis the left. It is better to be in the streets and engaged with the people, than to be ideologically correct in your inconsequential ivory tower. Take your ideology to where the people are and strengthen it in the furnace of mass struggle and dialogue.

    I am not an expert on all of the subtle nuances of American politics but I believe that when the people of America rise up and break their chains, the people of the world will join them in putting an end to global oppression There will be no safe haven from which the ruling oligarchs can regroup to attack anyone.

    Dare I hope that the Bush Regime is the swansong of all that it represents in world history. The US left has a heavy burden to shoulder in its key role in ensuring that the future of the world is not wall to wall barbarism.

    19 May 2005, 6:02 pm

16. Beth James:

    Stan Goff and Lawrence Boxall……………I’m with you guys! I agree with Stan that english isn’t so hard to master that we can ALL tell it like it is..(gratis Mr. Galloway) and I was totally impressed with LB’s analysis of why America’s revolutionary indignation seems to have “gone-to-ground”.(has been rendered totally impotent. The whole world would really benefit from a little US “indignation” at the way you have all been diddled by Bush and co. Galloway got to me most when he accused the US/UN of being complicit in a 1,000,000 Iraqi deaths of chikdren too young to even know they were Iraqis. My God the bad karma the west is reaping doesn’t even bear thinking about.

    19 May 2005, 7:43 pm

17. Eric:

    To those of you, who have the government you deserve.
    Listen to the popinjay again.
    http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=781

    19 May 2005, 8:37 pm

18. tpb:

    You so expressed my heart and mind’s desires regarding this dreadful scandal we’re currently living through and Mr. Galloway’s wonderful passion, biting words and condemnation of this administration’s lies in order to invade Iraq that with your permission I would like to copy it to both my Senators and my Representatives and to everyone on my elists so they may follow suit..

    19 May 2005, 9:05 pm

19. Stan:

    Copy away. It’s directed to them.

    Cheers. (-:

    19 May 2005, 9:08 pm

20. Saintperle:

    And we’re all just finding this out?
    During the Clarence Thomas hearings, when he — coached like an SOB by the Bush team — said “This is a high-tech lynching.” And I sat there waiting for someone — Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy — someone to say, “No Judge Thomas. This is a job interview and we want to know if you’re qualified. If you don’t get the job, you’ll go back to your $80,000 a year plus COLA raises for life. You are NOT Emmett Till.”

    And I sighed, remembering Barbara Jordan slapping down Robert Bork, giving him a public tutoring on the First Amendment.

    So much for the Democrats — and James Galloway came over the water to give us a tutorial on how to conduct the business of the people — is there an Irish gene for the poetics of language? Just a thought since the last time I heard anyone in our congress express himself that well was when Daniel Patrick Moynahan trod the stage, red-faced and full of fire.

    But somehow, the Wellstones and the others who do NOT ducktheir heads, but raise them point out the RULES as no more than shadows on the walls of the cave find themselves in plane crashes and car crashes.

    19 May 2005, 9:14 pm

21. Arvin Hill:

    “But somehow, the Wellstones and the others who do NOT ducktheir heads, but raise them point out the RULES as no more than shadows on the walls of the cave find themselves in plane crashes and car crashes.”

    Well it’s pretty easy to slaughter the one guy who stands up and pushes back when his supposed allies are sitting around with their thumbs up their asses. Not so easy when the pissed-off hordes push back forcefully, as killing us all presents a challenge.

    Unfortunately, half the people who should be taking to the streets lost their capacity for outrage and plunged straight into the pit of hopeless despair. The other half thinks blogging and writing letters to the editor qualifies as formidable political action. And pretty much everyone is awaiting a hero to come along and do the heavy lifting for us (ain’t gonna happen).

    Thanks, Stan, for that brutal, scathing and desperately needed letter to Dems. It makes a nice “two” for a one-two punch, Galloway being the “one”. Made my week.

    19 May 2005, 11:57 pm

22. Clinker:

    You should read the screed by Garrison Keillor on the “empty suit” Coleman right after his election. It’s a beaut.

    20 May 2005, 12:01 am

23. denisdekat:

    Hi Stan,

    I love this letter, you are %100 right about al your observations. Democrats are weak career tools. Time for Democratic Party to die, or be reborn altogether (meaning all incumbents out - ALL)…

    It is easy to stand up for what is right, it feels good. Too bad no one here in the US has any backbone left, you are right, time to get all Bolivian! In Chile, when they raised transportation fees on students, they rioted and cause havoc all over Santiago till they had to make concessions.. Sadly America is a country of zombies, dead on their lazy boys, alive only to consume…

    20 May 2005, 1:28 am

24. Michael Cavlan:

    Thank you for your wonderful comments. I could not agree more. I am also in the delicious position of being a Green who had announced his campaign for the US Senate in the state of Minnesota.

    Our press conference had, amongst other things, voiced our support for MP Galloway, our contempt for Senator (or Senate-Whore) Coleman, calling him a racist. I also called on Rep Mark Kennedy of Minnesota to fulfill his oath to the Constitution and institute Articles of Impeachment against Bush. A lawyer on our campaign committee has informed me that due to the recently released Downing St Memo this was his duty.

    For the record, I am running for the US Senate in Minnesota, saying basically what you all are saying and we are running very agressively.

    Any and all help fundraising and getting the word out would be greatly appreciated. We have invited MP Galloway to come visit us in Minnesota and hold a press conference.

    Thank You In Advance

    Mike Cavlan
    Candidate US Senate
    Minnesota

    20 May 2005, 1:48 am

25. Jeff S.:

    Since we’re discussing a ballsy Scotsman, I might as well throw this in (although I despise Mel Gibson):

    “They may take our lives, but they will not take our FREEDOM!!!”

    20 May 2005, 3:10 am

26. Stephen Braithwaite:

    I am an australian. I saw Paxman interview Galloway on the internet, just after he had won in Bow and Bethnal. The questions and the tone were so nasty. (”Are you proud of yourself having ousted the only black from parliament” and kept harping about this point). Immediately after the interview, he gave a “nice” interview to someone labelling Galloway as a racist. In a tour around the web I saw him further smeared, even though he had just won his seat. I think most people would just hide themselves after such villification. But it hasn’t stopped GG, obviously. They also seem to harp on him being some sort of pansy because he dresses too well. That seems totally irrelevent to me.

    20 May 2005, 8:36 am

27. eoinmonkey:

    Jeremy Paxman is like that with everyone he interviews these days- its what passes for the “impartial” approach on the BBC, ie. sneer and criticise everyone equally so you cant be accused of favoritism.
    There are many criticisms you CAN make about George Galloway and his record as a parliamentarian, but thats not the issue here. It seems that like everyone else on here, my thought when watching his testimony was “Wow! They dont hear stuff like THAT in Washington these days!”

    20 May 2005, 9:31 am

28. rashid:

    Forget Gorgeous George. He is a hero, but his first job is to fight the villains in the UK. There is much he could teach the democrats, but I am certain they will not listen. The battle for the Unites States is our responsibility. Lets start the strikes today. Any disruption is a good first step.

    20 May 2005, 10:42 am

29. Darryl Bowles:

    GREAT! I was born and raised a democrat by a man who believed the sun came up out of FDR’s ass. And I’ve always been proud of it. Until now.
    All Bush and his thugs have to do is shout >strong>shit and the so called democrats in congress automatically bend over and ask how big a pile do you want. And now a tough Glaswegian had to appear in front of them and show the lot of them how a real opposition politician operates. Shame, Shame, Shame is all I can say.

    20 May 2005, 11:03 am

30. Roxie:

    Being a 55 y/o Texas yellow dog democrat, I currently prefer to vote the THE yellow dog than most of this current bunch of dems. Held my nose and voted for Kerry, but enough is enough. STRIKE!!

    20 May 2005, 11:50 am

31. Neil Blaisdell:

    Dear Mr. Goff,

    Your post is completely priceless! You’ve encapsulated what I’ve been thinking/feeling for such a long time now about the spineless obsequiousness of the Democrats in the face of the Right’s blatant putsch to fashion our country into a Corporate/Theocratic oligarchy.

    This country has gone mad. The abject cluelessness of the American Electorate is stunning. The craven cowardice of the Media is as depressing as it is dangerous - although explicable due to the fact that the major outlets are owned by some of the biggest war profiteers in Corporate Amerika, as others have pointed out.

    But…..if we abandon the Democrats, what takes its’ place? It’s toothless and spineless - yes - but it’s all we’ve got.Rank and file Democrats have to start bludgeoning the Democratic leadership with phone calls and letters and e-mails and rip the skin off their asses until they decide they’re more afraid of us than they are of Dick Cheney or Tom DeLay.

    The general strike idea is great, but Americans only care about Pepsi, color TV, and their gas-guzzling SUV’s. Taking it to the streets (or “going Bolivian on their asses” - nice) is a proper visceral embodiment of rage - except nobody will do it. We did that in the 60’s, but in these times all that would happen is they’d roll tanks over us and the Red Staters will just applaud and then go to their prayer meeting thanking God that we aren’t around to cause more trouble.

    No…something really big has to happen to shake average American schmucks out of their complacency. But if a big ass war based on trumped up “intelligence” can’t do it….what will it take? A Wall Street crash maybe? Yeah, that’s it. Make everyone poorer than church mice and take away their Rolexes. “Going Bolivian” might just do that - but I don’t see the cooperation any time soon. We’ll just have to hope China calls in all their paper, I guess.

    I’ve just about given up, frankly. Americans are the most gullible, blatantly ignorant, and willfully stupid people on the planet. It’s a lost cause. The only good that will come from everything the Repugnicans are trying to do is that eventually - and possibly in shockingly short order - our ability to project power, and thus our ability to harm the rest of the world, is going to diminish and eventually die. Just wait until we hit Iran. Think we have military recruitment problems now?

    My fondest wish is that Dubya will have the draft re-instated. That might at least wake up the Soccer Moms when their little Billy’s and Bobby’s (and perhaps their Debbie’s and Sheena’s?) start getting their cute little butts shipped off to the Army against their will.

    Then again, it took the 60’s / 70’s versions of Soccer Moms something like eight years to stop getting all hot and wet about their chances of becoming a Gold Star Mother. Hell, that was almost as good as being a Daughter of the American Revolution. Nah…they’ll just buy a bunch of goddamned yellow ribbons and stencil “Support our Troops” decals on thier mini-vans and praise the Lord that at long last we’re teaching Creationism in our schools, and that they’re part of the ownership society.

    Anyway….thanks for the very eloquent rant, and thanks to all of these folks who’ve responded with very interesting comments. It’s comforting to know that I’m not the only heathen liberal who is shaking with rage at what’s going on in this Land of the Bought and Coerced.

    20 May 2005, 12:31 pm

32. Bia Winter:

    We here in Maine thrilled at Galloway’s eloquently-blunt truth-telling, too. I just found this great post (Thanks, Stan!) after having just now written to the DNC’s Tom McMahon et al:
    Tom, I’ve been watching the proceedings in the Senate.

    I think with the gathering dark cloud of criminal evidence against Bush&co, (Surely you are aware of the significance of the recent British Memo?) we need to ask ourselves WHY they are so hellbent on pushing these particular judges through.. esp. Owens for the court of APPEALS !
    Gee, do you suppose they have a strategic PLAN for her.. like pardoning Bush and Cheney et al when the time comes? Certainly sounds like their M.O., doesn’t it?

    Perhaps what you Democrats SHOULD be framing as the central argument, seriously, is whether it is reasonable to allow a “President” who has made NOTHING but BAD DECISIONS based on lies ,(you can trot out any number of them by now) who was himself APPOINTED by a slim, fineagled judicial majority, (in a VERY shady manuever!) should EVER again be allowed to make ANY appointments or especially, change any more constitutional laws! There should be NO COMPROMISES, or if there must be one, this is how it should go: “OK, we’ll allow you a simple majority vote on this nominee, but this and all Bush’s other nominations will be REMOVED from their posts as soon as we establish Bush/Cheney’s criminality regarding everything from complicity/neglect regarding 9/11, to the Iraq war we were LIED into ,to the repeated election fraud that gave him his position. That will put the focus where it belongs, and put Democrats back in the driver’s seat.
    Let us hope that with Dr Dean leading there will be no more playing namby-pamby around these issues in the name of “Bi-partisanship”
    OR compromizing the urgent need to GET OUT OF IRAQ! Time for Democrats to get tough.( Ask Barbara Boxer if you don’t know how… or take a page from Mr Galloway’s excellant retort to that despicable fop, Norm coleman!)
    Regards, Bia Winter
    —– Original Message —–

    21 May 2005, 9:23 am

33. Ruby Sinreich:

    Right on, Stan! Give ‘em hell.

    (BTW, make sure you close your links with </a> instead of <a/>.)

    21 May 2005, 1:38 pm

34. Eric McCay:

    Mr Galloway used to be my MP (Glasgow, Hillhead) and has a history of being in the middle of financially dubious situations starting with
    a big scandal in Dundee which almost everyone has now forgotten.In my
    opinion he only survived in the Labour Party because he knew too much.

    George is one of a dying breed of extreme left self publicising British politicians who like to make some money on the side (not illegally) He is every inch a professional politician and not my idea of a hero. He is also a real socialist which I don’t think Americans would be too keen on.

    However, his support for Palestineans and Arabs in general is genuine and srtetches back a number of years.

    Gorgeous George’s life of scrapes

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-659858_1,00.html

    21 May 2005, 8:05 pm

35. Stan:

    I am actually VERY keen on socialism.

    21 May 2005, 8:16 pm

36. Ralph:

    What Gorgeous George said the other day, the press, government investigations, and some LOSING Democratic candidates DEAN and KUCINICH, have been saying for two years. The fact that Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and Powell lied to get us into the war certainly does not bother the average voter very much - or Bush’s approval ratings would be much lower. And it does not seem to bother the press that much although they do report the steady stream of evidence of lying on the part of the government.

    BTW - you gotta a better party that the Democrats that can defeat the Republican juggernaut with its vast and loud media noise machine, its nutty Christian zealots, its corporate fat-cats and its fund-raising powerhouse??? Let’s hear about!!!! and it ain’t the Greens or the Reform party - they can’t get more the 10% of the vote and can’t raise money.

    21 May 2005, 9:07 pm

37. Stan:

    Dean now supports the war. We don’t need fixed elections to solve our problems. This is the central fallacy of our political age. We need to break the whole damned machine.

    My rant about Galloway’s testimony was just to highlight how to speak truth to power.

    If you will go to opensecrets.org, you will find that Democrats are just as addicted to the cash of corporations and Wall Street as any Republican. It was not the Republicans who took the issue of the war off the table in the last electoral bufoonery. It was the DLC and their chosen hound dog, John Kerry. And it was off the table because he and that weasel John Edwards, who was a war hawk from day one too, support the Anglo-American aggression in Southwest Asia.

    21 May 2005, 9:47 pm

38. Mary MacElveen:

    Senator Norm Coleman
    Washington Office:
    320 Senate Hart Office Building
    Washington, DC 20510
    Main: 202-224-5641
    Fax: 202-224-1152

    To Senator Coleman, May 19, 2005

    As I heard and read Mr. George Galloway’s remarks to you and the subcommittee looking into this oil for foods program, I was damn proud of him for speaking the truth and basically calling all of you who have supported this war liars. Having just read an article where it states that his name was forged on these documents, I believe those reports because so many lies have been told by my government and that angers me. The Iraq War is my primary issue against not only you in the Republican Party but those within my party who voted for this war of lies. When he spoke of the many INNOCENT Iraqi children who have perished at our hands, at the hands of greedy corporations and those that we bullied to support this slaughter, I cry each and every day. I am quick to anger how the government who I always believed growing up could do this to children. Their images haunt me every single day and where I fight to bring them justice. I am sending you via fax their very images. While you may not see it, those aids that work for you will and I want them to know of the type of man they work for. They work for a man who will sanction the killings of so many innocent people who also supports a megalomaniac in George W. Bush.

    Just last night, I took time out and wrote Mr. Galloway a letter of thanks and emailed it to him with the suggestion to countless others that they do the same. FINALLY, we had a man willing to stand up to George W. Bush, Tony Blair, the corporations and those that voted for this war and that, Senator Coleman is something that is so near a religious experience for me. I finally knew that the hand of God was truly at work through his words spoken to you. HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO CHILDREN! They were God’s children and you and your like murdered them. The ones still alive deserve all of our protection because they are innocent as well as their mothers and fathers. Those soldiers we sent over, we sent them over to be murdered as well and for the life of me, I cannot understand how so many of my fellow Americans can buy into these lies. They believe it because the listen to liars like you, Senator Coleman.

    As I am typing this letter to you, two prayers come to mind and give me the strength, the power and the fortitude to keep on fighting on behalf of those we murdered and those prayers are the Hail Mary and the Lord’s Prayer. In the Hail Mary where it says, “Pray for us sinners” is appropriate as well this line in the Lord’s Prayer where it states, “Forgive Us Our Trespasses” I do pray that at the end of time that God can forgive us for what we have done to his children and we are all sinners for doing this to God’s children. We were no different than Osama bin Laden in waging this war upon an innocent people. I will continue to be those children’s voice. I care for them more than I do for George W. Bush, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

    In Somber Prayer,
    Mary MacElveen
    Sound Beach, NY 11789

    Mark 10:14 Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God.15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. 16 And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.

    PS: This letter is being sent out across the Internet as well as to the media.

    21 May 2005, 11:18 pm

39. Stephen Braithwaite:

    I followed Eric McCay’s link, and read “Gorgeous George’s life of
    scrapes”. Much of it is about the Food for Oil thing, which has later
    turned out to be false. In fact, someone must have deliberately forged
    those documents. The accusations that are still outstanding are:-

    £1720.oo:
    “In October 1986 a damaging story was leaked to the Daily Mirror with
    details of his stays in “luxury” hotels in Third World countries. A
    subsequent inquiry by the charity independent auditors cleared him
    of wrongdoing but he repaid £1,720 in contested expenses to the
    charity.”

    ?:
    “In March 1991 the Charity Commissioners reported that War on Want
    had materially misstated the accounts for 1985 to 1989, which
    included a three-year period when Galloway was general secretary.
    But the commissioners said the auditors were largely to blame.”
    Is this one the big scandal in Dundee?

    £5000.oo
    “He accepted during an inquiry by the Commons standards committee
    that he had received about £5,000 in out-of-pocket expenses from Dr
    Saad al-Fagih.” …

    £49842.oo
    “Galloway next business venture involved a publishing company, Asian
    Voice, that he co-founded in 1996. It emerged last week that the
    firm auditor Morley & Scott later discovered that it could not
    properly account for £49,842 in Asian Voice spending. Galloway was a
    director during the period under scrutiny.”

    From above … “It emerged last week” ??? Now that is up to date! No
    doubt this last one is not finished. But this last one also makes clear
    that he is being investigated most thorougly. Why did this one emerge last week? I hope all polititians
    are being investigated this thoroughly also.

    22 May 2005, 5:19 am

40. greg:

    BAYOIL, now you know the REAL reason Cheney sat on the minutes of his Energy Bill meeting.

    22 May 2005, 2:07 pm

41. George Vye:

    Nice rant, Stan, almost as good as one of Joe Bageant’s. (He’s in a class by himself, though.) And god how I loved watching Coleman’s deer in the headlights expression as the honorable M.P. from Gretna Green spelled out what a craven, sycophantic ahole he is. But I wonder what your goal is other than to fuel the fires of outrage already burning under most of us disenfranchised Americans (and as a Green Party member for the last 12 years I am more disenfranchised than most. People do not realize what an ugly and tawdry political system we have whereby, lacking proportional representation, we minority parties simply have no voice in the government at all.) But I digress (its one of the things I do best). Outrage is no good unless it is channelled into some kind of meaningful, effective action. You saw how much good protesting at the conventions did, as Medea Benjamin was hustled away in handcuffs. I think it is too early to call for the Bolivian solution. Maybe when the U.S. economy plunges, as it inevitably must, the IMF will offer to bail us out as long as we adhere to condicionalites like privatizing the water system, etc. Maybe then people will respond to the call of “to the barricades”. But I find it hard to get worked up over this political stuff. Your pal Jim Kunstler has a handle on it. All empires have overreached themselves and fallen, and this one is no exception. Industrial society depends on cheap fossil energy, and we are a lot closer to running out than folks realize. We’d better start studying the Cuba model (sans Venezuela’s oil subsidy), because that where we’re going to be very shortly. In accordance with the old Chinese curse, we are about to live in very exciting times.
    Regards, George

    23 May 2005, 1:00 am

42. Kay Dellinger:

    This is a great article. This country desperately needs working people to begin striking in different sectors leading up to a national strike. Phil Berrigan called for a national strike before his death. We must restore the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and establish a government that obeys the law.
    The Democrats and Republicans are totally corrupt and cannot be changed or saved. Both of these parties represent large corporations and the rich and are destroying this country. The public needs to wake up and realize that both the Democrats and Republicans should be replaced with other political parties. Americans need to reject both of these corporate parties and their candidates and begin to build other viable political parties. We must take back our country and our government before it’s too late. We are getting dangerously close to midnight.

    24 May 2005, 12:54 am

43. Joe De Mangeont:

    Yes i agree it is time to strike but how is that going to happen? Our unions (what’s left of them) are co-opted, churches don’t organize for labor anymore, hell we don’t even have neighborhoods anymore.

    We have a cause but no places to meet and organize strikes not to mention an absence of street leaders.

    Yes it is time for strikes but I’m afraid the powers that be are WAY ahead of us and have eliminated the tools necessary for strikes to even be organized much less to be effective.

    Remember when King was assainated? Yes it was shortly before he was to organize a march on Washington not against segregation but against poverty. They killed him before he had the chance.

    Like I said: How are we supposed to organize and strike??

    It’s time for new tactics that will work, not old tactics that have been castrated by the powers that be!

    Joe De Mangeont

    24 May 2005, 5:06 pm

44. sandra:

    I suggest joining the Progressive Democrats of America and taking over the Democratic party - http://pdamerica.org
    begin by changing things from within and stop whining. when all else fails, then take to the streets and shut things down. We do have that right, enshrined in the Constitution, to change any government that no longer responds to the needs and wishes of the people. And judging by Galloway’s testimony, and other evidence of criminal acts by the current government we need to turn these mothers out.

    25 May 2005, 7:40 pm

45. brightonman:

    Here’s a letter I sent to the “asswipe” just after I watched Galloway whoop his dispicable butt:

    Mr. Coleman:

    I spent 14 years in the great state of Minnesota during which time I knew of you as the Mayor of St. Paul. I thought well of you then as did most Minnosotans. However, I have just viewed the interrogation of the Honorable George Galloway before your committee, the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee, and I am appalled. Appalled at your conduct and that of Senator Levin, who ironically represents the state of Michigan where I grew up on a dairy farm. Today, I’m a 49 year businessman with the conscience and heart of a farm kid, and this farm kid finds you disgusting.

    You will find my letter to you today under the topic “Ethics,” and not “homeland security” or some other aqeous term. It is under ethics sir, because you have breached every norm of decency in your conduct in the U.S. Senate. Mr. Galloway is a principled man of the highest order, and you found a need in your pitiful soul to deride him for taking the actions of an honorable and decent man. Shame on you Mr. Coleman. Shame on you for your conduct against this man and for not standing up against this illegal war.

    May the good and decent people of Minnesota vote your arrogant presence into political oblivion.

    Ken Hampshire
    Brighton, CO

    26 May 2005, 11:03 am

46. Cinny:

    Lest we not forget…prior to all the information about the government and the “9/11 cover up and aforeknowledge”..Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney proclaimed loudly the current administration knew 9/11 was going to happen. She was a Democrat and was admonished and highly criticized by many in Washingtion for speaking out. One of the first with a backbone to speak out owing the truth to the public she was elected to serve. Yet to hear or see written information about this and it happened not long after the attack. George Galloway is to be commended as well…..he showed confidence,and looked them in the eye when he spoke. Pat on the back and standing ovation with a loud and vigorous round of applause to both of them.

    26 May 2005, 11:20 pm

47. Anthony Kennerson:

    Well, Stan…as much as we are on opposite sides on the porn/sex issue, I must give you some well deserved props for this righteous blast at the Democrats on Galloway’s “Requiem to the War Criminals”.

    I actually do think that there are one or two — or four — Democrats in the Congress who do have the stones to actually challenge the Bu$hCo/NewDem capitalist consensus…if only they would find the courage to actually dump the Dems altogether and form a real SECOND party. (As far as I’m concerned, the Democrats have slipped to fourth now, behind the Repubs, the Greens, and the Libertarians.) Alas, those who have all the gold in the Democratic Party are the very ones who are most likely to fellow-travel with the DLC corporate hacks, and there is nothing other than the threat of a complete rout that could rouse them from their daze of delusion in acceptiing the current one party/two shades of fascist system.

    Memo to George Galloway: On your next visit to our land, have a word or two or a thousand w3th Cynthia McKinney or Barbara Lee or Tammy Baldwin…they could use a bit of RESPECT, too. (That’s the RESPECT Party, of course, as a genuine Left alternative.)

    Well done, Stan….whatever our disagreements on other issues, we are still Leftists who believe in speaking truth with power. Keep bringing it…both you and Mr. Galloway.

    Anthony

    30 May 2005, 10:36 am

48. J. C. Dahl:

    You may still be able to watch the Galloway testimonial on video at http://www.prisonplanet.com Alex Jones’ sight look for it in archived programs

    23 June 2005, 3:00 am

49. ghbt:

    GIRLS HAVE BALLS TOO. They’re called ovaries. It’s not the metaphor that is gendered, but your reaction to it.

    1 July 2005, 5:02 pm

50. Stan:

    Surely you can do better than that. This reminds me of white folk who get called on the N-word, then say “I call white people n***** too.”

    This expression has always been part of a lexicon that equates maleness with physical courage, and even the degree of that courage with the physical size of the tesicles.

    Can you spell disingenuous, boys and girls?

    1 July 2005, 5:32 pm

51. Siva Krishnadass:

    Good Luck George on your tour to the accursed land of America; whip up anti-imperialist message among the sanest.

    And Come to Wellington NZ.

    Siva Krishnadass
    118 Tauhinu Road
    Miramar
    WEllington NZ

    1 September 2005, 4:24 am

52. Siva Krishnadass:

    I would like to make you the President of England and Wales and Ken Livingsone as the Prime Minister of England.

    Do you Like it ?
    Siva Krishnadass
    118 Tauhinu Road
    Miramar
    Wellington NZ

    1 September 2005, 4:28 am

53. Siva Krishnadass:

    Now George Bush is speaking of Iraqi oilfields falling into the hands of Al-Quaeda; it is either Al-queda or Bush and his gangsters. All the same.

    Siva Krishandass

    1 September 2005, 4:39 am

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