LAUGHING JACKASS AND SINISTER SECRETARY
By Peter Fredson
March 10, 2006
Looking at the TV news yesterday I was struck by two separate views. One was of George Bush signing a document. He had a big grin on his face, and was obviously ecstatic with his success, badly needed after several months of falling polls. Why did that puzzle me?
First the Republican Senators gave Bush the ability to commit the most outrageous attack on civil rights ever perpetrated in this country against our own citizens. They passed a Patriot Act which gave Bush a Nazi-type of secret police that can arrest anyone, anytime, anyplace, for a conversation, a note, a book, and a map, whatever.
No warrant needed, no papers needed, no lawyers involved, no recourse, indefinite detention, including torture and abuse. When I say Nazi-type, I have studied the Nazi way to power and Bush is following the same course. I kid you not.
Yes, I know McCain passed what seemed to be an anti-torture bill, but Bush side-stepped that by saying he could "sign off" on it whenever his whim directed. So Bush was ebullient. Torture and abuse will continue with Bush, the prime advocate.
It is a sad commentary on our day that no one is safe from our President.
However, at the same time Bush suffered the greatest legislative defeat of his life when many of the Republicans joined Democrats to put down his sale of American ports to Dubai.
He must have been livid with anger, given that he had blustered for several weeks that he would veto any attempt to derail the docks plan. Yet, there he was sitting at his desk with a huge smile signing some legislation.
Was all this some type of sinister plot to allow curtailing of civil rights for an arrogant president who is committing felonies? What could excuse Republicans for this attack on all our traditions?
Perhaps by disguising Republican Congressional maneuvers during the coming election year by bringing up an equally unacceptable give-away of national property.
Republicans can claim to be champions of American democracy by preventing giving away national property, while at the same time dooming all Americans to suffer the loss of any rights that Bush wants to take away. The choice would be up to voters.
Bush can claim terror, 9/11, Mushroom clouds, to sucker his fundamentalist base into his alligator grip. They evidently don't care much about civil rights judging from their lack of protests over the past several years.
So Bush smiles his jackass grin. He really didn't care who managed ports, but he knows he wants to be emperor and with his absolute grip on our justice system, no citizen is safe from his prying, poking, meddling, spying, mauling, hand-cuffing, beating, jailing, abuse or even torture. So he can smirk at winning the right to kill, torture, abuse, spy on, arrest or detain anyone.
No one is safe from Bush-imposed terror. So, although his cronies have to maneuver to make profit from the port deal (like giving it to Millennium) someone will make a profit, and that's that.
Next I saw Condi Rice, the Black Angel of Death commissioned by Bush to threaten all other countries that will not kow-tow to his imperial demands.
She was glowering, and hissing hate at Iran, as she has done for several months now. This is all pre-arranged.
It is all phony, a scam to frighten the world. Years ago the Bushites determined to invade Iran and Syria as well as Iraq.
They used lies and rhetoric to invade Iraq causing a huge national disaster and quagmire.
Their use of words like Democracy, Freedom and Sovereignty I regard as satire by villains.
Now that they were so "successful" they want to try the same tactics with Iran. Condi repeats the same tired Mushroom Cloud gambit, over and over.
But now, McCain, knowing that Presidential elections are coming up, gets in on the act, by repeating the horror scenario, as does Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and every other neocon that can get air-time. They are determined to do something war-like to Iran.
Perhaps Hell-fire missiles, with our new nuclear warheads, and bunker buster bombs. We know that despite all assurances by Condi and Donald, which we no long accept, there are plans to do something stupid and expensive to Iran, while Bush will strut and swagger in his dumb-and-deaf routine, pretending to be a courageous warrior, asking Iran to "bring it on" as he did in Iraq.
There is no doubt but that his intention to stay a failed course is part of his daily fantasy, which he lives in a bubble of harmony, free of criticism or responsibility.
You will hear more of this "Iran Evil Intentions" on every station and newspaper from everybody on the Republican side of his nation. They are committed; intent on causing destruction and death with incalculable cost that will go directly to our military-industrial complex.
War is very good business for some people. Profit is the bottom line for the neocons, as the direct road to world domination. Death is immaterial to Bush, as God will judge, and Bush doesn't give a damn.
Bush and his thugs have lost all credibility with us as protectors of American democracy, our Constitution, or our values. They stink at it.