If you haven’t seen this, it’s simply a must watch. What a brave [and wonderful] person, Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City. Here’s the transcript and here’s the whole video. The phrase, “the Emperor has no clothes,” should be replaced by “Rocky Anderson speaks.”
I write this blog thing, day after day, knowing it’s not read by many. It doesn’t much matter to me whether it’s read or not. What matters is that I get to say it, sometimes saying the same things, over and over. Even when I’m writing it, I feel guilty for being so damned monotonous, but it’s almost a compulsion – a way to restore my own mental health. The alternative would be to slide into the cynicism and disgruntled sadness of many of my friends and colleagues who feel discouraged that someone doesn’t do something about this tragedy – that there feels like there is nothing that can be done – that George Bush was reelected for a second term.
It is so unbelievably encouraging to hear an obviously sensible public official saying what Rocky Anderson was brave enough to say, that I have tears in my eyes just listening to it. I felt the same way after Al Gore’s speech earlier this year. I hope they bring people out of the woodwork, right-thinking people of influence who are no longer afraid to speak out…
Mickey, I suspect that there are more people who read this than you may think; I’m sure many others have told people about it, as I have; though not often leaving comments, it’s a wonderful read, particularly all the many links you include in your postings. So keep it up! And Thanks! Jack
thanks, mickey, it’s a great site, i’m bookmarking and showing friends, and you are a very interesting “old” man, trust me. thanks for the link to the whole video. i just heard it played [audio] on h.o.r.n. radio (union radio) online. http://headonradionetwork.com/
“We speak now against the day when our Southern people who will resist to the last these inevitable changes in social relations, will, when they have been forced to accept what they at one time might have accepted with dignity and goodwill, will say, ‘Why didn’t someone tell us this before? Tell us this in time?’” – William Faulkner, 1955