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Edited on Tue Oct-07-08 01:41 PM by Peace Patriot
Let's just call them, for the purposes of argument, the Corpo/fascists--my term for them--and presume, not unreasonably, I think, that a cabal of super-billionaires does exist and has been calling the shots behind their frontmen, the idiot Bush and the more menacing Cheney (and his close crony-in-crime Rumsfeld). And let's not forget that this cabal may include, say, Saudi Arabian sultans, and other wealthy foreigners, as well as the billionaire CEOs of the Corpo 'news' monopolies. Other Corpos--Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Bechtel, Dyncorp, GE, et al (oil and war profiteers); Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia (the election theft corporations)--and global corporate predators of various kinds (banks and financial institutions; insurance corps; Big Ag, Big Pharma, Monsanto, Wal-Mart and Gap come to mind) would also likely be "members" of this Dark Lords cabal.
I do think there is evidence of some fractures in this posited cabal (possibly along the lines of war having become bad for business, or bad for some businesses?). And some of the individuals and groups are worse than others (the Bush Cartel being among the worse.)
I think your timeframe is off by 8 years, and perhaps as much as 20 years (back to Reagan). The coup d'etat has already occurred; its purpose was to, a) hijack the U.S. military for corporate resource wars (first Iraq, then Iran--and, currently, failing Iran, possibly Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia), 2) loot the federal and state treasuries of the U.S. and the pocketbooks of our people, unto the 7th generation; and 3) destroy the American people (north American) as the potentially most progressive force on earth (re labor rights, human rights, the environment).
This summary does not account very well for the Homeland Security/Patriot Act laws and secret executive orders, nor the spying, the torture, the detention without trial, nor other horrors of this junta--the shredding of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights--nor for their turning of the presidency into a full scale, all powerful emperor/tyrant. But you can see how these latter policies aid the above-stated goals, without necessarily being the point of the junta. Spying, blackmail and fear can do a lot of damage to a political system, and can greatly aid the cause of unjust war--or large scale looting--without actually, say, shutting down Congress or declaring martial law. And, depending on your purpose, you can accomplish quite a lot more by these means, with a lot less trouble, than if you tried to bring the nazi boot down in a big, diverse country such as this.
The coup at the Supreme Court in 2000, and the subsequent fast-tracking, all of over the country, of highly non-transparent, "TRADE SECRET" code, electronic voting systems, controlled by three Bushwhack corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls, point to the Bush junta as the culmination of this Corpo/fascist coup d'etat. Their first big coup was getting Reagan into the White House, but they did that with Corpo 'news' propaganda (the brainwashing that Reagan was benevolent). To do what they have done recently--in the last 8 years--required much more direct control of elections. The election coups of 2000 and 2004 (also, 2006) also point to an intent, not to nazify the country, but rather to override the will of the people, and to fool the people.
I think that is what has happened. The coup has already occurred, in several stages. We are seeing the Final Looting right now. There isn't much left to loot. Our social programs are all in extreme peril from this bottomless "bailout." We may lose Social Security because of it. (They are already heavily borrowing against it, and against government pensions of every kind.) We are well on our way to becoming the biggest "banana republic" on earth. We are suffering the fate of many third world countries under Clinton "free trade" and World Bank/IMF policies, which were destroyed without firing a shot. (South America is rebelling against all this, as we speak--they are way ahead of us.)
So, the question remains: What will happen next? Will we go the say of FDR and the "New Deal" or will we go the way of Hitler and Germany in the 1930s?
Obama intends to continue the Forever War (he's just going to move it to Afghanistan), and he is on board for the Final Looting--at least that's what he says. Who knows, these days, what politicians really think, what kind of pressures they are under, or what they will do? Any of them with good instincts--and I think Obama does have those--has to avoid getting whacked, either by the Corpo/fascist media, or literally, by paid assassins. I think, when he brought Joe Biden aboard--who is a thorough-going corporatist and war profiteer supporter--he made his "bargain with the devil" (this Corpo/fascist cabal), and they are going to permit him to be elected, but they may have a nefarious scheme to unravel the U.S., during his administration, and let some outright Hitler type take it over, to prevent us from restoring democracy here--while democracy is still in living memory--and possibly to draft our unemployed sons and daughters into more resource wars, and to loot whatever profit we manage to build back up, through hard work and suffering.
I think the key to "what will happen next" is the voting machines. If we can get rid of these "TRADE SECRET" election theft systems, and restore vote counting to the PUBLIC VENUE, we can start to elect real representatives of the people--who have accountability to the people--and slowly start to reform this system. This is what the South Americans have done. It has taken time and hard work, but they have TRANSPARENT vote counting, and it really shows. They are electing leftist (majorityist) governments all over the continent, and the trend is moving into Central America as well.
We may have only a short "window of opportunity" to do this, so it is very urgent. And we must not rely on Congress to do it. They won't. Period. They fucked up our voting system once. They did it deliberately*. And they WILL make things worse. It has to be done at the state/local level, where ordinary people still have potential influence, and where the power over voting systems currently still resides.
The Anthrax Congress did not mandate e-voting. We still have a choice. It did fund it, though ($3.9 billion) and fast-tracked it with no controls. And what Congress will likely do, next session, is federalize and centralize the voting system, and make electronic voting mandatory. They will call this a 'reform' (as they did the first time), and may provide a ballot, but I guarantee you that they will not require that the ballots be counted.
Our best recourse is a big and widespread citizen movement to pressure county registrars, secretaries of state, and state legislatures to restore PUBLIC vote counting. This movement is in progress, but it has not yet grown big enough to restore transparent vote counting for this election.
If Obama wins, don't be lulled to sleep! We still have a VERY IMPORTANT thing to do to insure the return of democracy here: We have to get rid of these 'TRADE SECRET' voting systems!
Transparent vote counting is THE most fundamental component of democracy. Without it, we do not have a democracy.
Don't worry so much about what these Dark Lords might do. Worry about what they have done and how they did it. It's useless to fear what they might do, when we have not taken care of the most fundamental power we have as a people to fight them with: our vote.
And it really doesn't matter who they are. This Corpo/fascist cabal exists. Its effects are obvious. It changes nothing, and gains us nothing, to name them. Nobody's going to indict them. Nobody's going to put them in jail for their many and heinous crimes. Only underlings and toadies get caught and put in jail. And nobody's going to get our money back from them. They are global corporate predators with enormous wealth and power. They may not even live there, or they can easily extract themselves and their wealth at any time.
How do we get our power back? That is the most important, and most strategically relevant, question. All of our sovereign power as a people derives from our votes. That power has been taken away from us. We must get it. We MUST!
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*(It's interesting that the key Democrat in turning our voting system over to private Bushwhack corporations and their "TRADE SECRET" code was Christopher Dodd--working with indicted criminals Tom Delay and Bob Ney (prior to their indictments). Dodd is a member of the secretive Bilderberg Group--which in some ways qualifies as the kind of Corpo/fascist cabal I described above. Ideas like how to use electronics to steal elections in the U.S. probably originate there--although I don't think the real decision-makers are all that visible. Dodd is just a corrupt toady--as are many of our Democratic leaders, and, of course, Republicans as well. The Republicans have been useful in forging this unholy alliance between the Corpo/fascists and some 'Christian" groups, that we see on TV--as if these Corpo/fascists were Christians. Ha, ha! The Democrats have been useful in creating the illusion of choice, the illusion of democracy. There is nothing more illusory than "TRADE SECRET" vote counting. And the Democrats were key to its passage, and have been critically important to turning off the public's alarm buttons about it.)
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