Reply #65: "Either you want to know if you've been lied to, or you don't." [View All]

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Americans inching closer to a reckoning

ROBERT STEINBACK
DOWNING STREET MEMO
The Miami Herald

Do you want to know?

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You're in one camp or the other. Either you want to know if you've been lied to, or you don't.

The American public is inching tentatively toward a reckoning unlike any this nation has ever experienced. The oh-so-clever Bush administration strategists and their quasi-media acolytes, who have kept the reckoning at bay with a deft combination of we're-at-war patriotic fervor and fear-the-evil-liberals rhetoric, are running out of parlor tricks.

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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11952371.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

I agree. "The American public is inching tentatively toward a reckoning unlike any this nation has ever experienced." That reckoning is not about the 'symptom' - Bush's illegal war on Iraq - however. That reckoning has to do with what I described in a response to Will Pitt's post (link below) as "Greed and Domination: Flavor, 'American'":

Perpetual war is merely one mechanism used by a control system adapted to the pursuit of those arm-in-arm goals -- greed and domination.

All the fancy talk of PNAC; all the horrific actions of Bush and his fellow neoconsters are but another instance, in the brief history of humanity, of the ability of the few to motivate the many into servicing their lust for unrestrained consumption of resources and unrestricted domination and disregard for any one whom gets in the way.

The Bush plutocracy is but another boring instance of folk being fooled, once again, into being the fuel and infrastructure of another evil empire.

That is what no one wants to admit. It's just not what any one wants to discuss while driving the SUV to Wal-Mart.

Our choice is clear. Do we enforce the law - that human instrument created in the recognition that everything is finite and every action should be accounted. Or, not.

We don't need to impeach Bush, Cheney and all the other criminals. We just need to file charges against them and prosecute them.

A small number of folk, gathered in Philadelphia, made a few essential decisions in 1775 and stuck with them.

It's June 22, 2005. How many of us are committed to applying the law. Do we have what it takes to file charges in every conceivable national and international court? Do we have what it takes to halt consumption of those goods and services upon which the Bush plutocracy thrives? Do we have what it takes to convince other governments to sanction the Bush plutocracy?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3918662&mesg_id=3918662

For a bit of added historical context on just how obvious the Bush plutocracy has been in it's brutal imitation of the 'greed and domination' scam:

http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2005/06/denial-and-deception.html

In Our Faces

In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility ... it would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.

I suppose it's a waste of breath to try to convince the media and the rightwingers that Bush is the biggest bald faced liar in history, but still, the internet is such a nice repository of documentary proof of this that it seems a worthy exercise, nonetheless, if only for the history books.

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Link: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_06_19_digbysblog_archive.html#111931070175688214

Peace.


WE THE PEOPLE .... MUST FILE CHARGES, INDICT AND PROSECUTE BUSH AND ALL THE OTHER NEOCONSTER WAR CRIMINALS. IT'S THE LAW, STUPID