Home > The King is Dead! Long Live the People!
by Bryan Evans
Senator Clinton & U.S. Congressional Leadership:
Three cheers from the American "street" and the "outlands" of the Americas for your timely metaphor regarding Congress being run like a "PLANTATION"— by which you surely mean it has become elitist, corrupted, poisoned by paranoia, blinded by industry? All the "good old boys" with their bankrolls and silky suits spitting out barred windows on common taxpayers and the vast "underpriveleged" who barely rate a mention?
Our only protest is that you haven’t gone far enough with your moxie metaphors. If Congress is being run like a plantation, then the Departments of Interior, Energy and the EPA are being run like Wal-marts®, handing out our children’s resources to the fattest financers, greasing the oily palms of petroleum and chemical bigwigs.
To continue the metaphoric monkeywrench— the White House has become Custer’s Calvary, charging in with commands of extermination, "smoking out" evil real and concocted, subverting the letter and intention of international and constitutional law. Considering the level to which we have been "misled," robbed, held up, our reputations and pride shattered on the world stage, one cannot be too harsh in categorizing this cabal of corporate cronies.
There is no longer any practical way of addressing the Bush regime but as CRIMINALs. They are mobsters who’ve dragged us into a nightmare, jamming a global protection racket into our guts. They are paranoiac, calculating cheaters, pushing a radical far-right agenda of exploitation and elitism not apparent on such a scale since Nero fiddled and feasted while Rome crashed and burned.
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
— Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Bush regime and their henchmen have stolen two elections, engineered a vast terror conspiracy, launched an illegal war of aggression and invasion of another culture under false premises, ordered the torture, imprisonment and extermination of an entire class of people (anyone deemed a "terrorist" by a "classified" network of shadow agencies) with little or no oversight, and have broken nearly every humanitarian, diplomatic, and environmental treaty they could find.
You stated that this administration will be remembered as "one of the worst in American history." Again, I’m afraid you are being much too kind. The Bush regime is and will be one of the most vilified and despicable political "melt-downs" in human history. You must add to your comparitive equation nuclear weapons, depleted uranium, the ravaging of vast pristine areas, the ruin of our economy, the loss of good-will, and good Lord— the crimes! The 9-11 terror events are yet to be fully addressed, as Senator Clinton must know representing the city of New York. New Yorkers have yet to have their day of truth and justice before the world community. A thousand basic questions have yet to be addressed.
So thank you for your protective stance on our behalf— but we Americans should NEVER have let this corrupted cowboy clownshow to go this far over the edge. Our world’s survival is hanging in the balance and being burned away every day. Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld all belong behind bars, the sooner the better. This fact is painfully obvious to the rest of the world. Why these ruthless criminals should be rewarded with one more court appointment, wilderness area, oil contract or any other benefit is beyond the comprehension of historically aware citizens of this world.
A suggestion from the "tired & hungry yearning to breathe free" to any representative with a shred of ethics left in Washington, DC: push for immediate IMPEACHMENT and a convening of a Constitutional Congress to redefine the separation of powers and the role of the President. Personally, I believe Presidents and Prime Ministers are obsolescent shadows of a King, and as such are obstacles to true diplomacy between peoples and nations in this new millennium.
As for the "plantation house" you are a part of, it is painfully obvious that the "two-party system" has failed miserably on all accounts. How ironic that the nation-building project in Iraq has more fair representation than our own vast and diverse colonial empire! With a parliamentary democracy we would be able to liberate the many oppressed and unrepresented communities (like Native nations)— from the redwood forests to the Gulfstream waters. While you’re at it— the antiquated and easily manipulated "electoral college" must also be tossed on the discard pile of history— even the Queen says so!
In spook-speak let me put it bluntly: the "Football" has been fumbled! The codes are in the hands of criminal conspirators and corporate elitists. Holocaust and hell comes at night tapping on our windows! Rhetoric and warning has had it’s day— action is demanded NOW.
The King is dead! God save the People!
B.Z.B. Evans, Citizen 007-184X
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25 January 2006, 21:25
Of course your metaphor suffers from the fact that the King is NOT dead. He is very much alive and kept viable by hundreds of sycophant Republicans, almost all of the Republican senate. They adore him, find no fault, think kidnapping and torture are perfectly fine ways to run our country. Their entire strategy is based on deception, stealth, misinformation, spinning any vague truth, and outright lies. Listening to the debate on Alito today I find the adulation, excessive praise and lies of all the Republican Senators, to be shameless, very close to treachery, as they will surely make our Constitution worthless because a unitary executive will hold total power and brook no opposition, obey no law, spit on all legislation, and give the finger to the entire country.
It is absolutely certain that Alito was chosen because he will allow our petulant irresponsible President to do anything his whim decides will benefit his fascist theocratic agenda. No one will be able to touch him. And, if the House has its way, we will have the Hitlerian Brown Shirts take over the country with the proposed Secret Police Force which is just a step away from concentration camps, starvation, slave labor, torture to the death, extreme repression and enormous fear of our own government. No one will be safe from surveillance. Any criticism will become treason, and firing squads or some equivalent will held ease any population increase problem. Freedom must be won daily from those who would destroy it.
Peter Fredson