Demagogue to subjugate the American pulic

[MellowOne]

My apology because I don't have a link to the following, it was sent in email. I don't know the author or where it came from but I thought it was powerful.


The “war on terrorism” should have been just a part of an overall governmental/public partnership to protect our national security and improve our lives.

But as surely as four planes were hijacked on 9/11, in large part due to Bush negligence in alerting airports to take special precautions to prevent hijackings, 9/11 was hijacked by egomaniacal men who saw themselves as “masters of the universe.” They were -- and are – arrogant, disdainful of democracy, and destructive in their decision making.

They used – and are still employing – the tactics of the demagogue to subjugate the American public. It is the tool of all tyrants, whatever their ideological bent. Whether Francisco Franco, Joseph Stalin, or Adolph Hitler, fear of the “other” and scapegoating becomes an essential tool of eliminating opposition ideas and democracy.

We were hijacked twice on 9/11 – once by terrorists, and once by our own one-party Republican government which has shamelessly used a horrible incident for a partisan thuggish suppression of our Constitutional rights. What the Bush Administration seeks to do is to use 9/11 and the threat of terrorism as a veneer under which to build a secret shadow government that has no accountability to the process of democracy.

Mark no mistake about this (and the Democratic Leadership on Capitol Hill still doesn’t get what is really going on), there are surely terrorists in the world (there always have been), but there are also enemies within who are actively undermining the Constitution and the very concept of rule by the people. For the Cheneys of the world, there is no trust to be placed in the “rabble” of democracy.

For the Bush Administration to destroy the documents of our revolution – and the very concept of a Constitutional balance of powers and individual liberties – is, at the very least, to indicate that they are abdicating to the terrorists.

If “they hate us for our freedoms,” why is Bush giving into the terrorist and taking away our freedoms.

But the believers in Bushevism don’t really care much about terrorism. They care about using terrorism to amass powers that would change the very nature of the United States, turning it into a government not unlike the one we rebelled against in 1776, but with more Kafkesque and Orwellian powers.

Two things changed on September 11th: America was attacked from without, which set off an attack from the enemies of democracy within – the Bush Administration, the Republican Congress, spineless Democrats, and hack Republican judges.

We are obligated to protect our Constitution.

There are some things 9/11 should never change: like freedom, liberty, transparency in government, and the rule of law.