- The 2006 mid-term elections were supposedly about real
change. Instead we have the same sell-out political hacks doing what they,ve
done since 2000"which amounts to propping up an illegal and massively
criminal administration that has placed all the power in the filthy hands
of our self-appointed Decider. Between signing statements and the whole
series of rogue executive orders that created the torture policies, the
data mining files on all Americans and the ever-growing massive spying
programs that date from 2001 to the present"this nation's internal
policies are unrecognizable as being anything like what was once American
life. We may as well dissolve the congress and courts and save some money:
because all the power now resides within the executive!
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- This illustration above was done in 2002, and the only
change in the situation, now five years later, is a democratically controlled,
congress: yet they have proven to be even more compliant than the previously
republican, body was. Some of the major differences now are that torture
and eavesdropping are not only commonplace but quasi-legal, and we no longer
have the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The National Guard from
the fifty states has been nationalized, the treasury has been emptied,
protest against the war in Iraq has been outlawed and our personal holdings
can be seized without notice, at the whim of the Commander-in-Chief. All
of this is supposed to make America and Americans safer in this time of
war. The right of the citizens to question the actions of their government
no longer exists"and nothing the Decider does can be against the law,
because the Commander-in-Chief has decided that he and he alone shall determine
what is legal and what is not.
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- The above is all true. And before this writing: Spying
on Americans without a warrant was a felony, and the government admits
that they have illegally spied upon millions Americans, millions of times
since 2001"yet because of the failure of the congress to Outlaw this
outrageous behavior"no charges will be filed against government agents
or the administration.
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- The "new legislation even lets the phone companies
and the telecommunications companies off the hook for cooperating in collecting
and storing all this information: sort of an advance pardon for failing
to question any of the government's secret directives to them.
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- The United States has become a secret-stealth-state where
nothing that this government does can be revealed to the public they are
charged with protecting. That's one hell-of-a-way to run a country that
is supposed to be a global example, "With liberty and justice for
all. And because the congress and the courts have rolled over for the administration
throughout this nightmare: the public will need to become very creative
if we are ever to take back the powers that both the congress and the courts
have given away, to what has become the Dictatorship that used to be a
presidency. (1)
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- Some of the provisions in the most recent Executive Order
include this:
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- "Essentially, in this Executive Order the President
is assuming unbelievably vast powers to simply sidestep normal criminal
or civil procedure, and to operate quite explicitly on the basis of guilt
by anticipation, guilt by pre-emption, guilt by association and guilt for
any reason in the mind of the decider. There is literally no limitation
on authority, except that the person's actual physical being is unaffected.
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- However, a person so designated by this Order could be
rendered into a non-person literally instantaneously. They could be stripped
of every asset, have every financial or commercial opportunity denied to
them. Worse, this literally creates a power to shun. Anyone who employs
this person, who hires them, who pays them for work, lends them money to
tide them over, who rents them an apartment, or allows them to sleep on
the couch, who drops them a few coins as they panhandle would be liable
to becoming subject to this order. The only protection would be to fire
this person, to not hire them, to not pay them, to not lend them money,
evict them from your apartment, kick them off the couch, and look away
if you see them begging on the street.
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- If the potential implications of this make you think
of Jews in Nazi Germany, think again. The Jews pre-war had it good compared
to the potential of this. The most disturbing thing is that this Executive
Order need not be actually used. Consider it as a weapon of intimidation.
Most Americans are not rich. Most people live in apartments, they may have
a house that the bank owns, they may have a car they're making payments
on, they struggle with credit card debt, live pay check to pay check. We
all live in these little islands of stability that can be so easy to disrupt.
(2)
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- The entirety of this increasingly intrusive farce is
due to the massive failure by the Neo-Cons when they attempted to create
a permanent state of fear: "a national nightmare which they designed
in order to have something that we must all be "protected from. Their
fumbling ineptitudes and their criminal creations are still being used
to give the appearance of a national perpetual fear. This they have called
"the War on Terror which is a concoction from which only they can
protect the public. But the public has grown weary of these exaggerations
and projections, to the point that a new and even more deadly event may
soon be coming our way. . . The history of this three-part quagmire is
called "The Power of Nightmares (3)
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- Thankfully, this may bring us all to the final chapter
for these failures that we call politicians"after which maybe we can
all begin to get back to life and the living of it!
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) The Boot is Descending Scott Horton
- http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000742
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- 2) Nightmare on Main Street Chris Floyd
- http://www.rense.com/general77/nightmre.htm
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- 3) The Power of Nightmares BBC
- http://www.armchairsubversive.org/nmares.html
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