With a flip of the wrist,
Bush signed into law the anti-Habeas Corpus, pro-torture law (cleverly
repackaged as the Military Commissions Act of 2006), signaling with it
the end of American democracy.
For the Bush family it
was simply another day - like any other day - for the entitled nobility,
who take from others that which does not belong to them.
The Bush dynasty was always
filthy rotten, with not a single member of the imperial family ever
doing an actual honest day's work in their pathetic and miserable
blue-blooded lives.
On October 17, 2006,
however, the latest Bush scoundrel outdid his kin at sucking the marrow
of this nation and signed into law that which our founding fathers would
have called treason, essentially taking the people's rights of liberty,
justice, and property solely for himself. What Mr. Bush signed was, in
essence, the final assault of a carefully orchestrated, six year long
war on the Constitution of the United States.
Much like his
predecessor,
Paul Von Hindenburg
- who rose to power on the family fortune, with fabricated credentials
such fortune can purchase, and went on to end German democracy by
signing the Reichstag Fire Decree and ushering in the
silent dictatorship
- Bush signed into law that which grants him the power to be judge,
jury, and executioner.
With such power granted,
there is no room for turning back, as all roads of justice and freedom
have been measured out and blockades have been erected in the event that
a sleeping public might wake to find themselves pillaged and raped.
And how is such a
vulgarity of power-lust greeted by those in attendance at the signing?
With applause and with rounds of hand shakes signaling a mission
accomplished, the wrong mission of course, but that need not matter any
longer.
To add insult to injury,
when Bush was finished with his butchery, this half-witted crook had the
audacity, the sheer nerve, to claim that he was slitting the throat of
America in the memory of those who died on September 11, 2001:
"And now, in memory of the victims of September the 11th, it is my
honor to sign the Military Commissions Act of 2006 into law."
(Applause).
Yes, those in attendance
not only applauded the man who cannot be bothered to govern or to attend
to any business beneficial to the health and vitality of this nation,
they actually cheered the destruction of this country and allowed Bush
to claim the memory of those who died because of his very own
indifference.
The irony is as ugly as
it is irrelevant to the majority of the American public, sedated, strung
out, and watching reality on the television because they are too lazy or
cowardly to actually live life or fight for something real.
When the President
evoked the memory of my neighbors and friends who died due to his
decisive vacationing and stay-the-course
golfing, in order to remind those he will no longer protect of those he
already failed to protect, his words rang as a threat to me. I heard him
and my stomach dropped straight into the earth, leaving no room for
hope. I heard a threat and it rang on my walls and ears like an alarm, a
man riding on a horse in the middle of the night, screaming "The
Constitution is dying, the Constitution is dying."
But first, a
matter of treason:
I am certain that my
right-wing fellow Americans will no doubt soil themselves silly and cite
Biblical curses at me for daring to label their beloved leader a traitor
to the United States of America. But he is not only a traitor, he is an
aristocratic wannabe despot who is so mentally deranged, that he
believes that God tells him to go out and spread Americana into the
world, and in the process murder hundreds of thousands of people abroad
and destroy thousands of lives at home. Does that sound like something a
sane person would do, or even attempt to justify, in public by evoking
Jesus, the complete antithesis to these activities?
But treason, often
overused by the fanatical right - not unlike their counterpart, the
fanatical suicide bombers (apparently the only difference being that the
latter group blasts their way into heaven while the former group is
merely lifted by a magic carpet ride) - is a term that exists for a
reason. It exists to identify those who would destroy this country for
whatever reason and do so using illicit means and in concert with
declared enemies of the United States.
Since the President so
often evokes the memory of those his actions helped place in their
graves to begin with in order to wage war against the Constitution, then
his own failures and subsequent corruption must be addressed in order to
reclaim the voices of our lost Americans who can no longer speak for
themselves.
If he insists on
reminding us of an enemy, unidentified, lurking just at the edge of our
collective eye, hazy and out of sight, but there, waiting to take
America as bounty and murder all of us in our beds, then let us first
examine what such an enemy might accomplish before, during, and after
the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Before September
11th,
Bush was warned over and over
that an attack on the United States was coming,
even in what manner and by whom.
Yet, never one to be productive, the coked-out drunkard of a mock
President spent most of his time on vacation.
Would the attackers have
succeeded in their evil deed if the President and his cabal actually
cared to protect us, even a little? Would it not be accurate to say
that, just as with Katrina, it was in fact not only the original event,
but the reaction of those in leadership that caused such a massive loss
of life on US soil?
The terrorists attacked
because no one stopped them from attacking, making the President and his
cronies, in part, directly responsible for thousands of deaths. Just as
with Katrina, in which one event did some of the damage, it was the
second and by far more important action that did the most damage. In
both instances, the President and his crummy ideologues aggravated and
exacerbated that which was first preventable and after, even manageable.
After the first
plane hit, Bush thought
it wise to do a photo-op instead of checking
with his officials to see if something
was, perhaps, wrong.
If this President and his
mob had actually for a moment put country before politics, and acted
immediately to secure the air, would the second plane have ever made it
to its target?
After the second
plane hit and after he was told by his chief of staff that
"the nation is under attack,"
this sorry excuse of a leader did not bother to even ask "Nuclear?"
Imagine for a moment what
would have happened if it had been a WMD attack that Bush, so
stay-the-course, ignored? Had this been a nuclear attack, his nearly 10
minutes of face time and cowardice would have resulted in an American
wasteland and made him the king of a new Chernobyl.
But even after the second
plane hit, the President did nothing to secure the air or his citizens
and through this decisive inaction, causing
unprecedented damage to this nation.
He failed over and over
to do his job, before the attack, during the attack, and even after the
attack, when he did not reprimand, fire, or even slap gently on the
wrist a single person in any government agency who failed to do their
own job to prevent such a tragedy.
This man chose to
give his friends and donors jobs, and then refused to fire the
incompetent and corrupt, choosing once again politics over national
security and his duty to us, the citizens he was tasked with protecting.
But the assault did not end there, by any measure, because no sooner had
the victims landed into death than Mr. Bush forced the
Environmental Protection Agency to give an
"all-clear" on the air quality at ground zero
Bush's all-clear order
alone was an act of war on the American public, the American people.
Knowing full well that the air was not safe, the President ordered those
with the authority to ascertain safety to lie to the public and march
more Americans into a city sized coffin.
And yet, without an ounce
of humility or regret, this President and his fascist party dared to
dance on the graves of those who died by evoking their memories in order
to perpetuate their own lies and to destroy more and more lives.
.
Fathom this for a moment if you can, the sheer perversion of it, and see
if this is what our founding fathers might call treason. The Pinto
mentality of cost analysis, that is to say, political gain vs. the loss
of life is what the fascist state excels at, not a democracy.
But instead of removing
from office the monstrosity of this entire gang of thugs and lunatics,
our Congress gave this President more power to inflict more harm by
passing an outright violation of the Constitution in the form of the
perversely named PATRIOT Act.
Yes, by all means, reward
a strangler by giving him a gun by which to expedite his murders.
The Unlimited Power to Protect Us, from what or whom?
Who exactly are we being
protected from? If it is supposedly the alleged mastermind of September
11, Osama bin Laden, then why was he allowed to vanish from the face of
the earth when we had him cornered in Tora Bora and his henchmen from
Konduz?
Just in case you missed
reality the first time around:
And why is he now
appearing in
Republican campaign ads
all over the country, as the star of fear and
somehow a warning against voting for Democrats?
Is there a logical
explanation for such failure? Is is it quite simply the obvious, that
once again politics take priority over national security and that a dead
Osama does little to energize the GOP base? Is it possible that the
President allowed Osama to escape so that he can continue conjuring up
his image as needed? Yes, it is possible, and given the moral depravity
of this administration, it is likely.
Yes, by all means, give a
murderer with a gun an imaginary missile to use and then stand idly by
while he launches it at the innocent public in order to frighten them
away from their own Constitution.
We did not secure
Afghanistan, contrary to popular propaganda, not by a long shot.
Instead, we pulled a drive-by shooting type war, where we hit a few
targets and left the enemy, the Taliban, largely in control and made
worse a drug plague dragging that nation into the underworld. Instead of
attacking those who harbored our enemy, those who would not surrender
our enemy after the attacks of September 11, we attacked a sovereign
nation who did nothing to us and murdered nearly
one million people.
What can something like this be called? Shock and Awe?
Yes, I am shocked at the
rogue insanity of the Bush regime and I am in awe of our Congress' lack
of oversight at the so obviously criminal.
By all means, hand a man
with a God complex the keys to this nation's survival because political
consultants don't think impeachment will be popular during the mid-term
elections. Does anyone in Washington every actually work once elected or
are they all indefinitely running for reelection?
The politics of
shame
And yet this man has the
indecency to invoke those whom he failed to protect, avenge or in any
way provide justice for, in order to make into law that which will deny
those of us who have managed to survive this administration the very
basics of Constitutional protection. How is this not obscene? How is
this not treason, all of it?
Those who are
about to die salute you (do they have a choice?)
On October 17 2006,
surely a day that will live in infamy, when you, Mr. Bush, said that:
"The bill I'm about to sign also provides a way to deliver justice
to the terrorists we have captured. In the months after 9/11, I
authorized a system of military commissions to try foreign
terrorists accused of war crimes. These commissions were similar to
those used for trying enemy combatants in the Revolutionary War and
the Civil War and World War II. Yet the legality of the system I
established was challenged in the court, and the Supreme Court ruled
that the military commissions needed to be explicitly authorized by
the United States Congress"
- did you stop to consider
what it is that you actually dribbled out of your twitching mouth?
This statement is so
grotesque, so vile, that it is almost impossible to address without
resorting to violence. It is almost incomprehensible when one considers
not only what the maggot of a half-wit said, but the comparisons he made
with another grotesque time in history. Consider it, if you can, and see
if your mind can withstand the absolute slap against morality and
reason.
The President of
the United States conjured up a legal framework, without any authority
to do so, to try those whom he found guilty of "war crimes," he says,
despite the fact that at least
70,000
people,
were simply kidnapped, tortured, raped, and in some cases murdered
without ever having been put on trial and for crimes they had never
committed. The only things these people had in common were their
Middle-Eastern sounding names, the color of their skin, and their
religious background.
The trials of Nazi war
criminals, however, delivered judgment against those who did what?
Kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered innocent people based on the
color of their skin, their sexual orientation, their given names, and
their religious practices.
Then consider how
absolutely misguided and morally vacuous this man is when he dares to
insinuate that his own "judgments" and "methods" are similar to those
used to try WWII war criminals, that is, those whose actions resulted in
crimes against humanity.
Have you, sir,
lost your fucking idiotic mind?
In sum, yes, you have and took the nation's soul with it!
In ordering
Operation Copper Green,
through which you, Mr. Bush, ordered the capture, torture, rape, and
murder of countless people at your secret concentration camps, you
committed the very crimes for which you would be the enemy combatant
standing trial, the war criminal standing trial at The Hague. It is not
you who would be the judge, Mr. President, or the prosecution, or the
jury, in trying enemy combatants and delivering some form of justice to
those who have thus far been so unjustly treated.
Mr. Bush, if this was
World War II, your father would be fighting the enemy, and he would be
fighting an enemy not unlike his own son.
And, as though drugged on
perma-kool-aid, Mr. President, you actually said:
"One of the terrorists
believed to have planned the 9/11 attacks said he hoped the attacks
would be the beginning of the end of America. He didn't get his
wish."
No, you are right Mr.
Bush, that person, whoever he was, could not have achieved what you have
managed to achieve through dereliction of duty, complete criminality,
and absolute abuse of power: the destruction of the Constitution and the
greatest loss of life on US soil since the Civil War.
You, Mr. Bush, could not
be bothered with the duties of governance, and in doing so, you let the
attacks of 911 cause the damage that they did, attacks that could have
been avoided, and damage and loss of life that was preventable.
You failed to do your
job, Mr. Bush, not the terrorists.
Yet instead of feeling
some sense of responsibility or humility in the light of such a
catastrophe, you, Mr. Bush, moved on and evolved from the Decider who
would not do his job to protect this nation to a murderer who gave an
illegal order to have the air at ground zero declared safe.
The terrorists did not
declare the air at Ground Zero safe; you did that Mr. Bush, knowing full
well it was not.
And with the appetite
that only such depravity could feed, you attacked another nation,
killing nearly a million innocents, all the while illegally capturing,
torturing, raping, and murdering those whom you found to be a threat.
This, Mr. President, is
almost exactly what those who stood on trial for war crimes and crimes
against humanity did, and yet you have the nerve to compare those trials
to your own criminal activity? You dare to evoke those whom you helped
put in their graves as a reason to still murder others?
No suicide bomber could
have done what you, Mr. Bush, have so devilishly achieved and now stand
proud of, to a clapping gaggle of people who cannot or will not take the
time to comprehend that which they are so willing to celebrate.
But perhaps we can be
thankful for small favors, in that the Decider did not extend his
memorial signing of the pro-death, pro-torture, anti-humanity bill to
the victims of Katrina and the loss of New Orleans. Perhaps there is
still left one group of the murdered whom we can mourn without having
their memories degraded and robbed.
In this brave new
America, where we all once dreamed together, we have little left to
protect and hold dear, and that little is usually the pieces and parts
of those destroyed by the Bush administration, not some random "enemy
combatants" who could never have caused the devastation in New Orleans
the way a crony-appointing bigot had.
Even after there were
only the dead left, this President robbed them of all dignity by
watching as they rotted in the streets for weeks and weeks, while he
attended fundraisers and ate cake.
Even terrorists would
treat their own dead with more honor than how the American dead in New
Orleans were treated by their President and his party. No terrorist
group, not 19 men, not even endless attacks could have caused, what you
have done, Mr. Bush, in damaging and dishonoring America.
These crimes, and others
not listed, together present nothing short of direct war on the United
States of America and the Constitution, and that is treason. There is no
other way to describe these actions and reactions to events.
To simply claim dereliction of duty may have been applicable to the
attacks of September 11. But not to direct orders, such as the EPA order
and the order to march to war with Iraq. One cannot call it dereliction
of duty when the President knew that Katrina was coming, knew how bad it
would be, knew that he had appointed unqualified cronies to protect
those in the path of the storm, and still, knowing all this, went on
vacation.
One cannot call it
incompetence when, for nearly a week, the entire world watched in horror
as Americans died in America and the President could not be bothered,
the Vice President was
house hunting,
and the National Security Advisor was buying shoes.
One cannot call it
American democracy when our dead are not buried and are left to rot in
the streets. One cannot call it Constitutional when the President puts
himself and his henchmen above the law or creates laws that absolve him
of his Constitutional constraints or criminal activities. One cannot
call it simply a high crime when the President takes away that which is
not his to take, our freedom, our justice, our Constitutional
protections. We surpassed high crimes at Ground Zero and since then,
there is only one word that can be used to describe what has transpired
and that word is treason.
The signing of the
pro-torture, pro-murder, anti-humanity, unconstitutional law called the
Military Commissions Act is but the final direct, frontal assault on
America by a tyrant and his misanthropic gang of criminals, and it is
yet another act of treason, applauded and lauded. And just like with the
Reichstag Fire Decree, it may well be the final wound that causes the
fall of the American experiment.
The Constitution is
dying, The Constitution is dying, The Constitution is
dying...(Applause.)
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