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What is a president of the United
States? Is it a person, a position, a figurehead or a slave to the vested
interests of others in the world? A US president is a bit of all of the
above. What is clear is that the American voting public seems to have no
idea of what a president actually does, or what the qualifications for
that office should be.
A president is not a king, not a
dictator, definitely not a god, or someone who thinks that he might be the
personal instrument of any particular ‘god’ or religion.
A president of the United States
is first and foremost someone chosen by the people of the nation, to lead
this nation, above all other nations. On this point a president gets the
respect that the office is entitled to. When the office-holder steals that
office, he is not entitled to any respect whatsoever. He should be treated
as the thief that he is, awaiting trial for his crimes. That has not
happen with George W. Bush.
A president should be a
well-traveled and experienced person, a natural and formidable leader, as
well as an interested and enlightened individual, at ease with others and
comfortable in his own skin. None of this applies to the current occupant
of the White House. Dubya, is insecure, probably the furthest thing there
is from a natural leader. He is a personal failure at almost everything he
has ever undertaken. Bush is also terrified of questions, about any of his
actions, and he is positively paranoid about having to answer legitimate
questions from the public.
Bush has forgotten that he is an
employee, and that we pay him to carry out our wishes, not his. He does
not have the mental capacity to deal with his job, yet he insists on
telling the public that we "must understand" about each and
every one of his bungled policies. The man has no inkling of what it takes
to accomplish anything of lasting value. As he has done nothing with his
life, he does not value any of the things it takes to earn a living, or
create a life.
Bush is not a leader, he has no
grasp of what any undertaking requires and consequently he cannot lead
anyone anywhere, except by force. Brutality and barbarity come naturally
to this failed president, along with a determination to deny the public
most of what the law has accorded to us for the last five decades. Dubya
slashes funds and fails to budget programs he is bound by oath to fund,
and protect. He seems to see himself, as having the divine rights of the
Dictator, that he now believes he is. Which could explain why he refuses
to answer any questions.
He ran as a compassionate
conservative, but he has no idea what compassion involves, much less how
it might ever be part of any political stance. He also ran as an
environmentalist, a "uniter not a divider" and a lot of other
stuff that was all just a bunch of lies. Bush is a pretentious patrician
party-boy from nowhere – pretending to be the president of the United
States, yet he is literally terrified that the truth will soon come back
to haunt him and end this sick charade. So he just walks off stage –
rather than to explain his relationship with the indicted former head of
Enron, his single biggest supporter.
Here is a man who claims to be
afraid of nothing, and yet is terrified of both the written and the spoken
word. He is very free with condemnatory slogans that have castigated whole
peoples and religions with just a few crude sentences. But he is incapable
of seeing how that kind of hate will come back to haunt not just him, but
this nation as well as all the efforts that have been made to create a
better, a stronger, and a safer world.
The measure of any president can
be seen in those he chooses to implement his policies. His choices in that
arena will haunt this administration for as long as records are kept, as
the evidence of his failure is everywhere. Take the case of "national
security."
Those he appointed to
"manage" this one are so inept as to be beneath contempt. Look
closely at Ashcroft, this man is no more qualified to be in charge of the
Department of Justice than Rumsfeld is qualified to run the Department of
Defense. Both men are the worst possible examples of what is needed in
each of their respective positions. Tom Ridge is something that needed to
be put out to pasture, not promoted, to head the largest department of the
US government that there has ever been.
The majority of his cabinet has
no military experience. Most are experienced only in dodging
responsibility for their failures (just like Bush). To put such people in
positions of authority and responsibility is to court disaster. Ashcroft
is still haunted by women’s breasts, Rumsfeld by Custeresque dreams of
military grandeur, and Ridge is nothing but a broken man without a single
clue at all. These three are in control of our individual rights, our
service to the nation, our dreams and our very lives. Can these three be
the very best that Bush could find to stick into those slots?
None of the these men have any
experience in "intelligence" of any kind. None have any real
experience in managing anything. Yet when it comes to the disruption of
daily life, whether that be a fake terror threat, a phony war, or just
complete confusion in the name of a meaningless color code – this troika
of fools are the sole powers in charge.
This administration is very fond
of saying: "because of 911, nothing will ever be the same again"
This is said as though there were no alternative. There are other
alternatives, but one must begin by getting to the bottom of the crimes of
nine eleven. If that were done, then it would be apparent that the very
people who are in charge now, were and are involved in creating all of
this, and with their legitimate removal from office, anything is then
truly possible.
In the current state of
semi-continual terror, what is the definition of a target? This could be
anything and everything, so long as the people in charge now remain in
office. There is no ability to prioritize for any possible defense against
whatever, or for how to actually begin to end, this constant and forever
invisible threat to our way of life. That is unacceptable to most people.
Part of the reason why the
administration and Israel insist that "we can never go back to pre
911" is that they have assumed that we can never admit that mistakes
were made. Israel is our officially–unofficial advisor in all matters of
terror and terror management. And since they can never change course,
neither can we. Yet we must begin to tell the truth. We must begin to face
the failures made by all involved: and make the changes necessary or this
planet will indeed be doomed.
For any "authority" to
be credible, that authority must be capable of managing the tasks it has
taken unto itself; this time it is the national security of the USA. Bush
thinks he is living in a war movie. Keeping the USA safe is about a lot
more than bombs and guns and cloak & dagger operations. Security
involves financial stability, job security, the health and welfare of all
citizens, not just the elites: but most of all people need to be able to
trust the government to do whatever is required to deliver on the promises
that each person made when they undertook the offices they now occupy.
This includes the congress and the courts as well as the administrative
offices of the executive branch. All three have failed us, over many
decades. This needs to be ended now.
When the government speaks about
targets – they seem to exclude people, and only tend to mention us as an
afterthought. When they speak of attacks one would think that the entire
nation would soon be ablaze, when in fact this is a huge nation, with many
resources and a vast physical territory. Given this fact, why has
government given no consideration at all to that reality? When looking
over their record of colossal failure each and every time that the word
terror is mentioned – why should people believe anything that this
government says? The facts on the ground are these: we have dozens of
intelligence services, and they have all failed us in every instance. We
have a massive bureaucracy that has only increased in size, while we as
people, remain in ever-greater danger from this government’s ineptitude.
We are charged for every single thing in life, sometimes several times
over, and the return on our investment in this country is not only not
worth the effort, but, we are being defrauded by this same government who
says they have protected us and the multi-nationals at ever turn. Fire
them all and start again?
We are capable of far more than
what Israel and the Bush administration is offering, by way of choices.
The first choice that needs to be made is that Bush and his outlaws need
to be dealt with as the imposters they are. A major conference needs to be
called to re-align US foreign policy, and redirect the use and misuse of
our military forces around the world. There needs to be a bill of
particulars instituted for corporate practices that will include
responsibilities along what they now enjoy, and the laws on the books
regarding conflicts of interest, nepotism, and fraud must be reinvigorated
– that would be a start. This is not impossible, but in the current
quagmire of the national psychosis regarding fear and paranoia, it is
probably not "realistic" – I mention it, only because it is
possible, no matter how remote.
Real protection comes from within
each of us. The confidence and courage needed to stop this charade is
within each person – the challenge is getting most people to see this
inconvenient truth. The presidency is not a beauty contest; it is a
position that will have a major impact on the lives of everyone, both here
and abroad – especially if the person in that office is an imposter, a
thief, and a total fraud.
Lies can never be tolerated at
the highest level of this or any other government. To continue to fail to
deal with the past mistakes of this administration is to openly court
disaster. And to accept the idea of no choice at all between candidates is
to accept this farce as all that there can be: And this is to surrender
everything the nation has worked toward for so many generations. We are
not the people that won the right to be free, or the people that demanded
the right to have a Republic. We aren’t really much of anything at all,
unless we begin now to fight for what others have earned for us with their
lives, since the Revolution that gave this government its reason to be.
Either demand some changes now
– or go silently into economic slavery, under the jackboots of enforced
security, and the governmental brutalization that will remove all traces
of personal preference, viability, or promise of any kind. It matters
greatly who actually is the president of the United States of America
because where there is no choice there can be no freedom. If we are
winning the war on terror, why have we lost so much of everything that was
still ours in 1999 – and how are we safer now that we have no protection
from this arrogant and belligerent government that used to work for us
instead of against us? |
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