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september, 2003


Recall and Impeach

by Frank scott


The political establishment  is having fits over the recall effort in
California. It is in danger of losing control of the process , and  we
owe it all to a rich right winger . Is the anti-democratic system moving

towards political self-destruction? Not so fast, kids.

Make no mistake, California, and the USA are in trouble, and not only
because of the court appointed criminal  in the White House and the ATM
android  in  Sacramento. The most bloody imperial policy of recent
history is  nothing new, only more blatantly conducted. And our
deregulated,  dysfunctional economy, which  lavishes wealth on a
minority while a majority sinks deeper into debt and depression , is
also nothing new. But if California is any indication, and if
impeachment moves from an activist call to a political response, there
is hope.

The arch-conservative who financed the recall petition drive in
California may seem the antithesis of those  who confront the
corporadoes of war and finance, but politics really doesn’t make strange

bedfellows; we  all lie in the same bed. A crippled system  produces
crippled leadership. The dreadful governor and the disastrous president
are the logical outcome of American politics, where Intellectual
emptiness is joined with  moral poverty and financial wealth, whether in

Democratic California or Republican USA.

If the  governor and the president  switched positions, few might
notice. Bush would speak broken spanish, build jails, raise money and
lower  consciousness , while Davis would protect  imperial capital,
especially in the middle east, perhaps with less choreographed
photo-ops,
 given his charisma disability. We suffer under a bipartisan
dictatorship of  devoutly financial fanatics .

Nationally, we’re ruled by religious obsessives who are  worried about
gay marriage, though many of them are having intimate relations with an
invisible man, while waiting for an armeggedon-rapture experience that
promises the ultimate holy war. These biblical lovers of hate  have, and

use,   more  weapons of mass destruction than any other  nation
possesses. They pray to an imaginary being , as they prey upon the human

race so that the corporate rich and their upper class servants can
enjoy  success, while a global majority faces  failure .

The court appointed cabal in Washington schizophrenically  spends
billions of taxpayer dollars , to allegedly rebuild a nation it has
spent  billions of tax payer dollars to destroy.  As the  situation in
Iraq  becomes more chaotic, with  terrorists created where there once
were none,  it cuts public services at home, in order to lower taxes
for  private wealth.  In such an environment of  moral degeneracy , the
principal pornographers of politics  have the gall to label the
California recall effort a threat to democracy. No wonder millions of
Americans need prozac ,  booze and other drugs to make life bearable, if

not understandable.

The  political pimps  who run our bogus democracy  are  criticizing
the “circus” the California recall may produce, but it is the murderous
“freak show” they manage  that needs our attention.

California has sent a parade of political pinheads to Sacramento and
Washington, so why should anyone worry if some Hollywood
bicep-with-a-bankroll  winds up as governor? In a race with many
candidates, there is even a chance for a leftist to sneak in among a
divided middle-right, but only if the state’s two progressive
candidates decide not to split one vote. But whatever the outcome, the
California political establishment has already suffered a well deserved
defeat, and that is good for democracy.

The alleged turmoil of the recall is nothing compared to our disastrous
global situation, and our system’s continued assault on the natural
environment. Devastating  heat waves, crippling power failures and
diminishing fuel supplies are only some indications of a system nearing
a breaking point. Baghdad, Kabul and Jerusalem  have all suffered recent

terror attacks ,  and the  building of an apartheid wall in the Israeli
occupied territory of the west bank has produced not a whimper from the
israel occupied territory of the US congress. Even  the Democratic
presidential candidates - including the pseudo and  real progressives  -

have remained mute. This is in the mandatory fashion of
joined-at-the-bible-and-wallet Usraeli politics.

In the face of this shameful performance, California  threatens
democracy only if it takes our minds off the disgraceful national
government and our  need to change it, first by impeaching the
president.

The globalized capitalist empire has put  civilization under a darker
cloud of doom, and we need to think about systems even  more than
personalities. But there are some personalities we need to get rid of in

order to affect radical change .  The Democrats seek what they call a
credible, centrist candidate, but our task is to get rid of this
incredible, right-wing president, and long before the next election.

Whether the California recall turns out positively or not, it can help
end monopoly financed politics , and  begin moving towards a
revolutionary democracy that could  bring real social change . Despite
its one man financing base , the  recall movement  should be seen as
what it is: the process of  people taking action to attack the political

establishment and change the status quo, once given  the chance. It
would be a pity to waste that opportunity, or to simply allow the
establishment to frame its real meaning in their own, shallow terms.
More than  one hundred candidates able to run for governor, at a cost of

only 3500 dollars each, instead of 35 million, is anything but a crisis
of democracy.

Concerned citizens, activists and other patriots should support
democracy in California and the USA, by recalling the governor and
demanding an impeachment of the criminal regime in Washington. Only in
response to such a demand will the feeble congress and frightened
Democrats take some action. It is time for radical change that
transforms the threatening status quo into something approaching real
democracy. Recall Davis, vote progressive, and impeach Bush.


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