In spite of his insistence
that the world is safer now because Saddam Hussein has
been removed from power and terrorists are “on the run.” Despite
his pollyannish statements that so many Americans love him and voted
for him that he won a “mandate.” Despite the fact that he believes
God wants him to be president, and that God speaks both to him and
through him, George W. Bush trusts men, money and guns
rather than God to protect him at next Thursday’s inauguration,
by far the most restrictive as well as expensive from a security
standpoint, inaugural in American history.
Next Thursday’s inauguration
will be one of unprecedented security measures. Six thousand
police, 2,500 military personnel and agents of dozens of federal
security agencies will be on patrol in our nation’s capitol. A
twenty-three mile no fly zone will be observed around, Dulles,
Reagan, and Baltimore-Washington airports. Black Hawk helicopters
and fighter jets will patrol the skies over Washington D.C. Bomb
sniffing dogs will be everywhere. The city will be closed down for
one hundred square blocks during this “Celebration of Democracy,”
which will be absolutely closed to ordinary American citizens.
Bleachers along the parade route which in previous inaugurations
were available to the public on a first come first served basis,
will now be doled out at $60 a pop through the auspices of
Republican leaders. A.N.S.W.E.R. and the Impeach Bush movement
have, however, supposedly won the right to build bleachers at 4th
and Pennsylvania, but access will be restricted along the rest of
the inaugural route. It will be interesting to see if the Bush
people find a way to disperse the dissident groups.
Security teams are already testing the safety of food that will be
served at inaugural events. At the swearing in, snipers will be on
rooftops and specialists in chemical, biological and radiological
terrorism with handheld detection devices will mingle in the
crowds. The Coast Guard will patrol the Potomac River for days
before and after the inauguration.
If Bush
is “better” for our country as far as security goes, and if America
and the world are safer with him as president why
should he need so much more protection than, say, President Clinton
did?
Bush has said many times he believes God wanted him to be
president. If that is true, is it not reasonable to
suppose that God has a special interest in keeping Bush safe, and
that He would keep him safe even if very
few agents were on duty to protect him? Did Bush’s God not protect
Daniel from the lions in the lion’s den and kept the fire from
consuming Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego as well as protecting David
from Goliath? I should think if God really wants Bush to be
president, He can see to it Bush stays safe without all that extra
help. Or are the men who might wish Bush ill more
powerful than the God of all creation??
I guess God just is not very attentive or else He is quite
powerless. Or else Bush does not really believe God wants him to be
president. Bush believes everything that happens is “God’s will”
after all. Whether Bush lives or dies is “God’s will,” and surely
God watches over him just as he watches over the sparrow, so why
does he feel it necessary to utilize so much extra human
protection?
I, on the other hand, am not
at all convinced that God had any special desire to see Bush become
president for either a first or second term, or that He often
interferes in human affairs, so I believe it is necessary to employ
reasonable security measures to protect the leader of the mightiest
nation on earth. But I am dissecting Bush’s supposed
beliefs, here. If, as Dubya seems to believe,
God really does want him to run this nation, surely God will put
Himself out enough to see to it he is kept safe so he can do so.
But everywhere Dubya, and for that matter, Cheney goes,
unprecedented and exorbitantly expensive security measures are put
in place.
For my part, I believe if God
had wanted Bush to be president He would have nudged enough more
Republicans than Democrats to go vote that fateful day in November
of 2000 so that Bush would have won the election honestly. But
just in case God was not interested enough or powerful
enough to inspire more Republicans than Democrats to vote on
election day, Katherine Harris and Dubya’s brother removed the names
of tens of thousands of blacks from the Florida voter rolls prior to
the 2000 election so that thousands of blacks, 90% of whom vote for
Democrats, were not allowed to vote. Neither brother, apparently,
trusted God to deliver the election without their help. And they
also, apparently, do not believe God is averse to human agents
cheating and utilizing dishonest measures to help place “His”
man in power.
And, to
keep “His” man in power, Bush’s God is not averse to
Bush running a dishonest and dishonorable campaign. It was,
apparently, okay with God that Bush and his agents used
fear-mongering as the main component of their 2004 campaign,
followed closely by bearing false witness against his opponent and
flat out lying to ensure that Bush stayed in power another four
years. Plus repressing the Democratic vote in key states again, of
course. I kept a diary of their dishonesty.
http://criticaltolerance.org/story/2004/9/29/16222/3085 Can
anyone imagine Jimmy Carter running such a campaign?
If Dubya feels a need to take
such extreme security measures to protect himself from harm, he must
not be as certain as he pretends to be that God is at his side. He
must not be as sure as his general Jerry Boykin is that “my God is
bigger than your God.” That his God is more powerful than the “God”
that is guarding whoever sets himself against Bush. He must not
believe his God is very big at all.
Besides being a coward, as he
proved by his refusal to put himself in any risk of going to Vietnam
and facing combat in spite of the fact he believed in that war, Bush
and the right wing “Christian” Republicans who surround him,
continually prove in countless ways both big and small that they are
actually men of little faith in the God they so ardently
profess. They are the most dishonest and hypocritical politicians
in my memory. Our “values” president is not even demanding his
daughters get someone other than the obscene rocker “Kid Rock” whose
most common word in his songs is the “f” word, and whose lyrics are
all about sexually using every girl he comes across, and then
"doing: her mother, to headline their inaugural party.
Day after day Bush and his
"Christian" cronies prove the gods in which they put their real
faith and trust are the age old and universal gods of money, guns
and power.
Information for this article
was obtained from Wednesday, Jan. 12ths "Democracy Now" broadcast
and from "Unprecedented' Security planned for inauguration" by David
Johnston, Michael Janofsky, New York Times, accessed in the San
Francisco Gate.
Bio: Lonna VanHorn is a mother of six and a grandmother.
Apolitical until George W. Bush came on the scene and she recognized
his special evil, she now spends her life trying to expose the truth
about him, a truth which the main stream media seems largely to
ignore. Knowing many good Christians, she is especially offended
that such a selfish, greedy, dishonest man who cares nothing for the
the truth or the poor, and who has no interest in peace, someone, in
fact, who goes against almost every admonition Christ demanded of
His followers, is painted as being a godly man.
Born and raised on a small farm in Minnesota, she now lives in New
Mexico with her husband, a veteran who spent 18 months in Vietnam.
Additional articles by Lonna can be accessed in the opednews
archives
http://www.opednews.com/archivesgoodenVanHornLonna.htm and at
other sites on the net.
