We Need Indictments, Investigations, Impeachment & End To Belief Of Imperial Presidents

Bursting the Bush Bubble
If last year was like a trip into ‘The Twilight Zone,’ 2007 could easily be more of the same. For your consideration …

~ By MICK FARREN ~



President “Bubble Boy” shows no sign of emerging into the reality community


As 2006 sank slowly in the west, the final 72 hours were grimly surreal. While we wished each other Happy New Year, funerals were being conducted for James Brown, the Godfather of Soul; Gerald Ford, the un-elected non-entity president; and, of course, Saddam Hussein, who was hanged amid the overt local jubilation of some cow-town western-movie necktie party. Meanwhile, in what could be considered another quasi-cow-town, the president of the United States – after having advised the nation to “go shopping” – was on the ranch in Crawford, working on his brand-new Iraq strategy of surge and conquer, either unaware or uncaring that he was diametrically out of sync with the thoughts, needs, and desires of most of the nation, not to mention the rest of the planet.

As early as the December 10 edition of the Los Angeles Times, opinion writer Jonathan Chait was not only referring to Bush as “the bubble boy in the Oval Office” but likening him to Anthony Fremont, the diabolical six-year-old in Rod Serling’s classic Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life,” who, when confronted with anyone and anything he didn’t like, teleported them into the cornfield. (“Yes, Mr. President, it’s good that you turned Iraq into a Hobbesian inferno of Al Qaeda terrorists and Islamist death squads. It’s really, really good!”)

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The easy answer is that the bubble was first inflated by the fixed election of 2000, and then systematically stretched and expanded with miasmic, post-9/11 terror alerts, as, under the baleful mentorship of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, the majority of Americans morphed into greedy, frightened, narcissistic homophobes, who comforted themselves – metaphorically and for real – by pimping their rides until their over-consumption threatened the very planet.

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That election was, I hope, just a start, and 2007 will be a year of a great and rising clarity, plus an emergence from the criminal absurdity of Bubble Boy’s Twilight Zone. We cannot wait around for two more years for the Bush Bubble to be burst. Needles and pins, yeah? We need indictments, investigations, impeachment, and also an end to the belief in the infallibility of imperial presidents, and the omnipotence of leaders. Nancy Pelosi will undoubted screw up, John Edwards will disappoint, Hillary will let us down, even Barack Obama may fumble. But we can tolerate them as long as they are doing their level – and, above all, accountable – best.

I’ve tossed around a lot of Rod Serling here, but shall we go for one more? A thought for the coming year, by way of a line from the Twilight Zone episode “Obsolete Man”: “Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, is obsolete.” And that absolutely includes entities that rule from within bubbles, recognizing nothing but their own will to power.

Happy 2007, sisters and brothers.
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I will grant you that the best way to handle impeachment of the President is to conduct thorough investigations on the Hill before you submit a motion to impeach. But it all comes down to past tense vs. present tense when investigating a crime.

First scenario: You walk into an alley and you see a 12-year-old girl slumped against the bricks, dead, a single gunshot wound to the head. You have police seal off the area, and they'll take all of the evidence they can - the bullet itself, DNA samples (did the girl dig her fingernails into the gunman's skin?), and all that. The cops will investigate. They'll interview the locals, trying to find out who did this to that little girl. Eventually, they'll come across a suspect who just happens to be wanted on an unrelated petty larceny charge. After a brief chase, the suspect is in custody. Then you have the trial and lay out the evidence for the judge and jury to see, and leave it to the judicial system to see if the man is going to serve 25-to-life in the big house.

Second scenario: You walk into an alley and you see that 12-year-old girl, very much alive but scared out of her wits, a .38 pressed against her head by that petty criminal I mentioned earlier. In any way you can, you must intervene, because law enforcement may not make it in time. You try to reason with the thug, but to no avail - he's gonna pull the trigger. So you draw your own weapon, you hold back the tears, and you give some frightened mother her little baby girl back by putting the would-be killer out of his misery.

That's how I see impeachment. You want to do it thoroughly, but when our very national security is at stake, there may not be any time for niceties.

And El Diablo just claimed that he can open my mail whenever he wants and for any reason that he wants.

You do the math.

Impeachment. Then criminal charges.

Anything else, IMHO, is just foot-dragging.

letter, to both Dems and REpugs.

Let them know you expect ACTION!

We need a president, not a King, or a Dictator.