The Watering Hole: Wednesday, 12-01-2010: Hump Day

Someone aired our dirty little secrets. Quick! Arrest him! He’s a traitor! A Terrorist! A threat to National Security! He put people’s lives at risk!

His only true crime? He’s not part of the rich and powerful. The rich and powerful carry out their little intrigues, and get away with it, because…well, because they’re rich and powerful. Only leaders who fall from grace ever get tried and jailed, or hung.

The Bush Administration murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people, people who’s only “crime” was to live in Iraq, or Afghanistan. But they walk free…sell books that re-write their history.

The Mask looks out over the North Sea. 70 years ago, the beach was studded with iron spikes to defend against a feared allied invasion into Hitler’s Europe. Behind the Mask, millions of people died for the “crime” of being born Jewish.

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