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Introduction
Scary government documents and manifestos
give witness to the Bush agenda as a blueprint for Fascism, generally
defined as the consolidation of government and industry concentrating
on the fundamentals of imperial expansion, militarism and domestic
repression. Retired Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court Gene
Franchini stated at a large gathering in Taos,
New Mexico that we’re living in dangerous
times and must challenge those who would remove our liberties.
He referred to Ashcroft documents as putting Americans under surveillance
and eroding the Bill of Rights. This is just the beginning.
Do a little research and one realizes the Iraqi War was a war
for oil and world dominance.
This article will present documents, concepts and philosophy produced
by and for the Bush administration. Pre-dubya history is found
in Ralph Epperson’s The Unseen Hand (1985), Bertram Gross’s
Friendly Fascism12) Ravenscroft’s
The Spear of Destiny and endless hundreds of other publications
includingEl Dorado Sun out of Santa
Fe. Noam Chomsky has written much about the days leading
up to the Gulf War and daddy Bush’s New World Order. It all progressed
into The Project for a New American Century (PNAC). PNAC started
agitating for war with Iraq in 1997 and chose Ahmed Chalabi as
Saddam’s successor. According to Blood
Money by William Rivers Pitt, Chalabi promises oil contracts
via the Iraqi National Congress. www.truthout.org)
Cheney’s Halliburton is already in Iraq - getting the oil rigs
running after the war.
PNAC’s leaders appear regularly
on network news. Their membership is quite interesting and includes
Dick Cheney (founder), Donald Rumsfeld (founder), Paul Wolfowitz
(Deputy Secretary of Defense), John Bolton (Arms Control and International
Security), Richard Perle (resigned chairman of Defense Policy
Board), and Chairman Bruce Jackson (past VP of Lockheed-Martin).
Cheney’s Defense Strategy under George Bush inspired the general
philosophy of the Rebuilding document. The PNAC plan for the earth
planet is found in Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies,
Forces and Resources for a New Century. It seeks to establish
Pox Americana across the planet. It is a must read for the truth
of the matter.
The PNAC plan calls for massive increase in defense spending and
fighting several wars to establish American dominance. A few of
the Core missions for the U.S. military forces are highlighted
in the document and listed as: “defend the homeland; fight and
decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars; perform
the ‘constabulary’ duties associated with shaping security environments
in critical regions; transform U.S. forces to exploit the revolution
in military affairs; control the new “international commons” of
space and cyberspace and pave the way for creation of a new military
service – US Space Forces – with the mission of Space control.
In particular the US must: maintain nuclear strategic superiority.”
The PNAC manifesto was available in 2000, long before the 9/11
event. Keep this little fact in mind as you read about protecting
the homeland and helping countries we propose to control with
military force and dollars. Bush Agenda In the National Security
Strategy document American military force polices the world and
America develops legislation other countries must live by under
threat of losing U.S. dollars. Hendrik Hertzberg in The New Yorker
writes “The Bush vision is in the end a profoundly pessimistic
one and, as such, more than a little un-American. It is, among
other things, a vision of perpetual war.” The 2002 National Security
Strategy and Ashcroft’s Patriot Act (1&2) are scary manifestos
and should cause the hair to stand on most heads. They are available
over the Internet. National Security Strategy The Security Strategy
seeks to create a world market where all nations practice “pro-growth
legal and regulatory policies to encourage business investment.”
Countries receive financial assistance when they follow the Bush
plan of “tax policies, particularly lower marginal tax rates that
improve incentives” for businesses. If this vision of the future
is realized we will have lost all unique environments not to mention
life as we’ve known it.
The Ugly Americans will be featured in every village square across
the universe. “We will use
our economic engagement with other countries to underscore the
benefits of policies that generate higher productivity and sustained
economic growth including rule of law and intolerance of corruption
so that people are confident they will be able to enjoy the fruits
of their economic endeavors.” That’s humorous considering Enron,
Halliburton, World Com and the American economic scene. Thousands
of Americans are not enjoying the fruits of their economic endeavors
and Bush friend, Ken Lay has yet to experience “intolerance of
corruption.”
Throughout the Security Strategy we hear the term unilateral,
preemptive action. America will exercise the “right of self defense
by acting preemptively against terrorists or state sponsors of
terrorism to prevent harm against our people and our country.”
Bush is endorsed by Congressto make pre-emptive strikes against
any nation perceived to be a potential threat to undefined U.
S. interests. This is certainly a first in American history.
USA Patriot Act
Uniting
and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required
to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism is the full title of
the 342 page manifesto named to spell out the acronym: USA Patriot.
The American Library Association came out in strong opposition
and the N.M. Library Association Executive Board voted to accept
their resolution of opposition.Ashcroft wants libraries to tell
him what books people are checking out. Our local library has
a courageous display entitled “Freedom to Know.” Taos librarian
Dorothy Kethler finds the USA Patriot act “knocks the hell” out
of the First Amendment.
USAPatriot
legislation gives the feeling of >America as a police state. It greatly expands federal police powers to
allow “sneak and peek” searches, investigations without showing
probable cause and every possible kind of snooping. Jim Hightower,
editor ofThe Hightower Lowdown writes six months ago, “In
the past year, the Bush Gang have issued an alarming array of
orders, memos, rulings and announcements that suppress our freedoms
by executive fiat, effectively changing long-established laws,
processes and principles without even consulting Congress.”
According to London’s The Observer
the snoopers are hard at work. The National Security Agency (NSA)
is conducting a surveillance operation against UN Security Council
delegations. Disclosures were made in a memo written by Frank
Koza, chief of staff in ‘Regional Targets’ section of the NSA.
Sounds like Nixon days of dirty tricks. “The
memo describes orders to staff at the agency to step up its surveillance
particularly directed at UN Security Council Members.” Details
include interception of the home and office telephones and emails
of UN delegates. The actual memo can be found at www.observer.com.
Impotent Congress
Congress offers no checks and balances
for ongoing extreme edicts handed down by the Bush administration.
The Democratic Party is barely alive and Republicans, with a few
exceptions, rubber stamp Bush into eternity. Or to put it in the
words W spoke to the world on 2/26 at the American Enterprise
Institute.: “We
meet here during a crucial period in the history of our nation
and of the civilized world. Part of that history was written by
others; the rest will be written by us.” (Applause)
Is that scary or what?
Ashcroft is a prolific writer. His most recent son of patriot
document is over 120 pages long and is entitled Domestic Security
Enhancement Act of 2003. The full “not for circulation” text
is available online at www.publicintegrity.org.
Various commentaries on the internet refer to it as one of the
most horrifying documents ever to come out of a city and a government
numbed to horrifying documents.Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) legal director Cindy Cohn writes: “We’re
still reeling from the original Patriot Act’s impact on civil
liberties and now the government wants more. When will congress
draw the line and say ‘this much of our civil liberties you’ve
taken under the guise of terrorism – you may have no more’?”
Senator Robert Byrd addressed the Senate on 2/12/03 with these
comments: “To contemplate war is to think about the most
horrible of humanexperiences……Yet this Chamber is, for the most
part, silent – ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate,
no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and
cons of this particular war. There is nothing. This coming battle,
if it materializes, represents a turning point in U.S. foreign policy and a turning point in the
recent history of the world. The doctrine of preemption is a radical
new twist on the traditional idea of self defense. It appears
to be in contravention of international law and the UN Charter.”
The entire speech can be found at www.commondreams.org.
The
Real Terrorist
Bush continues to alienate world opinion. Journalism across the
world is saying Bush is the greatest threat to peace. He plays
the role of a classic terrorist as he threatens and struts about
wagging his arrogant finger in the face of all who defy him. Diplomacy
will never be associated with the Bush regime.
The so-called Homeland Security has used every possible way to
create terror in the hearts of millions. Check out their web site
www.ready.gov and learn about
duck-tape, bottled-water and color-coded warnings. Tom Ridge’s
advice made us the laughing stock of the world. Meanwhile self-appointed
Texas thugs guard the Mexican border and the Canadian border is
an easy transverse.
It’s not just our borders that remain unsecured. According to
Wired News, “a freelance writer
entered a top secret nuclear weapons facility at Los Alamos National
Lab(LANL) without being detected by security guards.” The
writer says all he had to do was step over a few strands of rusted
calf-high barbed wire. Go to www.pogo.org
and find the Inspector Generals 1/28/03 report on Special
Inquiry Regarding Operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Problems at Los Alamos have been publicized for
years. Apparently nothing has been done to safe-guard the facility.
And what about nuclear power plants in heavily populated areas
with no workable evacuation plans. If there is indeed a real threat
to “the homeland”, Mr. Ridge should do more than scare everybody
to death with childish advice.
Conclusion
Know and understand the philosophy,
intentions and roadmap of federal, state and local government.
Become involved in your special way: action groups, communication
and prayer. Do whatever possible to express support for the Bill
of Rights and loathing for the Project for the New American Century.
We must act now for peace.Do one action against war and the Project
daily. For example send a brief letter to representatives in Congress
and mention Rebuilding America’s
Defenses and PNAC’s plan for world dominance. Let them
know we are awake and watchful. Tell government we can see the
hypocrisy in what they produce.
Have courage in this time of endarkenment.Fear and a sense of
hopelessness can be overcome with love, understanding, meditation,
prayer and living in the moment.
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