What we are witnessing now is an assassination without the blood. As in 1963, we are seeing the blatant usurpation of the presidency by the fascist powers that have controlled the country behind an ever growing, omnipresent media smokescreen ever since the execution of President Kennedy in Dealey Plaza.
This time the murder weapons are not rifles but voter fraud and judicial corruption at the highest level, as demonstrated by the US Supreme Court's announcement yesterday that it, in the person of five judges, will decide (tomorrow) who becomes president, and not the people who voted in Florida on Nov. 7. There is no longer any doubt what the outcome will be.
The US Supreme Court is playing essentially the same role now as it did in 1964, when Chief Justice Earl Warren produced a fairy tale known as the Warren Report that the majority of the American people have always known is a pack of lies. It is now sanctioning, as the highest authority, the virtual appointment of the president, against the express will of the people.
This may be a bloodless coup (so far, anyway), but it is no less significant, and even more transparent (if that is possible), than the events in Dealey Plaza that put the war president, LBJ, in office in 1963. Whatever the wording of the Court's opinion, it will decide for Bush and he will become president. The message to the people is clear, perhaps even clearer than it was in 1963: "We've got you by the balls. The fundamental principle of the state is not democracy; if it were, the votes in Florida would be counted. L'à ©tat, c'est moi." This is not a fairy tale à la Lee Harvey Oswald, but a clear statement of principle. We know where they stand, and thus we know where we stand.
The power axis is clearer, too. We need not speculate about the "conservative" forces in 1963 who feared a "Kennedy dynasty," and made doubly sure of preventing it by murdering brother Robert in 1968, and who now have achieved precisely that imperial wish with their own anointed family, the Bushes. (The first erroneous announcement of Bush as the winner on election night came from the Fox News Channel desk of John Ellis, a first cousin of George and Jeb.) The Bushes' alliance with the CIA, George Sr. having been the first former CIA director (if anybody can be "former" CIA) to occupy the White House, is in perfect contrast to the Kennedys' distrust and hatred of them (John having vowed at one time to "smash them into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the wind").
We've come a long way, baby. And where are we? The blood will come, as it did in Vietnam. I don't think George W. is being foisted upon us in this overtly fascistic manner for nothing. We will pay the price for our complacency if we let it stand, which I am afraid we will. Led by the fully complacent and thus complicit television (and other) media, we will listen to the interminable bla-bla from the talking heads until we can't stand it anymore and shut the damn thing off. The fundamental principle of democracy, the right to vote and have our votes counted, will have been blatantly violated by the highest authority in the land, which means the last vestiges of democracy are gone, and we will have accepted it. We should not be surprised when the Brown Shirts and the Gestapo re-appear.
[I included this as a postscript to my book Looking for the Enemy.]
