Letter Never Sent

Bush turns a blind eye while Israel ushers in it’s own mini-Reich. Israel has undertaken efforts to occupy all of Palestine, take over East Jerusalem, and has passed racist legislation which will prevent non-Jews from owning land in Israeli settlements. I don’t really see how this differs from anything the Nazi’s did during World War II. If anything, the Israelis are displaying a dangerous mix of amnesia, race hatred, and, above all, hypocrisy. It is the height of insanity to claim eternal victim status while you assassinate, murder, and crush an ethnic minority. I hope I live to see the day when Israel collapses under the weight of its pride and arrogance.

• Ha’Aretz: A racist bill: These tortuous formulations were designed to soften opposition to the bill, but they fail to conceal the fact that its primary purpose is to prevent non-Jewish citizens of the state from living in certain places, in violation of fundamental civil rights.
• Israelis kill top militant More Israeli assassinations performed outside the law. So much for due process.
• Military chief anxious to step up Gaza assault
• Israel targets Palestinian moderate Liquidating the opposition…even the moderates.

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“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.” -Julius Caesar

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one. – Machiavelli – 1513

From Counterpunch:

I’ll say this for the Pres. He’s lucky, just like Bill. Of course under Bill the country felt it was sharing in the luck, whereas under W it’s been one damn thing after another. Thus far the history of the Bush Presidency has been the history of falling masonry. President Rubble. But, just like Bill, W. has been the huge beneficiary of Terror. With Bill it was the Oklahoma Bombing. It turned his presidency around. With W it was 9/11. Without it he’d be a laughing stock inside the national jurisdiction as well as overseas.

And now he’s has the gift of a California court’s ruling that the pledge of allegiance runs counter to the Constitution, thereby allowing every politician in the country up to and including W the pleasures of posturing in front of the flag and declaring unflagging trust in God, who is doing little or nothing these days to merit such childish confidence.

Welcome to Bush’s America, where the Supreme Court has now ruled that vouchers are okay. So a child is free to go to Catholic School at public expense and be sodomized by a priest, preferably while both recite the pledge of allegiance.

Fantastic comic strip by Tom Tomorrow. ARE YOU A REAL AMERICAN? Take the quiz and find out.

Afghan Vice President Abdul Qadir was assassinated saturday. This is the second assassination of a member of the puppet government of Afghanistan. This sort of thing will continue as long as the Afghan people continue to fight for their independence and as long as the United States attempts to set up Afghanistan as a vassal state in Central Asia. The Afghans possess an amazing amount of pride and determination. I wish them luck in throwing off this farce of a government, this confederation of conmen manufactured by US government and business interests.

I went over Bush’s response to the assassination and was surprised at his mealy-mouthed comments. Normally, he would decry something like this as dastardly terrorism. His response was interesting and very Clintonesque:

“We are more resolved than ever to bring stability to the country so that the Afghan people can have peace and hope,”

Obviously, he means the stability delivered at the end of a gun or dropped by American bombers. He went on to mention that the Karzai regime has not yet asked the United States for assistance in the investigation. This could be construed as an attempt to create the impression that somehow the Karzai government is now acting independently of the United States. Bush might be reluctant to criticize too loudly the assassination because he has authorized similar plots against other world leaders such as Saddam Hussein. I wonder how much Americans would appreciate if other world leaders authorized plots to assassinate our leaders. This sort of double standard displayed by the Bush administration is troubling.

• Bush Mourns Death of Afghan VP Catch Bush doing his Clinton lip biting ‘i’m emotional’ expression.
• Bush Condemns Assassination of Slain Afghan
• Afghan Vice President Assassinated

“Freedom is just a hallucination caused by a pathological lack of paranoia.”

The bad news: You’re a slave.
The good news: You’re one of the better off slaves.