What's The Real Problem?

Another day, another painful trawl through page after page of gut-wrenchingly miserable news. Israeli troops have assasinated the new Hamas leader, US forces are ready to launch a full-scale massacre in Najaf (using Polish and Spanish forces as the front line - that'll teach 'em), the corporate-sponsored media throws up a few more Western warmongers' press releases and John Kerry still isn't saying anything worth hearing. How did we get into this mess and how do we get out of it? The situation is worse than it may seem on the surface...

George W. Bush should never have even been considered for election to the White House. He never had the skills, the experience or the brains to take on the position of World's Most Powerful Individual Ever. But Bush never really sought the Presidency - he was hand-picked for it. By whom? The same band of fools that helped his father become head of the CIA and then the country.

You could probably trace the ideological, political and family connections of these people all the way back to the inner sanctums of Medieval castles, if you wanted to... but it's probably worth starting with the 1930s and the people who helped bring Hitler to power. Like Bush Junior, Hitler was originally just a front-man for powerful business interests. Like the current Bush admnistration, Hitler's machine used nationalistic, war-like rhetoric to stir up public passions and stifle criticism. Like the US forces in Iraq today, they treated foreigners as Unter-menshen, people whose lives do not have the same value as theirs.

It is worth mentioning here that Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was one of the business people backing Hitler. His banking interested helped finance production of Nazi steel for the war industry. After WWII, Prescott Bush was found guilty of assisting the enemy, but the punishment was mitigated for diplomatic and business reasons, so his family retained its fortune.

The same thing happened in the wake of the Nixon scandal. Watergate was a painful, drawn-out saga which was painfully distressing to the average television-watching US citizen. When the blood-letting was declared over by mutual GOP-Democrat consent, people like Bush Senior, Cheney and Rumsfeld had kept under the radar and were able to continue pursuing their ideological, power-building paths within the CIA and the Republican Party.

These are the same people who hand-picked the idiot from Texas as a potential vote-winner to topple the staid and "boring" Al Gore. They are now experts in media spin and their tentacles reach deep within the GOP, the CIA, the religious right and the US military-industrial machine. These people want to ensure that globalisation leads us into a nightmare scenario of slave-factory workers and mega-rich elites who cannot be challenged militarily, politically or even judicially.

If you find the above hard to believe, look through my posts below for quotes from Teddy Roosevelt, who warned the US public of continuing attempts by corporate fascists, or even Ronald Reagan, who warned the GOP against Bush Snr and the powerful corporate interests that backed him (for those who remember, Bush Snr was originally considered more unelectable than Howard Dean).

So the big question today is not just how to get rid of George W. Bush and his band of neo-conservatives, but also how to ensure that they cannot steal another election by (a) massive corporate business donations to the GOP, (b) careful manipulation of public opinion, or even (c) manipulation of the judicial and voting processes (as witnessed in Florida and the US Supreme Court).

These problems will only be solved if Bush and his gang are thoroughly exposed and publicly held accountable for their misdemeanors, which now include international War Crimes and repeated defiance of the US Constitution.

The first step is to turn public opinion against Bush by censuring him. The next step will be to impeach him, launch a thorough investigation into his administration, then imprison the whole damned lot of them. But even that wont be enough: corporate media and other business interests also need to be held accountable for their part in this corruption. And international co-conspirators like the UK and Australia will obviously require their own blood-letting.

The alternative is a world which continues down the path of endless war, religious hatred, fear and terrorism, where the rich get richer and the middle class become chained forever by poverty and state-sponsored ignorance. Or are we already there?