On Nov 29, 12:42 pm, WakeUp Call > wrote:
> America's Day Of
> Reckoning Is At Hand
> By Paul Craig Roberts
> 11-27-7
>
> http://rense.com/general79/reck.htm
>
> Pat Buchanan is too patriotic to come right out and say it, but the
> message of his new book, Day of Reckoning, is that America, as we have
> known her, is finished. Moreover, Naomi Wolf agrees with him. These
> two writers of different political persuasions arrive at America's
> demise from different directions.
>
> Buchanan explains how hubris, ideology, and greed have torn America
> apart. A neoconservative cabal with an alien agenda captured the Bush
> administration and committed American blood, energy, and money to
> aggression against Muslim countries in the Middle East, while
> permitting America's domestic borders to be overrun by immigrants and
> exporting the jobs that had made the US an opportunity society. War
> and offshoring have taken a savage economic toll while open borders
> and diversity have created social and political division.
>
> In her new book, End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot,
> Wolf explains America's demise in terms of the erosion of freedoms.
> She writes that the 10 classic steps that are used to close open
> societies are currently being taken in the US. Martial law is only a
> declaration away.
>
> The Bush administration responded to September 11 by initiating
> military aggression in the Middle East and by using fear and the "war
> on terror" to implement police state measures at home with
> legislation, presidential directives, and executive orders
>
> Overnight the US became a tyranny in which people could be arrested
> and incarcerated on the basis of unsubstantiated accusation. Both US
> citizens and non-citizens were denied habeas corpus, due process, and
> access to attorneys and courts. Congress gave Bush legislation
> establishing military tribunals, the procedures of which permit people
> to be condemned to death on the basis of secret evidence, hearsay, and
> confessions extracted by torture. Nothing of the like has ever been
> seen before in the US.
>
> The cancer might have metastasized if the Guantanamo detainees had
> actually been the dangerous terrorists and enemy combatants that the
> Bush regime declared them to be. Had the administration actually
> possessed evidence against the detainees, the Bush regime might have
> succeeded in dispensing with the Constitution. Conviction of the
> detainees could have led to what Wolf calls a "fascist expansion."
> Following the exercise of its new powers, the regime could have
> broadened the definition of terrorist to include the regime's critics,
> thus pulling citizens in general into tribunals devoid of civil
> liberty protections.
>
> It could still turn out this way in the event of another 9/11 attack,
> whether real or orchestrated. But momentarily the drive toward tyranny
> has been blunted, because the vast majority of detainees turned out to
> be hapless individuals sold into American captivity by warlords
> responding to the bounty the US paid for "terrorists." Any unprotected
> individual was vulnerable to being captured by Afghan and Pakistani
> warlords and sold as a "terrorist." The Americans needed to show
> results, and the Bush regime needed "terrorists" in order to feed the
> fear its propaganda had generated.
>
> In Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany, the absence of evidence would not
> have mattered as the judicial system produced the results demanded by
> the tyrants. However, the US military had not been sufficiently
> corrupted for the Bush regime's Guantanamo agenda to succeed.
> Honorable officers, such as Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, were able to
> discern that the US government had no information on the detainees and
> used interrogations in order to rubber stamp the a priori
> determination that a detainee was a terrorist or enemy combatant.
> Military officers made these revelations known to real courts before
> the tribunal process could establish itself.
>
> CounterPunch writer Andy Worthington's recently published book, The
> Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's
> Illegal Prison, proves that the regime's claim that it had hundreds of
> dangerous terrorists at Guantanamo was just another Bush
> administration lie.
>
> Currently, support for Bush, Cheney, and the neoconservative agenda is
> low. However, Congress, the press, and elections have proven to be
> feeble opponents of the Bush regime's drive toward war and tyranny. It
> remains to be seen whether the regime has sufficient credibility or
> audacity to initiate war with Iran or a false flag attack that would
> revive the fascist expansion of which Naomi Wolf warns.
>
> The Bush administration has been a catastrophe. Its failures are
> unprecedented. Energy prices are at all time highs. The US is deeply
> in debt and dependent on foreign creditors. The dollar has lost 60 per
> cent of its value against other tradable currencies, and its reserve
> currency status, the basis of American power, is in doubt. The US has
> lost millions of middle class jobs which have been replaced with low
> paid domestic service jobs. Except for the very rich, Americans have
> experienced no gains in real income in the 21st century. As the
> ladders of upward mobility are dismantled and the middle class
> struggles and fails, America is left with a few rich and many poor.
> America's reputation and credibility are damaged perhaps beyond
> repair. Congress and the press have enabled the executive branch's
> disregard of the Constitution and civil liberty. The US is mired in
> two lost wars which are pushing Lebanon and nuclear-armed Pakistan
> into deepening political crises.
>
> As Buchanan concludes, "Our day of reckoning is at hand."
>
> Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
> Reagan Administration. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution

America needs something catastrophic to remove the rotting pillars
barely holding up the carcass
of what was at one time, a nation. And out of the chaos our
EuroAmerican
Tribe will recreate a new nation. Dow at 8,500, gas 4.50 a gallon,
riots. Welcome them.

greg

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