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This is what democracy looks like
by Don Nash, Unknown News
June 28, 2005
September 11, 2001 and commercial airliners fly directly into the twin World Trade Towers. The event is a national disaster and our government is remarkably missing in action. The FAA does nothing, the military does nothing, and our fearless leader is sitting in a classroom in Florida reading goat stories to school children. The Secret Service, the President’s
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bodyguards, do nothing and leave the leader of the free world sitting in that classroom like a duck in a barrel. That is what democracy looks like.
The United States and the world watch in horror as 9/11 is replayed over and over by mainstream media. The leader of the free world reassures a stunned public and vows retribution on the criminals that committed such a cowardly act. Who knew that our very own government would be suspect in our nation’s worst act of domestic terrorism. Who knew that our government would facilitate cover up of such a wantonly cruel act. That is what democracy looks like.
The world almost to a nation, rallies behind the United States and the best that our fearless leader can come up with is going after Afghanistan. A brave act of preemptive destruction on a people that have only ever known acts of destruction. Afghanistan did not commit the horror that is 9/11/ 01. It remains a standing question whether those accused of committing 9/11/01, really did in fact commit such a horrendous crime. That is what democracy looks like.
Hundreds of Muslim men, women, and children are arrested by the United States in Afghanistan. The government brands these Muslims as “enemy combatants” and they are thrown into secret detention. Guantanamo Bay becomes the off shore holding pen for these Muslims to be kept in “perpetuity” and subjected to endless tortures and abuse compliments of the U.S. military. The U.S. “needs” that vital intelligence that is supposedly available from the detainees. Torture is never torture if no one can see it. That is what democracy looks like.
Our fearless leader claims that the United States is in a “war on terror.” Disregard the fact that the supposed “war on terror” more closely resembles a comedic tragedy and that the “boogey men” responsible for 9/11 are as mythic as they are mysterious. Rumors, innuendo, and abject fabrication surround the “authors” of 9/11 and the manhunt takes on an aura of absurdity that is never to be questioned. Our fearless leader professes to be “unconcerned about bin Ladin” and therefore the “war on terror” is hunting bigger fish to fry than say, the man that was accused of the crime in the first place. That is what democracy looks like.
Our fearless leader claims that Iraq is partly responsible for 9/11/01. The dastardly Saddam Hussein. The very embodiment of villainy and the world’s single largest “evil doer” and in possession of terrors that are so dangerous, to save the world our fearless leader must “preempt” Iraq. Why, if the United States were to ignore the impending threat that is Iraq, all Hussein would need is forty five minutes and that would be the end of life as we know it in the United States and very possibly, the world. That is what democracy looks like.
Saddam Hussein is a bad man and the United States can’t wait on the United Nations to get around to verifying claims about weapons of mass destruction being destroyed. If necessary, the United States will go it alone and preempt Iraq and the world can shove it. That is what democracy looks like.
The United States preempts Iraq and it’s made for television shock and awe. Our fearless leader gives the U.S. military a “running start” and Tommy Franks is on to Baghdad and the decapitation of Saddam Hussein. Sadly, it is the innocent Iraqi people that get decapitated and the U.S. military gives every impression of portraying a third rate stumble bum collection of inept boobs. Remember Jessica Lynch? Remember Pat Tillman? Remember the sacking of Gen. Shinseki? Remember Paul Wolfowitz telling the Congress “Iraq will be a walk in the park.” That is what democracy looks like.
The Bush administration is awarding “no-bid” contracts to Halliburton, Bechtel, and various companies that are owned by the personal friends of our fearless leader and our vice-fearless leader. They’re going to rebuild Iraq. The United States Department of Defense is one fat cash cow and this is the “war on terror” and the “preemptive war on Iraq” and one doesn’t question the cash practices of the Department of Defense during a “war on terror/Iraq.” Why, you can just ask our Congress that holds the keys to the front door of our national treasury. The national treasury has been cracked open for our fearless leader’s friends to fatten their wallets with and one shouldn’t ask any questions, this is the “war on terror.” That is what democracy looks like.
Brave American service personnel are keeping our freedoms safe and making the ultimate sacrifice in defense of liberty. Oddest damn thing though, America’s freedom isn’t under threat. It is entirely possible that the combined numbers of American “war” dead could be just about ten thousand. The Department of Defense is playing cutesy with the casualty numbers and service personnel that die in American military hospitals in Europe are not counted with the `killed in Iraq’ numbers. That is what democracy looks like.
Our fearless leader changed his mind about the reasons for the Iraq preemptive war. After it was revealed that Iraq doesn’t have weapons of mass destruction and didn’t have any such thing dating back to about 1993, those “imminent threats” that were all the rage pre-Iraq preemption, precipitated a change in rationale. Our fearless leader decided that the Iraq war was for “bringing the Iraqi people liberation, freedom, and democracy.” The cruel and harsh reality of “Iraqi freedom”, would be the staggering numbers of brutally slaughtered Iraqi people. The staggering numbers of Iraqi people that are being detained by the U.S. military in the hell that is Abu Ghraib prison. That is what democracy looks like.
One shouldn’t leave out the torture inflicted on the Iraqi people in detention. One shouldn’t leave out the horrendous destruction that has been rained on Iraq. One shouldn’t leave out the “banned” weapons used by the United States military. Wondrous evil delights such as depleted uranium munitions, cluster bombs, and the stirringly fascinating napalm fire bombs. That is what democracy looks like.
Our fearless leader lied about the reasons for the Iraq preemption. Our fearless leader started lying about the Iraq preemption about six months before he was ever even handed the Office of President of the United States. Our fearless leader got the Prime Minister of Great Britain to lie about the Iraq preemption. Our vice fearless leader lied about the Iraq preemption. The Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the National Security Advisor, and all the little deputies of the various departments and agencies that are joined at the hip to the Iraq preemption lied about it. That is what democracy looks like.
Now it’s the middle of 2005 and the truth about the Iraq preemption is unraveling from the closely guarded ball of deception that our fearless leader keeps his grubby mitts wrapped around. Congress is mired in scandal, corruption, division, and can’t therefore won’t do a thing about our fearless leader’s treason. That is what democracy looks like.
America has the PATRIOT Act and the new and renewed PATRIOT Act II. Americans may very well get visits from the Secret Service, the F.B.I., military intelligence (an oxymoron), and the agencies aren’t going to tell you about it. Due legal process is dead and a memory in America. If one speaks out in resistance to this fascist madness, that person can expect censorship, detention, or worse. Fear is the reigning climate in America and that is what democracy looks like.
Avenues for free speech, free expression, and the freedom to speak out without fear of reprisal are gone. The political parties (Democrats and Republicans) have a strangle hold lock on the election process in America and regular Americans are locked out. It is over and welcome to the new American fascist police state. This is what American democracy looks like and how do you like it now?
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Now it’s the middle of 2005 and the truth about the Iraq preemption is unraveling from the closely guarded ball of deception that our fearless leader keeps his grubby mitts wrapped around.
Congress is mired in scandal, corruption, division, and can’t therefore won’t do a thing about our fearless leader’s treason.
That is what democracy looks like.
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