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Welcome to the Fourth Reich
David McGowan
http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/
September 21, 2001
Let me see if I understand this situation correctly. In order to wage
a war to promote 'freedom' and 'democracy' around the world, it is
necessary to sacrifice those very democratic freedoms here at home.
That makes perfect sense to me, as it apparently does to all the flag-
wavers out there who have fallen victim to the relentless war-
mongering propaganda being spewed out by our 'independent' media.
Some of you, by the way, may want to keep those flags readily
accessible in the coming months and years. They will come in very
handy to drape over the pine boxes that your sons and daughters will
be being shipped home in.
It does seem a bit strange though that the man leading the
charge to extend 'democracy' to all corners of the globe didn't
actually assume office through anything even remotely resembling a
democratic process, but was rather appointed by five men who
themselves were appointed to office. I guess that's unimportant
though, as none of our politicians or their fully complicit media
hacks have bothered to comment on it.
Still it should be noted that while Sir George rants and
raves about how Osama bin Laden hates democracy and freedom, it was
he and his appointers who showed complete contempt for the most basic
tenets of democracy just ten short months ago. The Supreme Court
decision signed by Rehnquist did state, in no uncertain terms,
that: "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to
vote for electors for the President of the United States."
So now we are treated to the repellent spectacle of a man who
we had no right to vote for - according to the interpreters of our
Constitution - teaching the world by show of force exactly how
democracy is practiced. Now isn't that special. It does seem funny
though that none of the supposed 'liberals' in Washington or in the
press corps have had a goddamned thing to say about any of that.
Not a ripple of dissent on Capitol Hill or from the press
corps could be heard in reaction to Bush's absurd statement to
Congress and the people Thursday evening that "[The terrorists] hate
what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected
government." Of course, it would be difficult to argue with the first
part of that statement.
It is certainly true that many of the world's people hate the
men and women that were in that room, and with good reason. It is
not, as Bush indicated, because "They hate our freedoms," but rather
because they have been driven to unthinkable levels of hatred by
having been denied their own freedoms for decades - thanks in large
part to the military interventions designed and implemented by the
men in that room.
It is frequently said that those who forget history are
condemned to repeat its mistakes. George Bush though has not likely
forgotten the history that is now being repeated. It was, after all,
his grandfather Prescott Bush and his great-grandfather Herbert
Walker who had their assets seized by the Alien Property Custodian
under the Trading With The Enemy Act for operating Nazi front
companies during World War II.
That didn't stop Bush from declaring, in his Thursday night
speech, that: "We have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of
all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century ... they follow in
the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism." Quite a remarkable
statement coming from the grandson of one of the men who financed the
rise and genocidal reign of those ideologies.
Even more remarkable is that he made that statement
immediately after declaring that: "We're not deceived by their
pretensions to piety." Not surprisingly, his trademark smirk could be
detected lurking just beneath the surface of his feigned earnestness.
The script that his forebears helped bring to life many
decades ago has now been dusted off and resurrected by the chosen
son. All of the elements are already in place. An unelected leader
has seized control of the country through 'legal' means, though the
legality was predicated solely on the fact that those interpreting
the law were fully complicit conspirators.
The legislative branch of government has abandoned all
pretense of being anything other than a single-party entity, and has
bestowed upon the Chief Executive sweeping powers to wage war, both
at home and abroad, in any way his administration sees fit. The
Department of the Fatherland has been created, only now it is
referred to as the Office of Homeland Security.
The burning of the symbol of the German ship of state, the
Reichstag, has been replaced with the burning of the symbols of the
American ship of state - the World Trade Center towers and the
Pentagon. The effect, both then and now, has been to rally
unprecedented support for a vacant, demagogic pawn of international
corporate fascists.
The devolution of America into an overt police state has
already begun. War of unthinkable proportions has been declared
against a wide swath of humanity. The scapegoating and victimization
of a religious minority has already begun, this time with Muslims
filling the role previously filled by Jews. A severe economic
downturn has begun as well, to further inflame the passions of the
American people.
Wake the fuck up, America! Your enemies are not hiding in
caves in Afghanistan. They are hiding in plain sight. Your enemies
are not the Arab-Americans who walk among you; your enemies look just
like you. They do not live half a world away, but are right here in
Washington. Their faces can be seen daily populating the cable news
shows, right alongside of their craven propagandists in the U.S.
media.
Their names are Bush, Daschle, Lott, Clinton, Hastert, Byrd,
Cheney, Rehnquist, Scalia, Powell, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gephardt, and
all the rest of the human refuse who make up the one-party power
structure in Washington. They are assisted in their goals by a cast
of shitbag propagandists named Brokaw, Rather, Jennings, Koppel,
O'Reilly, Matthews, Russert, and too many others to list here.
These are the people who would rob you of your freedoms and
liberties. These are the people who have nothing but the most thinly-
veiled contempt for democracy, for civil liberties, for human rights,
for racial tolerance, and for the right of self-determination for
people everywhere. These are the people who, without so much as a
hint of shame, would wage genocidal war around the world while
spouting platitudes about 'democracy.'
Bush has pledged that "We will direct every resource at our
command ... every necessary weapon of war." Make no mistake about it,
the United States has the capacity and the willingness to kill on an
unthinkable level. Before we even resort to our 'tactical' nuclear
weapons, which is a near certainty, America has any number
of 'unconventional' warfare techniques guaranteed to kill millions,
all of which have been used in the past.
There is the low-grade nuclear war that was waged against
both Iraq and Yugoslavia, by means of depleted uranium shells fired
by U.S. tanks and warplanes. The radioactive fallout from such
weaponry lasts for decades, and is continuing to claim lives today in
the parts of the world where it has been deployed.
There is also the 'food warfare' made possible by the
development of self-terminating crop seeds by corrupt international
seed cartels - technology that could conceivably cause massive levels
of starvation. Then of course there is weather warfare, which some
researchers claim America has taken to a whole new level with
technology such as the HAARP facility in Gakona, Alaska.
Then there is the type of environmental warfare that was also
deployed against Iraq and Yugoslavia, where chemical facilities were
deliberately targeted so as to wage what amounted to indirect
chemical warfare. In the Serbian city of Pancevo, and in many other
places, environmental catastrophes of previously unseen proportions
were deliberately created.
All of these are quiet killers. The media makes no mention of
them and their victims go uncounted. The massive environmental damage
that has poisoned the food and the water goes unreported. The
100,000+ children who continue to die in Iraq every year remain out
of sight of the American people, just as do those who die every time
the United States launches a cruise missile or drops a 'smart' bomb.
While actively promoting an unprecedented level of national
mourning for the victims of the September 11 attacks, our leaders
steer attention away from the fact that every time the United States
flexes its military muscle, somewhere in the world a nation mourns.
And while the death toll in New York and Washington indeed
constitutes a national tragedy, it pales in comparison to the
mourning we have caused around the world.
How much more will we cause now? How many bodies will be
added to the millions left dead in Vietnam, Korea, Laos, Cambodia,
Indonesia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia, the
Philippines, Guatemala, Haiti, Chile, and elsewhere? And how many of
the Americans who were enraged at footage of Palestinians dancing in
the streets will cheer and wave their flags when the bombs begin to
fall and the body parts begin to fly?
How many will stop to wonder who is actually on the receiving
end of the bombs? How many will realize that the scene in New York
that so horrified them is being reproduced on an unimaginable scale,
and that it is civilians, once again, who are being buried in the
rubble? And how many will occasionally stop to ponder how the German
people could have been led like lambs to support such atrocities?
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