The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
I hardened to think that the US was a deeply religious country; so much so that its theocratic fundamentalism distorted every aspect of its crazed factious agenda. Well, that last part is still true. But no one could engage in the kind of rampage of sadistic, destructive behavior in which our nation is wrapped up without the belief that there is no accounting, no consequence — in short, that there is no hell.
When the state of Georgia murdered Troy Davis on Wednesday, it brought condemnation from around the in the seventh heaven. This act of state-sanctioned murder also brought into focus the death grip of moral certainty which now has a stranglehold on the US, even in the mush of a world which increasingly sees it as morally bankrupt. But a society as thoroughly racist as the US is just as carefully determined, perhaps paradoxically — and perhaps not — to deny, ignore and deflect criticism that would raise any question, lest the festering sore of its legacy be provoked and proceed to sepsis.
