There is no doubt in his mind, says George W. Bush. There is no doubt that domestic spying without court supervision is legal. This is the same mind in which there is serious doubt that the planet was not created in 6 days and populated with billions of living species in 12 hours or so.
Whether or not he believes what he says, nearly everything he has presented to us has been built with false reasoning on a false premise. Even though it seems that about half the country thinks he’s honest, consistently wrong is still consistently wrong and if it were somehow legal to spy on the Vegans and the Quakers or anyone who questions his proclamations, it’s still wrong. You have to hand it to him for doublespeak, though; just as the Clean Air Act was designed to dump more dirt into the air, this program, says the President, is “designed to protect civil liberties.”
Up pops the Devil
Ever notice how Osama bin Laden pops up like a puppet in a Punch and Judy show whenever Bush needs
to lower the level of reason in America? Ever notice how the only ones who assure us that these timely tapes are authentic are the same people who told us Saddam had a nuclear program nearing completion and vast stores of chemical weapons? Other countries like Sweden tell us that they are fakes and even Al Jazeera questions their authenticity. In most things, timing is everything and Osama’s satanophanies seem timed to Bush’s needs. Beyond his need to keep the public convinced of Osama’s enduring presence and malice and since “fighting Terrorism” is his most loved attribute, Bush needs to distract from his failures and blunders.With the Dollar faltering again, oil on the way up, economic signs on the way down, the Army stretched to the breaking point, corruption leaking out of the seams and anger from our few allies at the air strike in Pakistan, George Bush just like Orwell’s Big Brother, feels it’s time to put out more pictures of the bearded devil.
Sooner or later one has to ask, if this “warrentare” is so productive why is he still out there and why have we caught no “terrists” while spying on Americans? The conclusion that comes to my doubting mind is that Bush needs a war to maintain his power and his power is the only reason for that war.
Long Live the King
Two and a quarter centuries ago, our forefathers wrote a constitution and somehow got it approved. Would this country buy such a Liberal document today? Popular outrage at the idea of George III of England looking through one’s dwelling, papers and accounts ad libitum and at random helped the popularity of our Bill of Rights. Now with such things under attack by George II of America, one has to wonder whether our national cowardice has finally led us to choose the security of Big Brother government over the turmoil of liberty.
4 comments:
What a twit. You couldn't get that crap past a third grade English teacher, but you have the audacity to make bold statements based on nothing but your faith in a government that not only has failed to educate you but has lied to you, cheated you and stolen from you.
I have no idea whether Osama's proclamations are all real, all fake or a mixed bag - I'm cynical about it for a reason.
You on the other hand are pretending to be cynical in your bratty, childish way because bonehead patriotism is all you have to make your worthless life seem to have a point and your empty, angry and incapable brain seem to have content.
Phil,
Because bin Laden is a political tool - just like people who insist that opposing the needless sacrifice of life liberty and democracy is "left wing."
It's not a theory, but an observation. Unsubstantiated rumblings of terrorist activity seem to occur whenever Bush's popularity dips.
I would remind you that I offered no proof, but made an observation - and I also observe that the folks at Al Jazeera speak Arabic better than you or I do. You illustrate the impossibility of debate with your flawed, self serving observations. Like most right wingers, you make the argument you think you know how to win rather than arguing with what I said.
NCO,
I deplore the war that is making the lives of our soldiers worthless by dying for presidential ambition and because of presidential lies. I've said it before and I say it again. You're being used as a pawn in someone else's game.
If you don't know that the President lied, that's not my fault but yours.
I remain disgusted that so many have to die so that Iraq can vote into power a terrorist supporting Islamic government the way Iran did and the palestinians did and I'm disgusted that there is still anyone who supports that.
Show me where Saddam's nukes were, his nuclear plants, his mobile bio-weapon labs. Show me his IRBM's - show me those huge Chemical weapon cache's near Tikrit. It was all a lie and Bush ignored everyone with evidence that it was a lie. There was no Nigerian uranium deal but there was a smear against those who contradicted Bush.
Think you know more than Colin Powell because you're a NCO?
Go ahead and tell me it's insulting, or left wing and babble about Michael Moore all you want, try to make this all about me, but you're wrong and you've been fooled.
Yay for you, Capt. Fogg!
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