November 22, 2005 NY Times headline:
GEORGE W. BUSH NAMED AS UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATOR
I can see it now...just in time for Thanksgiving.
The turkeys come home to roost.
To roast.
Pieces rapidly falling into place, members of the administration and its media assets copping pleas, starting at the bottom...
Top ranking members resigning, right on up to and through Cheney and Butch...
A lame duck sitting President, no matter WHO survives with a record relatively unscathed enough to be given the job...someone reliable enough to be counted upon to give pardons to the most powerful plotters in this neo-con driven fiasco.
Gerald Ford redux.
Only THIS time...don't fall for it.
More below...
Yup, I can see it now.
A Democratic landslide in 2006 + 2008..."Democratic" at least in terms of party affiliations, led by Republican Lite centrists who can ALSO be counted upon not to rock the boat any more than is necessary to preserve the fiction that things are changing.
A Blue Ribbon Panel...round up the usual suspects...whitewashing the entire shameful episode.
And behind the scenes...business as usual.
A tactical retreat from Vietnam...errr, I mean Iraq, of course...while NEW tactics are hatched to continue the oil driven, economic imperialist strategy that lies at the root of this latest failed American adventure.
The same middle aged, white, male, corporate owned politicians in the same relative positions of power in Washington.
Only the party affiliations change.
For the moment.
K Street remains the same.
The same corporate owned media spreading the same corporate owned line of bullshit into the ears of the American sleeple.
As we clomp clomp clomp on towards the inevitable denouement of this foolish plot.
Because SOMEWHERE on down the line...the oil will be all gone.
Because SOMEWHERE on down the line...the rapidly awakening and growing Third World will possess the power to off us. By whatever means necessary. By economic means, by the use of weapons of mass destruction, by terrorist attacks that disrupt the very fabric of our culture, by alliances with whichever Western European nations are smart enough not to need a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing.
By any and all combinations of those tactics.
By whatever works.
Because eventually, they will HAVE to off us.
Simply to get us off of THEM, if not because of the payback that will be demanded by those who have been progressively more efficiently enslaved by the same interests that own the United States over the past 400 years or so.
All of this...and possibly worse...if we do not take care of business RIGHT NOW.
Say that Mr. Fitzgerald IS honest (and braver than hell as well), and that he DOES successfully strike a crippling blow directly at the sitting Semi-President and his handlers. (Could happen, y'know...)
What then?
Will our righteous anger subside Watergate style while another Reagan/Bush is foisted upon us?
While latterday Oliver Norths and John Negropontes continue their murderous hustles in the name of the great bloody red, white and "If you black (or brown or even beige), step back?"
I hope not, but if we do not CONTINUE to press on...if "we", the only independent media left in the system, the netroots, the bloggers...do not heed the warnings of people like John Philpot Curran and Thomas Jefferson who said that eternal vigilance is the price one must pay for the privilege of liberty, if "we" subside into that eternal complacency that seems to have been the line-level resting place of the bourgeoisie throughout recorded history, why then history will continue in exactly the same direction as it has ALWAYS taken.
Towards bigger and better weapons and more and more destruction of the environment.
Which was relatively OK for the first however many thousand years that we have been walking upright on this good, green earth, but is no LONGER an acceptable alternative.
Why?
Because NOW WE CAN BLOW THE WHOLE SHITLOAD UP is why!!! We no longer have the option of reverting to fat, dumb and happy status.
I mean...we of course have that option, but not if we wish to survive as a species.
So watch the coming shadow play carefully.
The rounding up of the bad guys, the national catharsis as we once again rid ourselves of the evildoers.
AND DO NOT FALL FOR IT THIS TIME.
DEMAND accountability.
DEMAND an end to this shameful game, before it is too late.
REFUSE the tired old pardon ploy.
Send a message to the corporate power brokers and their political lackeys that the golden parachute done got a hole in it.
A BUNCH of holes.
US.
And that when they get too high and find that it is time to safely bail out into their nice, rich lives residing in the beautiful homes and estates that have been paid for by the blood, sweat, tears and death of millions...that option is now CLOSED to them.
Talk about a revolution!!!
Imagine.
Imagine if the old criminal adage "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time" actually held TRUE in the halls of corporate and political power.
Would these same kinds of two-bit, crooked, four flusher gamblers go all in if they knew...on the evidence of what happened to THIS batch...that should they fail, they would be totally ruined?
To a man?
I think not.
That would take a certain kind of courage that most criminals simply do not possess.
ESPECIALLY corporate, criminal hustlers.
Well folks..."we" have the power to see that this happens.
"We" have driven this thing...keystroke by keystroke, sleepless night after sleepless night...for over 6 years.
"We" have FORCED the media to cover stories that they would have buried in a hustler's minute if they could.
Do not back off now that a possible victory appears to be at hand. Like weeds or household vermin, these people will simply withdraw, retrench and come out again when the party is over to start pick pick picking at the remains.
And if we go back to sleep the way we did after Watergate...admittedly having MUCH more power now with the use of internet than we did then...if we allow them to once again mount their offensives, then they will (as always) learn from their mistakes, and from the conference rooms of their standing empires they will start in again.
Gnawing, always gnawing at the idea of freedom. That's their job, y'see. They jes' cain't he'p theyselves.
Do you know the FIRST thing that you will be able to see to mark the beginnings of their return?
Attempts to cripple the internet.,
BET on it.
Because "we" have been a million thorns in their skin. Pretty much the ONLY thorns, for a number of years.
Watch `em.
Like the Governator Ahhnold...
They'll be BAAACK...
If we LET them.
Don't.
This time...
Don't let them back in.
Not again.
They are going to kill us all eventually.
Please.
Stay awake this time.
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and punishment of his guilt." John Philpot Curran, from his speech on the Right of Election of Lord Mayor of Dublin, July 10, 1790.
Yup.
What HE said.
Charles