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The government has not made its case
against terrorism, or the "War on Terra." That's true whether
it's about military initiatives, national security, financial necessity
or "intelligence" for the national security interests of the United States.
Besides the fact that no one can make war upon a tactic, all that was done
in these preemptive conflicts continues to defy belief. What was
accomplished was not "the Mission" but rather one very long and
continuing crime against ordinary people everywhere - and against the
people of the United States in particular. Implicit throughout, has been
the outright and continuing destruction of the US Constitution and the Bill
of Rights. Yet this has not been challenged or denied by congress, by the
courts or by the people - yet we continue to call ourselves
"Americans." But
there is new information on 911 that reveals a template for the remaining
missing pieces to that puzzle. (1)
What we are now facing is part of
the next phase of lock-down. After the USA went to war on Afghanistan Bush
decided that the American people were the real enemy that continues to
threaten this country. To find and punish these mythical "enemies" Bush
unilaterally ordered the National Security Agency to spy on all Americans
via the telephone lines and all computer communications. Virtually all of
our ability to communicate with anyone has had a silent partner since Bush
ordered that "all Americans will be spied on by the NSA." That order was
issued over three years ago. This means that our personal identities were
placed at risk, all of our financial and business affairs were
automatically open to total government scrutiny, and all of this was
ordered without the need for warrants or any formal legal charges - just
being an American was enough to make anyone a target of this government's
extreme prejudice in the face of their political paranoia. (2)
In all this time there have been
no resident "terrorists" discovered among the 300 plus millions
of us here. Meanwhile all of our freedoms have been suspended for three
full years by an incompetent government edict that has yielded no results.
This continues as you read this - and there's still no public comment. That
fact makes clear the reluctance of Americans to challenge their real
enemies in that Tarnished House that used to house the president.
Simultaneously the government and
those who lobby for the largest corporations have been quietly
consolidating corporate power into ever fewer hands. In this race to the
bottom has anyone ever wondered what will happen when there are no
competing companies left to gobble up? The number of airlines, the number
of banking institutions, the number of communications companies - are all
shrinking drastically - in the name of "choice." The sharks of
big-business are devouring each other - so what happens when they run out
of targets?
There is a pending Bill in
Congress that will revisit the Communications Act (AGAIN) to supposedly
improve competition (which has never been so lacking); all of this being
added to the last revision of the previous Communications Act. The price
for internet continuance will soon be the freedom that remains on the net.
The weapon of choice, will obviously have to be that one-size-fits all
Privatization-by-Capitalism, paid for by consumers, who will see huge
increases in the costs of computer use and Cable access as well.
"Competition," the reason given as the justification, will
disappear along with any semblance of real information about what is really
happening to what remains of the country.
The airwaves always belonged to
the people of the nation, until the government "gave" them to the
Capitalists that run corporate media: Ham radio however, along with local
police emergency channels were jammed by the government during Katrina - as
these were not part of corporate communications and needed to be blocked to
prevent emergency services from having the impact that they could have
rendered in that national emergency! Very soon there will be only the
official broadcast services into which our lives will be poured like so
much waste water - to insure that the public is kept in a proverbial
communications blackout created by this government at will.
When these changes begin to take
effect Censorship will finally be in full control, in the name of national
security of course - and that will soon be followed by new legislation that
seeks to prohibit any money from being sent outside the country (Again to
protect "us" against terrorism). A lot of ex-Pat's trying to live out their
retirement in foreign places may be threatened when their social security
checks can't be sent anywhere outside fortress America. This legislation
has past the preliminary stages and will soon follow the "Toll
Road" that is slated to replace the "Wild West Free-for-All of the
Internet" that has brought so much of the rest of the world into this
foxhole of fascism, that has become the one enduring legacy of the Bush
Dynasty.
When America became the last
surviving Superpower - we were told that there could finally be a "peace
dividend." What we got instead, because of the lack of any global
challengers, was a form of military madness that suddenly was completely
unchecked - despite the fact that the USA virtually had no mega-enemies to
fight.
Enter the New World Order, and
suddenly the entire rest of the planet is now our enemy. In reality, given
the presidential "signing statements" contained in those 750
occasions on which Bush proudly declared and then unilaterally affirmed
that he was not bound by the laws that congress enacted. Any sane person
would say that America is no longer a nation of laws. Apparently the real
enemy according to Bush & the Bandits are the people of the United
States who have now lost everything that once marked them as a free people.
Those who were charged with protecting and defending both the Constitution
and the population have recast themselves, from protectors to Pro-Counsels
for the new American dictatorship; that now sees the public as the one
group that must be totally controlled - for their own protection of course!
On paper the USA no longer exists,
we've gone bankrupt, been reconstituted, and then failed again and again -
yet very few have chosen to notice any of this. How much longer will people
be content to only watch while this country is sold off at bargain basement
prices to anyone who cares to bid? "Business" has never been
better for those at the top, and never been worse for those who make the
things that pay all those vastly inflated salaries. The middle-class is
going down for the third and final time - and still there seems to be
little notice taken of this seismic shift in the makeup of this society.
What will it take to move the still reluctant, to real action, to the
changes that will not stop until major shifts are made in every area of
life? (3)
Perhaps more importantly what is
left of any value here for anyone to steal? We have no privacy, all our
financial transactions are monitored and we are guilty now - until we can
prove our innocence, unlike the original design in the Constitution. "Decrees" and closed-door-sessions now rule this land - not the laws of the
Constitution or the servile cowards in the courts. Without laws, the rich
do whatever they want and the insiders create whatever else is needed, with
no oversight for anything that Bush might choose to do. All this - while
the poor are cast into prisons or left to die in the streets because
they're the wrong color, the wrong gender, the wrong nationality, or of the
wrong belief system. Censorship and Fear now rule this land, and that "dynamic-duo" has only created death and failure everywhere in the world
where its heavy tread is felt.
The circumvention of all these
things is one thing when this is done in secret, but once this becomes
public knowledge, as it is now; there's always the danger of a backlash.
The administration has been "busted" on torture, on bogus
prisoners of war, on theft, on fraud, and on the misuse of private armies -
all of it under cover of the shield of "national security in a time of
war." That's one cover-story that everybody knows is crap!
"Control" has always
been the goal and total control such as Israel uses to control the people
of Palestine - has always been the optimal version of what it means to
control any situation. Everything from jobs to health, from food to
education, from thought to politics - everything must be regulated in the
New World Order - everywhere! The way things are going now about the only
growth industries left in the US will be the prison industry, menial
maintenance, and those countless and obscure security jobs, or of course
the military! If this "jobs future" holds true, what will there be for
anyone who is not part of the ruling class?
If people don't begin to roll-back
the congressional crimes committed by the congress against those they were
elected to serve, then we don't deserve the freedoms that we claim as our "constitutional
right." Freedom can't be inherited by any generation - and
this one is particularly deaf to any requirement of the need for any
resistance to the status quo. People the world over have recognized the
connections between what happens in the political arena and the viability
of their ordinary lives - while Americans seem to think that politics is
some kind of inside joke that they can afford to sneer at with derision.
What's at stake here is whether the citizens of the USA will have any
control over this government or whether the Multi-national Corporations
will finally become that "law unto themselves" who shall rule over all they
covet, anywhere in the world today!
The life affirming Questions about
war and policies could be arrows in the quivers of those who fight for
freedom. The words in those challenges can either be used to ignite the
populace - or as something quaint and obsolete - a throwback to those
ancient times before technology, when oppression and religions ruled the
day. Most people then came to know, all too well, either the yoke of
oppression or the lashes of contempt. Free people who take responsibility
for themselves make their own choices, while submissive individuals are
frog-marched into that oblivion reserved for those that refuse to choose,
any course not sanctioned, by the powerful that own them outright!
So the question remains - where is
the "you" in all of the above?
Jim Kirwan
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