The Government’s fundamental mission is derived from the Constitution: “…to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” The Congress authorizes and agencies implement programs as missions and initiatives evolve over time in pursuit of key public services and objectives, such as providing for national defense, promoting health care, fostering income security, boosting agricultural productivity, providing veteran benefits and services, facilitating commerce, supporting housing and the transportation systems, protecting the environment, contributing to the security of energy resources, and helping States provide education.
The only conclusion to be drawn from observations of Bush et. al over the past seven years is that America is no longer a Democratic Republic. It is now owned by foreign governments/Corporations, governed by the billionaires here and abroad, and secured by a private army that has no accountablility to the Congress or the Executive Branch.
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” Aristotle. The Greek name means “the best of all.” Its root is the same as for aristocrat. He used the word despotism instead of aristocracy so as not to give himself a bad name. An aristocracy doesn’t have to have all of the power, but a despot does.
Monday, March 6, 2007
Is Corporate Facism In America Inevitable---Bush/Cheney/Pelosi's Legacy
Bush-- Corporate Fascism---Destroying The Constitution
So we, the public, have come to this, ignoring Bush's fascist, unitary presidency, its lies, the many lies eventually undermining fundamental, constitutional guarantees established by our forefathers in the creation of this first democratic republic.
What Reagan supported: supply side economics, smaller government, private sector assumption of public sector functions, Bush I constrained somewhat but did not seriously attempt to stem the shift to neo-capitalism. Clinton tried but in the end gave into corporate thugism, especially in the pharmaceutical and energy fields, when he shied from doing battle over Hillarys' national health care proposal, and would not seriously fund alternative energy strategies.
It was left to Bush Jr, and the neo-cons led by Podhertz, Wolfowitz, Fieth, Rumsfeld and Cheney to accelerate the:
1. dismantling of significant Constitutional rights,
2. criminal sale and privatization of the commons.
3. enrichment of cronies,
4. impoverishment and elimination of the middle class,
5. criminal initiation of war, and
6. creation of more national debt than all his predecessors combined.
This list is not exhaustive.
Each item in this list represents an opportunity for creeping fascism. Bush has assured his criminal co-conspirators that his decisions would first benefit those who support him. He assured them that there would be no substantive opposition from the usual curative interceptors; the law, the media, the legislature, THE PEOPLE.
His ilk professed that if they could, and they did, keep the PEOPLE wondering how to make it from payday to payday rather than worrying about the elimination of a few rights...by spreading fear and the need for security... there would be only them....the rich and us the poor and, therefore, virtually no opposition.
For the Bushites the rewards were unfettered access to America's riches and riches of any nation where our military superiority would be foisted through pre-emptive war buttressed by:
1. deregulation, dismantaling of anti-trust enforcement allowing the unfettered growth of oligopolies and monopolies with their rapacious pricing of gas, energy, insurance, pharmaceuticals, telecommunication services, etc, and
2. privitazation, transferring trillions of tax dollars to private sector cronies to privatize government functions through no-bid military, security, administrative and maintenance contracts.
If only the media had not been co-opted by the million dollar salaries and associated perks, such as access to the “movers and shakers” within the Bush administration, we would have a Nixon event by now (impeachment). However, any hint of real investigative excellence to uncover the real world within the Administration was met with ostracism at the worst or no comment at best. Review the scorning of Greg Palast, and his reportage of the outing of Valarie Plame...
Instead, we have witnessed from the mighty media, the smothering coverage of white women in peril and black men gone bad. It would be helpful to analyze the ratio of print and TV coverage of these non-events to the occasional coverage of unconstitutional and criminal acts by the Bush Administration.
Similarly with the Congress. It has been co-opted by a Speaker who fears two things more than the trashing of our Constitution, neither of which is directly related to preserving Constitutional justice or is an adequate response to the impeachment mandate reflected in the ‘06 election by the PEOPLE:
1. The Speaker fears being in-charge of a failed effort to impeach Bush/Cheney and a public backlash which could negatively affect the ’08 Presidential race.
2. The Speaker has proffered a sophmoric argument that says she must do the Peoples’ work, minimum wage, etc. which have a higher priority than the contentious deliberations involved with impeachment procedures dealing with the shredding of the constitution. This is so much bull shitake mushrooms.
Perhaps the following is a stretch but we may need to raise the issue of the Speaker and her Majority Leader being guilty of misfeasance in office, “the abuse of legislative authority.” Because what they have done by taking impeachment off the table, is to DENY the PEOPLE a CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDY for perceived high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Bush/Cheney, et al. These perceptions warrant an investigation which would, we are certain, lead to an indictment. To wit:
(Bush/Cheney, et.al, should be indicted for, illegal wiretapping, misuse of the CIA, perjury, bribery, obstruction of justice, and other abuses of executive power. Bush/Cheney, et. al, have acted in a manner contrary to their trust as president and vice president, respectively, and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.)
Can the Speaker effectively render void a portion of the Constitution? If she has not voided it, then what has she done since impeachment is not available to us and the above draft indictment lingers in Chairman Conyers’ office?
What else is she doing to avoid taking decisions on serious remedies affecting the Nation? She has refused to support legislation that vastly expands research and project funding for renewable, clean ocean energy. Instead, she has caved to the US/Canadian Oil Cartel on grounds that they will “soon” have technologies to wrest billions of barrels of oil from tar sand which will significantly lower the retail price of oil----oh ya after we have died from laughing.
The only reason Big Oil is now squeezing oil from tar sand is because it is an expensive operation and the current $90.00/brl makes it worth going after this supply which is huge in Canada. Let the price of oil drop below 70 bucks/brl and guess who gets less oil and eventually much higher retail prices. There is no long term energy/alternative, policy/program thinking in the Speaker’s office. Everything now focuses on ‘08 and the Presidential contest. To hell with the Constitution and what her grandchildren will think of her when they realize they live in a fascist society.
Her decision on energy policy scuttles efforts to use proven ocean based wave power systems capable of generating 100 million tera watts of electricity annually. Enough clean, renewable and inexpensive (2 cents per kilowatt hr.) electricity to light, cool, heat and operate every power usage in the Northern Hemisphere. Again, she was scarred off by the Oil cartel which would lose trillions of dollars in the medium term and over the long run.
On tax policy she has rebuffed Mr. Buffet's recommendation to begin now to educate taxpayers on what a graduated consumption tax system would be and why it is infinetly fairer than the current so called progressive income tax system. Chairman Rangell wanted to move right after the election because of the impact of not only the AMT, but the fact that Bush's Criminal Conspirators were moving billions offshore to avoid taxes. Here too, she opined that that would be a contentious process that would never pass the Senate so why get started by raising the expectations of the voters. Maternalism with a knife for your back.
So here we are, for the next 9 months, we are doomed to watching the fascist sore grow unabated and the pus runneth over contaminating and co-opting all attempts to use preventatives.
Perhaps the voters in the Speakers District will see the light and maybe in Hoyer’s too, and will decide that they did not deliver the one decision that would have vindicated this generation in the eyes of history and our grandchildren, and then send someone else to Congress in ‘09 to replace them.
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