TV FREE AMERICA

Of all the startling images coming out of Egypt during the past two weeks of anti government, pro democracy demonstrations, the most bizarre to me was the man on a galloping camel, charging into the protesters, whip flailing at the behest of the government.

The sad fact is it took a revolution there to bring America images of the utterly corrupt and rotting Egyptian society we have been propping up for thirty years with billions in aid, mainly for weaponry to help maintain that oppression. America's handful of corporate controlled media is quite restrictive in what we largely uninformed Americans can see in hot spots like the Middle East. Whether due to their own prejudices, concern over losing access to government officials wanting to keep us uninformed, or other reasons; our media does not make Al Jazerra, the most important source of news there available to us. More and more inquisitive folks are getting these important Al Jazerra images from the internet.

Growing up in the fifties I recall our government boasting how they set up Radio Free Europe to beam good ol' American democracy and freedom to the millions of subjugated Eastern Europeans kept in the dark by Russia's Uncle Joe Stalin. We've come full circle of sorts. Now it's America that prevents a real debate on our utterly destructive policies of made up war, continued acquiescence in Israel's oppression of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and endless support of brutal Arab regimes simply because they do our bidding.

Fortunately, we have the Net for those curious enough to seek the full picture. We should think of the Net as our version of Radio Free Europe, updated today into TV Free America.

START SPREADING AMERICAN VIRUS

Observing the anti dictatorship, pro democracy movement trying to rid Egypt of its brutal and corrupt thirty year Hosni Mubarak government, Senator John McCain called it a "virus spreading throughout the Middle East" and the most "dangerous period" in modern American involvement there.

Gee, Senator McCain had no problem championing the spread of democracy in the Middle East with "shock and awe" killing hundreds of thousands in Iraq and sending a couple of million more fleeing the American Democracy Express at the point of a smart bomb fired by dummies.

McCain and his fellow war loving legislators should get a vaccine powerful enough to cure them of the truly evil virus of spreading democracy through criminal war. The wonderful virus McCain is so fearful of was incubated at Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill and Valley Forge.
It started a freedom epidemic against French tyranny in their New World slave colony Saint-Domingue, spreading unchecked for thirteen years before establishing the Republic of Haiti in 1804, the first one ruled by persons of African ancestry. This virus pulverized the Berlin Wall and a bunch of Eastern European communist dictatorships nearly two centuries later, with barely a shot being fired.

Now it is spreading to the Middle East, thanks to Nobel Peace prize nominee Wilileaks, and Twitter and the Net, which prevent tyrants from keeping their subjugated minions fearful and uninformed. Sadly, the the world's oldest existing democracy is shoveling billions at tyrants who do its bidding, making America a hated obstacle to freedom and democracy to oppressed peoples everywhere.

I can't speak to the state of Senator McCain's mental health for making such a bizarre comment, but when it comes to the virus of democracy infecting the Body Politic, McCain has a clean bill of health.