One Last Scam: a September Surprise

Neo-Conservatives believe 90% of the American people function at a three-year-old mental, moral and maturity level. They talk about “perception management,” which, in the right hands (theirs), can convince most people of anything, but, most importantly they claim, insures an orderly, stable society. They rigged the 2000 elections and, with the help of five ambulance chasers, put a retarded Texan, their figurehead leader, in the White House.

Next, many Americans believe, the Neo-Cons engineered the WTO attacks scam. Then they got Congress to pass the PATRIOT Act, which subverted the Constitution and eliminated many rights and freedoms and introduced proto-Stalinism to America. After that, they trumped up false charges to justify an invasion of a small nation that was no threat to the U.S. Then they rigged another election with the help of Diebold one-arm bandit machines slightly modified to miscount votes.

The media never caught on to the Neo-Con shenanigans, or were complicit in them. The Democratic Party, timid in the best of times, remained oblivious, if not cowering in fear.

So, why wouldn’t the Neo-Cons try one last scam, a “September surprise,” when they have only four months left to loot a nation of pathetic, oblivious people? Election rigging was primitive, but the bank bailout is absolutely ingenious. The Neo-Cons are proving their brilliance with the bank bailout scheme, and the payoff will be huge.

The Neo-Cons and their co-conspirators created the banking crisis then claimed to be the experts needed to fix it. They offered an absurd remedy. Then they said the Democrats or anyone else who refused to support it would be responsible for any economic collapse. This is enthymematic argumentation. Cause and effect are not related, but claims to be. The economic collapse is certain no matter what they do. The landslide has started and the Neo-Cons are claiming that building a barrier wall on the other side of the mountain will stop the calamity.

This will be the biggest heist in history. What’s more, it will have the complicity of the victims. It will confirm Neo-Con theories about the intelligence of the average American and that 90%, and closer to 100% of Democratic Party members, can be manipulated.

The Democrats, with a couple exceptions such as Jim McDermont, don’t have a clue that they are being suckered again.

Bill Ayers is a Patriot, John McCain is a Jingo

As a veteran of the Vietnam War and an anti-war activist after I was honorably discharged, I have a hands-on insight into the motives and actions of both sides of that conflict. The Vietnam War, like the current Iraq War, defines the United States. Bill Ayers and John McCain are examples of the two extremes.

On the positive side, the United States was the first nation to implement the values, ideals and principles of the Enlightenment. Foremost among those principles is that the law, not the monarch, is sovereign. In enlightened nations, this is called patriotism. At the other end is 600 million years of evolution that tell us to form into a herd and blindly and mindlessly follow the herd alpha leaders. This is jingoism and is one of our most powerful animal instincts.

The Constitution requires the Congress to draw up articles of war and pass them before a legal state of war exists. That was not done for the Vietnam or Iraq conflicts. Both wars were illegal. Both were criminal. Like all military personnel, John McCain took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. By flying missions in a foreign land and killing people and destroying their property, he was in violation of his oath, the Constitution and international laws.

Ayers’ position was not as clear. As a member of the Weather Underground, he was breaking minor laws by bombing buildings in order to halt hideous crimes against humanity and genocide orchestrated by his government. The government no longer represented the laws or enlightened ideals. It acted lawlessly. It became a rogue state. In a democracy, the people are obligated to intervene. Thomas Jefferson anticipated this crisis and said the tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with blood.

Our animal instincts tell us that threatening the cohesion of the herd is the worst possible threat, far worse than committing genocide or aggression. Since the jingoes far outnumber the patriots in the U.S., Bill Ayers is considered a criminal, and John McCain is viewed as a hero.