A TALE OF TWO TALES

Here are the links. Please read the stories, because Kelso wants to refer to them at will and not be quoting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/national/25rape.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fNational%2fU%2eS%2e%20States%2c%20Territories%20and%20Possessions%2fTexas

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/politics/26letter.html?pagewanted=all

In the first, Adam Liptak continues his outstanding coverage of Roderick Johnson's lawsuit against the Texas State Department of Corrections for failing to enforce his Eighth Amendment rights. That is, he alleges, they failed to prevent him from being the sexual chattel of a gang. That is BY ANY SENTIENT HUMAN BEING'S CONCEPT OF THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT a failure to protect him from "cruel and unusual punishment." The testimony of officials and the behavior of the judge is quite amazing in this story. They all have to twist themselves into pretzels to take the side of the Gangster Disciples, the gang which "owned" Mr. Johnson. Quite amazing, really. You don't normally think of corrections officials and judges and Texas as being pro-black prison gang. The problem for them and for law-enforcement in the United States as a whole is that if the longshot comes in and Mr. Johnson were to win his case and even lose a well-publicized appeal, it would shine a bright light on the prevailing attitude that rape should be part of the official criminal sanction.

Should Johnson actually win the case and all appeals, the federal government, state and local governements and every citizen (at least the white ones) will have to re-think their entire attitude toward justice and this repulsive Prison Industrial Complex and certainly PATRIOTS I & II. Don't worry. Kelso sees you hiding over there, Bill and Hillary Clinton, you foul pieces of dirt. Oh wait, a second, sorry, Bill Clinton was "the first Black President." Never mind.

Kelso thinks that all of these conservatives and centrists and law-and-order folk are on the wrong side of this issue. Abramoff has been indicted. Savafian has been indicted. Kozlowski's been sent down. Kelso doesn't know who's next, maybe DeLay maybe Lay. Proabably Rush Limbaugh. But there is no way to be completely safe when you are in that system, uh, friends. Kelso wishes none of these people the fate of Roderick Johnson, even though he finds their politics personally repugnant.

Congratulations, Adam, on moving the issue forward. Once again, conflict-of-interest alert: Adam Liptak is a friend of Kelso's.

Somehow, Elisabeth Bumiller's little scribblings in defense of all things Bush and attacking peaceful protest, pale in importance to the Johnson case, but it's Kelso's sworn duty to take this bitch apart every chance he gets. 10 quotations in support of Laura Bush's literary effort to divert attention away from the anti-war prostest, as against 1 in supportt. Last words went to Laura Bush. Bumiller found a way to make E.L. Doctorow, John Irving and Jonathan Safran Foer sound supportive of Bush. Last time Kelso checked, these guys were pretty left-of-the-dial. Tom Wolfe, the white turd in white who is of course supportive of Bush, is the star of the piece. Ultimately, Bumiller's tAsk here was to make something important -- peaceful assembly in protest of a hideous administration's policies -- seem trivial and something trivial, a Laura Bush book bash seem celebrity-packed and important. Nice work. Good to see the Tissue Of Lies's standards have been set, met, maintained and exceeded.

200,000 at the anti-war rally. How many at the book fair? Don't have the faintest idea but Kelso guesses that it was probably in the neighborhood of the 400 that showed up for the pro-war rally and about as literate.

Kelso is left with three questions: (1) Does everybody know that Laura Bush killed a guy? (2) Where was Reverend T.D. Jakes? (3) Do Adam Liptak and Elisabeth Bumiller really work for the same newspaper? Kelso thinks his paycheck says "New York Times Corporation" on it and hers says "Republican National Committee". If these two keep diverging this way, Adam will find himself at the Fresno Bee and Elisabeth Bumiller will be the Karen Hughes of Jeb I.

That cow pisses Kelso off so much that he wants to tear his remaining hair out. So, he'll just do the next best thing and shout "FUCX ISRAEL" so as to be as childish as he can, because he knows that's the real shot to the Tissue and all its readers' solar plexi. Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah. No likey? Check out Yahoo! news brief on continued killing of Palestinians in Gaza. Didn't the Walrus tell us in an op-ed last week that Sharon was a peace-lover?

Don't know nothin' about no peace-lovin'...but...

Kelso's Nuts love YOU all.