The Fine Balance of Political Inaction

Posted on January 30, 2007
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Tom Matrullo writes:

It teeters on antinomy: The people who can speak something like the truth lack power to do what the truth requires; the people in power can’t bring themselves to speak anything like the truth.

Tom is responding to Al Gore’s having said:

At present, we still have much to learn about the NSA’s domestic surveillance. What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the President of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and insistently.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. [Al Gore]

But Tom’s observation strikes me as a general political truth in a system that so radically shuts off those who hold power from those who (in theory) cede it to them. Words like entropy & solipsism float into consciousness & all that is solid melts into air.