Exageration or Reality? What is at stake.

[Beam Me Up]

I just sent the following to my e-mail list:
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Dear friends,

On November 2 we won’t be voting for anything like the measure of change we deserve the chance to vote for. We will be casting our ballots in a referendum on whether we wish to pause and reconsider our march toward a homegrown American fascism. --Steve Perry.

Part of the problem with such strongly worded statements is that most Americans see them as EXAGERATIONS--too extreme to be taken seriously. However, what most Americans don't realize is that the Corporate owned media streams through which we get the majority of our information is a SYSTEM that, although it may allow strongly divergent OPINIONS, seldom discusses or reveals the nature, origin and growth of the system itself.

For example, without a clear understanding of what fascism is (government in the service of elitist owned corporate money using nationalism, religion and/or racism, augmented by fear, as a means of social manipulation and control)--without an awareness that the rise of fascism in Europe, especially Nazism in Germany, was to a large extent funded by wealthy U.S. families (Bush, Walker, Dulles, Hearst, Mellon, DuPont, Morgan, Rockefeller, etc.) and their banks and corporations (IBM, GE, DuPont, Ford, IT&T, Standard Oil <Exxon>, Union Bank, etc.), it is very easy to disregard the concern expressed in the statement above as "merely" alarmist. One has to understand that fascism isn't something rooted solely in pre WWII Europe but also has deep roots in some of the wealthiest and most established families right here in the US--the Bush family preeminent among them.

Fascism isn't suddenly appearing in America. In its racist form it has been a thread of the American enterprise from the very beginning (what white settlers did 250 years ago is no different than what we are doing in Iraq today: demonizing and murdering an indigenous population to steal their wealth, land and resources for our use). More recently, at least since WWII, fascist agents in the more modern sense have been at work undermining our Constitution from within the highly secret confines of the National Security State--an edifice they created to counter the threat of Communism here and abroad. It is not at all by chance that George Herbert Walker Bush, the son of one of Hitler's financiers, Prescott Bush, and the father of our current (albeit illegitimate) President, George W. Bush, was a director of the CIA before becoming a very active vice-President running such enterprises as Iran-Contra (drugs, guns, oil, money) beyond the purview of Ronald Reagan's presidency. There is no mystery or exaggeration here for those with eyes to see. Many of the same players that were at work then are at work today.

In the next few days I will be emailing information that will show that the concern expressed in the quote above is not only NOT alarmist, it is probably an understatement. I will provide you with information that strongly suggests that a large segment of the United States Government today is in the hands of fascists whose hidden aim is to create the conditions necessary for the utter destruction of the United States and its Constitution. This is what is at stake.

Those of you who know me personally know that I do not utter such accusations lightly and that I have a fairly clear idea what this could mean for us all. I can not predict the future with any certainty, although I can make educated guesses. But long before any conjecture is warranted, there remains the question of what IS taking place at this moment. How can we begin to understand that a large portion of the government of the United States of America has quite literally been taken over by a bevy of murderous criminals and traitors wearing business suits with ties and American flag lapel pins--and yet we've been told virtually nothing about it? How can we understand that this is not a recent turn of events but is a mostly untold history that has been developing for a very long time? Hopefully in the days to come you will begin to have these questions answered.

One last point: In order to understand what is actually taking place around us today, it is necessary to begin to turn things UPSIDE DOWN in our minds. For example, many pundits speak of the failures of the Bush administration--such as the way "No Child Left Behind" is bankrupting our public schools. What we need to begin to grasp is that although some of these "policy failures" are, indeed, failures from the point of view of their stated intention, from the point of view of a completely different agenda many of these "failures" may actually be strategic successes. What we are witnessing around us are not only egregious errors in judgement but also a systematic alteration of the whole cloth of the American social fabric.

Even as stated this is too abstract for most of us to grasp so let me be more blunt: The whole of our perception of social reality is being manipulated so we will see the world a certain way and, there by, behave according to the wishes of those who are shaping that perception. We are being lied to, often and repeatedly. We are being readied for the kill by deceivers who create the conditions that terrorize us into accepting their solutions to the problems they create. I'll remind you of Ron Suskind quoting an unnamed White House source (most likely Karl Rove) in a 10.18.04 New York Sunday Magazine article:

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=

This point of view is at the heart of the very real threat of fascism in this country today. This new fascism will not look like the fascism of the last century with jack-boots and swastikas--at least not at first. First it will wrap itself in the American flag of patriotism and profess its faith in a false "Christianity" that is the exact antithesis of the real teaching behind Christ's words. It will look like a well-armed and ruthless CORPORATE OWNED and OUTSOURCED SECURITY FORCE abroad, and ultimately, eventually right here at home. It will look like a series of real emergencies repeatedly broadcast in technicolor horror 24/7 in our living rooms brought about by covert operatives presented by the media as alien "terrorists" who "hate us for our freedom". It will look like a system of "Homeland Security" that does not protect this nation or its citizens but protects the SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE that brought it about.

In short, the United States Government as established by the Constitution has been hijacked and we the hapless abductees are being flown headlong into the stone wall of history. At this very moment, decisions that will effect our lives for generations to come are being made completely outside the channels established in the Constitution for our protection against such tyranny. The election immediately before us will be the most important election of our lives--but not for the reasons we are given by the Corporate owned media. Even with the best of outcomes the struggle before us will have only just begun because the real threat to our national security is embedded SYSTEMATICALLY within the mechanisms of the Corporate run National Security State itself.

Feel free to pass this on to others with an interest.

Sincerely,

my real name
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Posted 10/13/04; 9:46:42 AM
Sunday, October 10, 2004
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/sperry/2004/10/10

Why We Fight

What is, and isn't, at stake in beating Bush

Sometimes the truth just ain’t enough
Or it’s too much in times like this
--Bruce Springsteen, "Worlds Apart"

...Democrat or otherwise, those of us who want to see Bush go at practically any cost will err greatly if we forget the central question that has hung over Election 2004 like a shroud: Why, after four years of egregious lies, failure, and cronyism on the part of a president who is more widely despised than polls skewed toward registered and “likely” voters will ever apprehend, is this a race at all?

There is no way to discuss this matter sensibly without first discarding some of our most treasured myths about American politics. Put simply, the Democrats are not a real opposition party (only consider the ease with which they swallowed Bush’s outrages as they were occurring) and the mass media are not remotely critical of power. A huge and mostly invisible segment of the populace is angry and frightened, less by Osama bin Laden than by what might happen if they get sick or lose their jobs. What passes for public discourse washes over them like a narcotic haze and leaves them feeling left out and bamboozled, powerless, as it is supposed to; thanks to the ministrations of media and the steady erosion of public schools for more than a generation now, the American public is probably more ill-informed than at any time since the 19th century.

This state of affairs informs the real spirit of the Bush/Cheney government, the campaign slogan you’ll never see on a bumper sticker--BC04: Because You’ll Believe Anything. In four years the only thing the Bush White House has done well is to generate a massive volume of propaganda. As former Marine intelligence officer Andrew Borene says elsewhere in this issue http://www.citypages.com/databank/25/1245/article12550.asp)>, part of the disaster of Iraq stemmed from the Bushmen’s obsession with spinning the war to the folks at home. Team Rove has stuck to its stories, or changed them in nakedly peremptory fashion to suit the occasion, with unblinking resolve. (Goebbels pronounced the last word on the subject: "The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.")

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