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In the US military - to show Cowardice in the Face of the Enemy in "a time of war" - is to
commit treason against this country. When congress commits this crime, by
failing to identify who the real enemies of this country are - without
investigating 911 or virtually any of the subsequent actions which the Bush
administration has taken since September 11, 2001: then it is time to begin
to think about how to charge the Congress with Failing to protect the
people of the United States from the domestic enemies that have
taken over this government. The Congressional oath of office includes all
enemies of the United States both foreign and domestic.
The Bush administration has chosen
to militarize the civilian population while trying to hide everything from
the number of military deaths, to Secret Prisons, Secret Port Deals, Secret
Wire Taps, Secret Torture, Secret everything in a country that is supposed
to have an open and democratic form of government. The point and purpose
for all this mislabeled National Security garbage is to hide the truth of
the theft - of this country, this government, along with their contempt for
the political processes that we once lived by.
In this "time of war,"
the administration now demands that free speech be punished rather than
heard. All audiences for presidential appearances have to be screened so
that no one who disagrees with the president, even on t-shirts, is allowed
to be seen in the same room with the leader of the pack that is now
supposed to be running this show...
Anyone who attempts to practice
Constitutional rights, and everyone who thinks for themselves is
automatically suspected of being in league with enemies of the United
States - no matter how nebulous the connections, no matter how lame the
evidence might be. This is nonsense, and those who have placed so much of
our nation's business and our way of life into government lock-boxes for
security reasons - need to publicly explain themselves. Special Prosecutors
should be appointed to preside over open hearings, before the public to
whom serious answers are owed, for all the failures of this incompetent and
criminal bunch of governmental pretenders.
Defenders of the administration
talk about how difficult their time has been in office... Yet when one
looks long and hard, most of what transpired was created by this
administration, beginning with their failure to investigate the crime scene
on 911, or the surrounding military inadequacies that amounted to a
military failure to respond at all to the attacks - something that could
only have happened if the president of the US had told the US military to
"Stand Down."
We are now in two wars, both of
which were started by Cheney-Bush, and if they have their way we'll soon be
in two more to appease our shadow partner Israel. We have also had natural
disasters and political scandals unparalleled in our history. On the
Cheney-Bush watch inconceivably massive corruptions have been unearthed,
only to disappear into inactivity from the congress or the courts - Hardly
two days ever pass without a new disaster somewhere in the world which has
the filthy fingerprints of this administration all over it. But because of
the speed with which these mega problems occur, hardly anyone is able to
keep up with the huge volume of the potential crimes committed, never mind
the culpability of those supposedly "in-charge" in each case. It
is part of the job of Congress to track and investigate each and every one
of these emerging crimes. Yet throughout these events no one in this
government seems even remotely interested in protecting the citizens from
the government itself, not-to-mention whatever "foreign enemies"
might want to do to us. All that "National Security" apparatus
serves as nothing more than CYA for the Bandits who are making
stratospheric profits from all the hell they have created. The public is
paying for everything these people do, including the bill for Corporate
Welfare that has gone beyond anything ever dreamed of, by any sane person -
and Congress, in this same time of war has given these same people tax CUTS
on top of all that free tax money that was given as incentives to the
corporations!
The Robber-Barons, who now call
themselves the Neo-Cons, insist that with these wars we are bringing
civilization and democracy to the Middle East, but are we? How has our
presence affected Iraq or the Middle East? During our invasion we stood by
while their library (and our mutual history) of antiquities was looted; we
had no plan for getting water or electricity back on; no plan to police the
recently destroyed society. What we looked to were prisons, and more
prisons, secrets deals within secret contracts, sweetheart deals and secret
military bases and along the way we started a process to divide Iraq along
religious and sectarian lines that we have called self-government. That
didn't pan out, but some important mosques were recently bombed, and
finally the dividing of the population could begin in earnest, because if
that population remained united as "the Iraqi people" instead of
becoming factionalized, we might never whip them into line.
In the Middle East our behavior
led to the election of Hamas in Palestine, and since that did not fit
within the plans for the destruction and absorption of Palestine into
Greater Israel, we decided to help Israel starve the Palestinians and look
the other way while Israel renews its war upon the same people they are
supposed to be protecting, under international conventions. In fact the
whole Middle East is much more unstable because of our attacks on the
Muslim world that began with Iraq. In nation after nation the fabric that
holds societies together is now under attack, thanks to the example we set
as Outlaws, in a world supposedly ruled by international law.
The mark of civilization,
according to the best Western reading of that concept - is not something
that provides for the massacre of any people in order to save them. (Despite the fact that the US was built on the mass murder of our
own native population) Moreover, most who call themselves civilized today
believe that due process must always be a part of any system of justice,
war or no war - and few would agree that the leaders of unilateral
pre-emptive strikes that create wars - should be immune from charges for
Crimes against Humanity. Apparently this concept of civilized behavior,
does not apply to those in Congress who are still afraid to speak out
against the Commander-in-Chief in this time of war.
What does it say about the United
States that this country has no oppositional political party?
Why not - are we in such total agreement with whatever the Bandits in power
want to do that we no longer need to have alternatives? Is congress really
representing the will of the public who mistakenly think that they sent
their congressional representatives into those cushy chairs in Congress
(the corporations and powers-that-be, made the choice - not the public).
The voting system, along with the political process is in shambles, and the
only ones who are going to pay for all of this failure will be the public -
that same public that has been too busy to bother about what's been going
on in the world for the last five years.
There is only one political party
in the USA and that is the party in power. This nation has come to stand
for deceit, for treachery and for lies on a scale that has broken all
previous records for corruption, betrayal, disease, and slaughter, and all
of this in the name of that blood-drenched Imperialism that we first
embraced with "Manifest Destiny."
Cowardice is a crime that is
always punished, but only seldom in any court of law. For any people to
call themselves "free" requires the will to fight to preserve
what enables those freedoms to exist. Congress cannot give us what we are
not willing to fight for, that we must each earn by our own actions. In the
meantime should people not demand that congress get off its collective ass
and appoint special prosecutors or face serious charges of collusion
themselves?
Our collective history is littered
with mistakes, with crimes and with corruptions that are part of the
histories of most countries, especially those that become internationally
powerful. What supposedly differentiates the USA was the idea that we
could, on occasion, change our behavior. Today virtually half our budget is
going for weaponry of all types, to further enrich those same few of the
elite that have always used the government to control the direction and
purposes beneath the national and international agendas that have become
how we are seen in the world. Congress has allowed that budgetary imbalance
at the expense of all other social programs, and they have nullified
whatever benefit the public might have once gained for the taxes they pay.
What is happening on the world
stage now cannot be sustained and will fail one way or the other, despite
all the futile attempts of this outlaw government to contain the damage.
Where will you be counted when the fallout begins, on the side of those who
tried to alter the outcome, or will you be among those who refused to speak
against the subversive and criminal elements that theoretically run this
government? Choices are all that any of us have; but to survive - we must
choose wisely and we must choose soon!
Jim Kirwan
www.commondreams.org/
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