Even though Bush II will lose the popular vote in the US presidential election
of 2004, his Electoral College victory seems assured. With Republican party
governors firmly in charge of Florida, California, Texas and New York, and supported
by a whopping Bush campaign war chest approaching $200 million, dubious electronic
voting schemes courtesy of Diebold, Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors
(http://www.blackboxvoting.com), it seems certain that Bush will make it back
to the Oval Office through the back door that is the Electoral College. And
if not the Electoral College then by benefit of a rebel attack on US soil which
kills thousands of Americans and leads to the suspension of the US Constitution.
That according to General Tommy Franks, USA (Ret.), who opined in the magazine
Cigar Aficionado that the US will have to shed its constitution in favor of
a military style of government. Even the notorious aristocrat Alexander Hamilton
would have been appalled as such a statement, as would Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison. But these are mediocre times in history; particularly, and dangerously,
in America where its people have eliminated those who might have continued to
wage a struggle for an equitable form of government in the US, as well as engage
the world through international treaty building.
Mediocre times produce the very worst that the world has to offer: Reagan,
Bin Laden, Bush, Hussein, Sharon, and Blair. None but the feeble minded could
draw inspiration from such a ghastly lineup of "leaders". This is
the world as it has become absent the shortenedlives of John and Robert Kennedy,
Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X and Yitzhak Rabin, all of whom were murdered
for their beliefs, or, rather, for the threat they posed to the established
interests. Even Nikita Khrushchev was removed from power in the then USSR in
1964 for trying to push his country towards a more peaceful coexistence with
the rest of the world. The threats these titans of history posed to the established
order of their day was not so much monetary as it was ideology. Each of them
planted in the minds of those who would listen the thought that the established
order of war, racism, poverty, and income and wealth disparity could and should
be questioned. However, those who pull the strings could not stand an ignorant
populace that questioned the order of things. And so their fate was, it seems,
preordained by disgruntled individuals agitated by those portions of business
and government who were wedded to the status quo. And so, JFK and Khrushchev,
King and RFK, and Malcolm X and Rubin were terminated and Americans, and the
world, found themselves at the mercy of Bush and Bin Laden, Hussein and Blair,
and Reagan and Sharon.
Crippled Opposition
With the election of Bush II in 2004, the ideological and economic fracturing
of America will be complete and, for the foreseeable future, permanent. The
three branches of the US government, corporations, and the majority of state's
governors and state houses will be controlled by those Republicans and Democrats
who have become indistinguishable in their belief that the government's only
role in America is to make it safe and ludicrously easy for small and large
corporations to make a profit without the drag of government regulations, programs
and taxes that, in their view, steal from the bottom line. With those folks
at thehelm, 2002 and 2003 saw the US federal and state governments give the
business community trillions of dollars of hand-outs in the form of tax cuts,
regulatory relief and legislation that allowed businesses to rape and pillage
the American landscape and its middle and lower classes. The latter group's
struggle is getting worse. Even as its industrial, service and information technology
jobs are exported to other countries, these Americans are being forced to work
longer hours, endure more expensive privatized health and welfare benefits,
and higher prices for feeding, clothing and educating their children. Slowly
but surely, Americans from the middle and lower classes find themselves at an
increasing distance from their rulers, yet must bear the burden of profit and
war for these same dastardly people.
But those that rule have in their malleable plebian audience a strange group
of middle and lower class acolytes. Among them, the notorious Christian right
and an estimated 5 to 9 million American-Muslims who handed Bush II over 90
percent of their vote in the last presidential election. That group, along with
neo-con Latinos and Asians, seem to have forgotten the struggles they waged
to reach, what once was, a republic with a semblance of representative democracy.
Are they trying to recreate the religious-military dictatorships of their own
home countries? Bush II certainly has obliged them in that effort.
The invincible political-corporate-state apparatus (PCS) that George Bush II
and his supporters have created will be opposed by a loose affiliation of hundred's
of local and urban communities-supported by a handful of wealthy donors, actors
and retired military personnel--who have refused to accept the destruction of
the federal and state governments, the Iraq War and the draconian Patriot Act
I and II, or, for that matter, the legitimacy of the Bush II presidency. But
the deck is stacked against them.
Catholics and Muslims of the World: Unite!
Thanks to the Patriot Act, elements of the Bush PCS can now enter the homes
of protestors that question opposition to the established order on the street,
the Internet, in high schools, on television, in the newspapers, and even in
common conversation. The Pentagon has its own domestic intelligence service
that has begun working with the FBI who, in turn, is ramping up its efforts
to build databases of Americans who oppose the Bush PCS machine. Even local
police, like the Miami Police Department, have become tools of the hideous juggernaut
that has been created by the powerful and paranoid of the land. The Miami Police
Department received $8.5 million from the $87.5 billion Pentagon appropriation
for the Iraq War. The $8.5 million from that Pentagon appropriation was used
for the defense of Miami against anti-globalization protestors in the same way
it is used by the US military to quell disturbances>
And so the Bush-led PCS will continue to dress its god, its profits, its worldview
in the colorful and flammable costume that is patriotism. The rallying cries
are very persuasive to simple minds: Fight 'Em There Rather than Here! America
is Safer Now! The Economy is Recovering! Do Your Duty and Buy! Cheaper Oil and
Gas for Americans! Help Freedom Loving Iraqi's Rebuild! God Bless America! Go
Team! That same sort of infantile rationale will continue to be used to not
only further the economic and ideological divide in America, but to attack nations
who, coincidently, have large oil and gas reserves, sit in the path of energy
pipelines, or who happen to believe in Islam. But wait! The Catholic and oil
rich nations of Venezuela and Colombia find themselves targets of the Bush PCS.
Now there's a coincidence: Roman Catholics and Muslims the target of an Evangelical
Christian American government. Catholics and Muslims Unite!
2004-2008: Operation Clean Sweep
Shortly upon taking office in 2004, Bush's PCS will move rapidly on a number
of fronts. Unbound by the constraints of campaigning, the real work of the Bush
PCS will begin. First, the Bush PCS will continue to rupture federal and state
programs that assist the middle and lower classes of America and their culture
and environment. The US Supreme Court will eliminate a woman's right to choose.
Constitutional amendments banning gay rights, women's rights and civil rights/affirmative
action will be proposed by the Bush PCS and, in all likelihood, will succeed.
An additional amendment to the constitution concerning military rule in case
of an attack on US soil by any foreign individual or state will be added easing
the way towards military rule in America.
While the nation debates these issues, Bush will quietly issue an edict supporting
a return to the draft. The massive military campaign that is sure to follow
will require millions of US military personnel that can only be had forcibly
through conscription. As early as the Christian holiday of Christmas in December
2004, or more likely, the Christian Easter Holiday in April 2005 (celebrating
the resurrection of Jesus Christ), the Bush PCS will attack. Syria will be attacked
by American-British-Israeli coalition forces, primarily from its Western, Southern
and Eastern flanks. There will be no prolonged bombing campaign in this operation.
The air campaign will be concomitant with an amphibious assault on Syria's Western
shores, accompanied by a land invasion from the Southern and Eastern flanks.
The forces of the American led coalition will crush the dilapidated Syrian military
within 10 business days.
The Palestinians will likely be granted a piece of the former Syria and will
be relocated there by the US and Israel.
Simultaneously with invasion of Syria, Iran will be subjected to an extraordinary
air and cruise missile assault led by American forces. This operation will include
additional military elements from the Turkish and Afghani military who will
have been promised a piece of Iran once it is defeated. A withering air assault
will come from the Northwest through Turkey, from the West from US controlled
Iraq, from the East from the air bases in Afghanistan, and from carrier groups
and cruise missile launching submarines, to include an Israeli submarine, in
the Persian Gulf. Within 60 business days, Iran will be defeated by US-led forces.
And should Iran successfully test a nuclear weapon prior to that time, the Bush
PCS will accelerate its timetable for attack opting to use tactical nuclear
weapons to take out Iranian nuclear weaponry.
Since the Bush PCS believes that North Korea cannot be allowed to exist, it
will attack North Korea simultaneously with its invasion of Syria and Iran.
China will have been dealt with during back channel negotiations. The price
China will demand of not intervening against the US invasion (Chinese troop
strength at 100 million) will be Taiwan. The Bush PCS will turn a blind eye
to China's takeover of Taiwan, which had become a bad US hangover from the Cold
War.
The US will be glad to rid itself of support for Taiwan. Vladimir Putin may
sign on to the US-led invasion and commit Russian troops which will incur from
the Northeastern portion of North Korea's border. Participation with Bush in
this effort would allow Russia basing rights on the Eastern shores of North
Korea. The US and South Korean military will attempt to neutralize the North
Korean military with low yield tactical nuclear weapons which will be used primarily
along the heavily fortified Southern border. This conflict will see the massive
deployment of ordnance with calmative agents meant to literally put to sleep
the North Korean military. An electromagnetic pulse weapon or weapons will be
used to knock out North Korea's command and control infrastructure. Ground operations
will be simultaneous with air and sea assault but the conflict will rage on
for 12 business quarters as weather and terrain complicate the US led attack.
Meanwhile in Colombia, US military forces will openly engage in combat against
the FARC and indigenous peoples movements there. Over in Venezuela, the US will
finally topple Hugo Chavez (if not prior to 2004). The aged leaders of Cuba
and Libya will be no match for the Bush PCS, and they will likely be toppled
in US led coups. In each of these cases, Bush PCS friendly dictators will be
installed and US corporations will quickly move to capitalize each of those
societies, just as they are doing in Iraq.
All of this, it seems, is a fait accompli.
John Stanton
Especially for "PRAVDA.Ru"
Virginia, USA
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