On 5/5/07, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
it's not conspiratorial at all. It's part of the traditional "kill the messenger" (carrying bad news) dynamic that inflicts a lot of bureaucracies. In the end, this dynamic usually undermines the bureaucracy's effectiveness and/or its connection with reality.
They're quite connected to 'reality'... unfortunately, only *their* 'reality'. Their reality is called 'corporatism', according to Mussolini, in American form. That's why there's so much 'bad news' for the rest of us and *our* collective reality.. As to the effectiveness of the bureaucracy, the current administration's MAIN role (as so-called conservatives) is to undermine the veracity OF the bureaucracy to allow the neofasci-cons to make a sales pitch to America: The pitch like this: "Big government doesn't work... See? (even though they actively worked to created those circumstances.) "If you follow along with us (war, resource-looting et al) it might just work out for YOU & Yours" That's GWB's role in the over-all scheme too... follower, hanger on... That's what he's alway been... until he became.... "The Decider" (who decides nothing and he knows it, an intentional liar.) Hurricane Katrina is the perfect example of how 'deciders' work. A 'bureaucrat *could* manage FEMA well and get all the resources to site. You don't need to be an EMT, civil engineer, or somesuch to get the right equipment, food, medicine to the right people. However one might note that the person managing the agency (not even worth looking up his name... there's thousands just like him.) had his assistant telling people (he 'decided', at the height of the disaster, he couldn't talk on the phone right now, that he didn't like being disturbed at dinner. Tell me that's incompetence and I'd tell you it's INTENTIONAL dereliction of duty. On a similar note, about the DOJ lawyer firings, everyone just wants to know WHO authorized (decided) the firings, and the only testimony anyone is willing to give is that they didn't. Some one did... but not only doesn't the buck seem to stop there, 'the buck' doesn't even stop by for a short visit anymore. What we have is a nation of delegators & relegators, and it's become so insinuated in American culture that it's reflected not only in the bureaucratic structures, but by our elected leaders themselves...and they have an easy time using it as a 'foil' because we expect it. They are just like us. Sad... tragic actually, and very very dangerous to it's people, but moreso to the rest of the world as the leaders let their military run amuck while the sheeple just say "Oh Well...". ...and "please!... stop!". Leigh ""I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either." — Edward Zehr
