The sudden unconstitutional decision by five unelected
right-wing activist Supreme Court justices to blatantly
steal an election for one of their own -- to stop the
vote count so Bush would not be "embarassed" by losing
-- was a frightening assault upon the separation of
powers, the American people, and upon democracy itself.
Having upset the national equilibrium, George Bush and
Dick Cheney hit the deck at a dead run, trashing
everything in their path. Like a couple of deranged
Benny Hills with
"Yakety Sax" blaring in
the background, they trashed treaties, insulted other
world leaders, and undermined Constitutional restraints
on everything that stood between them and their goal of
worldwide corporate pillage and total executive power.
Those who dare to look back will be struck by the speed
at which they resurrected the zombies of the Iran-Contra
era, the tyrannical neo-Straussians, and the godless
right-wing evangelical warmongers, Talk about an Axis!
The stage was set for their long-planned crusade to
gain control of not
only the world and its resources but of space and
cyberspace as well. The only thing lacking was an
incident to catapault them into the war for which they
lusted -- an incident of such magnitude that cries of
dissent would be lost in the roar for war.
Their vision of global dominance supplied them with
moral justification for the filthy lies that took us
into two wars and is threatening a third. "It is
ironic," writes Canadian author and professor
Shadia Drury, "that
American neoconservatives have decided to conquer the
world in the name of liberty and democracy, when they
have so little regard for either." Drury has written two
books on the philosophy of Leo Strauss, and she writes
that Strauss believed "religion and war -- perpetual war
-- would lift the masses from the animality of bourgeois
consumption and the pre-occupation with 'creature
comforts'. Instead of personal happiness, they would
live their lives in perpetual sacrifice to God and the
nation."
Neoconservatives such as Paul Wolfowitz, Irving and Bill
Kristol, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser,
John Negroponte, and many others, took from Strauss a
doctrine of "all politics all the time" -- nasty,
deceptive and repressive -- whatever it takes for the
elite to exercise control over the vulgar unwashed. That
would be you and me, fellow Americans, and Strauss said
we could be inspired to rise above our "brutish
existence only by fear of impending death or
catastrophe." The lies they told, and continue to tell,
according to Drury, are
"noble lies for the
consumption of the masses."
We are in the clutches of an evil, evil group of
psychopaths -- warmongering moral cowards whose faux
leader, George W. Bush, is a shallow, self-destructive
little bully who deserted his military post during a
time of war. Perhaps the most frightening of all is
Michael Ledeen. Looking back, some might remember that
Ledeen was Secretary of State Alexander Haig's advisor,
a member of the National Security Council and a
consultant for Ronald Reagan's Department of Defense. He
played a central role in the Iran-Contra scandal. It was
Ledeen who made the initial contact with Iranian arms
dealers, which launched the arms-for-hostages affair and
could have -- should have -- brought down the Reagan
presidency.
Anyone reading Ledeen's book,
Machiavelli on Modern
Leadership, will recognize the Bush doctrine and
know that the horror of 9-11 was a foregone conclusion
-- a "done deal" -- the minute they seized the 2000
election. Ledeen wrote, "To be an effective leader, the
most prudent method is to ensure that your people are
afraid of you. To instill that fear, you must
demonstrate that those who attack you will not survive."
On the evening of 9-11, Bush went before a paralyzed
nation and, after a brief comment about praying,
grieving and mourning for the 3,000 victims of that
terrible day, he announced, "Thousands of lives were
suddenly ended by evil." Then, warming to his subject,
Bush rammed home what would become his mantra for the
next six years -- "These acts shattered steel, but they
cannot dent the steel of American resolve." He then
assured the masses that he would make no distinction
between the "terrorists" and the regimes that harbored
them. Bush's vision for revenge was to chase them all
over the world and kill them all...
But a vision is not a plan. Looking back, it appears
that Bush's plan for perpetual war is sending Americans
to their deaths, unequipped and untrained, while
bellowing, "Support the Troops!" Bush's plan is
destroying an entire nation, its culture, its
infrastructure -- raping, torturing and slaughtering its
people for no reason other than he can. It is creating a
humanitarian
crisis of mind-boggling proportions -- more than 3.9
million Iraqis have fled their homes to safer areas in
Iraq and in neighboring countries.
For Americans, it is more than a momentary inconvenience
that
3,302 of their
sons and daughters have needlessly been killed, 40 just
last week, and that more than 26,000 have been wounded,
broken, maimed -- their lives and those of their loved
ones utterly destroyed. Stretching our military with its
proud and honorable tradition of protecting this country
until it breaks and then outsourcing legions of
mercenaries to do our dirty work of preemptive attacks
and occupation of other countries is not a plan that
Americans will support.
Bush reminds us on a daily basis that our world changed
on "September the 11th." That is true. But we must dare
to look back even further to that dark December day when
five Supreme Court judges made the ghastly decision that
spawned the horrors of not only 9-11, but of the carnage
in which we are embroiled today.
Before that bleak day, I had never used the f-word nor
uttered the Lord's name in vain. However, as this nation
teeters on the cusp of spiritual, physical and political
death, I can only pray that God will damn them. Every
last fucking one of them. Please God. Damn them all.
