For eight years now weapons of mass distraction have been rolled out like tanks in an attempt to derail and redirect the people’s righteous anger at the Bush Program. Protecting the putatively sacrosanct principles of the rule of law and reason has been deemed only worth upholding in words, while the rule of law and science have been slaughtered at the alter of imperial(ist) interests.
Obama’s campaign in particular, and the 2007/2008 presidential campaign in general, the longest and most expensive race in history, were premised on an effort to distract the nation from and block from happening what absolutely had to be done and what a majority of the people has for so long and still today demands: impeachment and prosecution of the Bush Regime as war criminals, miscreants, corrupt to the marrow scoundrels, world class liars, and tyrants.
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The Janus Face of the SystemJanus in Roman mythology was the god of beginnings and endings, the guardian of the gate who could see backwards and forwards.
Janus-faced also has another, more sinister meaning: being two-faced, that is, hypocritical. Which one of the Januses is more apropos here?
Obama has made his career on his adroit and carefully crafted phrases and skillful presentation of self. He could not have become the chosen one for powerful interests without being a safe bet for their interests. He would not have been featured as a viable candidate by mainstream media and backed by Democratic Party leaders if he were not solidly within the acceptable parameters as A Defender of the Empire. By saying that his orientation is “moving forward,” he is operating in the same tradition of Bill Clinton, Bush Sr., and Ford: pardon the perpetrators of grand crimes, or at least, don’t investigate them and certainly don’t prosecute them. This tradition of covering up massive crimes goes back to even the highly regarded FDR. During his presidency a fascist coup was planned by major industrialists, including Prescott Bush, George W. Bush’s grandfather.
As Professor Alan Nasser points out in “The Threat of US Fascism: An Historical Precedent:”
“The [1934] Congressional committee had discovered that some of the foremost members of the economic elite, many of them household names at the time, had indeed hatched a meticulously detailed and massively funded plot to effect a fascist coup in America. The owners of Bird’s Eye, Maxwell House and Heinz, among others, totaling about twenty four major businessmen and Wall Street financiers, planned to assemble a private army of half a million men, composed largely of unemployed veterans. These troops would both constitute the armed force behind the coup and defeat any resistance this in-house revolution might generate. The economic elite would provide the material resources required to sustain the new government.
“The plotters … were appalled at Roosevelt’s willingness after 1933 to initiate economic policies that economists and businessmen considered dangerously Leftist departures from economic orthodoxy. Only a fascist-style government, they thought, could enforce the kind of economic ‘discipline’ that would reverse the Great Depression and restore profits.
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