Politics of Exclusion

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Politics of Exclusion

 

By Timothy Gatto

Created Jul 16 2007 - 4:14pm

 

Why did The American Association for Justice (formerly American Trial

Lawyers Association) not invite Democratic hopefuls Former Senator Mike

Gravel and Congressman Dennis Kucinich to their convention after they

invited Senator Joseph Biden (D-Delaware), Hillary Clinton (D-New York),

former Senator John Edwards, Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois), and Governor

Bill Richardson (D-New Mexico)?

 

I thought this was supposed to be The American Association for Justice?

Apparently, the only people that are afforded justice from this organization

are the people that have corporate backing. This is just another example of

how the American political game is played. Sure, it's their convention, but

they can't stand there and tell the American people that all the lawyers

from this group back only the five "anointed" lawyers that were invited.

This just goes to show you that changing the name of this organization

hasn't

changed what they are, just another run of the mill organization that wants

to be associated with only what they perceive as the "winners". It will be

too bad that when this election is over and President Kucinich or Vice

President Gravel is asked to speak at their next convention, they blow it

off (although they probably won't because they have higher standards than

most politicians).

 

This is a travesty. The more this kind of thing happens, the more that our

political system suffers. Frankly, I don't believe the numbers that the

mainstream media throws at us regarding the numbers that Gravel and Kucinich

are carrying. I live in South Carolina, one of the reddest states in the

Union, and I meet people every day that say they want Kucinich to win the

nomination. I wish there were some way that an independent poll could be

taken that Americans could trust. Somehow I don't believe that we are

getting the right information. With the biggest corporations involved in

every facet of our lives, that wouldn't surprise me,

 

Organizations such as the AAJ don't help matters. There are eight Democrats

running for office, not five. Where is Governor Chris Dodd? Doesn't he

"measure up" to their standards? The more I see of this kind of thing, the

more I believe that Gravel, Kucinich , Dodd and even Bloomberg should just

get together and start a new party. The Democrats are infected with the

corporate disease and they should be quarantined for the sake of what most

Americans believe in. The Democrats should call themselves "The New

Republicans" or "Republican Lite". This is too much. You know I don't make

this stuff up.

 

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Timothy V. Gatto

 

 

 

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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their

spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their

government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are

suffering deeply in spirit,

and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public

debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have

patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning

back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at

stake."

-Thomas Jefferson