Cyrill Vatomsky, Where All Politics Are Global

Sorry, not enough time right now to write a full blown show outline. If anyone knows of any decent way of ttranscribing my shows I would appreciate it.

In any case, as usual, this is only a writeup of what happened on the air during my live KSCO AM 1080 board cast. To listen to the full show (sans commercials) follow click on the listen button above. If you are looking at this in your email, just follow the link to my blog and then click Listen.

First part of the show was dedicated to exciting news from France and exciting first week for Nicolas Sarkozy as France's new President. Some interesting observations there as well as critique of American inflexible reaction. For example, Rush Limbaugh unloaded on Sarkozy for nominating Bernard Kouchner a Socialist as his foreign minister, probably unaware, that Kouchner was all but the only member of the French political elite that supported in principle invasion of Iraq and liberation of it from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein.

Then some dopey caller wanted to argue about socialism in the US with me without really having any clue. I kept this segment for entertainment purposes just to show the whole world how ignorant some ultra-right winders (that are no different by the way from ultra left wingers) can get.

Second hour also opened with a bit of talk about socialism and then it launched me into a tirade about meaning of words. As a linguist, I think I can afford a tirade or two on the subject.

The last portion of the show was devoted to the recent immigration bill. In a nutshell, I am generally in favor of resolving the issue of 12 million illegals without forcing massive deportations that will require collection and detention centers, also known as concentration camps and all kind of nastiness this country should not be getting into. There is no easy solution and I have not seen anything from those that oppose the current plan except the same old unimplementable idea of massive deportation.

My general point is that although we claim to be a country of laws, there could be good laws and bad laws. Immigration system in the US was a clear example of bad laws that never worked. In the mean time we have 12 million people caught in this net because this country had bad, unnatural laws on the subject. And I simply call not to destroy peoples' lives, not to punish too hard for doing something that very many ancestors of current US citizens had done themselves. Very many laws were violated by the avalanche of settlers from Europe. Let's not be too hypocritical.

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