[lbo-talk] Re: Alex Cockburn's Happy Days

Wilson Barber wilsonbarber at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 9 13:55:28 PDT 2004


Finally!! And why I appreciate Alexander Cockburn commentaries...


>You want to see fascism in action in America? Look
beyond the Patriot Act,
>engendered in the Clinton era with the
Counter-Terrorism and Effective
>Death Penalty Act of 1996, and consummated by
bipartisan agreement after
>Sept. 11, 2001. Try your local health department,
bearing down on some
>small business. Better still, visit family court. No
candidate goes out
>on the hustings and pledges to reform family courts
so that his or her
>actions have some detectable linkage to the U.S.
Constitution and the
>Bill of Rights. No Republican or Democratic platform
committee has
>ever devoted a paragraph to family courts. Yet there,
day after day,
>week after week, relationships are destroyed and
children severed
>irrevocably from parents and extended kin. Fathers
are forbidden
>access to their children, their wages garnished,
their bank accounts
>looted and staggering fines levied, without the
possibility of
>challenge. (And no, this is not the defeated whine of
a wronged dad.)

The left is pathetic on this issue raised by Cockburn and has conceeded this issue to the right. This is the reason for the rise of so-called "Father Rights" groups. There is ABSOLUTELY miniscule analysis on the left as if they are afraid to speak out to upset liberal bourgeois feminist.

WB

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