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and unless our efforts to overturn it start succeeding, likely there will be no showdown, such as many of us have imagined, of martial law being declared, elections suspended and Bush/Cheney barricaded in their bunkers against legal removal by the people.
Several reasons why I think such a scenario unlikely:
1. The war profiteers and global corporate predators who have implemented this fascist coup have gone to elaborate lengths to create an illusion of democracy--we see it every day on TV, and we now know that one of its most occult aspects (deliberately black-holed as a news story) is the complete takeover of our vote counting system, with electronic voting machines run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls. With this final blow to our democracy--which occurred in October 2002 (same month as the IWR, and closely related to it), and was fast-tracked into place during the 2002 to 2004 period--the corporate rulers gained direct, invisible control of our election outcomes. So they don't NEED to perpetrate a further coup. They can pick our candidate. They can crown our president. And they can play "bait and switch" with corporate-anointed president and congress members, shuffling out Repukes and shuffling in "Blue Dog" (traitor) Democrats, as necessity requires, to maintain the ILLUSION that we are still a sovereign people with "choices."
I think they don't want to be bothered with shooting a lot of us, in a rebellion. Their maintenance of the illusion--the fake political "debate," the faked election results, etc.--is a more efficient way to keep us under control, and has so far proven quite effective. I think that even this little dustup with Bush about the 'Democrats' not giving him enough billions of our (non-existent) tax dollars--after they already escalated and re-funding the war with another $100 billion--is part of the game.
2. The motives of the Bush Junta. They are more greedy pigs than they are nazis. The Nazis built a great war machine. What are the Bushites doing? Looting it. If they were nazis, and intended a Fourth Reich, wouldn't they have given a bit more attention to our manufacturing capability, jobs and bread on the table for "good Germans," "making the trains run on time," and all that? They have left the U.S. economy in absolute ruins. How can you play Emperor of the World from a country that can no longer make its own tanks, bullets, uniforms, et al, nor even manufacture its own rigged voting machines (which are manufactured in sweatshops in the Philippines!)? They may well have a plan for World Domination with headquarters in Dubai, and the mercenary army they have created, and the billions and billions they have stolen. But I see no evidence that they intend to, or can succeed in, launching a war on the world from THIS country--aside from domestic repression laws (which may be more related to giving the principals of the Bush Junta legal immunity for their past crimes, than to future planned repression by the Bush Junta). And they have been utter failures at convincing Americans that we have a "manifest destiny" to rule the Middle East or the world. Their propaganda in that regard (and other regards) has been spectacularly unsuccessful (unlike that of Hitler in Germany). 70% of the American people oppose their goddamned war--an epochal anti-war majority--up from 56% who opposed it from the beginning (Feb. '03). So I think retirement with their loot, and their operating as a stateless World Dominator (or one with the cooperation of fake 'Democratic' regime in the U.S.) is a more likely scenario than their attempt to rule this huge country, with all its various peoples and cultures, by force (by an overt coup). Their goals are to get away with as much money as they can, and to keep the principles stay out of jail--the goals of "Banana Republic" coupsters--not the goals real Nazis.
3. The goals of the global corporate predators who are behind all this are a more serious matter, and a bigger threat. Their goals were to move U.S. policy and political dialog far, far to the right, create the illusion that the rightwing is the majority, remove us and our laws as potential regulators and/or angry dismantlers of corporate power, loot us blind, and set things up so as to have total control over wages, working conditions, public infrastructure, health care (who gets it, who doesn't), to create a slave labor market (like the several they have collected around the world), and, in addition a pool of cannon fodder for corporate resource wars, and of course to control the price of everything, to price gouge and manipulate at will. They also wanted to set up repressive laws to contain any rebellion. And they have made enormous gains toward all of their goals under Bush/Cheney. Our Constitution now is fairly meaningless. We are no long a nation state, with a democracy, under the rule of law. We are a subject people of the Church of the Corporation. And they simply will not permit a champion of the people to make it to the White House, nor a majority of real representatives of the people in Congress. They have direct control of election outcomes, with "trade secret" vote counting, and numerous, powerful indirect controls such as massive amounts of money poured into political campaigns, control of the media and the national political narrative (and parameters of debate--very narrow, never including dismantling corporations), and massive domestic spying to blackmail office holders and silence dissenters. They also have control of the war industry and the police state mechanisms--everything has been pretty much privatized.
These global corporate predators have no need to create the chaos of an overt, visible fascist coup, and risk rebellion against it. Also, I think part of their game is to blackmail Bush and Cheney, with the threat of (even worse) revelations and jail, to keep the pressure on them, for certain purposes (for instance, U.S. action to retain some looting ground in Latin America, which they are quickly losing to the peaceful, democratic Bolivarian Revolution), to prevent any compromises with Congress on the war budget lard, etc., and they will continue this kind of dirty pressure on whomever they crown emperor and on the toadies they place in Congress (the majority).
In any case, what do Bush/Cheney have to fear, as to prosecution, with a "liberal" Democrat like Pelosi taking "impeachment"off the table"? The political establishment clearly intends to cover up their many crimes, and lose them in the corporate news monopoly river of forgetfulness. And that will continue to be the case, as the Bush Junta bullies and bribes "free trade" deals with countries like El Salvador and Peru, warmongers against Iran (as cover for military lard, and to "contain" Iran--there won't be an attack; Russia and China have nixed it), and finish up part one of this coup, before the "liberals" take over, to consolidate all these fascist gains and complete our subjugation.
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Our job, first of all, is to restore transparent elections--vote counting that everyone can see and understand, in the PUBLIC venue.
Without this first and most vital condition of democracy, we have no hope of overturning Corporate Rule.
I don't know who they've chosen for president (emperor)--my best guess is Hillary Clinton with Christopher Dodd as VP. (You laugh at the latter? Guess who is the 'Democrat' most responsible for the "trade secret" voting machines? They owe him one.) I really don't know if Obama and Edwards are part of the Corporate Cabal. Edwards may not be. And, if he isn't, you can be sure that he will be 'swift-boated' or worse. Even with direct control over election outcomes, they have to be careful to maintain the grand illusion. So, first they try 'swift-boating,' then other tactics (infiltration, bribery, blackmail), and, if all else fails, THEY 'count' the votes with 'TRADE SECRET' code. And, of course, the war profiteering corporate news monopolies are directly collusive.
In fact, in 2004, they DOCTORED their news media consortium exit polls (Kerry won), late on election day, to force them to fit the results of Diebold/ES&S "trade secret" formulas (Bush won), to prevent a leader reaching the White House who was beholden to the people, and not to the Corporate Rulers. Kerry wasn't a great candidate, but if he had won (and in fact he did), it would have been US who achieved that win--the grass roots, who matched the fascist money machine, dollar for dollar, and blew the Bushites away, nearly 60/40, in new voter registrations in 2004.*
My date for the fascist coup is October 2002--the passage by the Anthrax Congress of the so-called "Help America Vote Act" ($3.9 billion electronic voting boondoggle, to fast-track "trade secret" vote counting all over the country for the 2004 and subsequent elections). I think it is no accident that the Iraq War Resolution was passed in the same month. The IWR guaranteed unjust war; HAVA provided the means to shove that unjust war down the throats of the American people.
But that was not its only purpose. Consider the current Congress, elected by the same 'TRADE SECRET' system, which can now be used to shape a Congress to keep the war booty coming, pass other fascist laws, and maintain the illusion of democracy by putting a "D" in front of its name. There is hardly a member of this Congress who can prove that he or she was actually elected.
Call the Bush Junta part one of the fascist coup. This undemocratic Diebold II Congress--with a "D" in front of its name that doesn't mean Democrat--is part two. Part three is coming up. It won't be an overt coup, is my guess (Bush/Cheney hanging onto power, with teeth and claws). It will look smooth as silk.
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*(100,000 people voted in 2000, which was a virtual tie, with Gore winning the popular vote, but not by much. 120,000 people voted in 2004, with the grass roots Democrats winning the new voter registration drive, hands down, 60/40. People were flocking to the Democratic Party to oust Bush. What happened to all those votes? If most Gore '00 voters voted for Kerry, and most Bush '00 voters voted for Bush--a safe bet--who did the new 20,000 voters vote for, given a 60% Democratic edge in new voter registration against the Republicans, and given the known stat that the overwhelming majority of independent, Green Party, and former Nader voters, voted for Kerry? You do the math. Steven Freeman has. And he comes up with 4 million 'disappeared' votes for Kerry, which would have put Kerry in the White House, beholden to the people, instead of Bush, who doesn't give a fuck what the people think. And that doesn't even count all the purged and suppressed black votes--which Greg Palast has estimated at one million in 2004. Add in brown voters, the elderly, students and others who were disenfranchised, and Kerry won it by a landslide. It wasn't even close.)
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