April 12, 2004

Growing mushrooms has been likened to lying and/or deliberately misinforming: keep ‘em in the dark and feed ‘em [the “s” word]. But this methodology is normally directed by one or a small number towards the many to cultivate and reap ignorance amongst the masses.

A perfect example of this is the 9-11 Commission. It has only one purpose: to justify the creation of a domestic Gestapo to carry out the USA Patriot Act I/II abolition of the American people’s Bill of Rights. The Bush administration put these laws in place, and just as General Tommy Franks warned, the administration will now ensure the Sharon-style terrorism necessary to invoke them.

Dumbing-down and then terrifying the masses in order to compassionately conserve and nurture security while abolishing Americans’ individual rights and freedoms is the absolute pinnacle of the mushroom cultivation method. But its most current application is actually a reversal of direction; specifically, it is a case where a small group has managed to manipulate the world’s most powerful and dangerous individual - President George W. Bush.

Nixon regime cabal member, John Dean, has proclaimed that Bush is just a figurehead, and that Vice President, or president of vice, whichever works better for you, Dick Cheney and his pacemaker, is actually running as well as ruining the country. And our ready-to-boil-over military misadventure in Iraq, engineered by the “neoconservative” Project for the New American Century [PNAC] group of Bush administration advisors that urged US into this worse-than-useless and unnecessary war, is another example of the total cluelessness of our president.

Reflecting again on Bush’s now absurd grandstanding when landing on the aircraft carrier Lincoln in plain site of the San Diego skyline and proclaiming the end of the organized invasion of Iraq, his ridiculous flight suit, his bouncy walk, and is impish smirk, now stand in stark contrast to the shed blood, sweat, tears and suffering of our citizen army and regulars that have become cannon fodder for an oppressed nation seeking to be rid of brutal occupational forces. What was gained by all this unnecessary suffering?

Ask anyone on the street what a “neocon” is and you might get a response that identifies the term as describing a new sort of screwy-shaped fluorescent light bulb. There is nothing “neo” or “conservative” about the PNAC bunch, but they can easily be traced back to Marxist and communist origins. And they can easily be connected to the expansionist imperialism of Israel, as exposed by the Hebrew newspaper Ha’aretz that characterized Bush’s soon-to-be policy advisors of 1996 as traitors to America. It was within this framework of treason wherein the unjust attack upon Iraq, diverting our military from Afghanistan an al-Qaeda, was legitimized and justified. There was no reason to go after Iraq other than it was an “opportunity” to divert America’s anger to serve the goals of Israel, and because it was “doable.”

And in directing American might unjustly to crush the potential threat to Israel, Middle Eastern Arabs are now united as never before against the dangerous and powerful “Great Satan.” Bush has accomplished what Saddam never could, even with the latter’s use of brutal force, repression and genocide. Bush has united the Arab world against its “axis of evil:” the Zionist threat that is the United States, Israel and Britain. Kurds, Sunni, Shiite, and al-Qaeda are now united as never before. The brutal dictator Saddam is gone - his regime has been brought down. But American politicians never learn; people in foreign countries prefer their own homegrown dictators to those outsiders that invade and occupy their homeland. How does that make the people of Iraq any different from US? Aren’t we being repressed by Washington and our own clueless, warmongering, tax-gouging, corporate industrial military complex of gangsters and profiteers?

And while Iraq burns, and our military is maimed and killed, and innocent toddlers and old folks in their homes lose their hands, feet, arms, legs and lives, President George W. Bush pitches baseballs and lets everyone know that everything is just fine.

The bodies of the four mercenaries from Blackwater, mercenaries who had earned over a $1,000 a day that were burned to death and their bodies mutilated, were just as charred and black as the babies, toddlers, women and children who were cremated alive at Waco by our FBI and military. Perhaps if the FBI paid more attention to their jobs of serving the American people instead of feckless, corrupt politicians, fewer Americans would be killed in skyscrapers, airplanes, and religious compounds.

Theodore E. Lang

© 2004 THEODORE E. LANG All rights reserved

Ted Lang is a political analyst and a freelance writer.

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