A Fouler Apposition

Congressman Connie Mack (Fla-14) has much the same view on Venezuelan sovereignty as Adolf Hitler had on Polands, and is using much the same tactic to achieve his goals. In passing an amendment to the Foreign Relations Authorization Act in July he declared "the United States has sent a message that we will not turn a blind eye as Hugo Chavez continues to snuff out freedom and hijack Venezuela from it's citizens." The Fuhrer roused the Germans with tales of Poles raping and killing young fraulines. Herr Mack continued "Chavez is the enemy of freedom... and a threat to the United States." Sound familiar? Bush? Osama bin Laden ring any bells? The unprincipled principles used for his overt imperialist aggression include creation of a'Venezuelan security Zone " to isolate Chavez and promotion of ,this is good, you'll like this,"free markets,privitization" and playing old Reagan speeches, Fox news and Limbaugh Radio. Makes our Sen. Conrad Burns seem like a MENSA candidate.

Last time I was in Florida thousands of jack-booted Darth Vader looking cops beat down a crowd of peaceful protesters with clubs, gas and rubber bullets. I like the late John Fowles take on the place: We drove to Miami Beach,where a monstrous regiment of huge hotels stand whitely against the stale Carribean.To see the size and vulgarity of these establishments is the only reason to go to the place;they are so vile, so nightmarish,so (alas) American,that they cannot be missed.In a way it is a city of the dead- all the people there are old,uninspired industrial debris. In the lifts the women of fifty and sixty stand like cattle. One has to push them aside to get out. They drift round the lounges like somnabulists, from meal to meal, from room to room, bound, chained to a moronic routine in a moronic world. In a way it is a European city, a monument to the dream of countless generations of underpriveledged peasants. They dreamt of an aristocratic city like Venice ,perhaps; and they translated it, when they had the chance ,into Miami. Jud's current director calls it "the painted toenail of America." But it needs some fouler apposition: the unwiped anus.All that is worst in the country pours through it and stands to be seen."

They are rejoicing the release of a known terrorist in Miami today,Louis Posada Carrilles,who blew up a Cuban airliner with over a hundred innocent civilians aboard. To Connie Mack he's probably a 'freedom fighter". Mack righteously guards the anus.