“A Wise Man is hungry for TRUTH, while the fool feeds on trash” … Proverbs 15

Recently I watched FROST/NIXON for the first time, years after I Directed “Nixon’s Nixon,” (then titled NIXON & KISSENGER) at the Circle Rep Theatre, in New York City, by masterful playwright, Russell Lees. For the most part, the film was as boring as a docudrama can be, when we forget that to educate, we must first entertain. Nonetheless, the last 30 minutes of the film were as moving and disturbing as the real events. This due primarily, to its prequel (The Assassinations of the 60’s) and its sequel, (the election of George W Bush & Dick Cheney – twice).

Needless to say, I wept deeply all over again, not for Nixon, despite Frank Langella’s brilliant portrayal of the Constitutional betrayer. I wept for America and all Americans everywhere, because for all of the hard lessons of Watergate, “We the People” still allowed the Bush League of Cheney, Rove et al, to drag us once again, through the mud of Treason, Murder of our youth in Iraq & Afghanistan and a loss of our International Integrity.

Despite the white wash of our history text books, we were never an innocent people, perfect in every way, but at least we wanted to be. Unlike the CIA, we were born out of an ideal of national brotherly love. Unlike Dick Cheney, we dared to dream of leading the world by the very highest and best example of the Golden Rule. Yet, for eight years, “We the People” allowed a government steeped in secrets, lies and joint ventures with corrupt banking institutions, Corporate greed and CIA Secret Prisons, to redefine us.

Not even Watergate made us submit to that. We dethroned the villains then. Shouldn’t we at least imprison them now?
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Marcello Boss Rollando
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