So, now Miguel Estrada is a floor-vote away from Senate confirmation to the Federal bench – the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The Judiciary Committee rammed him through on a 10-9 vote.
Without being forced to answer questions about his personal views of the law – while in fact having his views shielded by an Administration that now routinely denies all requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
Have you heard about this? Have you heard ANYONE in the media discussing this development? Isn't ANYONE pissed off about this?
The Federal bench to which the Bush Administration nominated Estrada – who routinely pals with right-wing nut Ann Coulter (including helping her with her insanely inaccurate book, Slander) – already has upheld an unconstitutional refusal to release information about his Energy Policy advisors by Vice-President Dick Cheney. A bench that bends as far to the Right as the San Francisco Federal Appeals court bench bends to the left.
Not only do we now have a slate of extreme Right-wing judges ready to move onto the Federal Bench, we have the FCC ready to relax ownership rules for radio and television stations – clearing the way for our airwaves, already owned by an ever-shrinking number of media conglomerates, to grow ever smaller. The FCC is considering lifting a ban on one television network buying out another. We are a step closer to the day when NBC will buy out CBS as AOL/Time Warner tries to preserve its profit margin.
We are perilously close to the time when one political party will control government, while gigantic corporations, which helped elect that party through massive political contributions, act in concert to control the flow of information ABOUT that government to the general public.
Whether we invade Iraq or not, the smokescreen of Saddam Hussein has done its job – it's allowed REAL concerns about what the Bush Administration is doing to slip, unseen, under the radar. Stealth government.
But don't worry. Just so long as Friends will be back for another season. No reason to do anything drastic. Like, maybe, voting. All those political parties are the same, you know. No differences between them. No sir.
More soon.
Without being forced to answer questions about his personal views of the law – while in fact having his views shielded by an Administration that now routinely denies all requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
Have you heard about this? Have you heard ANYONE in the media discussing this development? Isn't ANYONE pissed off about this?
The Federal bench to which the Bush Administration nominated Estrada – who routinely pals with right-wing nut Ann Coulter (including helping her with her insanely inaccurate book, Slander) – already has upheld an unconstitutional refusal to release information about his Energy Policy advisors by Vice-President Dick Cheney. A bench that bends as far to the Right as the San Francisco Federal Appeals court bench bends to the left.
Not only do we now have a slate of extreme Right-wing judges ready to move onto the Federal Bench, we have the FCC ready to relax ownership rules for radio and television stations – clearing the way for our airwaves, already owned by an ever-shrinking number of media conglomerates, to grow ever smaller. The FCC is considering lifting a ban on one television network buying out another. We are a step closer to the day when NBC will buy out CBS as AOL/Time Warner tries to preserve its profit margin.
We are perilously close to the time when one political party will control government, while gigantic corporations, which helped elect that party through massive political contributions, act in concert to control the flow of information ABOUT that government to the general public.
Whether we invade Iraq or not, the smokescreen of Saddam Hussein has done its job – it's allowed REAL concerns about what the Bush Administration is doing to slip, unseen, under the radar. Stealth government.
But don't worry. Just so long as Friends will be back for another season. No reason to do anything drastic. Like, maybe, voting. All those political parties are the same, you know. No differences between them. No sir.
More soon.
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