Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Who killed Michael Moore?
(Inspired by the recent assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya)
There’s no shortage of outrage on the Left. Plenty of marches and manifestos to go along with the myriad calls to change this and take back that. Toss in the occasional fighting words and the intermittent flirtation with property damage and the Left typically does just enough to get itself effectively demonized by the mainstream...thus making it that much easier for the police to get away with swinging their nightsticks at the next “anti-globalization” protest.
So, here’s my question: What would those who identify as leftists do if one of their high profile icons were openly eliminated? For the sake of argument, let’s say the U.S. government (or one of its proxies)—with the full support of the corporate media—overtly did away with Michael Moore for his political beliefs and anti-corporate activism.
(Photo by John Brown)
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P.S. After reading a Counterpunch article about rampant FBI monitoring of the, uh, non-patriotic, I thought it might be polite of us to offer a daily Expendable welcome to any law enforcement types lurking herein (not that I’ve given them any reason to suspect me).
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