tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5093949.post4348011376312667608..comments2023-10-12T00:22:40.014+10:00Comments on Bush Out: Bush's USA Crosses A Dangerous LineUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5093949.post-25663415264295638462008-02-10T17:07:00.000+10:002008-02-10T17:07:00.000+10:00Apropos of nothing, have you heard of the FBI's In...Apropos of nothing, have you heard of the FBI's <A HREF="http://www.progressive.org/mag_rothschild0308" REL="nofollow">InfraGard</A> program? It's a deal where bigwigs in businesses sign up to be FBI finks. In exchange, they get warnings of "terrorist activity" before other U.S. citizens do. And more importantly, they are deputised to shoot to kill...<BR/><BR/>Creepy. Puts me in mind of the Interahamwe, the Hutu militia that the government of Rwanda deputised in 1994, which was given orders over the radio when it came time to start killing Tutsis.<BR/><BR/>I'm working on a bigger tinfoil hat. It has broad brims, to protect from the sun as well as rays from CIA satellites. I'm tilting the brim up raffishly over the ears, and down over the eyes -- a tinfoil Akubra!Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5093949.post-5808474730934183922008-02-08T11:27:00.000+10:002008-02-08T11:27:00.000+10:00You are quite right, Bukko. If I was REALLY cynica...You are quite right, Bukko. If I was REALLY cynical, I wouldn't bother writing this blog.Jaraparillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06336314539987735082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5093949.post-15120231410732046932008-02-08T11:14:00.000+10:002008-02-08T11:14:00.000+10:00Gandhi, the problem is, you're not cynical ENOUGH....Gandhi, the problem is, you're not cynical ENOUGH. If you were, you'd feel as comfortable as me. You just have to crank the Cyn-o-Metre on your tinfoil hat up to 11.5, while standing outside in a metal tub filled with warm salty water, on a day when thunderstorms are forecast.<BR/><BR/>What makes me feel sanguine is my belief that Cheney and Co. don't give a rosy rat's arse about the continuity of the U.S. government. Or the United States itself. That's why they're not going to bother to attack Iran, or stage a coup to stay in power past 20/1/09. They'll have stolen all they can get away with, and they'll leave the rotting carcass of the country behind, like Ebola viruses scattering from the haemorrhage of a dying Congolese. Why would they want to stick around when they can let someone else deal with the toxic mess?<BR/><BR/>I believe that everything they do is for the financial benefit of the top 0.1% of the U.S. population. That's 300,000 people. A small number of humans, in the grand scheme of things. Compare that to the number of refugees who have fled Iraq, for instance. The top 0.1% is set. So the rest of America can go straight to hell, as far as Cheney is concerned.<BR/><BR/>How much EXTRA money has each of those 300,000 socked away during the reign of Bush? $10 million? That's probably a lowball estimate. But it's enough to live large for the rest of their natural born days. So what can they do with $10 million, on top of the tens of millions they already have?<BR/><BR/>The answer is: Anything They Want. Live in a mansion protected by your own militia (whose wages will be increasingly cheap, as unemployment rises.) Pay them in gold coins, which they bought with their incomprehensible wealth, before the U.S. dollar became toilet paper. Emigrate to Dubai, or Switzerland, or even AUSTRALIA!!!! Or stay in the States to scavenge scraps of flesh off the bones. Lots of upside potential for snapping up foreclosed houses at 10 cents on the dollar to their 2006 prices and renting them back to people working on the hydroponic urban farms exporting food to the Chinese masters, perhaps...<BR/><BR/>If you're really, really, really cynical, you won't see the U.S. as a fascist empire. You'll see it as an nation-sized Enron, instead. Ken Lay (wherever he's hiding) did quite well from that, and after a few years of soft yakka in a white-collar prison, so will Jeff Skilling.<BR/><BR/>As you note, there's been no effort to prosecute the ruling class by the current legal authorities, except for the unfortunate Lewis Libby. Future authorities will not prosecute these criminals either. They are amoral, so no pangs of conscience about the collapse of a great nation. To turn Barbara Bush's words on their head, the economic Katrina is working out very well for them.Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.com