- Even though Bush II will lose the popular vote in the
US presidential election of 2004, his Electoral College victory seems assured.
With Republican party governors firmly in charge of Florida, California,
Texas and New York, and supported by a whopping Bush campaign war chest
approaching $200 million, dubious electronic voting schemes courtesy of
Diebold, Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors (http://www.blackboxvoting.com),
it seems certain that Bush will make it back to the Oval Office through
the back door that is the Electoral College. And if not the Electoral College
then by benefit of a rebel attack on US soil which kills thousands of Americans
and leads to the suspension of the US Constitution. That according to General
Tommy Franks, USA (Ret.), who opined in the magazine Cigar Aficionado that
the US will have to shed its constitution in favor of a military style
of government. Even the notorious aristocrat Alexander Hamilton would have
been appalled as such a statement, as would Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison. But these are mediocre times in history; particularly, and dangerously,
in America where its people have eliminated those who might have continued
to wage a struggle for an equitable form of government in the US, as well
as engage the world through international treaty building.
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- Mediocre times produce the very worst that the world
has to offer: Reagan, Bin Laden, Bush, Hussein, Sharon, and Blair. None
but the feeble minded could draw inspiration from such a ghastly lineup
of "leaders". This is the world as it has become absent the shortenedlives
of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X and Yitzhak
Rabin, all of whom were murdered for their beliefs, or, rather, for the
threat they posed to the established interests. Even Nikita Khrushchev
was removed from power in the then USSR in 1964 for trying to push his
country towards a more peaceful coexistence with the rest of the world.
The threats these titans of history posed to the established order of their
day was not so much monetary as it was ideology. Each of them planted in
the minds of those who would listen the thought that the established order
of war, racism, poverty, and income and wealth disparity could and should
be questioned. However, those who pull the strings could not stand an ignorant
populace that questioned the order of things. And so their fate was, it
seems, preordained by disgruntled individuals agitated by those portions
of business and government who were wedded to the status quo. And so, JFK
and Khrushchev, King and RFK, and Malcolm X and Rubin were terminated and
Americans, and the world, found themselves at the mercy of Bush and Bin
Laden, Hussein and Blair, and Reagan and Sharon.
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- Crippled Opposition
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- With the election of Bush II in 2004, the ideological
and economic fracturing of America will be complete and, for the foreseeable
future, permanent. The three branches of the US government, corporations,
and the majority of state's governors and state houses will be controlled
by those Republicans and Democrats who have become indistinguishable in
their belief that the government's only role in America is to make it safe
and ludicrously easy for small and large corporations to make a profit
without the drag of government regulations, programs and taxes that, in
their view, steal from the bottom line. With those folks at thehelm, 2002
and 2003 saw the US federal and state governments give the business community
trillions of dollars of hand-outs in the form of tax cuts, regulatory relief
and legislation that allowed businesses to rape and pillage the American
landscape and its middle and lower classes. The latter group's struggle
is getting worse. Even as its industrial, service and information technology
jobs are exported to other countries, these Americans are being forced
to work longer hours, endure more expensive privatized health and welfare
benefits, and higher prices for feeding, clothing and educating their children.
Slowly but surely, Americans from the middle and lower classes find themselves
at an increasing distance from their rulers, yet must bear the burden of
profit and war for these same dastardly people.
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- But those that rule have in their malleable plebian audience
a strange group of middle and lower class acolytes. Among them, the notorious
Christian right and an estimated 5 to 9 million American-Muslims who handed
Bush II over 90 percent of their vote in the last presidential election.
That group, along with neo-con Latinos and Asians, seem to have forgotten
the struggles they waged to reach, what once was, a republic with a semblance
of representative democracy. Are they trying to recreate the religious-military
dictatorships of their own home countries? Bush II certainly has obliged
them in that effort.
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- The invincible political-corporate-state apparatus (PCS)
that George Bush II and his supporters have created will be opposed by
a loose affiliation of hundred's of local and urban communities-supported
by a handful of wealthy donors, actors and retired military personnel--who
have refused to accept the destruction of the federal and state governments,
the Iraq War and the draconian Patriot Act I and II, or, for that matter,
the legitimacy of the Bush II presidency. But the deck is stacked against
them.
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- Catholics and Muslims of the World: Unite!
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- Thanks to the Patriot Act, elements of the Bush PCS can
now enter the homes of protestors that question opposition to the established
order on the street, the Internet, in high schools, on television, in the
newspapers, and even in common conversation. The Pentagon has its own domestic
intelligence service that has begun working with the FBI who, in turn,
is ramping up its efforts to build databases of Americans who oppose the
Bush PCS machine. Even local police, like the Miami Police Department,
have become tools of the hideous juggernaut that has been created by the
powerful and paranoid of the land. The Miami Police Department received
$8.5 million from the $87.5 billion Pentagon appropriation for the Iraq
War. The $8.5 million from that Pentagon appropriation was used for the
defense of Miami against anti-globalization protestors in the same way
it is used by the US military to quell disturbances>
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- And so the Bush-led PCS will continue to dress its god,
its profits, its worldview in the colorful and flammable costume that is
patriotism. The rallying cries are very persuasive to simple minds: Fight
'Em There Rather than Here! America is Safer Now! The Economy is Recovering!
Do Your Duty and Buy! Cheaper Oil and Gas for Americans! Help Freedom Loving
Iraqi's Rebuild! God Bless America! Go Team! That same sort of infantile
rationale will continue to be used to not only further the economic and
ideological divide in America, but to attack nations who, coincidently,
have large oil and gas reserves, sit in the path of energy pipelines, or
who happen to believe in Islam. But wait! The Catholic and oil rich nations
of Venezuela and Colombia find themselves targets of the Bush PCS. Now
there's a coincidence: Roman Catholics and Muslims the target of an Evangelical
Christian American government. Catholics and Muslims Unite!
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- 2004-2008: Operation Clean Sweep
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- Shortly upon taking office in 2004, Bush's PCS will move
rapidly on a number of fronts. Unbound by the constraints of campaigning,
the real work of the Bush PCS will begin. First, the Bush PCS will continue
to rupture federal and state programs that assist the middle and lower
classes of America and their culture and environment. The US Supreme Court
will eliminate a woman's right to choose. Constitutional amendments banning
gay rights, women's rights and civil rights/affirmative action will be
proposed by the Bush PCS and, in all likelihood, will succeed. An additional
amendment to the constitution concerning military rule in case of an attack
on US soil by any foreign individual or state will be added easing the
way towards military rule in America.
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- While the nation debates these issues, Bush will quietly
issue an edict supporting a return to the draft. The massive military campaign
that is sure to follow will require millions of US military personnel that
can only be had forcibly through conscription. As early as the Christian
holiday of Christmas in December 2004, or more likely, the Christian Easter
Holiday in April 2005 (celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ), the
Bush PCS will attack. Syria will be attacked by American-British-Israeli
coalition forces, primarily from its Western, Southern and Eastern flanks.
There will be no prolonged bombing campaign in this operation. The air
campaign will be concomitant with an amphibious assault on Syria's Western
shores, accompanied by a land invasion from the Southern and Eastern flanks.
The forces of the American led coalition will crush the dilapidated Syrian
military within 10 business days.
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- The Palestinians will likely be granted a piece of the
former Syria and will be relocated there by the US and Israel.
- Simultaneously with invasion of Syria, Iran will be subjected
to an extraordinary air and cruise missile assault led by American forces.
This operation will include additional military elements from the Turkish
and Afghani military who will have been promised a piece of Iran once it
is defeated. A withering air assault will come from the Northwest through
Turkey, from the West from US controlled Iraq, from the East from the air
bases in Afghanistan, and from carrier groups and cruise missile launching
submarines, to include an Israeli submarine, in the Persian Gulf. Within
60 business days, Iran will be defeated by US-led forces. And should Iran
successfully test a nuclear weapon prior to that time, the Bush PCS will
accelerate its timetable for attack opting to use tactical nuclear weapons
to take out Iranian nuclear weaponry.
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- Since the Bush PCS believes that North Korea cannot be
allowed to exist, it will attack North Korea simultaneously with its invasion
of Syria and Iran. China will have been dealt with during back channel
negotiations. The price China will demand of not intervening against the
US invasion (Chinese troop strength at 100 million) will be Taiwan. The
Bush PCS will turn a blind eye to China's takeover of Taiwan, which had
become a bad US hangover from the Cold War.
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- The US will be glad to rid itself of support for Taiwan.
Vladimir Putin may sign on to the US-led invasion and commit Russian troops
which will incur from the Northeastern portion of North Korea's border.
Participation with Bush in this effort would allow Russia basing rights
on the Eastern shores of North Korea. The US and South Korean military
will attempt to neutralize the North Korean military with low yield tactical
nuclear weapons which will be used primarily along the heavily fortified
Southern border. This conflict will see the massive deployment of ordnance
with calmative agents meant to literally put to sleep the North Korean
military. An electromagnetic pulse weapon or weapons will be used to knock
out North Korea's command and control infrastructure. Ground operations
will be simultaneous with air and sea assault but the conflict will rage
on for 12 business quarters as weather and terrain complicate the US led
attack.
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- Meanwhile in Colombia, US military forces will openly
engage in combat against the FARC and indigenous peoples movements there.
Over in Venezuela, the US will finally topple Hugo Chavez (if not prior
to 2004). The aged leaders of Cuba and Libya will be no match for the Bush
PCS, and they will likely be toppled in US led coups. In each of these
cases, Bush PCS friendly dictators will be installed and US corporations
will quickly move to capitalize each of those societies, just as they are
doing in Iraq.
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- All of this, it seems, is a fait accompli.
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- John Stanton
- Especially for "PRAVDA.Ru"
- Virginia, USA
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