TURKEY
SHOOT
by Dan Scanlan
(P)resident George W.
Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Homeland Security Director Tom
Ridge, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield, Secretary of State
Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and their
many cohorts are perfectly correct to fear a terrorist attack
relevant to the coming November elections.
They will be attacked by
terrorists -- American terrorists, the kind that go to the ballot
box.
The case can be made that
despite the social engineering of the Vietnam era draft, that despite
the propaganda of the CIA-infiltrated press of that era, despite the
heavy-handed government response to protestors, despite the carnage,
when the American citizens turned terrorist, the War in Vietnam
ended. When plain old American young men who had been knowingly sent
to their deaths by elite, wealthy politicians began "fragging"
their commanding officers, the war wound down. No longer could the
United States send draftees into the jungle without the risk of
officers getting shot in the back by their own men.
This fragging, of course,
could only work its way up the line of command right to the White
House. And it did. (Despite the lack of coverage.)
(Of course, I don't
advocate shooting anybody, with the possible exception of he who
gives me a gun and orders me to kill others, a situation I
fortunately have never had to endure. I talk here of the
vote.)
It seems to me that the
American people approach a place where it will begin firing back,
instead of holding back (often less than half bother to vote). This
is what the Bush White House and its corporate sponsors and
cheerleaders fear (the Washington Post just editorialized in favor of
studying election postponement). They're about to get blown off the
face of the electoral map, fragged by the very people they
treasonously dragged into the mire of war and seduced by
sedition.
Even with a House of
Representatives full of chickenhawks afraid to impeach, the
comeupance is coming up. And they tremble. And trembling right beside
them is John Kerry and his wannabes, the corporate fallback team.
Their backs are turned on the American people. Gives the voter a real
turkey shoot. All we have to do is show up. I intend to and I'll vote
Nader.
