In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Unlawfulness is the new law: Disregard for the rule of law and not of men throughout administrations goes back a long way in our country, and I believe is the root of the Civil War, which is still being fought along a racial/cultural divide. The Two Americas syndrome -- i.e., one set of rules applying to a wealthy privileged class -- the rule that rules need not apply -- vs. strict enforcement of a carefully calibrated set of rules designed to criminalize poverty and establish a permanent underclass to keep unemployment at a steady 6 % -- the same 6 percent, always, only now the permanent underclass (the other America, the unpeople who can be executed by the state as a political expediency) has swelled to an alarming degree, where 1 percent controls all the rest, which is to say everything and everyone beneath it, an intolerable monarchy that promises to tear us apart in bloody, violent revolutions. This isn't the Gilded Age we're talking about, it's more like 1791 and 1914 put together in a 21st century state-of-the-art nuclear warhead. At least the robber barons recognized the need to build. All this crowd knows how to do is destroy and plunder. Look what they did to California! That represents one-third of the U.S. economy. The rule of law in that case was entirely abandoned. If Reagan's plan to destroy the Soviets by a massive arms buildup that they couldn't afford worked, Bush is now applying the same principle to us. He's breaking our backs and destroying the U.S. economy, Reagan-style, for private enrichment. And of course the rule of law need not apply. That's what Supreme Court appointments are all about. Look how he got to be president!
As to the so-called objective mechanics of laws protecting citizens from the unbridled passions of people, what we have here is a human libido craving for power and deregulated greed driving those mechanisms, perverting them, corrupting them to shore up its advantage. What we see now is the flowering of an agenda in which selected wars bear fruits. But we don't share in any of it. It's all privately owned fruit, and sold to us at an exhorbitant price that thanks to them we can no longer afford. This is international gangsterism on a breathtaking scale, and it galls and frightens me because it's all done in my name. We're complicit and extorted at the same time. We have to live with the mass murder while a handful of men enrich themselves at our expense. Every dime I make and spend contributes to this. I'm supporting it. I'm paying for it. Now I must suffer the guilt and shame of the lie forever. I hate what these people have done to us, how hell bent they are on shoving everyone's faces in their shit while they rob us. And Americans applaud.
- Michael 12:38 PM - [PermaLink] -
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