Crimes of assault and social repression
We know only what happens when we keep truth – and desire to know truth – buried in our memory’s buried cache. Then we have only pain without relief.
Tag Archives: Bill Cosby
Predators, pigs, and presidents
Our emotional attachment to certain institutions, especially the presidency, signals us to think of our leader as something better than a pig. In that case, the emotional attachment has to go.
Vigilance
As individuals who assault women or children eventually must face true accusations, so the state eventually pays for what it does to the people and institutions who trust it to preserve and protect the republic and its constitution. The state cannot escape history’s judgment, or ours. It never does.
Corroboration, credibility, and numbers
No strength of numbers can unite people who know Snowden, Drake, and Manning speak the truth, who can corroborate what they say, since the law says they must go to prison if they reveal government’s secrets. They face the same choice, alone, that civil resisters face under the national security state: be quiet or go to jail.
Cosby-Buress effect: how to use social acceptance to dismiss criminals
If serial rape by America’s dad seems too serious a subject for jests, what about fears that your own American flag heralds a state that assassinates leaders and blows up buildings with people in them?
Political Crimes and Moments of Truth
Here is a loose quotation on the Bill Cosby matter, an observation about why people dismissed Barbara Bowman’s accusations in 2008: …
The Jeffersonian 