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Of course the term “our” in the title of this meager effort is a misnomer; it’s not our government, it’s George Bush’s government. Both Republicans and Democrats have so bastardized our God-given as well as legal rights that we no longer qualify as a second-rate banana republic. The list of prohibitions in the Bill of Rights against government growing itself at our expense is being summarily ignored. What needs to be secret in a society where the people are self-governing? Aren’t “we the people” the government?
But if we are no longer self-governing, then just who or what is the government, depending upon your definition of the word “is?” We have been asked to suspend the rule of law for the convenience of President George W. Bush and Republicans, and grant “war powers” just as we had previously done based upon the lies from Democrat President, Lyndon Baines Johnson. LBJ committed deliberate fraud when he initiated the Gulf of Tonken resolution, lying about attacks upon our Navy that never happened. Obviously, LBJ kept that secret because it was a matter of “national security.”
And then there was lying Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who couldn’t just simply come clean with the American people and explain that we needed to engage in war against the Axis [of ?]. Instead, he goaded the Japanese with the threat of an embargo and then blacked out advance warnings that the Japanese were on their way to attack Pearl Harbor. Nothing like blacking out intelligence when we need it, and then citing it when we don’t!
The British were hanging on with our Lend Lease help, and Hitler bit off more than he could chew attacking Red Communist Joe Stalin’s Russia. But you see, losing 2,400 Navy personnel is all right, so long as we’re losing American lives for the Democrats’ beloved communists. Losing 3,000 Americans is no biggie – communists don’t stand to gain anything from that insignificant sacrifice.
There’s nothing like secret government to control the population and force them how and what to think. They must be trained that there are awful weapons of mash distraction out there, and regime changes waiting, and the ability of Saddam bin Laden to launch his battle star and his evil death ray.
The simple command decision that should have been made required holding someone in the administration accountable, but learning from the biggest fraud ever in American government, namely Bill Clinton, Bush was offered up those responsible for 9-11, namely Tenet and Freeh, whose incompetence was covered up by Mueller, and fired no one. Of course, some stepped up and accepted blame, but Bush conveyed that he forgave them and doesn’t care about the American people.
And to add insult to injury, death, fraud and terror, President George Bush and his cabal have been summarily stonewalling the 9-11 commission, delaying funding, refusing to cooperate, and generally obstructing both the inquiry and justice. Where’s the “white paper” Secretary of State Colin Powell promised proving bin Laden’s involvement? We’ve already forgotten that our secret government was going to make a case for us as regards that accusation? And where’s the case proving Saddam was involved in 9-11?
Is that why 28 pages have been censored out of the 9-11 commission report, because it proves Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11? What other reason would there be? Just look at history for the answers, and you’ll find that tyranny always thrives on both secrets and lies! And it always needs oppressed classes and villainous enemies!
Isn’t it astonishing that the Bush regime needs the “Patriot” Act to break into our homes while we are at work “donating” 50 percent of our earnings for their financial support? His entourage of secret government advisors and experts is extremely uncomfortable with the fact that we might have some secrets. How dangerous! But then, that depends upon your definition of the word “we.”
“Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact.”