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Revolution
By John S. Hatch
11/26/05 "ICH" -- -- President Bush was recently criticized for not
being forceful enough in denouncing Chinese human rights abuses
during a trip there. Excuse me? This is the torture president. How
on earth can the United States preach to anyone in the world
about human rights or the rule of law, or morality? In even raising
the question, has Mr. Bush abandoned any claim to sanity? If it is
wrong for China to abuse human rights (and it’s true that their
record is horrible) how is it acceptable for the US in Iraq to
sexually torture imprisoned children as a means to coerce their
(probably completely innocent) parents to disclose information they
most likely don’t have?
There is within the mythology America finds so indispensable
something so sick and downright evil, but so pervasive that even
after all the revelations of torture and rape and murder sanctioned
at the highest levels of government, even now the numbness persists,
and writers still insist on thinking that America is somehow a
shining example of decency to a world which needs its sanctimonious
preaching. Who in their right mind would want to emulate America in
this century? Who on earth would want to be an American in this
darkest of times? America is like a born-again Christian
fundamentalist—mean, ignorant, full of hate and rage and
superstition, but utterly convinced of his own righteousness. In
short, insane. Dangerously insane.
In Iraq American sanctioned and trained elements of the Iraqi
military are back to using electric drills on ‘insurgents’, an old
Saddam phenomenon. Drill for oil, drill for blood. They’ll drill
your knee, or your arm, or your head. You are innocent. Doesn’t
matter. Think George cares? White phosphorous. Depleted uranium.
Shock and awe. Cluster bombs. Etcetera. Where are those photographs
and videos of children undergoing torture at Abu Grahaib that a
judge ordered released months ago? Whatever happened to the rule of
law? Where did accountability go? Where the hell is the outrage? Why
are Bush and Rumsfeld and Rice and a bunch of others not in jail
cells? Where is the outrage?
For those who think that change is coming in ’06 or ’08, think
again—these people cannot relinquish power, whatever further lies
and outrages they must commit to retain it. There are simply too
many crimes against humanity and war crimes for which to avoid
accountability at all costs. Lives depend on it. Many more crimes
are yet to be reported. Do not for a moment consider that this bunch
would not, if they saw it in their interests, engineer another
deadly 911 incident (blamed on Muslims, of course) to once again
terrorize the populace into meek submission. It may be
pathologically manipulative and barbaric, but that’s Straussian
politics. To them it’s not only acceptable, it’s business as usual.
It’s probably going to happen, as Bush’s numbers continue to
decline.
America has seen bad times—slavery, the civil war, McCarthyism and
communist hysteria, never-ending racism, Nixon and Kissinger, the
unheralded horror of Reagan, but Bush has brought disaster on a
completely different level. Bush is a dupe, if an evil one, but
there are truly ugly, nasty people pulling his strings. Nothing
short of a second American revolution is going to rescue your
nation. Even now Bush is making plans to violently stop such a thing
from happening. We’re going to see once and for all if Americans
stand for the vaunted values to which they give such eloquent and
loud lip service. If so, then I fear they will have to pay in blood.
It’s come to that. I’m sorry.
John S. Hatch is a Vancouver writer and film-maker. He can be
reached at
johnhatch@canada.com
www.jhatchfilms.citymax.com
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