July 8, 2004 ☼ Foreign Affairs
He’s mad as hell and he wont take it anymore. This is one of the Pakistani Howard Beale’s best rants
It is high time we forced a change in the parameters of political discourse — the terms of reference, so to say.
To speak bluntly, we must take away from the Establishment what it considers its God-given right: to set the political agenda; to talk down to those of us it considers enemies and exact punishment of its choice; to forgive its friends-for-the-time-being no matter what their crimes; to arrogate to itself the right to make war according to its own lights and for its own self-serving reasons; and generally doing as it wills.
Well, enough is bloody enough! [Daily Times]Unrelated Link: Howard Beale’s ghost lives on in the Blogosphere
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