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“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.” – – George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher (1863-1952).
I’m a diehard Republican and have been since 1964. However, “Republican” can mean two things now, a “neocon” or Bush style centrist who revels in world imperialism, big government, pre-emptive wars, spy games and Big Brother style bullying of the people and the folks in Congress who would be honest representatives (few though they might be). OR, it can mean the traditional “Republican” (now known as Paleoconservatives, inferring dinosaurs and including me) who want small government, less taxation, less federal meddling and a return to fiscal sanity. The fiscal sanity will be difficult to achieve without some former Enron executives cooking the budget books, since we’re in debt to the year 4193, but it’s always good to make a start rather than carrying on until the nation is in worse shape than Argentina. Maybe we already are since the Iraq boondoggle.
I really don’t care what we elect in 2004 as long as the vote doesn’t keep George W. Bush in the White House, or any Bush. I’m sick and tired of Bushes who think they are the imperial redwood trees of the world. (Then, as if to be a regular guy with a ten year old mentality, Dubya gets out of a Navy jet and yells “I flew it.”) *SIGH*
At least when the Clintoons were the buffoons of the Whore House we could all yell, scream, spit, hiss and otherwise make fun of the Arkansas Travelers, openly and without fear (I did my share). Now, with the ramrodding of the Patriot Act and its sequel through a wimpy Congress, we’re either labeled as “with America or with the terrorists.” Well, America’s leadership, to a few of us and to the rest of the world, IS “the terrorists” on planet Earth. While George W. is probably not much brighter than he looks, he has a dangerous crowd around him. For one, his daddy is spending more time being involved with the inner workings at the WH than he did when he was the president. Two, Donald Rumsfeld is no rummy or dummy, he’s another Octavian aspiring to be Augustus Caesar. Not since 1930’s Germany has a member of a president’s cabinet had such ambitions to control the world. That bad boy needs to be sent to the Hague. But victors never go to the Hague … only losers.
One of my readers emailed me and asked whether I thought all this “patriotism” and flag-waving is real or whether people just don’t want to be labeled as unpatriotic, one of “them what’s again us.” I thought about it, and about how few I know who approved of the Iraq war; about the whole Ron Paul – Liberty Caucus and Libertarian folks who opposed the war. I thought about the folks who are still openly Democrat, but afraid to say anything bad about Bush except in confidence. I thought about the reprisals for openly speaking out against Bush that has struck Hollyweird and country musicians.
DANG … I’ve never seen Americans this squelched, this afraid to speak their views out loud for fear of something lurking in the shadows. We’re an oppressed people and most folks don’t even realize they are speaking in hushed tones with nobody around but the one they’re talking to. Now if that isn’t a picture of people living under a totalitarian regime, I don’t know what is!
I’ve had folks write me and thank me for my “courage.” Courage? Me? I’m terrified of spiders, snakes and dark places. No, I just don’t have sense enough to surrender to the “in” thing of the times and go along with the folks I think are more dangerous than spiders or snakes, because our whole nation is under an invisible siege and the people are either totally deceived and following Bush’s drummers with flags waving, or we’re spitting in the wind and trying to make people wake up to the fact that no matter who gets the presidency in 2004, if it is not George Dubya Bush, and his cohorts, we might once again be able to argue politics in public and feel free to speak out loud, not in hushed tones.
Lawsy, I make no secret of the fact I think Bush is the worst president America has had since Lincoln, and at last the truth is coming out about Lincoln after years of myths being promoted in schools and among ethnic peoples. I think Bush is worse than Clinton because while they are both globalists, Clinton never made a direct frontal attack on the American public and its free speech. No one hesitated to speak out loud and lots of folks had bumper stickers that were openly anti-Clinton without fear of the midnight knock. What Americans did that will forever be a blot on their collective character is permit the government’s murders at Ruby Ridge, Waco and their involvement at the Murrah Bldg. bombing in Oklahoma City without threatening to secede, revolt or demand Clinton’s resignation (and Reno with him).
See what happens? One bum gets by with murder and the next guy in line has his own army of “jackboots” and then we’re whispering in the night to just one other person about our government. And all the while, our so-called leadership is telling us and the world that we’re a free people. Well last time we checked, free people speak out, they don’t whisper! They don’t strip bumper stickers from their cars, trucks and SUV’s. And they don’t nod in favor of a war they really consider hideous and none of our business because you’re either “with us or with the terrorists.”
Your mission in 2004, Americans, if you will accept the challenge, is to vote George W. Bush out of office, he will have to drag his appointees with him, and get someone in there that will sit on his duff and make no waves, let Congress undo the Patriot Act and any sequels, and who can be a target of American criticism and political debate without the threat of “with us or with the terrorists.” If we, the American public, don’t take back our right to OUR government, the one “of, by and for the people” then by 2008 we might not have to worry about voting. Or we might have Jeb Bush as candidate for president/emperor in a new American dynasty. Do not underestimate a Bush … ever. That was the mistake of Election 2000.
Would I vote for Ralph Nader in 2004? If I thought he was a winning candidate, Yes! That’s because no one would be afraid to speak out against Nader or his whack policies. Would I vote for Hillary Clinton? Yes! That’s because I don’t think she could sneeze without drawing the ire and disgust of the American public. Would I vote for Ketchup Kerry? Sure, he is a snake in the grass, a fraud and a looney, but we can raise our voices against any Democrat in office. We can always intimidate a Democrat. Few if any have real guts to carry out an emperor scheme and even fewer could get by with it like Dubya Bush has done since nine-eleven.
But notice to the Bush dynasty just in case not enough people believe me this time around: millions of Americans are not going to surrender their guns or their right of free speech. Some might be talking in whispers, but attack their families and their cries will split the sky wide open and raise the wrath of the Real Americans above fear and intimidation. We may not be able to keep a Bush out of office until we finally hear a shot that’s heard around the world, but when Americans wake up, no Bush will ever sit in the White House again.
There’s a restive feeling in the air, a sense that people really feel the oppression and the recession (or really, depression) and it’s taking its toll on Americans. All the flyboy antics of a president who wants to deny his patrician background isn’t going to lift the pall of apprehension that is blanketing all but the most blinded of Americans. This isn’t a pep talk for the Bush campers, it’s a call to arms at the voting booths in 2004. A year and a half can go by in a hurry, it’s already going on two years that New York has had a couple of towers missing.
This is a warning. If we ever want the right to speak out freely once more, we absolutely must get rid of Bush even if we have to elect Donald Duck and Goofy. This nation is divided more ways than the media can count (and they can count to four or five as a rule). Come on real patriots, load your muskets and speak up. More than that, vote up … vote Bush out.
And let’s get on with the job of bringing America back to its people.
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