Tag: Justice

Despite all attempts at professional neutrality

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As a professional journalist, recording the corruption of the American political system was excruciating. We strived to be objective in presenting two sides, but were smeared for attempting to do so from the side of doing the destruction. If corporate journalism is “leftist” or “liberal,” as we were charged, it’s time to insist it was more likely to reflect truth than the biased alternative. These poetry rants, inspired by Allen Ginsberg, were observations and reactions I didn’t dare utter at the time, but history is proving their insights tragically real. I stand by them.

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The backstory’s beginning to look presciently ominous for today

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In my revisions of the novel Daffodil Sunrise into a more sweeping Daffodil Uprising, I added backstory involving Indiana politics and efforts to extract personal wealth from one of its state universities.

Considering the current effort of the governor to seize control of the school’s board of trustees has me realizing my dark imaginings were all too naïve.

We know what one-party rule did in Germany and also in the Soviet Union.

In my book, the administration had little interest in listening to the students, much less in responding to their needs.

You can bet that will be a renewed breakdown ahead.

Keeping leaders on a leash

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The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should derive from the people; but, that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands.

James Madison in Federalist No. 37

On the perils of a veto by a small minority

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… they have reported a plan which … may be carried into effect by nine states only. … The forbearance can only have proceeded from an irresistible conviction of the absurdity of subjecting the fate of 12 States, to the perverseness or corruption of a thirteenth; from the example of inflexible opposition given by a majority of 1-60th of America, to a measure approved and called for by the voice of twelve States comprising 59-60ths of the people …

(Rhode Island had refused to send delegates to the Federal Convention.)

James Madison in Federalist No. 40