Admittedly, I've not seen much of this show; however, I'll probably pick it up on DVD: I have thus far found it quite entertaining.
For the record, I am a US citizen by birth, a veteran having participated in just about every overt and covert international operation between 1986 and 1992, and -- until mid-2000 -- a staunch supporter of and campaigner for the GOP. I have held both associate and interim pastorates in the Southern Baptist Convention.
From early in my childhood, I have striven to lead an exemplary life free from hypocrisy. With age has come not only an increase in knowledge, but also an increase in wisdom: I see now the abhorrent usurpations of Churchianity and the evil genius of the Bush regime, and I reject them utterly.
Just as it is not enough to merely claim the Name of Christ (see Matthew 7, Acts 19, James 2, et al), it is not enough for a person or party to claim to be the defender of liberty and freedom: the character of each person or group is evinced through the policies and practices thereof.
I risked my life in service to the USA not merely so that those with whose speech I agreed might have liberty to express their beliefs and opinions through whatever media they elected to use, but to extend that right to even those with whose beliefs and opinions I most strongly disagreed or judged offensive.
The current Bush regime is rightly characterized by the wholesale revision of law to abandon centuries of ethical progress and eradicate historical protections; terror directed against the People; malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance on a scale that boggles the mind; and crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Despite the foregoing, there is no reasonable hope for positive change in the USA: Bush and his GOP cohorts could not have achieved such spectacular results apart from the assistance of judiciary and legislative branches marching in single-minded, lock-step allegiance to the renegade executive.
Indeed, the sole voice on the national stage offering hope for positive change is Dennis Kucinich, and even if he by some miracle managed to get elected to the Presidency, there is no reason to believe he would be anything but a lame duck for the duration of his term in Office: the infestation of corrupt ideologues is far too vast for a single antibody to cure.
Having so stated, I love the land of my birth. I appreciate there are among the nations of the world those governed by regimes more malevolent than our own, but I shudder when I realize we are doing our best to emulate the worst.
However popular, nefarious behavior is wrong – and humane persons are compelled by conscience to better their respective communities through the exemplary exercise of the principles of equality, fraternity and liberty.
There is no criticism crafted by man adequate to disparage the Bush regime beyond the simple recounting of its misdeeds; it is irrational to take offense at the fictional portrayal of participants in the Bush regime as either incompetent or evil or both.
I have not personally witnessed the characterization of US operatives or agents alleged in the message precipitating this thread; nevertheless, I applaud those having both the conscience and the courage to speak out through their craft against the evil regime. Kudos, ReGenesis.
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GoodbyePorkPieHat
16 years ago
As a veteran - not of the military but of the "Politics" board, I commend you on an excellent rant!
So it goes.
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migca
15 years ago
Mr. Wireflight-- I normally wouldn't respond to a post pushing 18 months old, but I simply couldn't pass this one up. First, thank you for your years of service to our nation, and many thanks for perhaps the finest post/response on any similar topic I've had the pleasure to read in quite a few years.
This was a beautifully written, well-reasoned analysis of how you arrived at your current world-view. Even if I wholeheartedly disagreed with it, I have no doubt that that it still would have been a complete pleasure to read. What a delightful surprise to discover it on the forum of an obscure television series.
How unfortunate that more people who were initially supportive of the previous administration's retaliatory actions (a large majority of US citizens), were not wise or willing enough to comprehend how their patriotism was being cynically used to further an agenda with whose goals few would have probably agreed. In allowing ourselves to be manipulated by a constant campaign of vague fear, we have paid with priceless civil liberties that will be very difficult to recover.
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