Daffodil Lane: Time's Person of the Year: You

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December 17, 2006

Time's Person of the Year: You

An interesting choice to say the least! The rise of digital democracy is a powerful force. What I find sort of disappointing is that there was no acknowledgment by Time that there are dark forces working night and day to stifle the very thing they are pointing to as the most important thing going on this year. I mean the discussion of the rise of blogs, YouTube and MySpace has to include a conversation about the radical right and their corporate masters working to destroy these things with extreme prejudice. As we speak Darth McCain is now working in the legislation to destroy blogs and the free flow of ideas in the name of "protecting" us from bad people. Because folks Republicans hate freedom and the free flow of information, because they can't contain their lies anymore. They easily corrupted and controlled corporate media, but the truth spread like a virus that they couldn't stamp out and destroy. The fourth estate may have abandoned it's job as the caretaker of the people, so the people rose up to do the job of protecting their neighbors. No revolution of course is without problems, but there must be an acknowledgment that there are problems and then there is the evil standing outside the revolution trying to destroy it. Time's failure to acknowledge that is a reflection on their own compromised state as a corporate media outlet.

How long will we be able to stand against the bad guys? Who knows? We have an army of vipers in our own midst that happily work with the bad guys trying to destroy our way of life.

I have some hope because so many of my fellow Americans have started to stand up and started to act to protect their fellow man in spite of the lack of enthusiasm to support us. When asked why I blog, I tell people it's because I have to stand against evil. I have to make sure the truth gets out to people that are willing to listen. Everyone willing to sacrifice a part of their life to follow such an important endeavor deserves a lot of credit from my point of view.