I may have to finally take off my Tony Snow bracelet. The love just isn't there anymore.
As a fellow human being I sympathize greatly with Snow's recent struggles with cancer. But here's the problem:
Tony Snow is a traitor who mocks and despises every single principle that this country was founded on.
So you can see my dilemma.
(si, hay mas)
But perhaps we should back up?
At a briefing Tuesday, Tony Snow was asked if George W. Bush's alleged push for world democracy (chortle!) might not be damaged by his indefinite imprisonment of so-called "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay.
Tony got very huffy, of course, and switched gears into his comfy zone: sarcastic, prick-ish Fox News Lying Head. Here the YouTube of it, below, followed by a transcript of his statement:
SNOW: Are you saying that detaining people who are plucked off the battlefields is an assault on democracy? Are you kidding me? You're talking about the people who were responsible for supporting the Taliban, somehow detaining them is an assault on democracy?
"Are you kidding me?" sneers Tony Snowjob. My response:
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No, Tony. I, for one, am not fucking kidding you, you un-American prick.
I know it's easy to smack down some of the dumb, bored, complicit, and/or easily intimidated reporters in your little briefing nook with your cutsie-pie talking points.
But I recognize a traitor when I see one. You, Tony Snow, are a traitor to the United States of America.
Maybe even more pathetic -- you're a media whore for bigger traitors.
Your contempt for the very founding principles of this country drip out of your mouth at every opportuniy, and given your postition, those opportunities to drip are many. You are as anti-American as it gets, short of Al-Qaeda, because with you and your masters it's an inside job. You whore for an anti-American cabal, and it's a sickening tragedy that you and your kind are now in political power in this country. Because you aim to destroy the United States of America.
Let me give you credit that you perhaps don't deserve: I will stipulate that you are not a stupid man. You are an EVIL man, yes -- a deeply immoral and unprincipled man. But you seem reasonably intelligent.
So I'm guessing you know what "habeas corpus" actually is, and how vital it is to ANY kind of free society. None of our other rights mean a damned thing without it. Freedom of assembly, of speech, of religion, the right to bear arms (yup, that 2nd Amendment your shrinking base cherishes) -- ALL of these sacred rights mean exactly nothing if the government can whisk you away and let you rot in a prison cell without charges. It's the foundation of our rights as Americans, but you people have declared that only terrorist-lovin' fags really care about it.
I will also assume that you're not so astoundingly stupid as to believe that all the prisoners -- or even MOST of the prisoners -- in Gitmo were captured on some "battlefield." You know, and I know, that this is a convenient lie. Your bosses have already said that the whole world is a battlefield in this "war on terror," and you have justified everything on that rancid premise.
Even avoiding abstractions, and keeping it closer to earth, we both know that many of the people in Gitmo were rounded up in neighborhoods without a lot of reason, or given to the U.S. by rival warlords, etc. This isn't Tolkien's Middle fucking Earth, where the rival armies meet on a battle plain, and a neat surrender results in capture. These are random, completely insane, and horribly planned (by your bosses) occupations in foreign lands where no one knows much of anything. So you don't know who the hell is in Gitmo, and what they've done, if anything. That's what trials are for, and our Founders insisted on them because they believed in Freedom and Justice. You think those things are a big goddamned joke.
By the way, is Chicago's O'Hare Airport part of the so-called "battlefield?" Because that's where they picked up Jose Padilla.
See Tony, this is why our Founding Fathers fought for such basic rights like habeas corpus -- to ensure that Justcie and Freedom were not taken lightly. They'd had their fill of tyranny under the King, and they specifically rejected a monarchy. You and your bosses have tried to undo their great work at every turn, giving us a king again.
It's clear that you think our Founding Fathers were a bunch of idiots and sissies. To Tony Snow, George Washington was a fucking pansy-ass for making sure that British prisoners were treated well, and accounted for with great care. The Framers of the Constitution were all gigantic p*ssies who wasted time trying make the rights of human beings sacred -- not subject to the whim of a tyrant.
Let's also not pretend, Tony, that you believe that this destruction of basic American rights and ideals only applies to non-citizens of the United States. You and your bosses have already proven that they hold no one's rights sacred, least of all those of the American citizens who pay their salaries. You've openly declared your contempt for every right that the Constitution enshrines as part of our God-given birthright.
...And since the Constitution is the founding and guiding document of our country, and you and your bosses have collectively pissed on it, you are all by definition anti-American. You can try to dress it up, but you know what they say about lipstick on a pig, or a Karl Rove. (Sorry, redundant.)
Tony Snow, you have a talent for for the dark art of sarcasm, as do many smarmy sociopaths. It's a neat-o way to avoid admitting that you have no principles at all except power, money, and self-gratification -- the only real currency for sociopaths.
So feel good, if you choose to, about letting another snotty zinger fly at a hapless reporter caught flat-footed, Tony. But know that history will show you to be a Baghdad Bob writ large -- a craven, lying apologist for freedom-hating tyrants.
...And a traitor to the United States of America, the country I love. For that, I will have to finally put my "Tony Snow" bracelet in the garbage disposal. I won't wear a traitor's name.
But I DO wish you a full recovery from your cancer, Tony. I want you to live a long, healthy life, and see how this country judges you and your anti-American cabal in coming decades. It's gonna hurt, Tony. Bad.
Salut.