Exclusively in the new print issue of CounterPunch
WHY MORMON MEN CAN’T BE TRUSTED — A ex-Mormon woman looks back at the Church. PLUS It’s fifty years since the Port Huron statement. Alexander Cockburn on the origins of SDS and one of the crucial documents of the 1960s. PLUS Two ounces of oil + a fishing boat + Homeland Security Incident #995038 = the onward march of totalitarianism in America. Read Captain Knutson’s story.
Sigh for the Lost Soul
Is Dick Cheney Running Scared?
By acting wacko now, when he is taken to trial for crimes against humanity, Dick Cheney will be able to plead insanity.
It’s all a carefully planned strategy.
Observe him carefully, as his statements become increasingly unglued. More incoherent, more paranoid—traits now cropping up in his daughter’s inarticulate defense of her father.
Solution: incarcerate him now or soon we’ll see him wandering the streets, babbling at dogs and cats.
Pity this man who fifty-percent of the country once regarded as their savior.
Sigh for the lost soul who believes that he alone can save America from evil.
CHARLES R. LARSON is Professor of Literature at American University, in Washington, D.C.