Americans Need to Think - THINK

When wondering about the future course of this country, Americans need to think – not about what happening next week or next month or even in the next election. They just need to think. They need to stop watching Fox News and MSNBC and they to think for themselves. They need to stop handing their brains over to those screaming idiots on the 24 hour news (v. spew) channels.

In Social Studies, as the teaching of US History and Government in the Public Schools used to be called, there were some key components of indoctrination. They are as follows:

1. The American Revolution of 1776 was a noble war that ended the system of Monarchy in the Colonies (Canada was never mentioned) and allowed Americans to tax themselves for the administration of their own land and needs.
2. The Bill of Rights is the cornerstone of a free society.
3. The US Constitution was designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the other two.
4. The separation of Church and State in guaranteed by the Constitution.
5. Freedom of Speech is guaranteed by the Constitution.
6. Freedom from illegal search and seizure and from being forced to house soldiers, are guaranteed by the Constitution.
7. The President does not have absolute authority; he is not a King. The purpose of the revolution was to throw off the yoke of tyranny – tyranny is autocratic rule.
8. The Congress makes the laws.
9. The Supreme Court hears cases and tests laws in the face of the Constitution.
10. The United States represents the best known and most reliable democratic model ever seen on the Earth. The US is the standard bearer of Freedom worldwide.

The Realpolitik of today in the face of the neo-cons and PNAC (Policy for a New American Century) flies in the face all the things taught to young American minds. Here is the current interpretation of these essentialities of the Social Studies once learned:
/>1. The American Revolution of 1776 was a noble war, and now Americans are taxed in order to administer other nations to fight battles for other nations.
2. The Bill of Rights is the cornerstone of a free society, until it interferes with the neo-con and PNAC conception of the US as “world-hegemon”.
3. The US Constitution does provide for a balance of powers, except in the case of a global war, which is the infinite plan laid out by Wolfowitz on behalf of neo-cons and PNAC; in this case, the gravity of fighting a never-ending war requires suspension of the separation of powers.
4. The separation of church and state remains in effect; business and non-profits however can operate as mini-theocracies, and since they are charged with providing social welfare, they can and do use theocratic principles to determine the distribution of aid.
5. Freedom of Speech is still in force, but retaliation for “troublesome” speech in unregulated; PNAC routinely eviscerates opposing voices, or “disappears” them, as in the case of Colin Powell.
6. Freedom from illegal search and seizures is no longer in effect. All personal information is for sale to anyone and can be used for any and numerous forms of retaliation. PNAC consistently leaks information, as in the case of Valerie Pflame, not only to counter media spin but also to personally destroy others in ad hominem attacks.
7. The President does not have absolute power, except in the theatre of war, which is now everywhere and forever.
8. The Legislature no longer represents the People, but is an arm of various Lobbies, most of which are funded by private business and religious organizations supported by PNAC.
9. The Supreme Court is no longer a separate branch of government but is in fact an arm of the Executive and is used against the Legislature in order to curb laws that might attempt to restrict the Executive.
10. The United States no longer represents Freedom or a Free Society around the world. It represents global hegemony.

Americans need to THINK about the words that fall from the lips of Bush, Rice, Gonazalez, and yes that fat bag of flatulence Dick Cheney.

PNAC, as any research into publications such as the Weekly Standard, has a single goal, which is to secure the position of the US as the single “global-hegemon”. This should not be interpreted as a sports metaphor for “We’re Number one!” It should be interpreted as an attempt to effect exactly the kind of political stranglehold against which American colonists fought in 1776. The current direction in which the US Ship of State is sailing is headed to a New World Order where democracy is a sham and primary resources are in the hands of a few. The elixir of complacency brought on by supersaturation of goods, services, information and technology has drugged us all into thinking that the invasion of Iraq was a necessary step in the protection of our Values. What are we saying?

PS: The Weekly Standard and other so-called "new organs" got their start-up money from Rupert Murdoch (owner of Fox and therefore over 50% of news organs in the US), who is a close ally of PNAC and AEI and other neo-con groups that seeks a secure American role as "Global-hegemon".

Tags:   bush agenda, cheney, fascism, flatulence, free society, neo cons, pnac

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Posted on 2/16/2006 ( Permanent Link )
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