Make no mistake: Joe Lieberman and the boys at AEI who wrote this affront to civil liberty and freedom knew all to well that "the bloggers" would get this transcript and watch the videos, and this message is for us. It's a smirking warning issued from the pulpit of a future tyrant.
Lieberman is priming the pump, making the drooling zealots of CUFI glimmer with hate for "the bloggers." Those people smart enough to hold politicians and leaders accountable in a democracy.
With a wink and a sneer, not unlike Cheney himself, Lieberman is giving us a glimpse at our not-so-distant future. And we had better take heed, boys and girls, because this fascist damn well means everything he is implying here.
Now that is clearly scary enough folks, but, good old "Zealot Joe" didn't stop there. He is practically begging for a full scale world war with Iran based on the fact that they might be thinking about having nukes sometime in the future. Might be - though the IAEA and the NIE disagree with that claim. And so he is sending out the members of his CUFI conference to go do the Likud Party's bidding this week in the halls of our democracy, armed with lies and the frightened hearts of thousands of religious fanatics, detemined to see the rapture in their lifetimes.
And so, "Fascist Joe" ends as he began - with scripture. Proving once again how wise the Founding Fathers were to try to separate church and state. Too bad we have forgotten to listen to them.
"Please allow me to close by going back to Scripture. When the Israelites were fleeing Egypt, there was a pivotal moment when they had the chasing Egyptian cavalry–with their swords and spears drawn–closing in on them from behind, and the daunting, crashing waves of the Sea of Reeds in front of them.In Exodus 14:10, the Bible tells us that the Israelites became afraid, and cried out to Moses, "Were there no graves in Egypt? Is that why you have taken us to die in the wilderness?"
Moses reassured the people and prayed to God. But God said to Moses, "Why do you cry out to me? Speak to the Children of Israel and tell them to go forward." In other words, God told Moses the time for prayer was over. It was time for Israel to act to prove its faith by going right into the water."
"it was time for Israel to act...", now what, pray-tell, could that mean?
"Nachshon understood that there comes a moment when faith and prayer must be followed by action."
This speech is undoubtedly one of the most troubling I have read in our country's history. In fact, I would have to go back to the Civil War to find one as disturbing as this one. Full of outright lies and misinformation, demonizing of dissident Americans, fueled by religious fervor and fanaticism, I am not even sure that something like this has ever been delivered by any politician in our history... ever.
This man knows he has been tapped to fill the shoes of Dick Cheney no matter what he says or does. And even if he is not, he will be in a position of extreme power within the McCain administration. This is a dark day for this country. Just one more in a series of them since 9/11. How the world has turned away from all that we held dear and took for granted just a short time ago.
If you wish to read his entire speech, you can find it here; till they get "the world they want to live in" anyway.
Good luck to you all. And may God have mercy on us all.
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