Happy As A Hangman

*By Chris Hedges*

07 December, 2010
*TruthDig.com*<http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/happy_as_a_hangman_20101206/>


"...these “ordinary” citizens, many of whom are caring fathers and mothers,
husbands and wives, sons and daughters, have confused conformity to the
state with innocence. Family values are used, especially by the Christian
right, as the exclusive definition of public morality. Politicians,
including President Obama, who betray the working class, wage doomed
imperial wars, abandon families to home foreclosures and bank repossessions,
and refuse to restore habeas corpus, are morally “good” because they are
loyal husbands and fathers. Infidelity, instead of corporate murder, becomes
in this absurd moral reasoning the highest and most unforgivable offense.."

http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges071210.htm

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