Obstructing Democray

I am back on Ignore Them, with the help of my co-writer, Paperboy, as a result of the Nevada Supreme Court ruling in favor of NBC television to block Congressman and presidential candidate, Dennis Kucinich from taking part in Tuesday nights democratic presidential debate.

I was angered, outraged and disgusted, as I hope many Americans are who see this as a direct and blatant affront to our so-called democracy. How can a television station act as a private entity in determining the process by which the American people will consider a candidate for the President of the United States?

You have to ask yourself what great threat to NBC, who is owned by General Electric, did Rep. Kucinich pose that a media corporation would go so far as to file a counter suit with the Nevada Supreme Court to make sure that Rep. Kucinich was not allowed to participate in this national televised debate, which included three other democratic candidates.

Was it the fact that Rep. Kucinich, who has consistently been marginalized and discredited by the corporate media because he truly speaks for the people of this country, is a very powerful and clear articulator of what is wrong with this country and the moral direction in which it should be heading.

Is it because his legislative action and his platform has been unequivocally against this illegal and unjust war and the continued funding of the war from the beginning?

Is it because he is the only candidate who wants to immediately rescind the trade agreements, NAFTA and CAFTA that have destroyed much of middle America's economy and towns, and has wreaked havoc with the Mexican people?

As William Rivers Pitt wrote on TruthOut.org, "why would General Electric media outlets give you the facts?" General Electric had a $10 billion dollar contract with the U.S. government in the prosecution of the war in Iraq, besides being the number one champion of the nuclear industry.

All the other candidates, except perhaps Edwards, represent a centrist view that conceivably would not be a threat to the status quo. Rep. Kucinich has a plan to truly bring this country in an entirely new direction, but GE/NBC want no part of his agenda and made sure that his ideas would not be heard.

This is just a continuum of the deceit of this 2008 campaign by the corporate media to limit what the citizenry of this country should hear, and indeed it is the continuum of the utter sham of the whole election process.

The reason for Ignore Them has been to have people consider turning away from the lies and disinformation of corporate media and make a conscious effort to learn what is truly going on in this potentially magnificent country, by listening and reading alternative sources of information so that we can best come to some understanding of what moral direction should we be taking as a country. Our essays and our directions to alternative sources have never been more important and imperative. In this vein I would ask any reader of this blog to go to Democracy Now and listen to Amy Goodman's interview with Kucinich, and hear his answers to the debate questions which should have been presented to him live on MSNBC.

Spread the word.