Most of us recognize that the White House, Pentagon, State Department, both houses of Congress and more and more of the courts are running on the basis of "cons" -- they've been conning the public since the installation, conning them to go along with ideas and actions that are not in the public's best interests.
The chief con artist is Bush himself, of course, but all of his men and minions take up the task of maintaining their marks in a state of fear and bewilderment and expanding the scope of the overall con as far as possible -- and beyond.
Much of their con game is perfectly transparent. It has been from the get-go, and yet for some reason, so many people are willing to allow themselves to be swindled and conned by this outfit -- at home and abroad -- that we see their cons being run everywhere.
We know they are stealing not just the present but the future as well. We know there are no honest brokers in power to put an end to their pillage. We know that thousands upon thousands of innocents have been consigned to extermination. We know that fraud and deceit are the handmaidens of the catastrophe that reigns.
We know that until recently, few in authority would offer principled opposition to the cons being run on America and the world; and even now, too many of their voices are muted, too often the cons succeed.
We know that the definition of Leadership in the con's world is he who can force the many to yield to the few through the greatest levels of subtrefuge, deceit and fraud -- ie: the Biggest Con is the Best Leader.
How will we pull the plug?
--felix