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George Bush: A Disaster at Home and Abroad
It has not been a banner month for U.S. President George Bush. Things started out poorly in Europe. As the lame duck president strutted around that continent in a last-ditch effort to appear ‘presidential,’ something he has never achieved, he once again targeted the ‘threat’ posed by Iran. In his attempts to gain support for additional measures to force Tehran to surrender its uranium enrichment program, which that country claims exists for peaceful purposes, Mr. Bush said he wanted to resolve the situation diplomatically, but that “all options are on the table.” The president even refused to remove the disastrous option of invasion that he used with such dismal results in Iraq. How he expects anyone to take his current rantings seriously is not clear. But he goes on and on and even continues to proclaim that, despite five years of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the invasion of Iraq was ‘the right thing to do.’ Regardless of the various ‘options’ that clutter Mr. Bush’s table, a look at the motivation of having them is somewhat puzzling. What is more puzzling is the fact that European leaders met with him at all. Mr. Bush, along with many world leaders and the United Nations, claims that he is anxious for Iran to stop its nuclear program. He and they apparently fear some undefined horror resulting from Iran having nuclear weapons. They see Iran as a rogue nation with designs of destroying its many enemies. Would it not make sense for the United Nations and world leaders to demand that the U.S. surrender its weapons programs? The horror that the U.S. could inflict with its weapons is not undefined or undetermined: just ask the people of Iraq or Afghanistan. Why is the world not offering the U.S. incentives, as it is offering Iran, to give up its weapons of mass destruction? Iran is suspected of attempting to develop such weapons; it is no secret from anyone that the U.S. possesses enough of them to destroy the world several times over. Surely Mr. Bush could be persuaded to give them up if provided with enough oil. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had harsh but optimistic words regarding Mr. Bush. Addressing a large crowd in Iran, he accused the U.S. president of wanting to spread his death and terror from Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran. “I tell him (Bush) … your era has come to an end. With the grace of God, you won’t be able to harm even one centimeter of the sacred land of Iran.” The grace of God was apparently insufficient to prevent Mr. Bush from harming far more that one centimeter of Iraq. The sand under which exists the oil Mr. Bush covets is red from the blood of his million victims. As Mr. Bush hopped from one obscure city in Europe to another (he avoided the anti-Bush crowds in some of the larger cities), things were not looking particularly bright back home. The House of Representatives last week passed legislation extending unemployment benefits for three months. This is an apparent, although extremely belated, attempt to throw some bone to those who are suffering because of seven years of an administration that cares only for the rich. The legislation would extend unemployment benefits from the current six months, to nine. Unemployment, by the government’s skewed reasoning, now stands at 5.5%. It must be remembered that, after a person has been unemployed for six months, the government ceases to count that person. It assumes that he or she has either found work, or has simply given up looking. Can we all just sit back and take a look at that reasoning for a minute? After six months of unemployment, does one no longer need food, shelter and clothing? Does one’s landlord or the bank that holds one’s mortgage stop looking for payment after six months? At the current rate of home foreclosures, that does not seem likely. So why, one might ask, does the government feel that an unemployed person, after six months, has the luxury of simply giving up seeking employment? If people were sufficiently wealthy to live without working, they would probably not have become ‘unemployed’ in the first place, because they probably wouldn’t be working. They would be too busy enjoying any number of leisure pursuits. So the House passed this legislation, but it is only symbolic; it has little chance of passage in the Senate, and Mr. Bush has promised to veto it anyway. Republicans, once again following their leader off the cliff, have stated that extended benefits should only be offered in states with high rates of unemployment. Apparently unemployed people in states with low rates don’t count. Perhaps they have all been looking for more than six months, and are now sailing the South Seas on their yachts, rather than seeking minimum-wage work on an assembly line similar to the one that laid them off six months earlier. Not unexpectedly, the Republicans are casting the House’s vote in political terms. Representative Doc Hastings, R-WA, weighed in with this puzzling statement: “It’s an unfortunate spectacle to see the leaders of this Congress manipulate the extension of unemployment benefits into a partisan weapon.” So now the efforts of Congress to assist the people it has sworn to serve is ‘a partisan weapon.’ Attempting to provide the 8,500,000 people that the government admits are unemployed with the means to subsist is ‘partisan.’ But Mr. Hastings is wrong; the failure of Congress to assist the growing numbers of unemployed people in the U.S. is not partisan; it spans both major parties. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D- NV, continued in his role as Congress’s biggest disappointment when he said he wouldn’t force a vote on this issue, but that he might tie increased unemployment benefits to the next Iraq war spending bill. He must believe that Americans are all afflicted with poor memories. In the past when he has sent a bill to Mr. Bush that the president didn’t like, and promptly vetoed, Mr. Reid has provided him with exactly what he wanted. So we can now try our hand at predicting the future: a war spending bill with increased unemployment benefits attached to it is sent to Mr. Bush; he vetoes it; Congress then sends him a war spending bill with no strings attached (we have all given up on any possibility of a date for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq); Mr. Bush signs it and Mr. Reid and his fellow Democrats proclaim a victory. No, when one thinks about it, that is not predicting the future, it is merely rehashing the past. This is the land that Mr. Bush presides over: two disastrous wars abroad and people not able to provide the basic necessities for themselves and their families at home. A Congress that calls abject failure victory, and that continually deprives U.S. citizens of basic needs in order to ’support the troops’ by providing increased opportunities for them to be killed and maimed. And what is Mr. Bush’s view of it all? Perhaps start a third war with his remaining seven months in office, and veto a bill that assists the unemployed. It has been a long, hard seven and a half years for the United States, but one has little sympathy; its citizens may not have elected Mr. Bush in 2000, but they did in 2004. A victory by GOP presidential candidate John McCain in November, which will mean four more years just like the previous eight, will remove any sympathy from even the most compassionate onlooker. If you enjoyed this post, please make a donation to help keep this website active: Click Here for the Free Populist party Newsletter Robert Fantina [send him email] is a long-time activist for peace and social justice. He has worked with the Coalition for Peace Action in New Jersey. Following the 2004 presidential election, he moved to Canada, where he now resides. Robert is the author of Desertion and the American Solder: 1776-2006. More Articles from Robert Fantina

The Constitution: Bringing us Back from Darkness
A Letter To My Friend Broward, Concerning Our Constitution Broward, a definition of Democracy is “The people rule.” This is the definition that I believe the Founding Fathers had in mind when they created the Constitution. I believe their intent was that the Constitution would be the ultimate authority for the people, through their representatives, by acclimation of the people, and would be subject to change at the desire of the people (hence the Amendment process). I also believe this is the definition you have been presenting to me. And indeed the people are supposed to rule. But these same people (we, American Citizens, you, and me) have allowed a small influential group to seize control of our Representative Democracy such that it is no longer a Democracy. What the United States has now is an Oligarchy. Webster defines an Oligarchy as a Government by the few. Those who make up the Oligarchy, I have named as the “Shadow Government.” The membership of the Oligarchy have divided America by race, by class, and by politics. A divided group is more easily conquered than a focused group. America will not be saved for the people until enough of our people become alarmed by the status of our Country and come together and provide a significant resistance to that Oligarchy. And yet, simply available at any juncture of our being, is a most powerful tool available to overthrow any Oligarchy. It’s called our Constitution. But will enough people of America become committed to effecting this change? One scenario that would bring change to fruition is an Awakening of the American People to Realization that there really is a Shadow Government. Over the past year or so, I have been doing research about what I call this “Shadow Government” (that small group that actually runs this country). From my perspective, this Oligarchy, or Shadow Government, is composed of a ruthless Corporatocracy, A Military Industrial Complex interested in War Profiteering, Strong Dominate Banking and Financial Interests to control the pocketbooks and therefore the Economy, and finally A strong Religious Fundamentalism bent on being the “Moral” compass for the World. The Shadow Government is not elected but they hold dominion over those who are elected, by bribing and engaging in corruptive, and profitable, behavior to themselves and the elected. This Shadow Government is all about those that foment wars and discord for Position, Power, and/ or Profit. Their Modus Operandi is remindful of the tipping points outlined by Naomi Wolfe in her book “The End of America” and of the behavior of Neocolonialists of time past, and their present day evolution known as Neo-Cons. When reading about Neocolonialists and the history of Fascist States, I saw just exactly what Ms. Wolfe so eloquently outlined in her book. I also watched her on C-Span Book TV speaking about the book and those tipping points. There is imminent danger in ignoring the history of Neocolonialism and equally dangerous is the giving up of our rights - if we are to maintain our democratic country. Looking at the similarities of Neocolonialism (Practiced by the British during their Empire days), Neo-Cons (Project for a New American Century, American Enterprise Institute, Etc.), and Fascism, I find the similarities are striking. In that light, I accuse the Shadow Government of promoting Political discord around the world, instilling fear in the American public, then profiting from selling “Protection to America” from enemies that the disinformation and propaganda of this Shadow Government has generated and is generating. These people are Internationalists, and they will survive any war as long as mankind survives, simply because they have no sides in war. And they will continue to enhance their Position (The Ability to influence American thought) Their Power (The Ability to force servitude of the people) and their Profit (The Ability to gain an ever increasing percent of the worlds wealth) as long as We the People of America allow them. Yes, this will continue until either American citizens put a stop to it, or until the World rises up and embarks on a great cleansing. Since the Shadow Government will not voluntarily give up their accrued gains, either the American Public must force them out, or the people of the World someday will. I think we Americans can stop them peacefully during our time. I don’t know how long the window will remain open. When this One World Government becomes powerful enough, the people will become enemies of the state. The assault on our freedom contained within the Homegrown Terrorism Act and other acts of usurpation of rights can and probably will someday be used against “dissidents.” There are many like us who recognize the ominous dangers over the horizon. We need to be vocal as long as we can. Ordinary people can make a difference. I continue to utter my cry to restore our Constitution as our rule of law. President Eisenhower stated that “America is Great, because America is good; If America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be Great” I think this is one of the truest statements ever made about our Greatest County. We must be ever vigilant to protect our Constitution. Broward, my friend, you are correct about the Constitution being the “Creator” of the Institutions that were formulated by our Founders to protect that very Constitution and the people who are, by definition of the Constitution, “Self-Governing.” Our Constitution declared a Republic as our form of Government, in that representatives of the people would be elected by the people, to act as agents of the people, in matters of Governance. The powers of those elected representative are carefully spelled out in the Constitution and are also restricted by it. What has happened over time is that those elected representatives have chosen to not comply with those so carefully spelled out powers. They have sold their souls to the Shadow Government. And the will of the people be damned. When we get away from that Constitutional structure, when we allow a few people (an Oligarchy) or a single person (a Dictator) to supplant those “Laws” for a Self-Governing Institution, that is when we no longer have a Republic form of Government, or as is the common description for American Government - a Democracy. And it seems that is where we are headed, away from a Democracy, if we don’t regain control of our Government as the Constitution prescribed it. Regaining control could be greatly aided by a Moral Congress serving with the Fidelity to those voters who elected them, and a Fidelity to the Constitution that elected people are required to defend. After being elected they swear to uphold our Constitution, not just some of it, but all of it. My question is: Will the next Congress do this? Much of the blame should go to We the People. We have fooled around and let the stealing of our government occur increment by increment over the years. So it is we who have become the enablers. And we are getting close to a tipping point where we will have allowed such a movement away from the constraints of the Constitution, passed the point so that those who have moved in to assume the power, will not return those usurped powers voluntarily. We should have been able to see this occurring over these past eight years. The Political environment today is such that Congress has become indentured to the moneyed interests (A corruption of the Constitution) and no longer respond to the will of the people if it conflicts with the will of the Shadow Government. Thanks for your interest Broward; with my next letter to you I will take up “Living in Fear of Our Government.” I believe in the American people, and I believe that they will some day awaken to the darkness that is slowly covering our land. I believe that when that happens, morality and fidelity will be brought back to once again make America Great. Remember always that Greatness is not to be confused with the ability to crush your enemies. We are the mightiest Country in the World, but our Greatness is on the wane. I want to see our Greatness restored. Your Friend in Liberty…Technorati Tags: Constitution, Government, Democracy, Republic, Shadow Government, Tyranny, Freedom, Liberty If you enjoyed this post, please make a donation to help keep this website active: Click Here for the Free Populist party Newsletter Cliff Carson [send him email] is a freelance writer and Populist party contributor. More Articles from Cliff Carson

They Shoot Dogs Don’t They?
Unless there’s a clear and present danger to other humans, no man should be shot dead in the middle of the street like a mad dog. But that’s what happened on April 2, 2008 at the 200 block of Ameswood Drive, Round Rock, Texas, when Bobby Lee Williams was put out his misery - gunned down by local police. He was harmless. He was naked. He was a streaking target practice! I’d bet my last Euro that it was Uncle Sam who first trained eighteen year old kids to shoot first and ask questions later. Now, those pimply face soldiers have graduated into Iraqi vets in need of employment. Police departments all over the country are hiring them. Armed and dangerous with psychological wounds that may never heal, they are at this very moment patrolling your neighborhood. A long time acquaintance of Bobby Lee Williams explained it this way ‘Willie’ was, “.a schizophrenic, manic/depressive, half-wit, bi-polar nudist who occasionally flashed his naked butt up against the see-through, double-pane, shatter-proof-glass storm-door of his mother’s house. Instead of the cops,” the man said, “somebody should’ve called a dog catcher.” I also found out that Willie was known, even by passing acquaintances, as an incorrigible cur. A high school dropout, he lasted three weeks at a trade school, two weeks in the army and only one day with the Bashrahami in the yogi’s temple. From the beginning he was damaged goods. You know the kind, a child everybody tries to leave behind. “Nobody could take Bobby Lee, even for a day,” his own stepfather said. “The boy’s been a real blue tick disappointment to his mama, too. You know, even I couldn’t teach that mongrel to hunt. Not worth a plug nickel, if you ask me. Why his own sister tried to drop him off along side of the road, but he just kept findin’ his way back home.” Bobby Lee’s half sister, Crystal Herrera, was so pissed-off at her half-brother the night he died that she could have shot him, herself. It seems Bobby Lee and his crazy behavior had run off the last of Crystal’s many boyfriends - none of which were the father of her 4 kids. The boy’s ‘Mama’ had been fed up with her son for years and had ‘jerked his chain’ so many times her arm was ‘wore’ out. It was the 10th time he stole her car - while completely naked–that she threw his clothes out the door. Mama was ‘just plum tired’ of apologizing to the neighbors about him running around the house ‘without a stitch on’. Probably most of all, Mama had had enough of little Willie’s butt prints on the door and his sick lame excuses for taking up space but never contributing ‘a blessed thing’. Willie started out that fateful evening by standing on one leg, flamingo-style, in his mama’s front lawn. He’d pulled similar stunts. This one was no different—just another of Willie’s unframed, outsider-art statements called ‘tucking genitals between legs to make natural ‘nekked-ness’ disappear’. Too bad his stage was a postage stamp yard in suburbia and not the backwoods, because there were no leaves big enough to cover the erection sticking out Willie’s back end. Next-door neighbor, Mr. Valentin Olvera, admitted making the mistake of calling 911, and telling the dispatcher, “There’s a maniac running around on Ameswood Drive who’s naked as a jaybird”. When Round Rock police officer Andy McKinney arrived at the curb, Willie took off for his back yard, flapping his arms. The ensuing chase was a scene from TV’s Cops: a flailing naked windmill, a pissed off cop, huffing puffing ripping the rear end out of a new uniform, cussing and vaulting over a chain-link fence. All that was missing was a little ‘Bad Boy-Bad Boy’ cover music. When Willie realized the back door of the house was locked, he reversed course, went barreling around the corner and scared the holy crap out of McKinney. In the confusion of the collusion McKinney lost his police baton. Who would’ve guessed Willie could lay his hands on it so fast, bolt across the lawn, then give up to crouch in the middle of the street. Immediately, almost as if choreographed, police officers McKinney, Craig Cargill and Sandra Wright sidestepped in a chorus line to surround him, guns loaded, drawn, cocked and ready to put down the whimpering mongrel. The video tape from the dashboard camera of Officer McKinney’s squad car shows a cop kicking Bobby Lee in his haunches, aiming a revolver and firing a shot. But why? Where were the tasers? Where was the pepper spray? Where was the tranquillizer gun? And where was an ounce of compassionate common sense for a pathetic human being with fewer brains than God gave a Labrador retriever? After writhing on the ground in pain, Willie is seen struggling to his feet and staggering toward his mother. We can’t hear what is said, but instead of putting him on a leash, all three officers unload BOOM!~BOOM!~BOOM!~and kill Willie - Haji Baghdad-style. Yes folks, these are more than just interesting times. No longer can we see the police officer as the kind, sympathetic buddy who saves our pets. There are new rules of engagement for police departments all over America and little of it has to do with protect and defend. But should we really blame these cops for their dispassionate concern? ‘Just following orders’ is the excuse for ‘the buck stopped over there in Iraq’. Lethal force that is used on an unarmed man today came from the top of the food chain. Didn’t the original war president come right out and say ‘it’s okay to murder your fellow man’? Didn’t the top-brass tell them, ‘aim straight and shoot to kill’? And didn’t Alberto Gonzalez, give everybody wearing a government issued uniform the authority to ‘rid the world of sub-humans’? It all makes one wonder just who were the psychopaths running around loose on Ameswood Drive that evening: totally nude Bobby Lee Williams, cowering and waving the stolen stick, or the uniformed gang of trigger-happy robo-cops armed with .40 caliber handguns? We all better hope that it was this 3rd rate war, fought in a 4th rate country against a 5th rate army that has turned our children into 1st rate killers. Woe be to us if, in an evolutionary thrust of comet dust they were born that way. Get pissed off, step out of line, mouth off the seven no-no words or pee on the courthouse lawn, those are the kind of actions that may cost you your life. All Williams did that evening was forget to take his Zoloft. That’s why he morphed into a buck-naked raving lunatic. The skinny 100 pound weakling was more of a threat to his front door than anything else. He needed a psychiatrist and a straightjacket, but not a bullet in the head. A couple of months after Bobby Lee Williams was fatally wounded, a Williamson County grand jury heard taped depositions of the officers and saw a dashboard video of the actual killing. After proudly reading their ‘no-bill’ verdict to the general public, district attorney John Bradley praised the Round Rock Police and said, “Our officers did the right thing. If Bobby Lee Williams had just dropped the officer’s baton and laid down like he was instructed, then he would still be alive today.” There you have it, folks, case closed, cops exonerated and a person’s life swept under the rug without so much as a ‘gosh, we’re sorry’. Mr. Bradley did propose that Williamson County try to raise awareness of its mental health unit. Well, that’s a little late for Williams - he’s dead. If you can stand it, watch Mckinney, Cargill and Wright gun down a naked, defenseless Bobby Lee Williams, here.Technorati Tags: Bobby Lee Williams, Police, Military, Killing, Government, Tyranny If you enjoyed this post, please make a donation to help keep this website active: Click Here for the Free Populist party Newsletter Have Penn they’ll listen. Volt Penn writes speeches for Progressive Populists and reasoned arguments for those on the left of center. He has also written speeches for anybody who has read his work. You can reach Volt Penn through his artist friend, b.b.kemp, at bbkemp@bbkemp.com Volt/Electra Penn copyright 2008 More Articles from Volt and Electra Penn

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Americans Do Not Want Change
People simultaneously desire and fear change. This is not a contradiction. The human personality is complex enough to exhibit many complementary tendencies. Public opinion polls seem to reveal that change is desired over a broad range of domestic and foreign policies. That this is the case gives hint to an asymmetry in our political system. There is an adversarial relationship between the general public and the politicians who represent it. The public thinks of itself, legitimately and rightly, as number one. For politicians number one is re-election. This is an inescapable conclusion in an electoral system that permits of greater than a single term. (Multiple and indefinite-term judges contribute to asymmetries in the judicial system. We don’t allow professional jurors). It could be argued that indefinite terms are desirable in the case of truly exemplary people but to do so gives lie to their own commencement speeches where they laud the graduates on becoming the next bright faces that will lead this country. The choice is between ‘lifetime public servants’ who remember who they owe and single-termers doing a brief stint of public service who are bound to owe less. The public is susceptible to overtures of change from politicians. It’s a selling point, the only one they have. Ultimately it means change from him/her to me. While the particulars of this or that change may be discussed, left unstated, and totally absent, is a prior essential. Universal agreement on the starting point. How can one gain an understanding of what something might change to without seeing it for what it is to begin with? Public opinion polls provide some information that could prove useful in a democracy but it has to make it past the adversary. Politicians feel their job is to shape public opinion, not to conform to it. “The role of political leadership is to shape public opinion, not to decline to act because they think opinion is otherwise.” (Secret State Dept. cable from Islamabad, November 28, 1998, relaying conversation between Alan W. Eastham, Jr., Charge Daffaires, and senior Taliban spokesman Wakil Ahmed [remark of Eastham’s]) The unidirectional nature of polling (the responder cannot question the questioner) skews responses in a predictable direction. Take for example polling on Iraq. Is it worth it or not, are we winning or losing, did we make a mistake or not, do you approve or disapprove the way the president is handling it, is victory still possible or not? Seemingly objective questions such as these arise from a background that has been prepared with state propaganda and illusion, and each question can be responded to with, ‘What do you mean by that?’ Or consider the question, how well are things going in Iraq? Very well, somewhat well, somewhat badly, very badly, or unsure. Well to Iraqis it is a horror of catastrophic proportion. For the warmongers who started it, things could have gone smoother. For Blackwater, pretty good. See, it depends. Actually, unless you feel confident you know the initial conditions responsible for our aggression, the wisest answer may be ‘unsure’ (generally in the low single-digit percentages). This is simply because if one doesn?t know why we are there, one can’t be expected to know how we are doing. If we invaded to establish a permanent military presence to gain control over Iraq’s, and by extension the region’s, enormous oil resources, then the answer should be in the ‘well’ spectrum. The war planners knew the takeover would be easy, but not without some aggravation. They underestimated the aggravation (total lives lost, Abu Ghraib torture images, Walter Reed ‘Home of Warrior Care’ flak, etc.), but it hasn’t jeopardized their mission. But do we really want change? Change in the real America, not the America of myth and hymn. Are we ready to see ourselves as an aggressor nation (roughly 200 US military and clandestine operations in foreign countries in the past two centuries, excluding WW1 and WW2 - Global Policy Forum), a nation that sides with the rich against the poor, that slights the weak in favor of the strong. For over a quarter century, since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households (CIA World Factbook). To see real change we must begin to think critically of our government, our institutions, our social policy, our foreign policy, and our economic policy. It’s not all bad and much of it is very good, but we must acknowledge the difference. Above all, ‘tell the children the truth’ (Bob Marley, Babylon System). That all governments lie and that all advertisers lie and that governments and advertisers are in the same business and the name of that business is control. And that the greatest tool a child can have for understanding the world is skeptical thought. Great change relies on questioning some of our fundamental assumptions. It’s a look in the mirror, always tough. There’s a handy way to glimpse the odds on dramatic change occurring in our current electoral system. Percentage wise it is at the low end of the ‘unsure’ figure given above, probably best thought of as ‘greater than zero’. Which of these two ‘greater than zero’ chances for dramatic change has the higher probability of success? Electing a Ralph Nader? Or convincing a critical number of Americans to return blank ballots as a signal that they are living under a government that has made voting meaningless? If you enjoyed this post, please make a donation to help keep this website active: Click Here for the Free Populist party Newsletter James Rothenberg [send him email] was born in 1939 and made his living as a professional golfer. His trade articles have appeared in USGA Golf Journal and PGA Magazine, as well as authoring the book, The Skeptical Golfer. In more recent years this skepticism led him into the field of social and political criticism, exchanging “making a living” for “living for making”, that is, making the slightest dent in establishment hypocrisy and double standards. More Articles from James Rothenberg

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