There were several things that grabbed my attention immediately in the interview with Lee Fang. Most notably the fact that a foreign entity, in this case a Chinese family from Singapore I believe, was able to legally give over a million dollars to the Bush campaign. To me, the most striking thing about this is it confirms an old asinine conspiracy theory from the cold war that foreign powers were playing "King Makers." No one can argue that this wasn 't a foreign family directly influencing an American election, which brings with it a multitude of additional questions: Could some of our enemies be influencing our elections? Is is possible that some of our leaders are doing morally questionable things for their own benefit at the behest of an
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The family couldn 't give the money directly, but they could after creating a shell company. It’s just a small comparison, and maybe it was a bit sensationalized for the article, but the simple fact is that foreign families are not allowed to give money to campaigns, except this family was able to after several completely legal steps.
Finally, I pulled out this quote from the transcript:
AMY GOODMAN: I want to read from your series. You write, "The story of APIC captures the bizarre reality of the U.S. political system: George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush between them appointed three of the five members of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United majority; this majority opened up a loophole allowing foreign money to flow into U.S. elections; and this loophole was used to grab foreign money in an attempt to make a third Bush president." Lee Fang?
I 'd say this is Lee Fang 's very judicious way of raising the questions I mentioned earlier. However, I think he goes a bit further, all but outright saying that this system could allow for a politically prominent family to sustain itself for generations using their political capital to get actual capital from wealthy individuals, nations, or even, theoretically, our enemies …show more content…
“The condition of black life is one of mourning,” she said bluntly. For her, mourning lived in real time inside her and her son’s reality: At any moment she might lose her reason for living. Though the white liberal imagination likes to feel temporarily bad about black suffering, there really is no mode of empathy that can replicate the daily strain of knowing that as a black person you can be killed for simply being black: no hands in your pockets, no playing music, no sudden movements, no driving your car, no walking at night, no walking in the day, no turning onto this street, no entering this building, no standing your ground, no standing here, no standing there, no talking back, no playing with toy guns, no living while black.
The family couldn 't give the money directly, but they could after creating a shell company. It’s just a small comparison, and maybe it was a bit sensationalized for the article, but the simple fact is that foreign families are not allowed to give money to campaigns, except this family was able to after several completely legal steps.
Finally, I pulled out this quote from the transcript:
AMY GOODMAN: I want to read from your series. You write, "The story of APIC captures the bizarre reality of the U.S. political system: George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush between them appointed three of the five members of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United majority; this majority opened up a loophole allowing foreign money to flow into U.S. elections; and this loophole was used to grab foreign money in an attempt to make a third Bush president." Lee Fang?
I 'd say this is Lee Fang 's very judicious way of raising the questions I mentioned earlier. However, I think he goes a bit further, all but outright saying that this system could allow for a politically prominent family to sustain itself for generations using their political capital to get actual capital from wealthy individuals, nations, or even, theoretically, our enemies …show more content…
“The condition of black life is one of mourning,” she said bluntly. For her, mourning lived in real time inside her and her son’s reality: At any moment she might lose her reason for living. Though the white liberal imagination likes to feel temporarily bad about black suffering, there really is no mode of empathy that can replicate the daily strain of knowing that as a black person you can be killed for simply being black: no hands in your pockets, no playing music, no sudden movements, no driving your car, no walking at night, no walking in the day, no turning onto this street, no entering this building, no standing your ground, no standing here, no standing there, no talking back, no playing with toy guns, no living while black.