A Conversation with Bill Moyers
The text of Moyers' speech at the Observer's September 30 Austin
fundraiser
by Bill Moyers
Excerpt:
The phenomenon of our time is how the religious, political, and
corporate right, under the cloak of 'moral values,' has forged a
mighty coalition for the looting of America. With one hand they stretch
upward for the pearly gates, and with the other they reach down and
behind your back to pick your pocket or your purse.
Their appointed poster boy is George W. Bush. Everything he knows, he
learned here in Texas. Unfortunately. I don't mean this as a knock on
your schools. What I mean is that the system here is rigged to assure
the political progeny needed to perpetuate itself with minimum
interference from the nuisances of liberal democracy. You remember
liberal democracy: the rule of law, the protection of individual and
minority rights, checks and balances against arbitrary power, an
independent press, and the separation of church and state. But George
W. Bush was nurtured by a dynasty of patronage and privilege that mocks
those values, a system that owes its perpetuation to a permanent fix.
the Observer got it right some years ago: "The men who run the Lone
Star State, through a tacit but powerful interlocking directorate of
politicians and corporation executives, are perpetrating and
perpetuating a monstrous deception on the public" - namely, the
illusion of self-government.
The crowd that came to Washington from Texas arrived like atheists at
the Vatican - they don't believe in government - except as the
means for aggrandizing their autonomy, wealth, and privilege.
Complete speech:
SEE:
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=2067
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