Rejecting the Republican Party of Fear

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Rejecting the Republican Party of Fear

By Ron Fullwood

9-30-06, 12:36 p.m.

Five years after 9/11, the worst attack on American homeland in our history, the Democrats offer nothing but criticism and obstruction, and endless second-guessing. The party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut-and-run.-- Bush at fundraiser, September 28, 2006

Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman confronted and defeated the enemies who threatened and attacked America, by unifying the nation around every instigation of our democracy they could muster. Their overriding principle was the defense and preservation of those democratic values which they understood would sustain our nation against those forces who sought to destroy our way of life and separate us from those enduring values of justice, liberty, and freedom. Bush and the republicans have adopted none of those values as they have committed our nation to their 'ideological war'; endlessly perpetuating the violence by the exercise of their own reckless militarism.

With their rubber-stamp approval of Bush's torture and detention of whoever he chooses and has chosen to round-up and lock-up, the republican party has stepped forward to assume their part in the U.S. regime's scheme to control and dominate Americans and the rest of the world through the un-checked exercise of their contrived, absolute use of our military, and the agents and resources of our government. They have become the party of torture, suppression, war, occupation, the overthrow of sovereign governments, deliberate and collateral killing of innocents, unwarranted eavesdropping on Americans, indefinite detentions without counsel or charges . . . they have become the party of fear and oppression.

With every overreaching action, the republicans contradict every essential value of liberty, justice, freedom, and humanity which has graced our nation's conscience and character since it's founding with the pride of our full participation in its scope and direction. Bush's increasingly autocratic reign is being enabled by the zeal of the members of the republican majority in Congress who have enhanced the contrived power of the Executive as they have enhanced their own control over our hard-earned contributions to our government.

Moreover, the focus of their grab for absolute power is centered on the most pernicious mechanism of our democracy that is within their reach; the control and direction of our military defenses. The diplomatic institutions of our State Dept. have been transformed from instruments of peace and development, to manipulative apologists for U.S imperialism and muckrakers for a pretext to military aggression. With innumerable secret agencies within the Homeland Security regime - harboring secret, unaccountable budgets, and countlessly unending appropriations to Bush's dual occupations - the republican-controlled Congress has compliantly squandered trillions of dollars for a failed pursuit of the perpetrators they identified as responsible for the 9-11 attacks, staged an increasingly failing rout of the Taliban (in addition to their cut-and-run from the hunt for bin-Laden there), and committed the bulk of our forces and resources to a disastrously failing invasion and occupation of Iraq which has spawned and spread the risk of active aggression against the U.S., our interests, and our agents.

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