{"id":61,"date":"2005-10-03T15:40:29","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T19:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2005\/10\/03\/surely-now-they-will-see\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T19:40:29","slug":"surely-now-they-will-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2005\/10\/03\/surely-now-they-will-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Surely NOW they will see!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The continuing genocide in Iraq. I’ve lost track of Darfur. Jillian
\nasked us how we could not know about the devastion in New Orleans
\nbefore Katrina. I did know. Long ago. The news did nothing to remind
\nme. It worked hard to keep me from remembering. And then one night a
\nvoice. Oddly, a woman’s voice – Laura Flanders . Some people condemn me
\nas reactionary for listening to her, but they were not the ones to tell
\nme what was to come<\/a>. Nor were they the ones to tell me that the Gretna police had turned back a hundred people trying to escape NOLA on foot.<\/p>\n

This administration has boldly said, “We’re an empire now.” That is, I
\nbelieve, a first. [Not being an empire, saying it out loud. We’re
\nsupposed to be a democracy or at least a republic remember? Curiously,
\neven George F. Kennan<\/a>, author of the famous ‘containment’<\/a> policy
\nargued that there are intrinsic limits to what it is appropriate for our form of government to do in foreign affairs.]<\/p>\n

But it’s not enough that You know how bad things are. It matters who else knows. It matters how you tell them.<\/p>\n


\nYou can’t beat people up and have them say I love you. – Lenny Bruce<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
But your sense of urgency is well founded. Truly, The World Can’t Wait.<\/a><\/span>
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The continuing genocide in Iraq. I’ve lost track of Darfur. Jillian asked us how we could not know about the devastion in New Orleans before Katrina. I did know. Long ago. The news did nothing to remind me. It worked hard to keep me from remembering. And then one night a voice. Oddly, a woman’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}