Worst Cases of Treason and Subversion in U.S. History

George Bush became president by subverting the Constitution. Many of the actions of his administration are treasonous. For example, when he exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame, he committed the most insidious form of treason, in the words of his father George Herbert Walker Bush. Informants are the best and most crucial sources of intelligence. When the informant’s contact is exposed, the informant’s life and wellbeing are jeopardized. The potential informant is less likely to come forward. The entire intelligence structure and security of the nation suffers.

The bloodless coup of 2000 was a greater act of treason and subversion than the Civil War was. The Civil War was an attempt by one part of the nation to break away. The Bush revolution shredded the Constitution, defiled the unique American experience and disgraced the nation before a civilized world.

George Bush claims he is the decider. The Constitution says Congress is the decider or legislator. The president is the “executor” charged with carrying out or implementing Congress’s decisions and the statutes of the Constitution. The Constitution lists the duties of the Legislature first in Article I. The Executive duties and restrictions are listed in Article II. Bush either has no understanding of the Constitution or believes it is null and void.

The Founding Fathers anticipated the rise of people like George Bush, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon to the presidency, so they created two other branches of government to rein in the excesses of potential tyrants. The other two branches of government have proven to be just as susceptible to corruption as is the presidency. Complete corruption of government has occurred far more often than the Founding Fathers anticipated. They did suspect it could happen. Many of them warned that their new idea of the supremacy of ideas, principles and values over kings, nobilities and theocrats was a “bold experiment.”

The Founding Fathers’ worst expectations turned out to be true. In the 20th Century alone, the entire system failed numerous times. Besides the Bush, Reagan and Nixon Administrations, there was McCarthyism and the Palmer Raids to name a few.

The U.S. system of government proved to be inherently corrupt. George Bush merely lifted the veneer and exposed the internal rot and decay. Bush and those around him have low estimates of the mental, moral and maturity level of the average American and believed it was safe to reveal the true political system. They proved to be right. Deep down, most Americans do not subscribe to the new idea that principles and values should be superior to authoritarian rulers. Most Americans are morally bankrupt. Most are incapable of concluding on their own that killing 1,000,000 people as happened in Iraq is evil and criminal. They can’t even deduce independently that unjustified mass murder of others is wrong. Most have minds dominated by the reptilian brain stem. No more than 15% of Americans have minds dominated by the cognitive brain sector, that sector capable of moral, human behavior. Most people have the potential for a human dominated mind, but the animal mind has by far the longest history on the evolutionary ladder and is instinctively dominant.

The Democratic Party holds the claim on the cognitive mind. How did they perform in this latest crisis? Abominably. Their response to the worst political crime in U.S. history was to declare it excusable. They want to ignore it just as they did the crimes of treason, subversion, drug-running and fiscal criminality by the Reagan Administration. They have reached the same conclusion about the intellectual and maturity level of the average American. The neo-conservatives, the far right wing of the Republican Party, have an analogy for the intellectual level of Americans. They like to say: you wouldn’t allow a three-year old to cross an intersection by himself. Most Americans appear to be content with their role as a three-year-old. The problem is that they are lethal to the rest of the world and unfit to be outside U.S. fences and cages. The Democrats’ disgraceful, contemptible, negligent behavior has demonstrated that they are more in agreement with the Republicans than with the Founding Fathers.

Very few can comprehend the magnitude of 1,000,000 murders. Few of those who can are in Congress. They can be counted on one hand. The Founding Fathers’ dream turned into an abysmal, disgraceful tragedy. As in the movie “Shot in the Dark” it turns out that everyone is guilty.

Stalin Adulation Parties on Dec. 18

On December 18, celebrations will take place across the United States. It’s the birthday of the man the Republican Party reveres most: Joseph Stalin. The Republican Party, led by mentally- and morally-challenged party stalwarts George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, has achieved, and in some cases, exceeded Stalin’s accomplishments. Today, the Republican Party can spy on almost everyone, and does. Stalin lacked the technology to equal his successors. The Republican gulag of secret prisons would make Stalin envious.

Brainwashing has been refined to the point that most people don’t have a clue that they have no thoughts of their own. The U.S. has been the leader in this science since World War I, but is modest about taking credit. Stalin didn’t really attempt to deceive his people. He just scared them into compliance and obedience with threats of pain or death.

Torture, kidnapping, denial of trials and legal representation were achieved by Stalin and his Republican successors. Both accomplished media monopoly. Stalin just made Pravda the sole provider of information. Izvestia provided the same information with the same slant. The Republican media monopoly gave the appearance of six competing sources. However, upon close inspection, their media monster merely was Pravda with six tenacles. The publlic hears the information from different directions, but it all comes from the same source. When Israel bombed Syria in the fall of 2007, all the media, in unison, reported that Israel "dropped ordinance" on Syria. When Israel invaded Lebanon in the Spring of 2007, the media, again in unison, reported that "Israel crossed the border into Lebanon." When the Republicans uncovered the worst crime of the 20th Century, Bill Clinton consensually fondling Monica Lewinsky, they had no choice but to impeach the miscreant. They selected Henry Hyde to oversee the investigation. The media in unison labled him "a senior Statesman." It turns out the the "senior statesman" from Illinois had had his own more than fondling affair with a married woman and was responsible for the breakup of a family of four. This ourstanding member of the Republican Party also was involved in the Savings and Loan Scandal which cost the American people at least $500 billion. As a board member of Clyde Federal Saving and Loan, he participated in the bank fraud unleashed nationwide by Ronald Reagan.

Stalin had more integrity than his U.S. counterparts, but otherwise, they are close to identical twins. His U.S. brothers love war killing innocent people more than Stalin did. Stalin, as commander in chief, let his nation to a victory over mighty Adolph Hitler. George Bush led his nation to quagmires in Afghanistan and Iraq. He did win a war against tiny Haiti, expelling the democratic government and installing a Stalin-style government in its place. It's difficult to judge who hated democracy and freedom most.

Bush and Chaney have one talent: destruction, They have one tool: force. Negotiation and bargaining are beyond their purview. They have as much chance of outwitting someone as a duck has of becoming the lead soprano in the Metropolitan Opera Company. They are able to outwit most Democratic politicians, however.

There are many models for ruthless destruction and force, but the Republicans borrowed the Stalin model. Their rabble followers will never figure out the contradiction between their words and deeds.

Check with your local Republican Party headquarters to find out where the nearest Stalin Adulation party is to you.

Will Democracy and Civilization ever take hold in the U.S.?

In the 18th Century, autocracies, monarchies, theocracies and oligarchies ruled the nations of the world. The general rule was: the rulers are everything, the peasants are nothing. There were a few exceptions. In the Northeast corner of what now is the United States, a matriarchy ruled a group of Native Americans known as the League of the Iroquois. Elder women met and made the decisions and rules for the tribes. The future of the people was central to their decisions. How will this affect the seventh generation, was a common test in decision-making.

Colonists began arriving from Europe and some observed the harmonious lives and institutions of the League of the Iroquois and saw that societies can function without kings and royalty. They decided that they could create a nation where ideals and principles, not kings or ruling classes, were supreme. This was the unique foundation of the United States of America.

The United States became a model for civilizing forces in the world. France quickly followed the U.S. example. As decades passed, more and more people demanded the supremacy of ideals.

Unfortunately, the supremacy of ideals was no match for the animal herd instincts instilled over millions of years of evolution. Ideals never set down deep roots in the U.S. Americans espoused democracy, justice and equality but never fully practiced them. The appeal of the alpha leader, the father figure, the autocrat, the authoritarian personality always prevailed in the end. The reflexive desires to demonize and fear the stranger and the strange, to huddle into a herd, to stampede, always overwhelmed the concepts of values, ideals and principles.

America always was ripe for Fascism. The U.S. would have joined the Fascist states in the 1930s except for the intervention of two enlightened people: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and General Smedley Butler.

As the world moves into the Third Millennium, the U.S. retreats deeper into the Second Millennium. The Iraq Wars of 1990 through the present were an acid test of true Americans. The 2.5 million deaths in Iraq, ten percent of the population, reveal that Americans are a savage, cruel, primitive people. It’s doubtful they ever will evolve into civilized citizens. Their animal natures lurk so close to the surface that they can be unleashed by a simple fabricated image. In the Iraq Wars, all the nation’s institutions betrayed the ideals of America. Only a handful of citizens, mostly government bureaucrats, saw or even tried to see the evil, criminal forces stampeding them into acts of reprehensible savagery. True patriots are precious few. Jingoists are abundant.

Americans condemn the use of weapons of mass destruction then use them themselves. They raise the alarm that the enemies are so barbaric they would use nuclear weapons. The U.S. is the only nation that ever used them and it frequently threatens to use them again. The hypocrisy uncloaks the two-dimensional mentality of the thugs that dominate U.S. policy and make up the majority of the citizenry.

Americans are unfit to hold power in the Third Millennium, but, like a plague, cancer or evil, they cling on tenaciously.