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That thin red line continues to guide
us through the overgrown forests of division, deceit, and deception.
Confusion reigns supreme as long we believe that we could build anything
constructive, on a national foundation based on fear and fear alone.
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 There are many faces of fear. The
image shown here I did in the late 70’s for the Republican administration
in California when George Deukmejian was a state Senator, and running for
Attorney General. The illustrations I did for the California District
Attorney’s Association and the
California Chamber of Commerce were
used as part of " Forgotten Victims of Violent Crime" that led
directly to California’s Victims Bill of Rights, and to Deukmejian’s
election as Attorney General.
The people from the Republican
Party working on this project at that time were insistent upon including
this topic, with things like Rape, Child abuse, etc. When I went to talk
with those behind this particular issue, I had to do so from the other side
of bulletproof glass, and that was in the late 1970’s. Look at what the
image implies and think about this, because it means that Terrorism
has been a part of the Republican agenda for all this time. This image
is about FEAR. It’s about becoming a prisoner of fear within the cities
and on the land that we think of as our own. It was overblown then, and it
is overblown now. This says a lot about the kind of thinking that has gone
into the Neo-con agenda that is at the root of the New World Order now.
There are other kinds of fear that
more directly affect a great many more people than does the illustration
above. In the young there is the fear of never being wanted, never being
part of anything, never being a complete and viable person, because of the
lack of love. That fear can lead directly to alienation and often results
in personal rebellion, various addictions, and frequently drives the
disaffected into a life of crime. This is not only sentimental, this costs
our society trillions upon trillions in money, and untold wealth is also
lost, because of the disaffection that we have allowed by deserting too
many of the youthful members of this society.
There is the fear acutely felt in
the aging population of the vast unknown. Will they be able to find a way
to cope with their medical conditions, their potential loss of income;
because it was fixed too early, or stolen by unscrupulous executives in
companies that they had given decades of service to, thinking that the
promises made to them would be honored. There is also the fear of being
unable to care for yourself, in old age, the loss of those closest to you
and the list goes on and on. These fears are real. The artificially
manufactured FEAR of TERROR is a construct, founded on the attacks of 911
that were the direct result of this government’s designs.
Using Iraq as a lens to examine
what has happened to us, since we began the Bush doctrine of 2002 – we
should examine what has actually happened, because of the decision to
invade. Aside from trashing the Atlantic Alliance, doing major damage to
NATO, and insulting the UN, Bush decided to unilaterally invade, without
waiting for proof of his allegations to surface from any other source. The
invasion was marred by the fact that we were unprepared to fight in a
desert war, so we lost nearly half our machinery on the way to Baghdad,
because we tried to drive full speed through desert sandstorms. Then we
botched the seizure of the country and declared victory prematurely. Where’s
the glory so far? We were lucky not to have lost outright. Had the Iraqi’s
put up a defense at all, the first phase would have taken months and months
longer, with a questionable outcome. But since they lacked an Air Force and
possessed only a handful of defensive missiles – it was a walk.
The invasion was followed by every
wrong decision possible. Our troops didn’t interfere with looters, and
they watched the ministries burn, except for the Oil Ministry, which we
guarded impeccably. We then began to brutalize the very people we said we
were there to liberate, and it was all down hill from there. We were not
there to liberate, we were there to conquer. When asked before the war what
our exit strategy was, there was no answer from the DOD, or the Pentagon.
They didn’t have an answer, because we did not intend to leave. There was
never a plan for the invasion itself, because our groupthink
"intelligence agencies" thought it would be a celebration, and
not a resistance that would come out to meet us. How wrong they were. As an
aside: it is interesting to note that while previous presidents have
announced their plans for the year after coming elections - Bush has no
plans in place for 2005, because he’s not planning on leaving the White
House on any terms. And because his real plans for 05 would insure his loss
at the polls.
After all the prisoner abuse
scandals from Guantanamo to Iraq, and several places in between, it’s
clear that torture has always been part of the plan in conquering the world
for Bush & his outlaw friends. In instance after instance, from the
miscounting of the casualties, to the lack of tracking for the number of
Iraqi and Afghani dead; not to mention the completely screwed up secret
contracts with Halliburton and Brown & Root, that have surrounded them
since those contracts were awarded well before the war.
The administration has used fear
far and wide, to keep the patriotic faithful glued to the idea that we are
being threatened. The government says that evil people are out there and
are a huge and powerful enemy that would destroy us utterly, if given half
a chance. At the same time, the administration is increasing the number of
those who hate us, by the actions that we chose to engage in on the ground
in an occupied country without an army of its own. We are invaders and
occupiers by any standard, yet we still condemn the Iraqi’s who dare to
resist our openly fascistic brutality.
The facts show that most of those
rounded up and imprisoned, are guilty of nothing at all. When finally
released, many become ardent enemies of the USA, regardless of our excuses
for their treatment. We have stirred an already boiling brew in the Middle
East, and made a difficult region much more toxic and disembodied in the
wake of our invasion. And since the final excuse that Bush gave the world
for being there was that "we are going to bring peace and stability to
the region, and freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people." Those two
goals fell unnoticed in the desert sands along with all our promise to
liberate the Iraqi people.
Now we’re making noises about
widening the war to Iran or Syria, maybe Lebanon – who knows. How is that
behavior in any way contributing to stability or the welfare of Americans
in an already troubled world? Bush keeps saying that the world is safer –
but we broke international law and attacked a nation that did not threaten
us. Do you feel safer since Bush took office?
The United States has spent
billions upon billions upon billions of US dollars to prop up the fear
factor which has nothing to do with the threat from any reality, except
that which comes directly from the government of the United States, against
the people of this nation.
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Meanwhile, the money being poured
into this bogus endeavor could have been used to keep the nation solvent,
and its people healthy, working, and prosperous. Instead the money was
siphoned off to the friends and associates of Bush, and has gone into all
his little schemes around the earth.
Cheney-Bush has also used the many
faces of fear to disguise the real record of their administration. Strong
leaders finish what they start. Bush and his outlaws have yet to complete
anything they said they would do. We attacked Afghanistan to "get
Osama bin Laden, dead or alive." He’s still out there. The Anthrax
bomber case stopped when the FBI tracked him to a US government lab in this
country. No charges have been filed. We found Saddam, after the Kurds gave
him to us. Bush fled Afghanistan and it’s reverting now to a feudal state
again. The opium crop has quintupled, but that’s the only difference
between now and before we invaded – except of course for all those people
that died, to pacify the oval office.
He promised his constituents that
he was "a Uniter" and the nation has never been more polarized.
He promised that his administration would avoid even the appearance of a
conflict of interest, yet Cheney alone is constantly sued over all kinds of
conflict of interest. His friend and largest supporter, Ken Lay of Enron
has now been indicted for the corruption and fraud in the Enron scandal.
Not to mention all the Wall Street scandals, the major accounting firms
found guilty of cooking the books for hundreds of major companies – the
list goes on and on. Bush was the guy who was going to fix Social Security,
and Medicare, and bring the entire country together. He was going to be the
environmental president, clean air and water instead he’s done the
opposite and bla, bla, bla. And those last three words contain all the
truth there ever was in this Bush administration.
He took a nation that had one of
the largest surpluses ever and ran us into the red, and then he tilted the
Treasury to an almost vertical position, then hit the afterburners to drive
this country so deep into the red that we’ve actually reached deep
purple. He still has no plan for anything. As his buddies in Defense say,
"Hey we just make it up as we go along." Is that the definition
of the kind of leader anyone could ever use?
Bush is a destroyer; he excels at
breaking things that work, that’s why he was tapped for the job. Since
day one Bush has actively sought to wreck this country, so that we would be
ripe for anything at all that might approach some sanity. But this can only
work if we buy into the kind of fear that this coward is attempting to sow
among the population.
Real stability does not depend on
fear to motivate the people. Leadership is not measured by promises made,
but deeds accomplished and dreams fulfilled. Actions need not come only
from the barrels of our guns, they can be even more dramatic when they come
from a briefcase in the form of promises made and kept, to a world and to a
people who badly need to see a change in what passes for our lives.
Fear may have many faces, and
while some of them are necessary for survival – those who linger over
long in fear of fear itself, are soon nothing more than shadows of
themselves. The 911 commission demanded immediate changes in our laws, to
protect us from the fear of another attack. Never forget how we came to get
the USA PATRIOT act, unread by congress but signed into law in the middle
of the night, and now we can’t be rid of this enslaving and illegal
document. Is this what you are demanding more of now – more rush to
judgment now - because you are so AFRAID of FEAR, that you must hide
beneath the skirts of tyranny. Has it really come to that?
Bush smells blood in the water and
now he wants to stampede the congress and the public into passing more
draconian laws that will finish off our constitution and change our way of
life forever. He’s counting on this phony fear to force us to capitulate,
to panic, and to give away the last of what we had, to buy the kind of
security that no nation has ever had or ever will enjoy.
Will we continue to behave like
dogs from Pavlov’s experiments, or will we decide to stand our ground and
demand real and carefully considered changes from these outrageous puppets
that say they serve us. If we do not, then we shall deserve everything we’ll
get, and that will not only not make us any safer, it will guarantee our
vulnerability well into that black hole of a future, as that shall be
dictated to us by Bush and his New World Order.
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