Godfather Government: A Way of Life! Not a Scandal!
Godfather Government:
A Way of Life! Not a Scandal!
By Carolyn Baker - March 19, 2007
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[This article was originally
titled "GodfatherGovernment:The
Sopranos Aren't Leaving" and was published at From The Wilderness in 2006. The
current posting has been updated and revised.--CB]
Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddamn radicals.Don't get the idea
I'm knocking the American system. - Al Capone
Behind every great fortune, there is a crime. - Lucky Luciano
Historians study not only the past but using their analysis of the past, speculate
about how the future might unfold. However, historians are not psychics; we
can’t predict the exact occurrence of events with specificity, but we can
analyze past and current events and conjecture likely future scenarios based on those
events. In 1937, during the German Third Reich, historian Robert Brady wrote The
Spirit And Structure Of German Fascism, one of the most incisive books of the
twentieth century, now out of print and deemed “irrelevant” to
contemporary events by most traditional historians. In his last chapter, “The
Looming Shadow Of Fascism Over The World,” Brady hypothesized that corporatist
influences would ultimately come to dominate many of the governments of the modern
world, including and especially, the United States.
Certainly, America’s triumphant emergence from World War II and the
subsequent institutionalization of the military-industrial complex established
significant components of incipient fascism, as throughout the Cold War, the Central
Intelligence Agency fomented anti-Communist hysteria and right-wing coups
d’etat around the world. Meanwhile, at home, McCarthyism gave way to
consumerism on steroids and the triumph of the American corporation on all
fronts—a feat that had its roots in an obscure Supreme Court technicality in
the decision, Santa Clara vs.Southern Pacific Railroad in 1886, which declared that
corporations were “persons” who had the same “civil rights”
guaranteed freed slaves under the Fourteenth Amendment.
While most presidential administrations of the twentieth century gave lip service
to government regulation of corporations, a new era dawned in the eighties with
Reagan’s “war on government.” It was the beginning of the
dismantling of government regulation of industry in America, and it was further
exacerbated by a momentous Executive Order signed by Reagan. Executive Order 12615
required departments and agencies to “establish full and ambitious
privatization goals.” It also created the Office of Privatization within the
Office of Management And Budget to oversee the program and established an independent
Commission on Privatization to study and recommend opportunities for privatization
within the federal government.
According to Chapter 17 of Webster Tarpley’s The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush, Sr. and
the research of Catherine Austin Fitts,
Reagan’s Executive Order meant that private corporate contractors would no
longer have to be accountable for the work they did nor how they used the money
allocated to them. As a result, an opportunity for a black budget was created in
which government money would be spent without the oversight of Congress and the
American people. Clearly, this was a disastrous recipe for fraud and corruption to
become standard operating procedure in the federal government.
Concurrently, the CIA was secretly financing the illegal Contra War in Nicaragua
with cocaine trafficking, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
was operating, a member of Senator Kit Bond’s staff told Catherine Austin Fitts, as a criminal
enterprise. More recently art has imitated life in a "Sopranos"
episode which mirrored HUD’s corrupt activities in South Central Los
Angeles—the illumination of which by Fitts, and later From The Wilderness,
precipitated the dirty tricks unleashed against her long before the "Sopranos" became
an HBO series.
Enter the Democratic Clinton Administration which gave us NAFTA and made U.S. corporations sovereign
domestically and internationally as globalism was born and its proponents championed
the demise of nations and the supremacy of corporations. It was during that
administration, not a Republican one, that the criminal enterprise we call the
federal government came down on Fitts and nearly destroyed her.
Can anyone find a more stellar symbol of corporate dominance than that infamous
glass skyscraper in Houston, formerly occupied by the Enron Corporation? Catherine
Austin Fitts has superbly connected the dots
between the egregious criminality of Enron, the Harvard Endowment, and one of the
federal government’s principal contractors, CSC-DynCorp. Last year, with the
conviction of former Enron golden boys, Jeff Skillings and Ken Lay--Lay’s
death, not withstanding, investigative journalist, Greg Palast,unleashed a scathing expose of Enron throughout alternative
media. With the convictions of Lay and Skillings, Palastseized the opportunity to
muckrake enough dirt on Enron to fill its former Houston headquarters from basement
to rooftop. So too have Peter Elkind and Bethany Mc Lean in their fabulous 2006
documentary, “The Smartest Guys In The Room”; however, what Palast and
the filmmakers both failed to address and what Mike Ruppert covered judiciously in
Crossing The Rubicon, was Enron’s involvement in moving and laundering
massive quantities of drug money through its Enron Online trading company. From the
research of Palast, Elkind, and Mc Lean, it is obvious that Enron cooked its books
and used the smoke and mirrors of “Mark To Market” accounting to book
profits out of thin air, but none of them can explain where Enron acquired the money
to actually run its corporation while selling worthless stock and paving the way to
financial oblivion for its investors and employees. The missing link in the Enron
story is drug profits, but Mike Ruppert caught that link, as did Catherine Austin
Fitts in her many articles revealing
the Enron-Harvard-Citibank-DynCorp connection.
Palast nailed Choice Point, an enormous data-gathering empire which helped rig the
2000 election and has more recently been deeply involved in assisting the National
Security Agency in spying on innocent American citizens. Calling Choice Point a “private
KGB”, Palast writes: By ‘private KGB,’ I mean ChoicePoint,
Inc., the Atlanta company that keeps over 16 billion records on Americans which it
sells to the FBI, Homeland Security and, through a bit of a slip-up, identity
thieves. They are watching you because George and Dick don't have time to track
everyone in America (and that would be illegal, to boot), so Choice Point does it.
Then turns over the electronic you -- cross-matched profiles of voting registration,
your DNA info and who knows what else -- for a price.”
When one thoroughly digests the machinations of corporations like CSC-DynCorp,
Enron, Halliburton, and Choice Point, it is axiomatic that whatever we have come to
call “the government” is now virtually indistinguishable from private
corporations—entities which are in themselves criminal syndicates. As Fitts for
years has taken great pains to point out, when local communities of individuals do
not control government databases, mind boggling corruption and exploitation of
innocent citizens is inevitable simply because there is no fiduciary transparency.
This is one of the principal arguments for local, not national, solutions; the more
centralized systems become, the greater the potential for abuse. Conversely, the more
de-centralized systems are, the more illumined and amenable to local monitoring they
are likely to be.
From hindsight we now know that 9-11 was orchestrated by the U.S. government not
only for the purpose of capturing the last remaining recoverable drops of oil on
earth, but also as a pretext for sanctioning a pandemic of corruption within the
federal government and corporations in the name of “national security” as
well as the gradual but unprecedentedl shredding of the Constitution and the civil
liberties it ensures. Subsequently, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq
corporatized those countries to such an extent that it would be more appropriate for
them to fly the flags of Halliburton and Bechtel than the colors of their respective
nations. Add to this the Bush Administration’s admission that billions of
dollars designated for the Iraq War cannot be accounted for. Why are we not
surprised?
At home in the U.S. the Bush regime muscled through Congress its Medicare Reform
Bill and firmly placed American healthcare in the hands of its cronies and lobbyist
friends from the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, spiking the costs of
prescription medications and health insurance. At the same time, millions of working
and middle class individuals who have no health insurance and who are being squeezed
to death by the costs of mortgage payments, childcare, and simply putting food on the
table in their households, find themselves decimated by medical bills, losing their
jobs, or simply getting in over their heads financially with the credit cards they
frantically use to “rob Peter and pay Paul.” But the Godfather Government
saw this coming and found the “losses” incurred by Citibank, Chase, and
other cronies of the banking industry intolerable, thereby making certain that the Bankruptcy
Reform Act of 2005 would sail through Congress with only a whisper of
opposition.
The consequences of this legislation is now savaging the lives of countless middle
and working class Americans. In fact, we must now ask a logical question: Will the
grinding albatross of personal debt engender a massive pool of slave laborers in
America who see no alternative to “working off their debt”? Economist
Paul Krugman articulated a similar perspective in his New York Times 2005
article, "Debt
Peonage". In any event, the gargantuan amounts of personal and collective debt in
the United States will be a pivotal ingredient in the evisceration of the
nation’s economy—a phenomenon impeccably documented by Kevin Phillips in
American Theocracy: The Peril And Politics Of Radical Religion, Oil, And Borrowed
Money In The Twenty-First Century. The progression of the demise is likely to be
protracted rather than cataclysmic, with periodic crises, such as the housing bubble
and a resultant credit bubble, heating up the subtle but yet very perceptible trial
by fire.
In 2005,
Business Week Online reported George W. Bush’s signature of the May 5
memo entitled “Assignment Of Function Relating To Granting Of Authority For
Issuance Of Certain Directives: Memorandum For The Director Of National
Intelligence.” In the document, Bush assigned intelligence czar, John
Negroponte, the task of waiving Securities and Exchange Commission rules, established
in 1934, pertaining to accounting disclosures by publicly-traded companies. As a
result of no longer needing to reveal financial information in the name of national
security, the cloning of Enron, having been in process for several years, was sealed.
Instead of being required to disclose valid accounting ledgers, U.S.
corporations have now been given carte blanche to maintain fiduciary
legerdemain. Therefore, I must ask: How can any sane human being persist in
believing that a legitimate government exists in the United States?
But we have a Congress, you may argue—and a Democratically-controlled one at
that.Yes,and they have spent the past two months arguing about how to manage a war
that the nation was lied into, rather than confronting the lies and turning off both
the faucet of fundingincessantly requested by theemperorand thedeluge of profits
flowing to military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.If the so-called progressive
Democrats continue to perform as they have in the face of Bush’s most recent
escalation of the war, they will confirm what any observer with two brain cells to
rub together already knows: That the Democrats ARE the problem because of their
insipid enabling of the fascist regime in the White House.
How many times has Congress cratered since September 11, 2001? Many more times
than I have hours in the day to spend documenting them. In the past six years,
we’ve all asked why. Post-9-11, we attributed Congressional loss of spine to
the fear of the administration and political pressure to placate it. What is now
being revealed almost daily, however, is the extent to which the tentacles of
mobsters like Jack Abramoff and the K Street crowd reach into the halls of Congress.
Kit Bond’s staffer was wrong only about one thing when he said that HUD was
being run as a criminal enterprise: What is left of the entire former government of
the United Statesis now more than ever being run as a criminal enterprise.
Perhaps even after all I have written here, you still believe you have a
government. Whether you do or not, I’m fairly certain that when you read
Catherine Austin Fitts’ exhaustive exposé on government-corporate corruption,
you will no longer entertain the delusion that your so-called government is anything
but institutionalized organized crime disguised as a government, or rather, empire,
now teetering on the precipice of collapse.
In a shorter butsuccinct analysis of Godfather Government entitled "The American
Tapeworm", Fitts provides a lucid but thorough explanation of the nuts and bolts
of the criminal enterprise, not only within the United States, but how it is playing
itself out globally, and specifically in Iraq.
Whether or not it has become clear to economists looking through rose-colored
glasses, it is painfully obvious to the American consumer that the nation has entered
a recession that promises to be long, deep, and most likely, global. While images of
1929 may haunt us, the gathering economic storm clouds are not likely to result in a
sudden cataclysm, but rather a long, protracted, painful impoverishment on myriad
levels. "This state of affairs," says Fitts, "can
go on as long as it can be financed. Hence, as long as America can continue to export
dollars, export Treasury bills and mortgage backed and other federally supported
credit, and lead in global organized crime and warfare, a negative return economy can
continue."
If you think your “government” is going to do anything to protect and
support its citizens in the wake of endless imperial conquest, a housing market that
is now toast, worsening global warming, global pandemics, natural disasters, massive
food shortages, unprecedented outbreaks of violence and unrest, rates of unemployment
that will dwarf those of the Great Depression, debt peonage, rapidly diminishing
water supplies and a rotting infrastructure, as well as trainloads of worthless U.S.
dollars, then the price you will pay for yourgullibility and denial will be horrific.
If you want to see what your “government” thinks of you and will do for
you, think Katrina. Think the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s in this country when tens of
thousands of human beings died while your government stood by and did
nothing—and still is.
The only thing the members of your government care about is the colossal transfer
of wealth—the financial coup d’ état that is in progress that will
devastate you and your family economically and produce unparalleled profits for the
gangsters you vote for. Absurdly, mainstream and even progressive media refer to
eruptions of pervasive criminality in the federal government as
”scandals” revealing their inability to grasp the systemic disintegration
of the rule of law in America and the reality that names like Abramoff, Libby,
Gonzales, Walter Reed Hospital, are not scandals but symptoms of a disintegrating,
rotting empire .Like AIDS victims suffering from incessant episodes of pneumonia,
anemia, skin lesions, and other horrible ailments,none of which are their diagnosis
but rather symptoms of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, epidemic criminality in
high places is systemic and inherent in a fascist empire in the throes of collapse.
To address the symptom as the disease merelyfacilitates the disease's progression and
exacerbates the resultant suffering.
The driving force of fascism, and indeed all empires, isamoral sociopathy about
which I wrote in my recent article "
The Science Of Evil And Its Use For Political Purposes". Like AIDS or any other
virulent syndrome, its symptoms manifest relentlessly but are systemic and therefore
cannot effectively be addressed on the level of the symptom--the principal reason why
political action, itself contaminated by the syndrome, provides bandaids and chicken
soup, but is incapable of extricating itself from the syndrome.
To understand this isto stop referring to the criminal syndicate posing as the
Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches as “government” at all.
Tograsp this is to stop responding with naive, jaw-dropping surprise in the face of
systemic corruption and to relinquish all hope that some other party or some more
innovative politician will make it all better. There IS no government of the
United States, but only corporations and centralized financial systems.
Therefore, it is now time to ponder how you will take care of yourself
and your loved ones in the face of deepening, brutal, merciless, collapse
(whethersudden or protracted),in an economy hollowed out and stripped bare, attended
as corroding empires always are, by totalitarian management of the unruly and
impoverished masses.
In 1937 Robert Brady called the corporate world view “organized
piracy” and asked:
Is there any fundamental difference in appreciation of human values or in
general outlook on life between a stockbroker and a pirate?…What on the open
seas is thought of as an outlaw and ‘piratical’ raid of group on group
is in another setting played as a legitimate game in which each man is pitted
against every other man for all he can ‘get by with’ short of a snarl
with criminal law.
This is fascism, and your “government” is already there. The wildly
popular “Sopranos” HBO series
has gone the way of all mini-series, now appearing several times a week in re-run
status. Its greatest contribution to the culture, in my opinion, was its mirror image
of thechicanery of empire, reminding us thatthe"Sopranos" of government have never
gone away; in fact, they’re just getting warmed up. Tony, Silvio Dante, Johnny
Sack, Uncle Junior, Christopher Moltisanti, Paulie Walnuts, and Dr. Melfi—a
cast of thugs and enablers such as these, is the only government you have now or ever
will have in the United States of America.
Or as Don Henley might say, "Offer up your best defense, this is the end of the
innocence."
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Our Highest Law Enforcement Officials are Criminals
Our Highest Law
Enforcement Officials are Criminals
Crime Blotter: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
by Paul Craig Roberts
While serving as President Bush's White
House lawyer, Alberto Gonzales advised Bush that the president's
war time powers permitted Bush to ignore the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) and to use the National Security Agency
(NSA) to spy on US citizens without obtaining warrants from the
FISA court as required by law. Under an order signed by Bush
in 2002, NSA illegally spied on Americans without warrants.
By spying on Americans without
obtaining warrants, Bush committed felonies under FISA. Moreover,
there is strong, indeed overwhelming, evidence that justice was
obstructed when Bush and Gonzales blocked a 2006 Justice Department
investigation into whether Gonzales acted properly as Attorney
General in approving and overseeing the Bush administration's
program of spying on US citizens. Also at issue is whether Gonzales
acted properly in advising Bush to kill an investigation of Gonzales'
professional actions with regard to the NSA spy program.
We are faced with the almost
certain fact that the two highest law enforcement officials of
the United States are criminals.
The evidence that Bush and
Gonzales have obstructed justice comes from internal Justice
Department memos and exchanges of letters between the Justice
Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), an
investigative office, and members of Congress. The documents
were leaked to the National Journal, and the story was reported
in the March 15, 2007, issue by Murray Waas, who also relied
on interviews with both current and former high ranking DOJ officials.
Ten months previously on May 25, 2006, Waas broke the story in
the National Journal about the derailing of the OPR investigation.
From Waas's report it is obvious
that many current and former Justice Department officials have
serious concerns about the high-handed behavior of the Bush administration.
The incriminating documents were leaked to the National Journal,
the only remaining national publication that has any credibility.
The New York Times and Washington Post have proven to be supine
tools of the Bush administration and are no longer trusted.
When the Bush administration's
violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was leaked
to the New York Times, the paper's editors obliged Bush by spiking
the story for one year, while Bush illegally collected information
that he could use to blackmail his critics into silence. As I
wrote at the time, the only possible reason for violating FISA
is to collect information that can be used to silence critics.
The administration's claim that bypassing FISA was essential
to the "war on terror" is totally false and is a justification
and practice that the Bush administration, no longer able to
defend, abandoned in January of this year.
The known facts: After keeping the information from
Congress and the public for one year, on Dec. 16, 2005, the New
York Times reported that Bush was spying on Americans without
complying with the FISA statute. In response to a request from
members of Congress, the Justice Department's Office of Professional
Responsibility launched an investigation into the Bush administration's
decision to ignore FISA and to conduct domestic spying on American
citizens without obtaining the warrants required by law. On January
20, 2006, Marshall Jarrett, the Justice Department official in
charge of OPR, informed senior Justice Department officials of
his investigation and its scope.
Gonzales informed President
Bush about the OPR investigation, and Bush shut down the investigation
by refusing security clearances to the Justice Department officials
in OPR. In a response to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman
Arlen Specter on July 18, 2006, Gonzales disclosed that President
Bush had halted the OPR investigation.
This is the first and only
time in history that DOJ officials have been denied security
clearances necessary to conduct an investigation. The Bush administration claimed that
the secret spying was too crucial to our national security to
permit even Justice Department officials to learn about it. However,
even as Bush was denying clearances to OPR, he granted identical
clearances to: (1) the FBI agents ordered to find who leaked
the administration's secret spying to the New York Times, (2)
DOJ officials in the Civil Division who had to respond to legal
challenges to the illegal spy program, and (3) five private sector
individuals who sit on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight
Board.
Obviously, the unprecedented
denial of security clearances to OPR was done in order to prevent
the investigation.
On March 21, 2006, Marshall
Jarrett wrote to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty that OPR
was being "precluded from performing its duties."
In May, 2006, Jarrett informed
Congress: "On May 9, 2006, we were informed that our requests
had been denied. Without these clearances, we cannot investigate
this matter and therefore have closed our investigation."
The National Journal reports: "[Rep. Maurice] Hinchey and
other Democratic House members asked Jarrett why he was unable
to obtain the necessary clearances; Jarrett's superiors, according
to government records and to interviews, instructed him not to
inform Congress that President Bush had made the decision."
When the illegal domestic spying
program was launched in 2002, Gonzales was still White House
Counsel. Documents and interviews show that most high ranking
Justice Department officials opposed the illegal program. Attorney
General Ashcroft, Deputy Attorney General James Comey, Assistant
Attorney General Jack Goldsmith in charge of the Office of Legal
Counsel, and James A. Baker, counsel for the Office of Intelligence
Policy and Review all raised objections to the illegality and
propriety of Bush's National Security Agency eavesdropping program.
Baker went so far as to warn the presiding judge of the FISA
court that authorities were improperly obtaining information
and bypassing the court. On learning that the administration
was violating FISA, one of the federal judges on the FISA court
resigned in protest.
Goldsmith was troubled by Bush's
claim that the "war on terror" gave the president virtually
unlimited powers. Goldsmith's objections to the Bush-Cheney-Gonzales
view that the president is above the law during time of war brought
him under fierce attack from Vice President Dick Cheney and Cheney's
two principal henchmen, Scooter Libby, now a convicted felon,
and David Addington.
Goldsmith found an ally in
Deputy Attorney General Comey. Comey defied the White House in
March 2004 when he refused to reauthorize Bush's spying on American
citizens unless the program was brought within the law. Comey
incurred additional Bush-Cheney enmity when he appointed Patrick
J. Fitzgerald to investigate the leak of Valerie Plame's identity,
an investigation that resulted in the arrest and conviction of
Vice President Cheney's chief of staff.
In his lengthy and detailed
report in the National Journal, Waas quotes a former White House
Official: "Comey showed us that he was a guy who wouldn't
be kept on a leash in an administration that likes to keep everybody
on a short leash."
A criminal political administration
has no choice but to keep everyone on a short leash in order
to keep its illegal acts under wraps. Americans have never experienced
an administration so replete with crimes as the Bush Regime.
This criminal regime must now
be brought to an end. Impeachments of Bush, Cheney, and Gonzales,
followed by felony indictments and trials are imperative if the
rule of law in the United States is to be preserved.
Paul Craig Roberts held the William E. Simon Chair in
Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies at Georgetown University and was Senior Research Fellow
in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He served as
Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury in the Reagan administration.
He is coauthor of The
Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com
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The CRIME That Covered-Up The Coup
The CRIME That Covered-Up The Coup
by Jim Kirwan - 5-15-6
There's a corporate dagger that has been
leveled at the very heart of all that matters in the USA and the world
today. The fact is that the role of government's around the world have
been nullified by those corporate powers that have taken control over the
most pivotal points of life and promise within the global community. There
is a key to this entire quagmire that can no longer be ignored, which is,
the mega-crime committed on 911. So long as this government along with
others in Europe and the wider world continue to spew lies about what happened
on that day then nothing can ever be changed!
The enemy of the United States of America
is located in Washington D.C., in Tel Aviv and to a lesser degree in London.
This cabal has used and abused the events of 911 to create tyrannies and
to advance murder and torture on a grand scale, while they continue to
act as intermediaries for the Corporatocracy that is the real power hiding
behind most governments. It is these essentially private and protected
corporate interests, that are using governments worldwide, to crush whatever
remains of those freedoms and laws that were supposed to protect people
from exactly this kind of take-over. What has happened is that governments
everywhere have largely become superfluous, because the real power now
lies with the multi-national corporate giants of the Corporatocracy.
911 was an attack upon the Constitution
and the people of the United States, carried out by forces that had far
greater designs for their private interests than could have ever been allowed
under the US Constitution. Without the chaos of 911 that essentially stripped
people of all the protections of law, and that turned all discussions into
nothing more than fear mongering and terror warnings that we now know,
were used to justify the immediate targeting of the entire US population,
as potential terrorist sympathizers.
This began with the stolen election that
put Bush in office. The Congress and the Courts have both shown themselves
to be complicit in furthering those lies that the Bush administration has
been spewing from the day they took office. The "Democrats" have
proven that they will not offer any resistance to the hundreds of illegal
and criminal acts committed by this government during these last five years:
Bush alone proudly claims to have violated 750 laws, and this doesn't count
Cheney or Rumsfeld and all the others who have done the same thing.
If citizens of the USA have to abide
by the laws of the nation then how can government not be forced to
abide by those same laws? 911 is and was a crime not the bogus act
of "terror" that is being used to justify a new dictatorship
of privatized authority. What we have now is a fascist group that ignores
the laws that limit them while trying at the same time to enslave
the population. Their goal is to enforce the dictates of private interests
whose only goals are total power and complete control. The circumstance
cannot be changed until the public accepts the fact that the 2000 election
was a Coup and that the 911 cover story was created to redirect the public's
focus; while the true criminals finished killing off the protections of
the Constitution: in order that no real questions could ever be asked because
of National Security concerns.
The theft of this nation was a very shabby
affair carried out by amateurs whose true motives are just beginning to
unravel big-time! Of course had there been a media to cover what
was happening, while this was going on none of this could have continued!
Had the media asked real questions the Supreme Court could not have
appointed Bush as "president." If congress had stepped into the
Florida vote count, as was their duty under the Constitution, then the
court would have had no jurisdiction; but congress remained silent and
the Court broke with the Separation of Powers Act that's how the
USA got its first Dictator!
The people didn't understand what happened,
so they kept silent. Then on September 11th
the Dictator pulled off his first direct
attack against the people of the United States, and to date he's
still not been asked to explain his actions on that day. No one who was
responsible for things like military defense, intelligence failures, or
preparedness has even been fired and apparently at least a third
of the public is still fine with that! We've even allowed blatant fabrications
about Flight 93 to appear in theaters; posing as a fact, when too much
evidence exists that contradicts every facet of that fairy-tale.
People who will not even demand answers
from their so-called leaders get exactly what they deserve. In a time of
war, it is imperative that the public question everything that leadership
does. The American public seems to be otherwise occupied. The public chose
to deal with their government from a distance, when that government was
supposedly democratic and free. But today there is a full blown dictatorship
where the Republic used to be: If that doesn't matter to you
then just delete this, and get on with your very important life.
For those to whom the questions matter
it appears that things are still continuing to change despite the
schemes and plans of the privateers still masquerading as the Corporatocracy.
This is "Mother's Day," a Sunday, and none of the Sunday morning
talk shows even mentioned the fact that Puerto Rico is now bankrupt, or
that the US has sent more troops and ships to the Gulf of Arabia. Apparently
we're planning to attack Iran sometime around the first of June; Bush is
simply waiting for the necessary excuse to "Open Fire." (It won't
take much, as apparently Americans will believe almost anything because
they tend to trust their dictator whenever "wars" are happening).
There was no mention of Karl Rove's indictment that also happened Saturday.
There was no in-depth discussion about anything but the illegal use of
US troops on the southern borders, another presidential edict neither
congress nor the governors were consulted. The president the vice-president
and Rummy need to hold a joint two hour press conference in prime time
and let alternative reporters and interested people question what they've
done as well as why they've acted as they have. If these three criminals
can't manage to accommodate the public, then at least give us Cheney directly,
and leave out the middle men!
The public needs to change the subject,
as it's clear that neither the congress nor the courts will ever actually
investigate 911. Popular Television and film have been making propaganda
for this government at a rate that surpasses all that was ever done previously
for any other war. Why? Because they want to keep the fear alive, they
want to keep the public terrified and insecure which is exactly the
opposite of what a government is supposed to do. Look at New Orleans; they
did exactly what no one wanted along the entire Gulf coast. No relief,
no help, no food, no shelter and still they have failed to act in
the majority of cases. Where is that investigation, now that the next hurricane
season is almost upon us? 'Brownie' quit, but no one was fired and
nothing has changed except that now FEMA has proven to be completely incompetent,
along with our Jewish run Homeland Security that too is apparently
worthless the largest agency in the federal government composed of
22 separate agencies, that had to cost hundreds of billions, and already
it's completely worthless brilliant strategy again!
Police departments around this country
have taken on the look of Marines in combat security personnel of
every flavor use every opportunity to insult and interrogate the people
they are supposed to be protecting the same people that are also
paying for their gruff existence. Look at all the secret and illegal acts
the White House and the Department of Defense committed both on and after
911. The PATRIOT acts are blatantly illegal, and were written well before
2001, by those who created this deadly and criminal charade. The public
never questioned this. Why hasn't the entire national intelligence bureaucracy
been dismantled and reformed, why haven't the FBI, the CIA and the NSA
been totally reshuffled? What about the Department of Defense and all those
career generals, admirals and staff in the Pentagon. We're losing the wars
in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet Bush is keeping the idiots throughout
government, those same people that made failure the order of the day! Of
course he hasn't fired them, because they're his idiots, they're his loyal
fools, and he can't do much if he begins to lose his loyal thugs
and Bush knows that all too well!
Now we are told that the president decided
to monitor all our calls trillions upon trillions of calls in four
years of spying on the public: During all that time how many were arrested
or charged for anything like the kind of security breach that would have
involved 300 million people in 'plotting against their own government'?
All of the above and more was possible, because people bought the idea
that 911 was an act of war by foreign forces and NOT a mega-crime against
the people of the USA.
There was an attack alright, but what
happened on 911 was home grown treason designed to capture Americans by
using bogus terror tactics to get us to relinquish all our freedoms, for
a type of "safety" that no person on this planet has any right
to expect. The USA has become the premier rogue nation in the world today,
under false pretenses, that were dipped in innocent blood and the criminally
of outrageous lies. Look at the levels of criminality within the government,
the scandals, the complicity, the lies that underpin the bribery, the insider
trading (on 911 as well as after): the patterns of collusion, cover-ups,
embezzlement, and fraud on a grand scale as well as outright treason. All
of this is written large for all to see yet still too few even
notice what has happened.
The government of the United States seems
to be following orders from the State of Israel. Israel demanded that Iraq
be defanged and we obliged! Now Israel wants to crush Iran and we're
in the process of doing that, despite the fact that there is no justification
for our interference there. Americans have died for these polices, and
even more will die in Iran not for American interests but for those
policies of private corporate business interests who want to silence any
opposition to Capitalism at any cost. Iraq and Iran are both left-over
policy failures from the Western power's decision to insert the Jews into
Palestine at the end of the Second World War.
Peace in Palestine is the key to everything
else in the Middle East yet almost every compliant act of ours, that
continues to favor Israel in that effort, has only further inflamed the
region and the world. Now there is no dialogue, no hope for a viable settlement,
and only more death and destruction on-tap for the Palestinians. In that
illegally brutal occupation of a conquered and unarmed population, the
United States has managed to undo a hundred years of integrity and leadership,
in order to appease the desires of a State that is not one of ours. Israel
does not adhere to human rights, to UN resolutions, to nuclear oversight,
or indeed to the needs or rights of any other nation but their own. The
US has backed Israel against the world, at a tremendous cost to US taxpayers,
for virtually no return on that investment, and without any justification
whatsoever for continuing to do so. Some say 'blackmail' is involved, but
that hardly seems credible given all the degrees of competing interests
in the world today. . .
Yet - like some third world puppet-state
the USA is going to again defend the State of Israel, and again jeopardize
the peace of the world, while again sacrificing even more American lives
simply to appease Israeli Lobbies in Washington and elsewhere? What
happened to American interests because what is good for Israel is
not necessarily good for the United States! If this president had any balls
he would aid the Palestinians for humanitarian reasons, insist that Israel
tear down that wall, and negotiate an end to the dispute over Palestine
by enforcing a return (with American troops) to the original borders originally
agreed to. If Bush were a true leader, instead of just another an impatient
politician drunk with power - he would prove his power by assisting the
people of Palestine to feed and house themselves, while demanding that
the Jews withdraw from all the illegal settlements they built on stolen
land.
As for the American congressional puppets,
those imposters that have illegally accepted so much money from AIPAC and
others these are those who parrot the party line on terror and keep
the lies in place. If they really wanted to know about 911, then they need
to look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue if as they say
they really want to know the TRUTH!
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George W Bush... Planetary Pirate
George W Bush... Planetary Pirate
by Paul Levy - 3-23-7
We live in a world where the deeper, underlying mythic
patterns that have endlessly reiterated themselves throughout human history
are incarnating and revealing themselves through world events for all who
have eyes to see. As if in a timeless fairy tale, our species has gotten
drafted into playing out roles in a vast, multi-dimensional process which
is revealing itself as it acts itself out through us. Seeing the mythical,
archetypal roles that are being unconsciously enacted in the world theater
initiates a process of deep transformation, both within ourselves and the
world at large.
In this mythical drama we find ourselves in, our planet
has been pirated and co-opted by the figure of George Bush and his gang
of robber barons, who have taken control of the most powerful war machine
the world has ever known and are using it to accomplish their own self-serving
agenda. They are in the process of taking us hostage in our own country
and are using our homeland to plunder and terrorize the rest of the planet.
In this cosmic drama we are all sharing, George Bush and Co. have gotten
dreamed up to play out, in full-bodied form, the archetypal, mythical role
of pirate, which is a figure that exists deep within the collective unconscious
of humanity.
Instead of pirates of the Caribbean, however, Bush and
Co. are pirates of what Buckminster Fuller called "spaceship earth."
In his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, Fuller pointed out how
piracy has been one of the chief underlying factors shaping western history,
and thus determining the way our world power structure has developed and
still operates.
For example, in a truly ground-breaking expose that is
easy to overlook because there are so many other administration scandals
competing for our attention, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in his
latest article titled "The Redirection," has uncovered that the
Bush regime is covertly funneling funds earmarked for Iraq's reconstruction
into fomenting sectarian violence and igniting civil wars in the region.
Their underlying intention is to create enough chaos so that they can reconfigure
the Middle East and thereby achieve their geo-political aim of seizing
the oil and natural gas reserves in the region. Please see
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=view
Article&code=CAR20070304&articleId=4992.
This is truly a diabolical act of modern-day global piracy
writ large on the world stage that is utterly perverse.
Pirates (and I am referring not to the romanticized Hollywood
version, but to those who commit criminal acts of theft and violence against
others, a.k.a., piracy) are symbolic of a macho, testosterone-driven pathological
figure in the human psyche that, just like a bully, abuses power over others
because they can. They pillage and murder simply because others can't stop
them, which is morally indefensible. Pirates are not merely criminally insane,
they are morally insane. Pirates are truly sociopathic, as they have no
conscience. They have become possessed by the power-drive of the shadow,
which compels them to transgress and violate individuals' (or nations')
boundaries. Pirates are driven to dominate and enslave others, as they act
out the shadow of which they themselves are possessed. Pirates are symbolic
of a virulent element in the human psyche which has become addicted to power
and taken over by greed and lust for blood and booty.
Pirates are malignant narcissists, as they only care about
their own masturbatory fantasies - they see the world as something they
are entitled to loot and symbolically rape. They believe they can get away
with murder literally. Like a genuine sociopath, pirates lack the
facility to empathically see through their victim's eyes. Like a true predator,
these privateers relate to others as objects from whom they can try to satisfy
their never-ending hedonistic desire for pleasure. When pirates seize power,
they do what is best for themselves, with no regard for anyone else
those who don't support their dark vision get metaphorically "thrown
overboard."
Pirates symbolize the pathological figure of the predator
who gets fed and even energized by doing violence to others. Pirates are
an incarnation of the role of perpetrator or abuser, as they are the initiators
of aggression based on their own insatiable blood-lust. Pirates are symbolic
of the murderous insanity of the separate self, as in their marauding violence
they are completely and utterly asleep to our interconnectedness.
Pirates are embodiments of the pathological aspect of our
species that is susceptible to joining into lawless gangs so as to prey
on and steal from those who are weaker. Because of the fact that these gangsters
always configure themselves into groups, they are like organized crime syndicates.
Pirates operate outside the restricting laws of conventional bureaucracy,
as they live by a different set of rules than everyone else. They are true
outlaws, as they live outside the law.
If it sounds like I am describing George Bush and Co.,
it is because Bush and his henchmen are unconsciously possessed by, and
therefore embodying and pathologically acting out on the world stage the
mythical, archetypal role of pirate. Pirates are symbolic of the archetypal
quality of "evil", one of whose inner meanings, etymologically
speaking, is to "transgress boundaries". Bush and Co. have become
instruments for darker powers to incarnate themselves into our world. The
figure of pirate is an archetypal, mythic image that re-presents and symbolizes
a darker, sick, sadistic and self-destructive part of ourselves.
It is like we are on a ship that Bush and Cheney have hijacked
(the word "plane hijacker" in French is "pirate de l'air";
we can thus call Bush and Co. "pirate de la planete" planet
hijacker). They literally hijacked stole both the 2000 and the
2004 elections. When these planetary pirates and those that support
them - took over our country, it was as if they perpetrated a political
coup, hijacking our ship of state, and in so doing many people fell under
their spell such that they barely noticed. In a form of mass mind-control,
part of their coup was to take over the mainstream media in such a way so
as to put out propaganda aimed at convincing people that no hostile takeover
had even taken place. Bush and Co. are modern-day corporate pirates in possession
of the most cutting edge mind-control technology the world has ever known.
Bush and Co. have "captured" our nation
and "captivated" the minds of millions of our populace brainwashing
people by playing on their fear. We must recognize our complicity in allowing
these depraved warlords to rule over us, otherwise we are unwittingly serving
and supporting them as if they are our masters. Their power over us depends
upon our being dis-connected from each other as well as from ourselves.
We play right into their hands if we believe ourselves to be so disempowered.
Their worst nightmare would be for us to connect with our intrinsic creative
power as well as each other.
Having seized control of our country, they have emptied
the coffers of our national treasury, and enlisted our nation into serving
their barbaric ends. We need to recognize the extent of the Bush regime's
utter criminality. In a universal court of law, those committing piracy
are considered to be "hostis humani generic", a Latin term which
translates as "enemies of humanity." In essence, pirates like
Bush have declared war against humanity, who they hold in contempt.
From the dreaming point of view, whose logic is not linear
but synchronistic, it is not a coincidence that Bush is a member of "Skull
and Bones," which is the very symbol of piracy. Nor is it an accident
that pirates are "carousers," which Bush was for the majority
of his life and still is, just in disguised form. It is like Bush is on
a weekend bender that has lasted over six years, and the world is his crime
scene.
If it sounds like I am "blaming" Bush and his
administration, I say "yes", I am blaming them - I am blaming
them for immoral, criminal acts which they are guilty of perpetrating on
humanity and for which they deserve to be blamed. It is a huge mistake to
be one-sidedly identified with the expansive, overly spiritual new-age point
of view that there's no one to blame, that we are all responsible. Yes,
on one level, we are all co-creating and dreaming up this universe together,
which is to say we are all complicit in different ways in what is playing
out and there is no one to blame. But to be fully identified with this absolute
point of view is to marginalize that from another very real point of view,
relatively speaking, there are people who are perpetrating violence and
abuse onto others. It is the most compassionate thing to do at these moments
of abuse to not pretend the violence is something other than what it is.
One of the unconscious, shadow sides of the well-intentioned
spiritual, progressive and liberal movements is to be hesitant to cast blame
when it is the very skillful and enlightened response which is called for.
Those who are perpetrating violence have a name and an address. This doesn't
mean we don't love them, and have compassion for them, and forgive them.
It does mean, however, that we stop them from perpetrating further abuse
if we are able and hold them accountable for their actions. People who are
compulsively enacting violence in the world will not stop voluntarily, they
are literally crying out for and dreaming up other people who are courageous
enough to set a boundary and stop their out of control and ultimately self-destructive
behavior.
It is important for us to realize that Bush and Cheney
are only the front-men for the organized crime syndicate of pirates which
they serve and represent. Bush and Cheney are merely actors in a grand play.
It is important to get in focus the roles they are playing. We can pick
our own metaphors (criminals, mad, ignorant, fascists, possessed by demons,
etc), whichever one works for you is fine. The point is for us to get into
focus and "see" the evil that Bush and Cheney are actually doing;
this is the last thing they want.
Sometimes clearly seeing what is happening is the very
act which spontaneously activates and mobilizes effective action. Bush and
Co. have a distinct advantage if we don't recognize their predator-like
nature. We can't possibly be able to meet their challenge unless we clearly
discern what we are up against. The more of us that see the danger confronting
us the better, as we can then creatively join forces in a way which actively
empowers us to successfully meet the crisis we are facing.
Paul Levy is an artist and a spiritually-informed political
activist. A pioneer in the field of spiritual awakening, he is a healer
in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dream-like
nature of reality. He is the author of The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection
of Our Collective Psychosis, which is available at his website www.awakeninthedream.com.
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The Criminal Regime
The Criminal Regime
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe they are free."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A police state exists when federal and state political and police mechanisms:
- Shut down media coverage after they steal an election
- Serve the central government instead of serving the citizens
- Enforce the policies of the central government instead of responding primarily to criminal misdeeds
- Spy on and intimidate citizens
All these conditions now exist in the United States!
- In a free society, police agencies respond to evidence of planned and actual criminal activity.
- Police officers in a free society keep the peace; they do not investigate citizens and activities unless there is some reason to investigate.
- In a free society, police do not investigate citizens' attitudes toward the central government, only their action.
- Citizen dissent is lawful in a free society and police agencies do not investigate citizens' attitudes toward the criminal justice apparatus.
Those conditions no longer exist in the United States!
Under the former 1989 Guidelines, the FBI first had to obtain evidence suggesting some kind of criminal activity before its agents could begin investigating. Under the FBI's new May 30, 2002 revised Guidelines, FBI agents are authorized to carry out "general topical research" and retain files on this research. Specifically, agents may conduct "online searches" and visit "online sites and forums as part of such research."
The new Guidelines (PDF) warn against searching "for information by individuals' names or other individual identifiers," but it's okay to search by names to locate "names of authors who write on the topic" that the agent is researching. Of course every citizen of the United States is a possible "author" of e-mail messages on a variety of subjects, so all U.S. citizens are potential "terrorism suspects" under these new guidelines.
The new Guidelines now encourage the FBI to snoop around looking for people who might be suspicious, creating files on anyone who catches their fancy. Agents can now investigate people, organizations, websites, chat rooms and forums for any reason or for no reason at all. They can enter your home without a warrant and are not required to inform you that they have invaded your home if you are not present.
All the records they create in their investigations will be placed in national databases available to all agencies now under the new "Homeland Security" umbrella. Never in U.S. history has there been such a monolithic surveillance mechanism with the terrible power to destroy American citizens' lives.
The 1989 and the new 2002 Guidelines expressly state that the FBI must not launch investigations "based solely on [citizens'] activities protected by the First Amendment or on the lawful exercise of any other [federal or Constitutional] rights." Do you see your local FBI agent as having a clear enough understanding of constitutional rights to keep him from investigating people whom he identifies as having "terrorist proclivities?"
Big Brother is watching you
Scores of U.S. cities are now using surveillance television camera systems to spy on citizens--shades of 1984. With video cameras perched atop buildings and poles, watching whatever American are doing, do you suppose there might be some potential for abuse in such systems? Christian Parenti's, article, "DC's Virtual Panopticon," in the June 3, 2002 issue of The Nation describes how "police in Detroit and DC have used CCTV [closed-circuit television] to stalk personal foes, political opponents and young women." Smile, you're on Kandid Kamera.
To justify its expanding obliteration of constitutional liberties, the Bush administration uses the most insane brand of logic--which should outrage American citizens:
- Why did the intelligence agencies fail to detect or prevent 9/11? Because they didn't have enough money. So we'll give them billions more.
- Why is the F.B.I. still failing in its fight against terrorism? Because the rights of American citizens are preventing the agency from carrying out its job. So we'll set up new Guidelines and take away more constitutional rights of citizens.
- Why is it unnecessary for the Bush administration to provide records to Congress concerning Enron or prior knowledge of possible terrorist attacks? Because we're in a state of war and the executive branch must not be hamstrung by witchhunts or frivolous investigations.
The U.S. Government Spying on and Lying to Its Citizens
Between 1956-1971, the F.B.I. conducted domestic "counterintelligence programs" ( COINTELPRO) to spy on, intimidate, and radicalize political dissident groups. The F.B.I. had carried out covert operations throughout its history, but the target of the COINTELPRO operations was radical political organizations. Since the F.B.I. spied on American political dissidents, not foreign agents, "counterintelligence" was merely a cover name for the FBI activities.
F.B.I., military, and police forces have a notorious record of illegally quashing citizen dissent. Frank Morales's article, "U.S. Military Civil Disturbance Planning," in the Spring-Summer, 2000 issue of Covert Action Quarterly exposed "Operation Garden Plot."
"Under the heading of 'civil disturbance planning', the U.S. military is training troops and police to suppress democratic opposition in America. The master plan, Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, is code-named, 'Operation Garden Plot'. Originated in 1968, the 'operational plan' has been updated over the last three decades, most recently in 1991, and was activated during the Los Angeles 'riots' of 1992, and more than likely during the recent anti-WTO 'Battle in Seattle.'
"Current U.S. military preparations for suppressing domestic civil disturbance, including the training of National Guard troops and police, are actually part of a long history of American 'internal security' measures dating back to the first American Revolution. Generally, these measures have sought to thwart the aims of social justice movements, embodying the concept that within the civilian body politic lurks an enemy that one day the military might have to fight, or at least be ordered to fight."
The American government has a habit of lying to its citizens when it wants to contrive a new war.
Remember the Maine!
- In 1898, the sinking of the battleship Maine was the excuse for the Spanish American War
- In 1915, the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania was the excuse for World War I
- In 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor was the excuse for World War II
- In 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin affair was the excuse for the Vietnam War
- In 2001, the 9/11 attacks were the excuse for the "war on terrorism"
- In 2003, the fictional weapons of mass destruction were the pretext for the war on Iraq
Government By Coup d'Etat and Intimidation
We know that the beginning stages of a police state exist in the United States when:
- a leader is brought into power through illegal means
- a national catastrophe is used as the pretext to begin a war and institute extraordinary restrictions on constitutional liberties
- citizen dissent is held to be treasonous
- the constitutional separation of powers is abrogated by a power-mad executive branch which controls or intimidates the other two branches of government
The US Patriot Act was enacted by a Congress that had not actually read it. The only thing representatives and senators got was a two or three page compendium from the White House press office. Nobody was actually given the time to read the provisions of the act. The White House intimidated members of Congress into passing the bill by telling them that if they refused to sign it, they'd be labeled as "unpatriotic"--something almost all members of Congress were frightened of at the time.
Lieberman, Daschle and Gephardt later wrote a memorandum stating that Congress had effectively given the Bush Administration "near dictatorial powers."
A Militarist Police State
The signs are unmistakable; the Bush regime is waging a "war against dissent," rapidly moving the United States to a total police state.
American citizens had assumed that the Patriot Act and the FBI Guidelines assured that only foreign aliens could be placed in military detention centers, unprotected by the U.S. constitution. But on June 10, 2002, an American citizen was declared by Bush, without due process, to be an "enemy combatant" and to have no constitutional protections. This American citizen was thrown into a naval brig in South Carolina.
Of course, Abdullah al Muhajir, a U.S. citizen also known as Jose Padilla, has been branded a "known terrorist" with ties to al Qaeda, so almost no one is speaking out against this abrogation of constitutional procedures. A reputed "terrorist" who is said to have been building a "dirty bomb," Padilla, a New York-born man of Puerto Rican descent, is assumed to be beyond the pale, not worthy of judicial prerogatives. But what happens when Bush or the FBI brands you as a "terrorist" because you appear to be a dissenter, denying you your constitutional rights as a U.S. citizen?
Attorney General Ashcroft explicitly stated that terrorists do not deserve constitutional protections. all they deserve are "courts" of conviction, not justice. Unfortunately, in this creeping police state, who does and doesn't receive justice is determined by Bush and his underlings. Ashcroft's successor, Gonzalez, is supporting every police state action the Bush junta is perpetrating.
The Bush administration wants us to believe that we are in an actual state of war--and therefore must operate under restricted wartime civil liberties. You can't take a government seriously when it says we're in a state of war and yet refuses to reduce the record-breaking number of immigrants it's allowing into the country each day.
All the new oversight laws the Bush administration has passed concern domestic surveillance of the American population, not restrictions on immigration or tightening the screening process to examine new arrivals in America. A man like Ashcroft is laughable when he bulldozes constitutional liberties yet refuses to allow gun ownership records to be used in the "war on terrorism."
The New American Thought Police
One of the most horrendous aspects of this incipient American police state is its portrayal as a benign patriotism. "We're going to make our nation safe from terrorists," Bush sneers. This is a part of the larger propaganda campaign to make Dubya appear a harmless dunce--someone who isn't smart enough to be a villain.
As we've seen in a previous essay the parallels between Nazi Germany and the Bush administration are striking. Bush's creeping police state is being ushered in through exactly the same means that Hitler used to overpower the German people. Along with the attacks of his brutal Gestapo thugs, Hitler achieved ultimate success when he got the people to spy and inform on one another.
So the Bush administration has recently given the new Neighborhood Watch Association and their new allies from the old AmeriCorp, $3.8 billion in government funds to create what Bill Berkowitz has termed AmeriSnitch.
The Bush regime's Thought Police was inaugurated by Ashcroft and Ed McMahon, with Ed portraying himself as a jolly buffoon.
But this is the farthest thing from a comedy. The American Civil Liberties Union quite correctly sees this new Neighborhood Watch initiative as part of an "ongoing pattern of erosion of basic civil liberties in America in the name of unproven security measures."
"By asking neighborhood groups to report on people who are 'unfamiliar' or who act in ways that are 'suspicious' or 'not normal,' our government is unconstructively fear-mongering, and fueling the already rampant ethnic and religious scapegoating," says ACLU President Nadine Strossen.
The most depraved aspect of this new initiative is the recruitment of young people into this reincarnation of the Hitler Youth. So in the upcoming months we'll see the buffoon-like pied piper, Ed McMahon, on TV enlisting youngsters into their friendly Neighborhood Watch Gestapo program.
Another Gestapo group jumping on the bandwagon is "Americans for Victory Over Terrorism," led by former Education secretary Bill Bennett. Representing themselves as crusaders for virtue and conservative values, this Gestapo group will wage holy war against those they brand as weakening America's resolve to fight terrorism. In his opening announcement, Bennett pledged to take this fight "to campuses, salons, oratorical societies, editorial pages and television."
"It's the height of paranoid insanity to claim we're moving toward a police state," the blissfully ignorant proclaim. "If there's a police state," they sneer, "where's the goose-stepping Gestapo in our streets?" You can see them if you look beyond the old manifestations of tyranny to the new forms. And staring you in the face are the civilian concentration camps that have already been set up.
Fortunately, we are only in the first stages of this new hellish police state and we can stop it in its tracks if we act now to form a unified, activist citizen taskforce.
There are many people in the world who support our efforts to preserve American freedom, including:
- the highest ranking UN human rights official
- a former presidential staff member
- even some conservatives
This isn't a matter of if we decide to stop this police state in its infancy; we either stop it now or it will inevitably germinate into a full-blown monster. Now that the cabal behind Bush have stolen the 2004 election--and put in place a system to steal all future elections--we must do everything we can to struggle against the Bush II police state. Certainly, we must have the courage to point out its reality and resist it in whatever way possible.
By Norman D. Livergood
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