Jeffrey Brown of PBS Reknown

Welcome to the Past
A poem would be ironically appropriate for the contribution of Jeffrey Brown of PBS's News Hour because he has taken away, far away into a dark time--the Middle Ages--a sense of metered thought from our (America's) collective brain scheme. To those not familiar with the business of television--even PBS is run like a business--talented or scheming (scheming aka Jeffrey Brown) people are asked or are offered a chance to make or produce an overlay for their particular show: Jeffrey Brown has done such a show or overlay for the PBS News Hour: it has however bled over onto all of your cable television offerings by some unexplainable quirk of bad luck for us. It's bad luck for us of course because Jeffrey Brown is an expert on Middle Ages culture and logic. They have logic: I didn't know that you might say?

These are the people of the times when leaches were used for bloodletting and when bad humors were seen as causes of medical conditions. Their jurisprudence in let's say the 13th century falls short of ours today: I can only infer the level of social justice by the lack of a few items that we think are basic requirements of a democracy. One is the right to vote and the second is the ability to read. The Middle Ages is noteworthy for low liteacy rates and NO right to vote for one's leaders. This is the world Jeffrey Brown has immersed us in with complicity by the FBI and the Department of Justice who are milking his time machine for all it's worth

We have of course come to appreciate many more things than those serfs in the Middle Ages who could not even dream of the right to speak freely one's mind. Perish the thought: you would actually die for speaking your mind back in those days. Do we want to feel oblligated to the likes of an unelected tyrant like Jeffrey Brown?

Serfs are Stupid!
To briely explain this ridiculous scheme that you and me experience it is a Middle Ages take on the world when we surf (serf?) through the channels on our television. I'm told, reliably, that all of America is experiencing this bizarre scheme whereby logic from Jeffrey Brown's take on the Middle Ages is overlayed on all the content we see on television. The breadth of content on tv is wide so you can imagine the incongruous interactions: PBS and CSPAN , for instance, have a lot of government proceedings televised which is stifled by the overbearing lack of appropriate appreciation for the business at hand. Middle Ages' kings, you see, didn't hold hearings they held court. They didn't have appeals they had floggings. Justice was swift: for the serfs that is. The occasional tyrant king who was killed--do we really wonder why--was far outnumbered in this treatment by the brutally treated populace.

There is no consideration today in a hypothetical democracy at all for how important or how popular or unpopular the issues at hand are: the overlay leaves citizens angry and troubled. This is, of course, how the huge fiascoes of the 2000s were perpetrated on us even though there is the internal thought by you and me (that directly confronts the visuals) that something is wrong, something is amiss.

God Save the King!
Jeffrey Brown is dumping a load of manure on us and somehow we should put up with it. Middle Ages logic says so: this is the age of kings and absolute despotism of which he speaks. Don't argue with the king: off with your head! You dare speak! The bankers line their pockets with gold because of Jeffrey Brown; and of course the Department of Justice found themselves curiously in need of despotic rules in the 20th century. They (the FBI) like the Middle Ages, Robert Mueller tells his minions...he also says pass the word.

Have you Heard?
This is now the country of the simple wiretap and the easily overheard conversation. Why should the DOJ have such a simple path to abusing us. We have marched forward since the Middle Ages. We now have logic on our side or so I've come to believe by my teachers and my schoolmates but not by my visitations by Jeffrey Brown.

Where's Our Top Ten, Our Bill of Rights?
His is the dominion of the arrogant thief, the self-righteous king who has no ears for backtalk. Indeed the use of the word backtalk is indicative of a non-democratic country. In a democracy we have speech--the right to free speech--and it should not be considered an abuse to speak one's mind. Backtalk is based on tyranny: despots get backtalk.

You have a Right to Speak!
In the Obama world of 2011 we have free speech. We might, indeed, have the sense of screaming or wanting to scream at Jeffrey Brown--righteously screaming--to be heard over the abuse. This emotional reaction isn't backtalk: it's a reaction to an abuse, a pompous abuse of his position as a broadcaster.