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. The Descent Of Man Presidential Mutation Through Unnatural Selection That the world's most powerful and dangerous man should reach his fifty-eighth year not knowing very much, is flabbergasting. But it's also true. "He doesn't know very much." Perhaps this stage of arrested development is best evident in our grown-up president's own words, "I see things in black and white. I'm not about nuancing." Or, in his summation of the ideological motivations of the entire human race, all 6.8 billion of us,"You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists." And my personal favorite, when speaking to Bob Woodward of Watergate fame, the president of the United States said, "I am the commander, see. I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they need to say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." Responding to this last statement, psychotherapist Dr. Carol Norris observes, "What a profoundly childlike thing to say (not to be confused with childish). It sounds to me like a kid trying desperately, yet transparently, to convince people he is fit for a role he secretly is unsure he can fulfill and discuss." She goes on to add, "It's called: Stage Zero." 3 The president of the United States is little more than an organic ventriloquist's dummy with some sort of inexplicable populist appeal. His stupidity and the tragedy of September Eleventh have been used to plunge this country into war and insolvency for reasons neither the president nor his advisors can or will demonstrate. He's been prepped and coached and used to mutate a great American tragedy into an instrument of even greater tragedy: September Eleventh/Operation Iraqi Freedom (or its original name, Operation Iraqi Liberation: O.I.L. for short). He stood upon the crushed remains of the dead at Ground Zero, and used his words to seal the fate of more innocents than Osama (Remember Osama?) had ever dreamed. He stood upon that hallowed ground and deliberately misled this country into believing he is a great deal more than the abject incompetent that has characterized every single one of his prior endeavors. From his Washington easy chair, he's taken countless lives, while the "news" tells us only of Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant, and a small time (just fourteen) serial killer they call the "Beltway Sniper." There's little time, one must suppose, for news about the stupid white man I call the "Beltway Butcher." Now, while blowing up two foreign lands, imposing untold suffering on random innocents, depleting the US Treasury of nearly a trillion dollars, and using the naiveté, grief, and terror of our own citizens as carte blanche to advance the agenda of the warmongering lunatics comprising his cabinet, he is refusing to reveal what is probably the most important part of a tax-funded report on the events and motivations leading up to the whole horrific affair. The President of the United States is refusing to release us a major part of the very report we the people have funded and for which we've been waiting through two of the most divisive and critical years in our nation's history. He is refusing to release to us, huge sections of the very report justifying or criticizing the greatest act of faith exhibited by any peoples toward any leader in our combined national history. He's taken us to war. He's bankrupted us. Our children are being murdered in foreign streets daily. He's encouraging the loss of personal freedoms. But no matter how heinous the outrage, we've gone along with the apparent stupidity out of some sort of patriotic sense of country. Some might call it fear. Twenty-eight pages, blacked out, hidden, horded by these tyrants in the used and abused name of security as the deadline for compliance grows nearer. Why are we allowing it? How do we know such control of information is not compromising our security? Where in the hell is the outrage? This is the congressional report on the events leading up to the September Eleventh attack on our country! It belongs to every American. What in God's name has become of us? Consider how this man's simplistic stupidity led us to this travesty of power. Bush was told of a New Domino Theory. It went something like this: once a tyrant or two falls through overwhelming American military force, democracy would spread through the Mid East country-by-country like tumbling dominoes. He liked what he heard. With no substantive frame of reference, the stupid president believed it. Perhaps uncurious George W. Bush should have read about the old Domino Theory before invoking the new one. But he acted on his faith - a dismal substitute for knowledge - despite that there is no evidence in all of human history to support such lunacy. Thousands upon thousands died and are dying still. Now he justifies the bloodshed with sophomoric claptrap. He's already sacrificed our troops to Afghanistan only to let it fall back into the chaos of a Taliban controlled heroin capitol of the world. Now, with the place in a worse shambles than it was when he found it, but with a powerless American-installed puppet government in place, Dubya's cronies can step in and build the pipeline from the sea to the Urals that his own father tried and failed to do by creating the Taliban in the first place. And finally, with a fresh and unconditional gift of $87 billion addional tax dollars from our congress, George W. Bush still has time to pull off this Iraq thing, and in doing so he might actually have his first success.4 George might actually complete the oil ring, thus showing his old petrochemical cronies, that - despite his decades spent as the oil executive who never found a drop, and never turned a profit - Dubya can ultimately be remembered as the oil industry's greatest benefactor since the inventor of gas gouging. The road to ruin has been paved. We need only keep following it. One year after 17% of voting age Americans swept this familied ne'er-do-well into office, a panicked and irrational electorate swept away our founders' and our Constitution's system of checks and balances by replacing the legislature with an equally frightened gaggle of primitives, thus leaving the criminal usurpers of the executive branch free to pillage our nation. They did exactly that. Within two years the largest federal budget surplus in American history gave way to the largest government deficit in the history of all the governments of the world. Nearly a trillion federal tax dollars have vanished since 1999. Where are they? Tell me. I challenge you to tell me the truth without incriminating this administration!4 Last week $87 billion was given to him and his campaign contributors ostensibly to rebuild Iraq. The congress was taken off the hook by lying that it was to support our troops. Yet the first $8.5 million of it went for security and to quell peaceful demonstrations at the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Summit in Miami.5 This week Medicare is doomed to privatization. Next week it will be Patriot Act II that we will inherit at the cost of more of our liberties and billions. When does the repression and the stealing and the killing stop? When do we take back America? When do we return to her founders' ideals? How very far we've fallen as a peoples. Thomas Jefferson was America's architect and her builder. He wrote the Declaration Of Independence. No man since has been better fit to lead this country, no man - before of since - more deserving of the honor. On January 1, 1801 Jefferson was inaugurated America's 3rd President. At his inauguration, he said these words, these amazing words, "The essential principles of our Government... form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety." And while lineage, wealth, family, and observed behavior clearly qualify Junior as what Jefferson rightly called an artificial aristocrat without virtue or talents, his nearly every word and deed expose his dismally inadequate intellect as well and disqualify him as our president. Nothing in his past qualifies him to be our president. Nothing in his DNA qualifies him to be our president. Nothing in his actions or policies qualifies him to be our president. Nothing in the 2001 election results qualifies him to be our president. So despite the admonitions that we "get over it" coming from the morally-superior hypocrites such as Rush (the name takes on a whole new meaning today, doesn't it) Limbaugh and the other stupid charlatans whose babble dominates the American airwaves, this moderate, patriotic American - me - will never get over it. Never! Not while there's breath in my lungs and blood in my veins. This administration has used all the old dirty tricks of separating us, by giving us labels, and by preying on our fears and our ignorance of one another. Divide and conquer. They persuade us that we're a nation of Left and Right and nothing in between. Baloney! We're almost all of us in between. For example, we've all been labeled as either patriots or liberals, hawks or doves. Just listen to talk radio. It's a mantra of hatred spewed without letup. How novel. How brilliant. How very original. How patently absurd. "Sooner or later people will wake up. First we have to dump the trap of right and left, this is a Hegelian trap to divide and control. The battle is not between right and left; it is between us and them." --Anthony Sutton, 1999
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