Back in January, the Utah Bar offered an online CLE for that pesky and farcical "professionalism and civility" credit. Since I didn't have to go anywhere, and since it was free, I signed up. The program was our glorious governor Spencer Cox (aka Spence Buddy and Dick With Ears) and another governor bemoaning the incivility in current political discourse and solemnly advising us to be nicer. What it really amounted to was a big promo for the status quo. "Be nice. Don't get angry. Keep things safe and sedate." That works well enough for those at the top of the hill and they treat each other more or less civilly because they don't want to mess up their cushy sinecures. How they treat those down the hill though is another matter. As I've pointed out with law firms, the tower firms treat the rest of us like something they just stepped in, and they do so with impudence because no one will enforce any behavioral rules against them. That's the way it is across the entire system. So if you want the people at the top of the hill to stop pissing on you and calling it rain, civility is not going to get you there. You're going to have kick in some doors and then kick in some heads. Sorry Friends of Gandhi (FOG, because that's what you're walking around in), but Stokely Carmichael was right: For nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience, and the US and the rest of the crapitalist plutocracies have none.
And this last week Governor DWE demonstrated yet again just how easy it is to control a flock of sheep. At the request of the Fools on the Hill (which, like the RethugliKKKon Party in this this state, is really just an arm of the LDS Church), he signed into law a ban on all alcohol over 80 proof. Say goodbye to all whiskey and a lot of other things. This of course is religious legislation aimed straight at all of us who aren't delightsome. It's part of Larry H. Christ's Parent's Empowered program, which I got to see up close and personal at its inception as a member of the study group at Dan Jones Research (Which is another arm of LDS fascism. Dan Jones was at Utah State when I was there, a geography professor whose specialty was finding new and interesting ways to lie with statistics. It got to be too much even for the goose-steppers running the university, they told him he couldn't do partisan politics on company time, and he left to make a mint ginning up bogus numbers to "support" LDS and RethugliKKKon shit-shoveling.). It was a deliberate attack on everyone who wasn't ortho-Morm, and this is just an extension. And they'll get away with it until the Hill-Top Temple is brought low.
CORRECTION: Finally got my hands on the law, and it's 80%, not 80 proof. Whiskey is safe. Governor DWE is still a douche.
