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The big talk in the news today has been the recent confrontation between Senator Clinton and Robert Gates at the Pentagon. For those who missed it, it went like this:
Clinton, as a member of the Armed Services Committee, sent a request to Gates (or, Uncle Dick’s Private General) asking if the Pentagon had developed any strategies for withdrawal from Iraq (read the text of her letter on her .com website blog: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/blog/ ) Of course, Gates didn’t deign to answer her, rather he had Eric Edelman, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, respond to her request.
In a response that can only be viewed as the tip of the very authoritarian iceberg to come and to wreck this ship of state, Gates told Ms. Clinton that Congressional Oversight will “embolden enemies”, and he alluded to the Executive Branch’s position that Congressmen like Clinton “aid and abet” the enemy. Thus, there will be no Congressional oversight, nor will Congress be informed of the planning and strategies, not the spending of monies, nor the realities on the ground.
Dear citizens, you must realize that what we are looking at is not just another election cycle, it is not just the pendulum swinging, it is not just the status quo in the Capitol. It is the very thing that the Founding Fathers feared – failure to hang on to Democracy. The paradox we are facing is the installation of a legally sanctioned authoritarian regime in order to preserve the democracy. It’s not that the Emperor is naked. No, he has poked out our eyes.
To Quote Benjamin Franklin: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
People, you are the witnesses to the birth of the modern Caesar.
Tags:
authoritarian state, Benjamin Franklin, Eric Edelman, Evil Uncle Dick Cheney, Fascism, Gates, Hillary Clinton, our fascist state
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Posted on 7/20/2007
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