By Ken Krayeske • 9:00 AM EST • 1:11 AM 10/8
Considering that tonite's Town Hall-style debate is supposed be a wide-ranging discussion about all the policies that will impact our country in the next eight years, yet there exist a series of topics that are off-limits in mainstream political debate. Call is censorship. Call it palatability to mainstream American values.
Oh, he can't win if he talks about that _______. Well, why the hell not? It is a festering sore in my community, in my country, and it needs to be discussed.
So, in honor of enforced silence, here is a quick list of words and names that we will most certainly not hear tonite:
Legalization
Hemp
Prison-Industrial Complex
Perpetual Warfare
International Criminal Court
War Crimes
Nuremburg
Impeachment
Unitary Executive Theory
Resegregation
Glass-Steagall Act
Keating Five (although Obama has made a website...)
Saudi Arabia ***OBAMA SAID IT*** Holy Cow! He must not hand out with King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz like some oligarchs.
Procedural Due Process
Troy Davis
Clemency
Capital Punishment Moratorium
Instant Runoff Voting
Proportional Representation
Caging
Voter Suppression
Diebold
Coup d'Etat
Civil Disobedience
Corporate Welfare
Corporate Crime
Blackwater
Fallujah
Skin Cancer
The American Israeli Political Affairs Committee
Free Speech
Ralph Nader
Cynthia McKinney
Bob Barr
Central Intelligence Agency ***Gosh, wasn't it funny to watch McCain dance around the history of Afghanistan and Pakistan without mentioning the CIA's involvement in creating the Taliban and the "freedom fighters" who overstretched the Soviet Union to the point of collapse.***
Nuclear Disarmament
Abolish
Universal Declaration of Human Rights ***Obama mentioned that health care was a right. He's getting there.***
Roosevelt's Economic Bill of Rights
Nazi
Operation Paperclip
Karl Rove
Alberto Gonzalez
Joseph Wilson
Valeria Plame
Donald Rumsfeld
War Crime
Harry Whittington
It would be too easy to throw a list of names of political prisoners, like Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Jeffrey Luers and TreArrow, so I won't take up our time and space. America doesn't have political prisoners.
Saddam Hussein
Catonsville 9
Plowshares
Gilded Age
Imperialism
Fannie Lou Hamer
Goodman, Cheney and Schwerner
Todd Palin
Treason
Seccessionist - Not mentioned, as promised. But what is so bad about the word? So McCain wins because of the Bradley effect, Karl Rove and who knows what else. He dies in office. Palin takes over. She breaks up the union - she's a seccessionist. She won't start a civil war over keeping California in the Union. California is for god-hating fags. Home rule for Northeast and West coast liberals. We aren't dealing with Kansas anymore...
Alaska Independence Party
Polar Bears
Car-Free
Green Party
Constitutionalist Party
Libertarian Party
Individual Liberty
Pre-emptive detention
Guantanamo Bay
Abu Ghraib - How can McCain and Obama proclaim that out soldiers serve with honor, and know that their policies turn men into monsters, writ Haditha, writ Fallujah?
Baghram Air Force Base
Opium
LSD
MK Ultra
Crumbling Infrastructure
Thurgood Marshall
Googling any of these words will give you a basic idea as to why they are unmentionable.
