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Four years ago today the brilliant blue skies of morning over New York City
were forever shattered by the impact of the first plane that struck the World
Trade Center towers. On that day America and the world were changed forever.
National innocence was lost amid the smoke and flames that day and with each day
since, our international reputation has been stained by each new lie that the
government told both to the nation and the world. The people largely let this
happen in the interests of maintaining an imagined "status quo"
but with the arrival of Katrina it is clear that a national day of reckoning has
arrived.
Katrina and 911 share several commonalities and together these events
illuminate failures that the American public has yet to face. The true costs of
these political calamities, now a billion dollars a day for Katrina alone,
presents the congress and the country with a set of real needs that are now in
danger of never being met. The lack of political leadership, at all levels,
coupled with dedicated incompetence and underscored by arrogance has brought
this nation to the brink of collapse. No overview existed, no plan that took the
needs of ordinary people into account was ever formed in anything from foreign
policy to health or human services, never mind the survivability of any of the
national values that we have said we hold "so dear."
The color of the floodwaters that still covers New Orleans are as black as
the true purposes that underlie the War on Iraq. The stench from the aftermath
of the storms along the Gulf Coast is at least as powerful as the open sewers of
waste corruption and greed that today runs rampant through major cities, both
here and abroad where the mega-powers continue to seek control over all
international exploits in order to steal that which they cannot obtain in any
other way. The fate of the City of New Orleans is unclear at this hour, but the
future of the United States is equally uncertain on this fourth anniversary of
the attack on the people of this country, by those who would destroy whatever
was, in order to own whatever is to come.
When the purposes for our attack upon Afghanistan began to come under
scrutiny, after signing the Unocal pipeline contract there; the directors of the
wars moved our troops and the national spotlight to Iraq. When the public began
to look more closely into the non-existent reasons for the wars; instead of
answers the administration gave the public a complete reorganization of the
entire government supposedly to guarantee the safety of every man,
woman and child, from any and all threats anywhere or anytime. HOMELAND
Insecurity was the result. To do this 22 separate agencies were folded into a
completely unmanageable single agency. Katrina has proven that this was a
disaster in itself, just waiting to happen and now that disaster has
become this catastrophe that has cost lives and property on a scale that has not
been seen since the Civil War. So much for the vision or the leadership of these
fools in Washington DC!
Our unilateral wars of aggression have been momentarily eclipsed by Katrina,
but the damages and heartbreak there have been countered by the outpouring of
extreme generosity from not only the American public but from nations and
peoples the world over. In the remembrances of this black day in history we must
include the facts that both these world-changing events were overseen by those
same criminals that are pretending to be legitimate leaders of this nation.
However their true constituency consists of that one percent of the population
that now owns forty percent of the wealth. The welfare of the mass of ordinary
people here represents only an impediment to their continued acquisition of
anything and everything of value. As an example of what they have in mind, it is
currently rumored that Halliburton wants to begin to privatize the water supply.
Perhaps this is part of why so many lies were necessary to cover the true goals
of what is really at issue in all the turmoil surrounding these tragic and
ongoing events.
In Afghanistan and Iraq there were so many outright lies, so much
disinformation and created confusion that it has been far more than just "difficult"
to get to the truth beneath the mindless aggression of the wars. In Katrina, the
lack of information that reached the public just as in Iraq, was the key in
dividing the responders, diverting the life-saving services and confounding the
critical efforts needed to save lives and property during a natural disaster
that was more than just expected as the arrival of this storm had
been expected for literally decades, and all the preparations had been made, but
were ignored!
By stripping FEMA of its real reason for being, which originally was
coordination and control of all decisions into a single federal agency that
answered only to the president, but in this situation confusion and
delay were officially inserted into the response plans of the federal government,
thereby guaranteeing that widespread failures were inevitable. When
Homeland Insecurity was established the most experienced FEMA personnel left and
were replaced with political hacks, the government thereby assured that this
storm and the others that may yet arrive would have the maximum violent impact
on the nation and the public. This, because while the cast of characters at the
heart of this darkness that is the Bush administration remains the same, their corrupted reach in all cases has always been the same target, namely the
complete subjugation of the American population to their illegal and corporate
"Grand Designs" for unopposed power to their New World Order.
In keeping with this plan there is but one final tumbler that needs to fall
into place to complete the takeover, and this could not have come at a more
appropriate moment for the designers of this impending and unnatural
catastrophe. That moment is the predictable rubber-stamp approval of the next
Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Bush owes his entire history to this
court that functioned under the now deceased Chief Justice Rehnquist. On
September 12, 05 amid the heartache and confusion still surrounding Katrina, the
hearings for the replacement of the Chief Justice will begin. This all but
automatic appointment of John Roberts will seal the fate for decades of people
yet unborn. The overburdened public will have no advocates at the hearings to
protect the rights of themselves or their children, among those failures in the
senate that will sit to advise and consent. So again the public
shall remain the real losers in another sham hearing, for yet another pivotal
appointment that will cut off yet another avenue for change in this ever
shrinking prison that used to be known as America, Business-As-Usual shall again play the heavy in the sad and endless melodrama for the now defunct
arena of American political theater, at a time when determination and resolve
are the only traits that could remotely save this coming day from becoming part
of history. It is interesting that while Bush took nearly a week to decide to
act on Katrina's wrath, he took just 24 hours to appoint John Roberts to
the most recent vacancy on the Supreme Court, he seems to know at least what is
truly necessary for his personal survival, if not the nation's.
What really awaits the nation on this Fourth Anniversary of 911? Given that
every major endeavor that the administration has undertaken has failed, from
wars for peace, to tax-cuts for prosperity, all the way to outsourcing 3 million
the jobs to improve this stricken economy. Anarchy has millions of new
adherents, the world has become far more unstable and gas prices have never been
higher. Domestically we have been strangled by policies and programs and tax
codes that have stripped us of our individuality our freedoms and the core of
our way of life: But we have HOMELAND Insecurity to protect us from phantoms,
while the real bandits break every law and enjoy immunity in the two tiered
system of the CRIMINAL Justice system. This coming Friday we'll
have a National Day of Prayer that will no doubt fix
all those failures that it has taken the bandits five long years to create in
depth.
Part of the reason we did not respond to Katrina was that Bush sent our
national guard off to fight in foreign wars that had nothing at all to do with
defending the USA against outside attacks and he left the nation unprotected
from the kinds of disasters they were created to assist with. Then he compounded
our vulnerability by spending the nation into oblivion with tens of billions
wasted on HOMELAND Insecurity and hundreds of billions on the largest military
budget in world history. From these sums he and his administration then gave
generously in sweetheart secret contracts to their closest friends and
supporters. In this effort meant to pay for putting him in office, he further
protected his actions by classifying everything as national security
or SECRET. Bush has taken corruption and political opportunism to a whole new
level of expediency while draining the public purse and slashing the benefits of
troops and citizens alike, in every area where survival needs help just to stay
afloat. Despite all this the world and millions of Americans still rose to the
defense of the intended victims of Katrina, despite the best intentions of the
Bush administration to inflict maxim dislocation and privation among those least
able to survive. This has been a very embarrassing week for
the-man-who-would-be-dictator.
Under Bush & Company even the dead are denied their place in history. In
both wars this administration has undercounted our casualties, and
misrepresented the true costs in human life to the public. The true number of
those who have died in his unilateral wars needs to reflect the 6,000 to 8,000
more who died on the way to hospitals or on the return trip to the states.
The same mindset that contrived the artificial body counts in the Middle East
will no doubt be doing the counting of those who died in Katrina's fury.
This government cannot be trusted with the truth, anymore than we can look to
congress for real answers to the real questions: whether that is
about the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, or the blatant corruption at
the highest levels of this government. What is desperately needed is a SPECIAL
PROSECUTOR to take this investigation wherever it might lead!
Before Katrina there was some discussion about who was to be responsible for
what. But two days before Katrina made landfall FEMA was put on notice that it
was to be in charge, and they were to work with the cities and the states to see
to the evacuations and the provisioning of the survivors. This included water,
food and shelter as well as medical care and responsibility. Instead of
following that mandate the administration appointed confusion disciples to reign over the hurricane until their lack of real
qualifications forced others to take leadership positions that began to get
actual results. Unlike the war in Iraq, the Bush puppets here were unmasked and
frustrated during Katrina's recovery phase; would that the
same should happen to those running the endless war machine in the Middle East.
But in that theater of operations the shield of lies held long enough to
establish enough US military deaths to justify holding on to the farce of staying
the course; thus despite the falsified casualty figures, this action lasted just long enough to convert the confusion into
conflict over whether or not we should withdraw.
Having learned nothing-at-all from Vietnam, we seem determined to shape Iraq
into another American military defeat because of sheer pig-headedness, and
political cowardice in the face of the enemy and all because the wisdom
of our leaders refuses to admit to the true facts on the ground in these
conflicts.
When faced with the obvious incompetence and the total lack of real
leadership accompanied by unbounded arrogance, the public would seem
to have an obligation to confront this travesty openly, with no quarter given.
If we do not do this who will be left to speak for us when our lives are on the
chopping block of either history or circumstance? How much longer will outright
confusion and lies continue to rule this country? Critical decisions are needed
on every front at this moment. Throughout the five years of this nightmare
nothing has improved. Nor has this administration ever fired anyone, in any
capacity that was directly involved in any of the massive failures that have all
happened on the watch of the current Bush administration.
Looking at the carnage in the wake of Katrina; at the mixture of blood and
oil, chemicals and fecal waste that is populated with the bodies of the floating
dead. What comes to mind is the potential future of those people still untouched
by the stagnant semi-liquid world of death and decay, ruin and disease,
pollution and the toxic wastes unleashed. What also comes to mind is that in
some strange way all of this seems synonymous with the co-mingling of political
failure, massive corruptions and that blind arrogance that has led this nation
since September 11, 2001.
USA Inc. decided to play with that temperamental tar baby of ill-gotten gains
and stolen fortunes on the global stage, and now America is caught up in the
muck and mire of those lies and deceits as surely as New Orleans is still
flooded in the ruins of her once proud self. The City of New Orleans will
eventually be drained, at least of the surface filth from the storm. How long
will it be before we can say the same thing about this government?
How can any real nation worthy of the name afford to keep such people at the
helm of any government? Where are the artists and the writers, the song makers
and the filmmakers, because they are all needed now to write and paint and sing
and show these imposters for who and what they have shown themselves to be
today? If this experiment we call America doesn't soon begin to get its
collective act together, then there may not be a fifth anniversary of this black
day on which to recall the failings of those who brought 911 into the world.
Either the Crusade of the New World Order will be hobbled into submission by the
public that it so despises or the public will have been conquered by the very
people that were supposed to serve and protect them from exactly this kind of
threat.
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