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Nov. 1992

Don't Shoot the Messenger!

by MARY MOORE

I always feel like such a grump with some of my friends when I don't get as euphoric as them over these rare signs of progress. Yes, of course I'm glad that we got rid of George and Danny but I'm so afraid people will think it's all fixed and go back to business as usual. Don't relax yet!!

Those Boho/Fortune 500 boys are still pulling the strings no matter who sits in the White House. Maybe I missed it but I haven't heard anything coming from the Clinton camp that would indicate that he's ready to take on the ruling class and its worldwide shadow governments. And Clinton's foreign policy often sounds somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun plus he's determined to show that he's not a war dodger.

A few days after the election former C.I.A. agent Philip Agee was on K.P.F.A. talking about the possible ways that Clinton will relate to the C.I.A./F.B.I. juggernout and he was not optimistic about there being any fundamental challenge to the spy guys. And even if Clinton did try to do the right thing he would be a prime target for the assassination teams. Even a few years ago that would have seemed like a "fringie" super paranoid statement but with all the stuff that's been surfacing you know in your heart that it's the truth.

Keep your eyes on the Clinton "boot camps" and watch how he carries out his promise of a sterner law enforcement. Sometimes the liberals feel they have to prove something especially the ones that love to think of themselves as centrists. A mandatory camp surrounded by wire serves the same purpose no matter what you call it.

Meanwhile you bet I'm relieved that 80-plus Blackmun can finally retire from the Supreme Court and that there will be an independent woman in the White House and that hope seems to be alive in the land!! Mostly I'm glad that my friend Mama O'Shea can finally get a decent nights sleep. We need to start unifying all the third parties and continue to aim our work for change at a fundamental and systemic level. They'll try to get away with cosmetic bandaids if we let our euphoria lull our vigilence to sleep.

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