[Marxism] Stan Goff, Bill Fletcher and the 2-party system

[Lajany Otum]

"Austin, Andrew" <austina at uwgb.edu> wrote:


> Louis, you should know that when it comes to matters 
> of constitutional and international legal protections there 
> is a difference between Republicans and Democrats, 
> and that this difference is important to the basic human 
> rights that some of us still have an interest in preserving. 
> How you can treat matters of torture and loss of 
> constitutional protections in such a flippant manner is a 
> striking example of your increasing kneejerk shallowness 
> in thinking about the issues of the day.
>

This "world of difference" would explain why the US senate 
 voted  by unanimous consent to make the Patriot Act 
 "permanent" in 2005, and why the Military Commissions 
 Act of 2006, which tore up habeas corpus, was passed into 
 law with barely a whimper by the supposed  parliamentary
 opposition, a sizeable number of whom even crossed over
 to support the Act. 
 
 The wall that Andrew imagines between US imperialism 
 and the shrinking sphere of legal protections of the rights 
 of the citizens of this state does not exist. A nation that 
 oppresses another forges its own chains -- and to the 
 extent that both wings of the ruling class support 
 indefinite colonial wars, so are they responsible for the
 increasingly naked domestic repression that these wars 
will inevitably engender.
 
 Lajany Otum


 		
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