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torture that is of concern to those who have been involved in it, but the PURPOSE of the torture. The Bush Junta claims that they are torturing for "national security," to stop terrorist plots, to "keep us safe," etc. But, when did the Bush Junta do ANYTHING for OUR benefit? I suspect that that is more B.S. from them, more lies and deceit, and that the torture is targeting people who know something about the Bush Cartel--dirty money, dirty arms deals, complicity on 9/11. Here's a for instance--a very likely one: Bush Junta plans to PLANT nukes in Iraq, to be "discovered" by the US troops who were "hunting" for them--follow-up to the concoction of the Niger/Iraq nuke connection forgeries. The plot obviously got foiled. (No WMDs were found.) But WHO knows about it/knew about it? One candidate who might have known about it was the Brits chief WMD expert, David Kelley, who was found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances, four days after Valerie Plame was outed (7/18/03); his office and computers were searched, and, four days after that, Robert Novak ADDITIONALLY outed the entire CIA WMD counter-proliferation network that she headed, Brewster-Jennings. If the issue in Kelly's death, and Plame/BJ's outings, was this false flag plan, who ELSE might have known about it? Well, for one thing, Iraqis! Was the chaos and looting that Rumsfeld encouraged during the invasion a means of trying to implement this plan, and was the immediate set-up of torture facilities at Abu Ghraib cover for finding out who might know about it, and eliminating them?
Just one possibility. The Bush Junta is so filthy they likely have "bodies buried" all over the landscape. The secrecy, indefinite detention, and torture prevalent at places like Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and all their secret prisons may be their personal, private coverup efforts. Nothing to do with "national security" whatever. Just as their pervasive spying on Americans likely has nothing to do with stopping terrorism, and everything to do with blackmailing their political enemies.
And it may that the CIA and others have just had a bellyful of this crap--and that they also fear NOT just exposure to legal liability, but exposure of what the torture has been used FOR.
Let me put this a different way: IF the torture had REALLY been used to uncover and stop REAL terrorist plots, Americans in general (and people in general) MIGHT BE inclined to forgive it, in retrospect--although we must never forget that 63% of the American people oppose torture "under any circumstances" (according to a May '04 poll by the NYT). But still, IF there had been a SERIOUS threat (such as a nuke or bioweapon about to be unleashed on a US city, for instance), many would tend to want to "look the other way" about subsequent disclosure that torture was used to prevent it. We may never want torture to be legal--but we might FORGIVE it (be disinclined toward prosecution, or severe punishment) if millions of lives were at REAL risk. But IF, on the other hand, torture was used to cover up dirty Cheney arms dealings, money tracks to 9/11, deceitful planting of WMDs in Iraq, or any of a number of plausible Bush Cartel crimes and illegal profit ventures, it would NOT be forgivable and most people would be inclined to prosecute them to the hilt (and, not unimportantly, to anathematize the Republican Party forever).
Based on our knowledge of the "Bush crime family" (as Mike Malloy puts it)--just on what is known about them (Lord knows what the unknown part is)--which is the more likely scenario: that the Bushites are torturing to "keep us safe," or that the Bushites are torturing for their own profit (or self-protection)?
I rest my case.
ALWAYS beware of the little bits and pieces of things we are permitted to see, by the war profiteering corporate news monopolies. A revolt by the CIA (or even part of the CIA), by the military, or, indeed, by other members of the military-industrial complex and the US political establishment, is BIG DEAL. These people CLOSE RANKS if what is going on is simple illegality in what they consider to be a good cause. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg (--or the tip of the volcano) (--as Hugo Chavez said yesterday, you can smell the sulfur). The kinds of defections we are seeing from within our "secret government"--and from within the military and political establishment--are unprecedented! Not even during the Vietnam War did we see such a profound disturbance within our government. And I just don't think the reason is simple fear of prosecution for over-zealous pursuit of America's "safety" in the "war on terror." There is something much more serious beneath all this. I tend to think that the Plame/BJ outings and David Kelly's death are the key to it. Or one of the keys. The holes in the official 9/11 story may be another key. We can only guess. But SOMETHING is going on, that has frightened a lot of people--and has appalled some, to such a degree that they cannot abide any further participation in it, and are trying to extricate themselves and/or trying to bring the Bush Junta down.
We may be glad or hopeful, politically--although I think that is rather superficial view. This truly "Byzantine" empire is an extremely dangerous place, and normal political thinking doesn't apply. For one thing, our Corporate Rulers now have direct control of our elections--via electronic voting, run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by Bushite corporations, a coup achieved by the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney, but ABETTED BY corporatist 'Democrats' like Christopher Dodd, and by the MIND-BOGGLING SILENCE of the entire Democratic Party leadership. It may be that this electronic voting scam is the long term plot that is in motion: a plot of flay us with Bush fascism, and to comeback with milder Corporate Rule (under, say, Hillary) so that we will be GRATEFUL for Corporate Rule (and not rebellious, as were the 50,000 people who shut down the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999--a protest that was as much against Bill Clinton as it was against the US-based global corporate predators that the Clinton administration was shilling for, in "free trade" agreements like NAFTA). Bush fascism, and the reaction against it within government, may be part of a larger, longer term schema to subdue and disempower the American people. That Bush fascism has gone so far--and inspired revolt from within--may or may not be part of such a schema. If this paranoid, 'tinfoil' hat conspiracy theory turns out to be true (and who knows, these days?)--that is, if what we are seeing is a long term CORPORATE conspiracy (hit 'em with fascism; fall BACK to MERE Corporate Rule)--then I tend to think it was not meant to go so far, and that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Cabal are "out of control" (grabbing way too much power).
Our job, as the citizens of the Old Republic, is the restore our right to vote. If we don't, then "Tinfoil" says that what we will be inflicted with, in '08, will likely be a Corporatist Democrat with the powers of an emperor (torture, spying, indefinite detention, suspension of 'habeas corpus,' ripping up the Constitution in times of peril, massive, unaccountable military/national security expenditure, etc.--all pioneered by Bush--extremes that NO Corporate Democrat has disavowed, or at least not with any sincerity!). We may experience a feeling of "relief" that the fascists are out. But we will have lost our democracy forever.
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If enough people vote by Absentee Ballot--if everybody who despises the Bush Junta votes by AB (60% to 70%)--the reign of these diabolical machines will be OVER. And that will be a start--the essential first step--in recovering our sovereignty as a people.
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