Before George W. Bush’s Iraq speech last Tuesday, I was challenged to a drinking game: every time Bush mentioned 9/11, I should down a shot of tequila.
Children, listen to me: don’t engage in any recreational activity designed to destroy your brain cells. You’ll wind up getting the strangest ideas. Like this:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has argued that the United States is not bound by international law and dismissed the Geneva Conventions as “quaint.” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, dissenting in one case, said “due process requires nothing more than a good-faith executive determination.”
Republicans in Congress briefly changed their own party rules to let Tom DeLay keep his job as Majority Leader even if he was indicted for a crime. They also tried to change Ethics Committee rules to protect DeLay and other members accused of ethical violations. Republican Senate leader Bill Frist developed a plan to overturn inconvenient Senate rules by dictate of the Vice President. In a newspaper interview, DeLay griped about the very existence of judicial review, the right to privacy, and separation of church and state.
I can’t say they believe in no law whatsoever. They have repeatedly stepped into some of most personal and private activities and decisions of other human beings. But they clearly like to keep themselves beyond the reach of any law.
It reminds me of the famous line of occultist Aleister Crowley: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”
Uh, have we been wrong all this time about which religion the religious right follows?
See, children? Crazy talk! If you must play drinking games during President Bush’s speeches, try this one: down a shot of tequila every time Bush tells the truth. You’ll be surprised how little brain damage you will suffer.
David | 10-Aug-06 at 6:28 am | Permalink
At first I thought that this was just an amusing if somewhat wacky comment, only intended to point out certain rather dubious actions of the Bush administrationand not to be taken seriously. Then two things happened.
1) I checked the link to Aleister Crowley’s quotes.
2) I thought back on the tactics of the last election.
It seemed to me then (and still does today) that one side was attempting to get the electorate to look at the facts and make their decision at least in part on them; whereas the other party was appealing almost exclusively to the emotions, primarily the emotion of fear.
As Crowley said: “How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes.”
Are you correct? Are they truly devotees of Aleister Crowley in Washington? Are the a! dministrations decisions actually based on Crowley’s writings?
As the old saying goes, “Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”
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