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Here we are five long years into
the Cowardly New World of "the Decider," and what do we have to show for
it? It's been said that: "Nothing can check Bush's Power Grab" -
I disagree for the following reasons...
On the last day of September of
2006, Bush announced his embrace (and ours by default), of his Principles
of Darkness-as his closest allies in his never-endings wars for the
supremacy of money over humanity, power over life and death, and of "the
Deciders right" to rule over all humanity. He did all that in this simple
paragraph:
"The only way to protect our
citizens at home is to go on the offense against the enemy across the
world. When terrorists spend their days working to avoid capture, they are
less able to plot, plan, and execute new attacks on our people. So we will
remain on the offense until the terrorists are defeated and this fight is
won."
To go on the attack against any
perceived enemy anywhere in the world is to declare that there are no
longer any laws, or any rules of warfare anywhere, that can still protect
any other nation or its people from the greed and brutality of the
ambitions inherent in the will-to-empire. This idea unilaterally drives
the war machines that seek to annihilate all opposition to the New World
Order. It's one thing to propose the kind of world we live in now-it's a
very different thing entirely to know that things will never return to the
way they used to be-but more importantly that the NWO will never end!
"The Center for
Constitutional Rights has filed the first legal challenge to the new
Military Commissions Act passed by Congress last week. The legal group has
filed a habeas corpus petition on behalf of 25 detainees held at Bagram
Air Force base in Afghanistan. The petition demands that the men be
released or be charged with a crime. Some of the detainees have been held
for years without ever receiving a hearing. Under the new bill - prisoners
have no right to challenge their detention. On Monday, Bill Goodman, the
legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, warned about the
dangers of the new law.
- Bill Goodman: "No one can
be held indefinitely, and if they are, they have a right to go in front of
a magistrate or a judge and demand that the judge make a determination as
to whether they're charged with a crime and whether there's any real
evidence to hold them. And if there is not, the magistrate, the judge, can
order the king, the police, the FBI, or anyone, or George W. Bush, the
President of the United States, to let him go. That's what habeas corpus
is. Without it, we are virtually slaves to a police state."
Bill Goodman spoke last night in
New York at a rally sponsored by the group World Can't Wait. On Thursday,
World Can't Wait is organizing emergency protests in over 170 towns and
cities to condemn the government's sanctioning of torture.
Bill Frist: U.S. Might Never Win
War in Afghanistan
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
visited Afghanistan on Monday and acknowledged that the United States
might never win the war against the Taliban. He said there are now too
many Taliban fighters and that they have too much popular support. Frist
said backers of the Taliban should be brought into the Afghan
government." (1). What does this say about our invasion of Afghanistan
and our long-term commitment to the original reasons given after 911 - for
all the blood and violence?
It's one thing to promote "freedom and
democracy" in the wider world - at the expense of events here
in the US, but its something completely different when there is no time at
all to even begin to counter all the criminal acts on all fronts at the
same time. To "say" that we have a two-tiered system of perks and
privileges, is one thing, but the reality is quite another thing entirely.
For instance in the Foley affair, it has been revealed that the FBI was
involved early on and they discussed this with the retarded congressional
leadership, who assured the FBI that they would take care of it. From this
we know that the laws are never equally enforced-especially against those
who make the laws.
ABC News said: "It turns out
Foley's obsession with 16- and 17-year-old male pages has been known to
Republicans on Capitol Hill for at least five years. But other than issue
a warning, little else seems to have been done about the congressman. A
former page has come forward to tell ABC News {that} warnings were issued
about Foley to the pages in 2001.
ABC News has obtained Internet
messages sent by Foley to three different pages after that warning. Two of
them were sent to pages in the 2001-2002 class, with sexually explicit
messages, most too graphic to be broadcast, from Foley using the screen
name Maf54.
Maf54: To be honest, I am a
little too interested in you. So that's why I need to back off a little
Teen: Ya slow things down a
little I'm still young...like under 18. {I} don't want to do anything
illegal...I'm not 18.
Maf54: cool...don't forget to
measure for me. {The length of his penis}
The FBI's preliminary
investigation of Foley began over the weekend, with agents in the cyber
unit of the FBI already examining some of the Internet messages. It's
possible Foley could end up being prosecuted under laws he helped to enact
as the co-chairman of the House caucus on Missing and Exploited
Children."
What immediately comes to mind
is, why was there no action taken on what Hastert knew early on, and what
has transpired since then? This is having an effect upon various campaigns
in the country-as it should. Hastert must resign! Because what remains to
be seen is, if this scandal will actually bring about the needed changes
in who does what in government from now on!
Add to this latest scandal that
collection of criminals who owe their existence to bush-league practices
that contain no ethics or logic at all-besides their worn-out-oaths to
mega-money deals regardless of real costs. Remember that Tom DeLay, Jack
Abramoff, and Duke Cunningham were also disgraced and have been charged
with criminal violations, along with others, in this same time frame. Is
this what Cheney means about "the New Normalcy"? Must we just
get used to this as the new standard of government behavior? Another
filthy little secret first raised its ugly head in the
Gosch-Guckert-Gannon Scandal that broke in March of 05-but it had its
origins in 2003. That scandal was never addressed by anyone in the FBI or
the White House. It seems that Mr. Guckert attended White House Press
conferences, impersonating an accredited reporter where he was able to
serve the president with softball questions that diffused tensions and
allowed the Decider to leave impressions with the public that Bush wanted
to convey. Bush claimed when he ran for his first term that his
administration would return ethics to the office of the presidency and
that "there would never even be even the hint of corruption or a conflict
of interest" anywhere within his administration - if he were elected
president. Maybe, since he stole the office he just thought that he didn't
need to bother keeping that promise, because he was NOT elected!
The problem with Gannon came with
the fact that Gannon lived his lie for two years, without a security
clearance, because each time he was given a day-pass that allowed him to
skip the Secret Service Clearances required, for all the other reporters
present. Gosch-Guckert-Gannon had his own male-escort web site at the time
- where he offered a number of controversial services - at the same time
as he was supposedly a journalist covering the White House, in
presidential press briefings. Gannon apparently claimed to have had
several hundred clients among the highly placed in government, and
therefore there was a continuous drumbeat of "No Comment" that
was allowed to kill that story every time it was raised.
The question this time is will
Hastert and Foley and the FBI escape the responsibility that each of them
bears in this new revelation, so that the criminals-in-office won't be
interrupted the coming election-formality in November. (It has been
current practice for this government to block the release of all damaging
reports and or occurrences-whenever those reports or events might change
the outcome of pending "elections." This "practice" has been
used throughout the rein of the Decider, in both of his illegal terms. The
Democrats did this too but to a much lesser degree-because they could not
hide behind the false shield of National-Security-in-a-Time-of-War.
The White House would answer no
questions about Gosch-Guckert-Gannon, but this time things may be
different. It would appear that the sleazy behavior is becoming too
difficult to contain, and that it may actually further affect the coming
elections-by uniting opposition to the bushwhackers and to government
corruption at all levels-as we begin the long trek down the road to
never-never-land as promised to us all by Vice President Dick Cheney.
These events are really only the
footnotes for what lies ahead for Americans once the Decider's new rules
for Fortress America are firmly and finally in place. The corruption, the
bribery, the endless flaunting of privileges granted to the insiders, is
becoming far too great a scandal to continue to remain hidden. There's a
new PBS documentary - Capital Crimes, from Bill Moyers:
www.pbs.org/moyers/
Starring Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed, and others.
"The fallout continues from the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. A new
bi-partisan House report released on Friday details extensive lobbying
contacts between convicted lobbyist Abramoff and the Bush White House.
Investigators found that between January 2001 and March 2004, Abramoff and
his associates had more than 400 contacts with White House officials. The
committee conducting the investigation noted that the records showed 'an unusually detailed glimpse into a sordid subculture of fraud and
attempted influence peddling.' " (2).
That's from the formal and "acceptable political
world," in the real world where most Americans have
to live, things are grim but in a much different way. In the America
beyond-the-spotlight; in the inner cities with the wrong zip codes, the
police do not respond to crimes, because the callers are not the right
kinds of people. In the schools, in medical care, and in every transaction
between government and the people, if you are not a member of the right
class-then nothing is done about your problems, except perhaps to make
things worse. This is common knowledge among those most directly
affected-it's only "news" to those who have never had that problem.
Today there are the parents of
those "problem children" who seemingly cannot adjust to society. It is
there where the depth of many of these problems potentially originate.
It's the two to three hundred dollar hand-held game with its own morality
of random violence, rape, brutality and murder for fun and
"points" that seems to be making a difference in the lives of so
many who are not living on the streets yet. But these future monsters are
seething in the burbs with a malignant hatred and a vast mistrust that
seemingly escapes all the right studies on: "What's really wrong with
America?" Are these "games" providing the scenarios for the recent spate
of senseless killings that have befallen the nation in the last week? The
cops in too many cities won't bother to respond to small instances of
theft or violence, because in many cases the cops are overwhelmed, but
also because everybody knows that the items taken or the violence done, is
too small to really matter-especially to the already poor-so "why bother"!
Drug use in the US has grown out
of the legal over-the-counter drug world into a population that finds its
pleasures in injectable relief, in pills and powders, and in a variety of
artificial substitutes for real life, for joy, or for genuine pleasure.
Those who become hooked, if they're not wealthy enough to afford their
habits, become part of the overburdened privatized prison system-where the
jailers are compensated by the head-to incarcerate the many, at a huge
cost to both the society and the system as a whole. Currently we are
leading the world in the percentage of our citizens behind bars. Is this
part of the freedom and democracy that we want to export to the world?
This stuff isn't secret, and it's
not officially part of any city platform or budget reform plans. It's just
life in the two tiered system. The rich have fantastic lawyers and get
off-the poor have no legal representation worth a damn and they go to
jail. That's the system as it has grown up under the two-tiered system of
privilege in America now: and this will eventually lead back to the Marie
Antoinette solution for the rich-who-refuse-to care: That's where the
guillotine became a very effective physical comment on the excesses of the
too-rich and the too-indolent in an earlier time-in a different country.
Yet the rule of excess power still applies and may soon be revived here,
unless there are checks soon to be placed on the
lawlessness-at-the-highest-levels - within this country now. Will this "system" still rule after we all enter that permanent state of total war
that Cheney dreams of?
The USA is not a nation in any
sense of that term. We are not "one-people," and we cannot site McDonald's
and Home Depot as anything like a culture, anymore than we can call
Wal-Mart a business with a future for those who work there. We have become
a scam unto ourselves in this land of "Me, My & Mine." We
have no homegrown national arts, and the music, the writing, and the arts
we do have usually come from somewhere else, because the USA has no use
for those traditional and arduous disciplines that demand so much from
their creators, for so little commercially, in return. Americans also seem
to have an absolute hatred of history, because history requires a context
for events-and most Americans know nothing about last week, much less last
year. Yet without an awareness of what has gone before; then every moment
is no better or worse than any other moment in life-so essentially nothing
really matters anyhow! It's become the mantra of the ignorant and the
disconnected - "Hey shit happens!" And since the USA is
virtually nothing much more than a vast emporium of business schemes
constantly competing for any advantage no matter how small-is it any
wonder that we haven't time for any of the things that every other country
must make room for?
Change has created a new paradigm
whose speed alone has forced so many changes now that nothing remains long
enough to even be carefully considered-never mind being something that
anyone could actually become involved in either defending, or resisting.
If you go on vacation for a month, when you return, your phone service
provider may have merged, your bank could have undergone a takeover, or
most of your former "services" might have altered their names or changed
owners, and all of this would be only normal now, that too is part of
Cheney's new normalcy! Does this mean that Americans are to be stripped of
all meaning from traditional politics, by converting the process into a
war between the classes: those with the money to pay-to-play, and the vast
majority, who have no voice in anything.
Cynicism too, has been prefigured
into this equation, so that those most turned off will simply not vote;
which is exactly what Cheney-Rove prefer. What was not-counted on was that
the public would cling so determinedly to what is actually happening in
the wars overseas-as well as what the Decider and his trolls have done to
Americans, to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights here at home.
"We" were expected to continue to "trust him" and to
follow each outlandish new assertion as though we actually had a choice.
The only thing that GWB can be trusted to do-is to kill any of us who
stand in his way-and he's not bothered by any illegalities that he might
need to commit to accomplish his needs as "Decider."
Remember; remember the twelfth of
September - when we & the world were told - this War will NEVER end?
"Back in 2001, Vice
President Cheney warned us, "There's not going to be an end date when
we're going to say, there, it's all over with. Many of the steps we have
now been forced to take will become permanent in American life.....I think
of it as the new normalcy." This is from a man who stepped outside of
"normalcy", when he got himself not one, but five deferments. This "new
normalcy" of forever war is fine rhetoric from a man, who spends the days
of his life Fly Fishing in Wisconsin, or going off to some fenced hunting
preserve to shoot trapped animals, when he's not visiting one of his
mansions." (3).
Power, and any nations'
flirtations with its intoxicating charms, has always been extremely deadly
for those innocent of the depths to which power can push people or
nations-in their forbidden grab for the whole damned world!
For over half-a-century now the
political machine of the "two-party-system" has been in disarray. First it
slipped into a six party system of the extreme wings plus the middle of
each party. That was followed by absorbing both parties into a battle over
technicalities that effectively ended the differences between party
labels. Any true political party would have been something that involved
people month in and month out, in those policies and actions that most
directly would have affected the lives of the people supposedly
represented. But what we have now is something that only "appears" at
elections, something that cares nothing at all for the so-called "members"
of its party labels. "Politics" is only about how much can be
stolen at any one time, under the rubric of "the needs of the people."
With a handful of exceptions, the current "leaders" ought to be thrown
from office in every election - but only after everything they did while
in office is gone over carefully by a special prosecutor.
This congress has been the ideal
vehicle for Cheney-Bush on their privatized-path to Empire. Out of the 365
days in the year this congress has only been in session for 92 days-making
it the least often to meet of any congress-and certainly the one body most
responsible for key changes in the destruction of the United States and
what remains of the laws that supposedly "protect and defend" either the
people or the constitution. Congress will be leaving again soon, on yet
another vacation, and they're assuming that their special positions will
remain protected in the coming elections; in order to keep themselves out
of jail-but that too may now be in doubt:
America was a nation where
personal independence once counted for a great deal. In fact personal "independence" was what supposedly drove this nation from its very
beginnings. The question is how will those formerly "independent"
individuals now deal with having the proverbial gun placed to their
collective heads-when it comes to compliance with the demands of this
treasonously illegal government?
Independent people tend to not
sit still for bogus demands, for government blackmail, or for baseless
intimidation-no matter where it comes from. That idea of resistance stems
directly from refusing to live in fear, and from not responding to
threats, regardless of their source. People should be afraid when their
lives are threatened - but the key is not to live inside that fear. This
principle applies to all of us, regardless of the level attained within
this corrupted society - because this is where Dick Cheney's promise of
permanence becomes a direct threat to every American with eyes to see and
ears to hear with - and the passion to resist tyranny and treason wherever
they are found.
If that ethic holds, then
Come-November - this government will fall: If not, then this nation will
just be another place upon a map, a nothing to be used by whatever power
chooses to enslave us, for fun or profit! How much independence is really
still out there among Americans as a group - maybe there are enough of
these rebels to help tip the nation back toward survival and away from
servility, censorship and servitude. It's possible even at this late
date-but it must be acted on now, or everything will just be flushed down
the proverbial rabbit-hole: and the USA will take its place among third or
fourth world nations that are only fit for subservience, for financial
frauds and for anything else that the twisted minds of the powerfully
perverted can conceive.
Jim Kirwan
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