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July, 2003
Impeach Bush
by frank scott
The danger posed by this court appointed regime is beyond that of any
recent administration. It needs to be dealt with accordingly, and long
before the 2004 election.
The outrageous lies that gained support for the war on iraq were obvious
to most of the world, and a substantial minority of Americans. Still,
only now are establishment sources beginning to question those
ridiculous tales.
But it is for that growing minority of Americans to take the offensive
and demand more than investigations from a lap dog congress . The people
must rally, demonstrate and press for impeachment. That may be the only
way to stop these renegade fanatics, led by an election loser whose
thoughts are in two syllables or less.
When asked about global demonstrations opposing war , this strutting
simpleton likened them to focus groups. But unlike market research
inspired ad campaigns , which are the outcome of industry financed
focus groups, these massive citizen expressions were about democracy.
This growing international force, especially in the USA , must focus
on that point, to stop the regime from further reducing the world to
global market anarchy , under a godly despotism it calls liberty.
An emerging majority understands that the real threat of terror comes
from the fundamentalist leadership of the USA. The foreign threat is
being used in its hard-core assault on national freedom , to create its
soft-core form of national fascism . This menace from the imperial
center is greater than that posed by terror attacks from its
periphery . Democratically motivated Americans, however divided by
other issues, must work through their differences to subdue this
malevolent force.
Small networks, in coalition, can overcome larger centralized powers.
The new movements created in part by this regime can defeat empire by
acting like those NGOs which, rather than curry favor from corporate
power, work to replace it with the power of the people. What terrorism
does, destructively, democracy must do, constructively. And with
greater urgency .
This minority cabal is reducing the world to more hardship and
despair. Its continued rule may create dangerous conditions too
critical to overcome. That rule must be ended quickly, and an
impeachment drive may be the best way to speed up the process.
The era of wreaking havoc on the third world while Americans go about
their normal lives ended tragically on 911. But the pain inflicted by
eastern fundamentalism, however great, pales by comparison to the
terror practiced by western fundamentalism in its dominance of the
world. Our fears should not lead us to accept repression, but to
understand that we need an entirely different world view and practice
to survive the present, and create a better future. That calls for real
democracy, not the perverted thing that put this cabal into power.
Its foreign policy that treats the world with arrogance and creates
hatred where there once was respect, is an extension of its its
domestic policy which continues an assault on government that forces
the majority to support the private sector. Its pre-depression economic
theology of zealous faith in an invisible market force lowers taxes
on the rich while raising deficits for everyone else.
Public programs are being savaged by financial policies which lavish
money on those who have great wealth, steal money from those who
create all wealth , and deny money to those who have no wealth.
These Republican fundamentalists make the gutless Democrats look good
by comparison. They may also make them the choice of desperate voters
who see nowhere else to go on election day. But it may be possible to
infuse the nearly moribund Democrats with the life of newer
constituencies, aligned with older ones which have long tried to
transform that private limo into a public vehicle .
The leadership fanatics, and their often innocent followers, are a
minority. It is for the majority to understand itself as such, and
organize to take power democratically. The difficulty of that task is
nothing , compared to watching the world disintegrate before our eyes.
Democracy is all that can transform a reality becoming more deadly,
with one that can support humanity more justly than was ever before
possible in history.
Though there is plenty of reason for fear , this is not a time for
defeatism and despair. The wretched conditions of life must change; for
those who live in desperate poverty , as well as those clinging to a
debt ridden middle class status only a lost job or serious illness away
from poverty. That change means the system that treats all environments
as markets dedicated to profit for minorities , needs to become one that
puts well being for all before luxury for some. That would be
history’s first democracy.
Long term steps in that direction must include ending the
anti-democratic electoral college and initiating public financing of
elections , as well as proportional representation and instant runoff
voting. These moves would truly count all voters and allocate power
according to majority votes, not minority dollars. Only then could
issues be decided democratically, and not autocratically.
The ultimate focus must be on uncontrolled capital, which is the root
cause of most of our problems . Whether destroying nature or the social
structure, it is this political economic religion which has brought us
to the present condition. The movement for democracy needs to deal with
this , even as it confronts single issues which seem more important for
the moment. Sooner, and not much later, human survival will depend on
transforming antisocial capitalism into social humanism.
But for the present, democracy in America can best be exercised by
moving to settle matters of the presidency, without waiting for the
election of 2004. This demented regime needs to be disarmed, now.
Whether a movement to impeach is technically successful or not, it will
impede the march toward oblivion , and give people a chance to create a
democratic government in 2004. Impeach Bush, now.
Copyright (c) 2003 by Frank Scott. All rights reserved.
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