By SueN
- Guests:
- Filmmaker/director/activist/founder of Brave New Films Robert Greenwald.
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL, 9th District).
- U.S. Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR, 4th district).
- Curtis Dubay of the Heritage Foundation.
- Topics:
- How do we stop the insanity of legalized mass murder?
- Supplemental war funding bill being taken up by the House this morning, Wikileaks.
- Public Option Act
- What's going on with the right wing crazy train?
- Who are the real "tomb raiders" and why should you care?
- Bumper Music:
- War, Edwin Starr.
- One Day, Matisyahu.
- Breakaway, Kelly Clarkson.
- Crazy Train, Ozzy Osbourne (edited by Jacob).
- Are You Happy Now?, Michelle Branch.
- Show Me What I'm Looking For, Carolina Liar.
- All 'Bout The Money, Meja.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object." -- Thomas Jefferson.
- Quote: Political Observations, James Madison, 20 April 1795.
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes and the opportunities of fraud growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could reserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
- Clip: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, Mickey [David] Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency'." Cindy Sheehan, My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings, June 16 2005.
- Ghost Chickens in the Sky, Sean Morey.
- Clip:
"Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome. Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
Paul Weyrich (video).
