Bush's War On Democracy

© Aldo Vidali, 2002.

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America's present plight echoes the tragic myth of Camelot’s impending destruction, a time when only heroes seeking the Holy Grail of Consciousness could save the land from evil. Our free republic, still short of achieving the Great American Dream, is being transformed into an empire of greed and fear governed by an insane, belligerent creed of preemptive aggression. A junta of arrogant flunkies serving insatiable international corporate mercenaries after deviously finagling their way into the White House is arrogantly broadcasting to the world that “might makes right” and rejecting the Eternal Truth that might is bestowed upon humans for Right. These times test of our nobility of heart which, if we fail, will lead to global destruction of civilization and possibly of life itself.

Bush's demented threat, "You are with us or you are against us" has transformed the Golden Rule into a christianoid Thermonuclear Rule that growls against the whole world: "We'll do it unto them before they do it unto us."

Bush is a conniving war-mad Mordred attempting to evilly install tyranny over all that is good in America. The embattled believers of the American Dream, like in Camelot, are being assaulted by deceit. Their magnificent Round Table comprised of the Constitution and Bill of Rights is being shattered. The Knights of the American Revolution must now regroup and prepare for the final battle against the evil Greed-Oil- Pollution (GOP) connivers who are shrewdly disguised as patriots wrapped in flags, pounding Bibles and propagandizing with a torrent of lies financed by corporate media.

The Italian words for "pride" in the beautiful language of Dante are orgoglio -- the legitimate pride one is entitled to feel for truthful and courageous achievements -- and superbia -- the dark arrogant satanic self-inflation of powerful men, intimidating and oppressing others into subjection, slavery, and shameless exploitation.
America's orgoglio before the world for the good it has achieved by bringing democracy to many oppressed people has slowly been morphed into an imperial superbia reminiscent of the worst decadence of the Roman Empire. After usurping power through the mendacious Coup 2000, the Bush Administration has latched onto "terrorism" -- an abstract noun -- to sell this ghostly enemy to the public in order to justify a surreal, indefinable perpetual "war" against shadows.

9/11 should have set the community of nations on a cooperative two-pronged effort: (1) an international police investigation and pursuit of criminals; and (2) a serious restructuring of international economic and political relations with greater emphasis on equity and the elimination of poverty. While the world reacted generously toward America, a scheming Bush regime saw this as a political opportunity to use the truculent Hitlerian approach of power and abuse of weaker nations. Bush’s arrogant attitude even toward the UN has pitted America’s former loyal allies against it.

Facts and reality have been turned into façade by a corrupt mainstream media. Al Gore recently exposed the corrosive new precooked and canned entertainment news, called “News Plus,” designed to project a "matrix of illusions" which distorts reality and projects a kaleidoscope of ever renewed enemies and evildoers hiding everywhere, scheming to destroy America because they “hate our freedom and envy our success.” Current media whores accuse those who seek truthful answers of "conspiracy theorizing." Millions respond like children who are spellbound by a fantasy horror story and swallow all the malicious trash that Right Wing pundits vomit on the airwaves to keep audiences in a perpetual state of fear.

The Grinch of a fake-free press has stolen not only Christmas but the whole calendar, including Easter, Thanksgiving, and Memorial Day. The Bush-corporate propaganda machine is mass producing the most astounding, far-fetched, insane conspiracy theory ever circulated, putting the best of Hollywood fantasy writers and directors to shame.

Applying “Democracy”
In 1939 American philosopher Sidney Hook observed that the greatest tribute to democracy is often paid by dictators like, Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini because they insisted that their regimes were actually, despite appearances, democracies "in a higher sense." For example, in a speech delivered in Berlin in September 1937, Mussolini claimed: "The greatest and soundest democracies which exist in the world today are Italy and Germany." And Stalin, after a horrendous bloody purge, praised the Soviet constitution (which provided for control of all institutions by the 1% minority represented by the Communist Party) as "the most democratic in all history." Even Saddam Hussein, now one of the most oppressive dictators, made great show of being "democratically reelected" with 100% of the Iraqi electorate casting their ballots in favor of the lone candidate: Saddam. (This surely must cause great envy to Bush, who, seeking family revenge against Saddam in the hillbilly feud reminiscent of the Hatfields and McCoys, failed to muster a simple majority.)

That the enemies of democracy feel compelled to render lip service to the ideal of a government “of the people” proves a universal awareness of the righteousness of democratic ideals. However, when democracy's enemies flaunt principles they have outrageously betrayed, it is eloquent proof that these principles are not clearly understood by certain minds.

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