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The Amazing Bush Fascist Transformation of America

Comment by Larry Ross, March 7, 2007

An historian of the future commenting on this period in US history will marvel at how a supposedly free people had been so easily tricked into giving up their wealth, freedoms and civil liberties and embracing a George Bush version of fascism to supposedly give them security and protect their freedom and democracy. The American people's response tends to prove Hitler's theorem in his book Mien Kemp: "The bigger the lie the more people will believe it." Although public doubt and rejection of Bush militarism and war is growing, people still accept the bigger lies of the Bush regime:

1. that they were fairly elected twice
2. that the Iraq war is justified and legitimate
3. that they knew nothing about the 9/11 attack beforehand
4. that we would never perpetrate a covert 'false-flag' attack on the American people and actually kill Americans and blame a chosen enemy to justify a new war.
   

Naturally the mass media has been a wonderful help to the Bush regime, supporting his every war and repeating his every lie, suppressing criticism and never questioning the really big lies. Basically the media have constructed and limited the public mind in America and delivered it on a platter to Bush's neocon fascists to be shaped and moulded to their needs and 'the new truths' as it suits the criminal regime. Of course there is the occasional tepid article in the New York Times, wondering at the pace that fascism is taking over in America , but never daring to suggest that maybe there is a genuine conspiracy of neocon fascists against the American people and Constitution. Little do Americans suspect that the fascists may realise it's time for a new really big false-flag operation and lie, in order to regain Bush's popularity and hold on the minds of the American people. An operation big enough that very few would suspect, or could suspect, that American fascists would deliberately kill so many Americans and then blame the Iranians in order to justify a new war on Iran. The mass media in the US and allied countries will never plant the seeds of doubt by educating the people about the many times false flag operations have been used since about 1600, including by the US. By keeping this information from the American people, it will be easy to fool them again just as they were so easily fooled by the Bush-Chaney litany of lies over Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

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The assault on liberties– Who's r eally responsible

by Barry Lando, March 5, 2007

You have to read the New York Times editorial for Sunday, March 5th.  It's a list  of measures the Bush administration has put in place over the past five years that taken together add up to an astonishing attack against what we used to consider America's most basic constitutional principles.

The Times calls for Congress to take immediate action to reverse the situation.  The editorial, however, should be calling for Congress—and the media– to do much, nuch more.

Bush's Draconian  measures range from the suspension of habeas corpus to warrantless eavesdropping to the right of  the president to decide what constitutes torture, to prisons where hundreds face indefinite detention without any charges being brought against them, to other even more secret CIA facilities filled with “ghost prisoners” for whom the CIA has never accounted;and, of course, ”extraordinary rendition”, where detainees are packed off to face torture at the hands of America's less savory allies..  At the same time, American  courts are being closed to legal challenges to these outrageous actions. 

If the list weren't indeed from the Times, one might have thought it was fiction: an updated version of Orwell's 1984. 

The Times rightly demands that Congress act to reverse this assault on democratic liberties. But the demands should go further. 

Congress– and the media– should be looking at how this attack on what we used to consider fundamental principles of American democracy-how this attack was possible. How was it carried out?  We should be analyzing why and how the American Congress—and, let's face it—most of the media caved in so abjectly to the Bush/Cheney scare tactics. How could such bedrock principles as habeas corpus have been so cravenly and quickly jettisoned?  Where were the newspaper editors? The TV magazine shows? What about the legal profession? And where were those political leaders now in the race to be the next president?

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