Below the fold: Gorgeous George – An Open Letter to U.S. Democratic Elected Officials, from Stan Goff.
Jerry just sent this to me from The Brad Blog:
Chairman Coleman’s Office Passes Buck for Explanation!
The stunning testimony given by British MP George Galloway before the U.S. Senate subcommittee on Investigations is apparently so hot that it seems to have “gone AWOL” from the subcommittee’s website according to the British newsite VNU Network.
The BRAD BLOG can confirm that all witness testimony — except that of Galloway’s — from last Tuesday’s extraordinary hearings is available in PDF format on the subcommittee’s webpage … More below:
The Brad Blog rant continues below. First, from Stan Goff’s blog:
Gorgeous George – An Open Letter to U.S. Democratic Elected Officials
Filed under: General, Repression & Resistance, Class — Stan @ 1:23 pm
Dear Democratic Elected Officials of the United States (with damn few exceptions),
I am writing this open letter to call your attention to the remarks made yesterday, May 17, 2005, to the United States Senate, by British MP George Galloway of the independent Respect Party. I do this because he serves as an example of why your party should be abandoned by the U.S. working class, by U.S. women, by oppressed nationalities in the United States, and by anyone who professes to be a progressive or a leftist.
George Galloway did that for which you have proven incapable; he spoke as an opposition. Since there seems to be a great dark space in the middle of your heads where the notion of opposition should be – a void filled by parliamentary molasses and the pusillanimous inabilty to tell simple truths – I suggest you all review the recordings of Galloway’s confrontation with Republican Senator Norm “Twit” Coleman to see exactly how effortless it is to stand up to these cheap political bullies. While you are at it, you can watch your colleague Carl Levin demonstrate exactly what I mean about most of you and your party, as he alternately hurls petulant cream-puff insults at Galloway and kisses Coleman’s stunned, clueless ass to give that toothy dipshit some comfort in the wake of Galloway’s verbal drubbing.
Galloway didn’t have to walk up to the docket and slap the cowboy shit out of Coleman – though I admit I still struggle with my own secret urges to do just that with most of the air-brushed, combed-over, Stepford meat-puppets who now people the United States Congress. No, all Galloway had to do was tell the unvarnished truth, and it had exactly the same effect. If Democrats had half the spine that Galloway does… if you would stop chasing your creepy little careers through the caviar and chicken-salad circuits of duck-and-cover American political double-speak, then not only would people like me not be calling for all to abandon the Democratic Party and take their fight to the streets like good Bolivians… not only that, but you’d have won the last election. … Read all.
More from The Brad Blog:
That testimony can be read and/or viewed here.
We have been unable to receive a statement from Senate spokesmen as yet as to why Galloway’s testimony is now unavailable on the website.
A staffer in Coleman’s office referred us to the subcommittee staff when we asked for the reasons for “the removal of the testimony”. Her reply: “That’s a question for the subcommittee. Senator Coleman is the chairman, but the committee makes their own decisions about what goes on the website.”
We were forwarded to the subcommittee’s voice mail where we left a message. If we receive a call back, we will let you know.
A screenshot just taken from the subcommittee’s website showing the missing Galloway testimony is below.
UPDATE: As of 2:30pm PT, the subcommittee’s webpage has now been updated to include, “Mr Galloway did not submit a statement” underneath his missing testimony.
As a Capitol Hill source familiar with such testimony emailed us moments ago: “I’d find it strange if they simply published the prepared remarks of these other people as submitted instead of transcribing them especially since nowehere does it say ‘as prepared.’ That might be a good question to ask them if you call back.”
We have still been unable to reach anybody at the subcommittee willing to give comment on the matter as of this time.
