CENSORED AT NIAGARATIMES BLOG

I don't know if I should have expected this from a 'business as usual' Republican political blog in Niagara County. But during yesterdays blog attacking Dan Rivera and stirring the pot for another witchhunt, I commented on the political futility of such low level thinking and character assassination. Apparently Hobbes, the blog Administrator, has had enough with my trying to reinterpret the context of discussion. He deleted my piece. So far he hasn't answered my letter as to why. I don't expect an answer. This has been the style of the Republicans on blogs and in the Niagara County Legislature. They don't condescend to talk to you unless you agree with them, speak on their terms, making their assumptions on the turf of their controlled situation. So now the witchhunt for Rivera when the leaders of the Democratic Party have chosen to deal with the Rivera-Roberts matter as a personal issue between them alone. But when there's dirt to dredge up the pseudo-political machine of the local moral police goes into action. So here's my piece that will be dismissed as being "off topic."

"My, my, oh my and dear me! Party partisanism gone wild. What a wonderful side show! Don’t you all get it yet? This is a self-corrupting, self-demeaning power struggle to see who stays on the food chain of power and privilege. Is this politics? Parties are historically obsolete my dear Republicrats. Why are you wasting your time mimicking national party-politics rituals? The Liberal Democratic center doesn’t hold and things are falling apart. This is the moment of community and regional populist revolt. And you’re arguing about Dan Rivera’s temper tantrum to score political points for your witchhunt? Why fund a 3 trillion dollar irrational, unjustifiable, meaningless war? Why allow big banking to prosper while the American dream of home ownership goes down the shitter? Why get your rocks off name-calling while the Middle Class is being dismantled and America is being sold off piecemeal to trans-national Capital? Oh yeh, political correctness above all objective and critical thinking? Thanks for listening and now you can go back to your pubescent pissing contest."

So as you can see if you step outside the Republican one-dimesional powermongering mindset, this is not "off topic." It's an attempt to get the provincial powerbrokers to wake up and see that Niagara County doesn't stop at the lines on the map. This witchhunt is a matter of the fake leaders of this county, like the miserable national leaders of the Republican party, pretending they are morally superior to everyone else. And as long as we can talk about pseudo-moral and pseudo-rights issues we don't have to talk about the fact that our county and country are falling apart and we don't know what to do about it. Republicans or whomever prove they are impotent to bring about change or prove they don't care to bring about real change when they reduce political discussion to political correctness and character assassination.

The supposed "women's rights" issue is no rights issue at all. Women legally have all the rights they need. The problems they have are a cultural matter to be dealt with by the various cultures such as business, family, community, education, etc. Women's Liberation is an obsolete movement that does women a disservice at this point.