Reply #76: I don't think the Bushites are going to feel any pain. They've likely got their

[Peace Patriot]

stolen billions converted to foreign currencies already.

I'm beginning to think that my original hit on the Bush Junta--that they are more thieves than nazis--may be correct. The idea was to loot us blind, in every way imaginable, stash billions and maybe trillions away (Swiss banks? Cayman Islands?), and, after we're drained dry, and even our military has been trashed for their corporate resource war, create a sort of free-floating, unattached global entity, with its own mercenary army (built up at our expense), to bully its way into becoming "masters of the universe"--with no national boundaries, no troublesome constitutions, no laws, no rules, no loyalties to any people or country--and to move in and take over resources and slave labor, where countries are weak, to manipulate financial markets and instigate destabilizations in stronger countries that still have powers to defy global corporate predators, and probably to take over and consolidate the global drugs/weapons trade as well. I noticed, for instance, that Halliburton got out--moved its headquarters to the UAE. Blackwater was recruiting in Colombia (for Iraq). Recent scandals have revealed that rightwing paramilitaries with close ties to the Colombian government (and thus to the Bush Junta) are into drug/weapons traffic, as well as slaughtering union organizers, peasant farmers and political leftists. Anyway, lots of little hints that this might be the case--a global plan is in progress. (I've long suspected Donald Rumsfeld of masterminding the Plame/Brewster-Jennings outings, to remove one big obstacle to weapons trafficking--and I wonder what he's up to now. South America could well be mapped out as Theater of War II, in the oil wars.)

So why did they bother trashing our Constitution, and putting all these dreadful, nazi-like laws and precedents in place? I think it's for their allies, the Corporate Democrats, to utilize, to crush us, as the shit hits the fan, and prevent the great, peace-minded, justice-minded, progressive American majority from ever rising again, as a force capable of regulating corporations, on labor and environmental protections, and the all-important matter of global warming, and on other curtailments of corporate power. In the 60s and 70s, we showed what a strong middle class, with strong democratic traditions, could do--passage of the EPA and numerous other environmental laws, upward mobility measures for the poor, fair taxation, equal justice movements of every kind, and, finally, revolting against a senseless war. We are a dangerous force in the world, as to corporate power and bad, corrupt, fascist government. That's why they rigged our election system. We had to be broken. We, the American people. And now that we are broken, pretty much--bankrupt for generations to come, our reputation destroyed, our self-confidence severely damaged if not shattered, all our political, government and legal systems trashed--the Corporate Rulers and their Bush cabal will move on, leaving the Democrats to tidy up the mess, and insure that there are no criminal charges against the perps, nor any leftist (majorityist, populist) political recovery, to put things right in any way. You wonder at the outrageous conduct of this so-called 'Democratic" Congress? Stop wondering. They are the cleanup crew.

I heard Ed Schultz yesterday touting Pat Buchanan's line--blame it all on the "illegal immigrants." Stoke up hatred of the brown. Yup. That's our real enemy all right--the poor and the brown from the south, where our corporate monsters have been exploiting and brutalizing them with "free trade" (global corporate piracy), on top of centuries of U.S. domination. Expect more of this talk. The Mexicans are your enemy!

Christ, it makes me want to vomit.