Monday, July 07, 2008

Bush: Three Generations of Betrayal and High Treason

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

When every other remedy is repressed, quashed or made illegal, guerrilla tactics are all we have left! Thomas Jefferson said that guerrilla tactics are justified in cases of tyranny. We have a 'right', Jefferson said, to 'abolish' a government that has become, like that of Bush, tyrannical. The revolutionary spirit of Jefferson was with those who protested Bush at Monticello! The spirit of Jefferson is 'anti-Bush'.

A defender of Bush's shameful and smirk-filled presence at Monticello said that 'fighting words' are not protected speech. Yet --our Declaration of Independence itself was made of 'fighting words'. King George III thought so. Bush himself resorted to 'fighting words' to rally a stunned populace into supporting his wars of aggression and other war crimes. 'Bring it on', he said! A fat lot of good his fighting words have done us!
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."

--H. L. Mencken
Bush has been more successful at suppressing dissent at home and than he has been at fighting real 'terrorists' abroad. Armed with an Orwellian 'Patriot Act', Bush need only 'deem' you a 'terrorist' and you can be incarcerated in a hell-hole in violation of every principle put forward by real statesmen like Thomas Jefferson or James Madison. Bluntly -- you are living under the absolute rule of a tyrant! Thomas Jefferson would have supported efforts to remove Bush and would most certainly be called 'radical' or 'liberal' or even 'conspiracy theorist' if he were alive today.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness"

--Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
Che Guevara said essentially the same thing in his classic treatise on guerrilla warfare.
"When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken."

--Che Guevara, Chapter I: General Principles of Guerrilla Warfare
Che might have been prescient. Certainly --the 'forces of oppression' maintain themselves in power 'against established law'. In fact, Bush has personally ordered the illegal and treasonous dismantling of 'established' Constitutional law, which he dismissed with a smirk: "The Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper"! Bush broke the law, subverted the law, ordered the law changed to suit him, and re-written the law --on the fly --with signing statements. He has ordered his attorneys to render opinions that tell him what he wants to hear, i.e, that the crimes he's already committed are made legal after he had already committed them. Many of those broken laws are found in the supreme law of the land --the Constitution.

Altering or abolishing this government is precisely what 'we' have in mind. It is precisely what had been foreseen by the founders and by the man who occupied Monticello.

David Hume wrote:
"When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded, and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments as well as to the most free and most popular."

--David Hume, Of the First Principles of Government
Bush has taken to new heights nefarious efforts to shut up his opposition. Due to right wing policies and media consolidation throughout the regimes of Reagan and Bush Sr, the media is but a right wing echo chamber. No one can, therefore, reasonably deny a voice to folk for whom Thomas Jefferson's Monticello is symbolic of free speech and a revolution in support of it!

Bush may have been within the letter of the law to quash 'free speech' at Monticello, but to do so on Jefferson's soil, is a poke in the eye! The downside for Bush is that it tips his hand. It betrays his anti-Jefferson mindset, his anti-Democratic, dictatorial, fascist bent.

It was Mr. Bumble in Dicken's David Copperfield who said "If that is the law, sir, then the law is a ass!" I'm with Jefferson, Che, Hume, and Mr. Bumble. I say RIGHT ON to the protesters! What passes for law under Bush is --indeed --'a ass'! I denounce the war criminal Bush for having soiled the ground Jefferson walked on. I accuse Bush of war crimes, high treason, graft, and other capital crimes as stated succinctly in US Codes, Title 18, Section 2441 --significantly the very portion that Bush has worked so assiduously to rewrite but only after he had already earned himself a death penalty upon conviction.

If the US is to survive, the people must restore the rule of law. Clearly --the rule of law will never be restored as long as Bush occupies the White House. Clearly --the rule of law will forever be subverted if exceptions are made for Bush! The rule of law will never be restored as long as Bush is allowed to make it all up as he goes along, ruling by decrees called 'signing statement', an unconstitutional procedure, perhaps a crime in context. There is absolutely no authorization for this Bush 'invention' to be found anywhere in the US Constitution, just as there is absolutely no Constitutional basis whatsoever for 'executive privilege'.

Over the years, I met and interviewed numerous famous folk --politicians, some world leaders, including Ehud Olmert, Bush Sr, Ronald Reagan, Deng Xio Peng, Nelson Rockefeller, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, et al. My interviews with Ford, Bush and Reagan always left me quietly alarmed. I can best describe these personalities with words Ada Louise Huxtable used to describe Los Angeles: 'there is no there, there!' I often left an interview feeling like the character so memorably portrayed by Kevin McCarthy in the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Bush Sr in particular left me fighting the urge to run into the streets shouting: "Look, you fools. You're in danger. Can't you see? They're after you. They're after all of us. Our wives, our children, everyone. They're here already. YOU'RE NEXT!!


Bush's Grandfather --Prescott Bush --commits treason

It has become clear that Bush family efforts to create a fascist dictatorship in America did not end with Prescott Bush. Nor did it merely resume with Bush Jr, the lesser Shrub. The Senior Bush's efforts in China must be re-examined! I have always suspected that the Chinese outsmarted the idiots of the Bush clan. At the time of Nixon's visit, the US still had a car industry, still had steel industry, still had an electronics industry! People had real jobs. And there were no Wal-Marts!

Bush Sr went to China in advance of Nixon's famous visit. Back in the USA, the Senior Bush, in a meeting room of the downtown Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston, TX, told me that he ate 'aromatic meats' ['Lip of the dog'] at a diplomatic dinner in the Forbidden City in Beijing. [It was much later --1992 -- that Bush actually vomitted at an official dinner, perhaps on the Prime Minister of Japan] What Bush would not tell me were the details of the Faustian bargain that he set up in China, the 'deal' that was later agreed to by Nixon and his criminal counterparts inside the Chinese regime. Bush Sr's flat, slightly nasal monotone was enough to give you chills --especially when he talked of the New World Order!

The decline and fall of the US economy can be traced to Bush Sr's trip to China where the Senior Bush laid the groundwork for Nixon's 'operatic' visit there. It was a sell-out, a Faustian bargain, a betrayal of American labor. Later, Carter was reviled but he had but four years to plug the hole in the dike! Ronald Reagan's regime must be remembered as years of 'decline and fall', specifically the decline of US manufacturing and the fall of the American labor movement.

In his 'Decline and Fall of the American Empire, Gore Vidal dates America's demise to that date in the 1980s when the US became a net debtor nation. It is no coincidence that US currency has declined vis a vis the Yuan ever since. As the years pass, as the American sun has set and that of China rises, I am increasingly curious about what Bush Sr discussed (other than eating dog meat) with his Chinese hosts over dinner in the Forbidden City.

I've always wanted to know what deals were cut! What were the specific clauses with which the Bush crime family --in service to Richard Nixon --betrayed the people of America!


Bush Pukes and Dana Carvey (?) Does an Impressive Impression


16 comments:

Grung_e_Gene said...

Every Government's job is to quell and control their own populace. Rulers have realized they have more in common with other Rulers than with their "own" people.

The House of Bushes and the House of Saud are merely the latest to be in metaphorical bed together, using the spectre of the outside enemy to destroy dissent at home and control the populace.

Popular revolt is probably impossible in America today. The Coming Revolt of the Guards is still far off.

I enjoy your essays.

Anonymous said...

Hey Len,

I read your article "Bush: Three Generations of Betrayal and High Treason".

It was a good article. You stated firmly what was needed to restore the rule of law. I concur.

You stated: "If the US is to survive, the people must restore the rule of law. Clearly --the rule of law will never be restored as long as Bush occupies the White House. Clearly --the rule of law will forever be subverted if exceptions are made for Bush! The rule of law will never be restored as long as Bush is allowed to make it all up as he goes along, ruling by decrees called 'signing statement', an unconstitutional procedure, perhaps a crime in context. There is absolutely no authorization for this Bush 'invention' to be found anywhere in the US Constitution, just as there is absolutely no Constitutional basis whatsoever for 'executive privilege'."

My question is: How do we restore the rule of law?

If you remember, John Conyers wrote a book titled "What went Wrong In Ohio" when he was in the minority. Conyers held non-binding impeachment hearings of George W. and his ilk in the basement of the Federal Building yet, when Conyers gets in the majority, impeachment is off the table.

How do we force these Republican wanna-bees, namely Pelosi, Conyers, and Obama to restore the rule of law?

These Democrats are scaring me as much as the Republicans.

Troubled Texan

Unknown said...

Grung_e_Gene said...

Popular revolt is probably impossible in America today. The Coming Revolt of the Guards is still far off.


The people had best find a way to wage revolution and quick! The alternative is slavery. The FEMA camps were not constructed as resorts.

Troubled Texan said...

How do we restore the rule of law? Conyers held non-binding impeachment hearings of George W. and his ilk in the basement of the Federal Building yet, when Conyers gets in the majority, impeachment is off the table.

The Democrats, I am sure, were threatened with death after 911. Tom Daschle --as you may recall --got Anthrax letters and even the History Channel conceded the Anthrax letters were an inside job! The strain came from the Ames lab, as I recall. It was government work! Bush work!

Nothing can be done until the vast majority of people understand the situation: THERE IS NO RULE OF LAW IN AMERICA TODAY. Cops have gone wild with tasers and beatings. They have an excuse to beat people up, molest women, knock heads. They like doing that. That's why these sick, sorry fuckers got into police work.

Bush rules by decree! There will NOT be a meaningful election.

Having already achieved the ability to rule by decree, why should Bush leave? Who's gonna make him go?

Che and Jefferson both understood what Americans are still in denial about.

Only a violent revolution will change things! But it is doubtful that such a revolution could succeed without military assistance and --sadly --the US military is in bed with the Contractors.

A massive national strike in which 60 percent or more of the population just DOES NOTHING, BUYS NOTHING, SPENDS NO MONEY for a period of one week, might get some attention.

Sadly, however, the people don't have the reserves to last long without jobs.

As George Carlin would put it:

THEY GOTCHA BY THE BALLS!

DEATH TO CORPORATIONS!

Marc McDonald said...

Smirky touted our nation's "freedom of speech" as the security guards were hauling away protesters trying to practice their freedom of speech during the Monticello event.
And speaking of freedom of speech, how about Joseph Wilson's freedom of speech? He tried to inform the American people that Bush's case for war in Iraq was a pack of lies.
In return, his wife, Valerie Plame was treasonously outed as a covert CIA agent, which destroyed her career---and no doubt put the lives of other agents in the field in jeopardy.

"Have I mentioned tonight how much I hate these people?"
---Mike Malloy

Unknown said...

Marc McDonald said...

Valerie Plame was treasonously outed as a covert CIA agent, which destroyed her career---and no doubt put the lives of other agents in the field in jeopardy.

We will never know just how much damage was, in fact, done by this single act of HIGH TREASON!

If I thought it would change things, I would volunteer to serve as a gopher for whomever prosecutes Bush for capital crimes. I would work for free.

Anyone in the US NOT outraged by Bush is a part of the problem! Anyone NOT outraged by Bush is a fuckin' traitor!

Of the many fuck ups that make up the pressent US, the Orwellian re-write of history, the complicity of the MSM are among the most egregious! It is a tragic testament to the failure of the US educational system that about half the populace, some of whom oppose Bush, have still NOT grasped the magnitude, the scale and scope of this coup d'etat!

I have written about as much as I can write! Even so --I won't reach in a month or even a year what FOX brainwashes in a single evening! How does one stem the dimming tide?

I will never give up, however! Even Rome fell. I am just ornery enough to know that I will live to see Bush pay THE price for his many crimes against humanity, the rule of law, indeed, civilization itself!

We MUST win! There is no other alternative but death. And I am not planning to check out anytime soon.

When Bush is frog marched out onto the scaffold, I will be there --a witness to the ultimate triumph of civilization itself.

"Have I mentioned tonight how much I hate these people?"

---Mike Malloy


Love is a better, more noble emotion. But 'hate' has survival value!

And I plan to survive Bush!

Anonymous said...

Barbara Bush may have been the daughter of satanist and pervert Aleister Crowley. Barbara's mother, Pauline Pierce, was almost certainly sexually involved with Crowley. Even though you are dismissive of most religion, Len, the Buddhists, Confucianists and Hindus are in total agreement that there is such a force as Karma and that evil begets evil. These people are evil, no matter how you look at it.

Unknown said...

damien said...

Barbara Bush may have been the daughter of satanist and pervert Aleister Crowley.

I've read something about that and it may be true. She certainly looks like Crowley. Crowley was, indeed, a nasty piece of work.

Here's a link to a pic of Crowley. Barbara Bush looks just like him.

I seemed always to be 'bumping' into Bush here and there. Once --at a GOP 'reception' --an extremely attractive but naive young woman spotted Barbara Bush and asked me: "Is that his mother?"

A smart ass in those days, I answered: "YES!!! And he sleeps with her, too!!"

She was aghast! I relented: "No....I was just kidding."

Barbara's mother, Pauline Pierce, was almost certainly sexually involved with Crowley. Even though you are dismissive of most religion, Len, the Buddhists, Confucianists and Hindus are in total agreement that there is such a force as Karma and that evil begets evil. These people are evil, no matter how you look at it.

The operative word is 'most' religion. Certainly --'religion' as it is practiced (or should I say 'perpetrated') by America's fundamentalist right wing must be judged by its 'fruits'. And by that standard (their own, by the way) it is ROTTEN!

I believe in Karma, Damien, having read a variety of literature while practicing Yoga. There is even a basis, I believe, for 'Karma' in physics. But I will spare you my speculations. Indeed, the Bush clan epitomize every definition of 'evil' --legal and secular as well as 'religious or spiritual'. If virtue is its own reward, then we may be justified in assuming that the Bush clan are as a group and individually miserable sods!

I also find it impossible to believe that an entire world victimized by a single family will put up with it.

Anonymous said...

I never believed you held superficial views on religion -- or anything -- Len. Your previous references to Zen Buddhism suggest considered views by you on consciousness and ethics. Cheap religion is like cheap wine, it always gives a headache. Press on with the holy crusade to rid the world of all things Bush!

Unknown said...

Cheap religion is like cheap wine, it always gives a headache.

That's priceless, damien. If I quote you, I will attribute. I am reminded of all those Elmer Gantry types in Texas who find 'Jay-sus' at the bottom of a bottle. The images summoned up remind one of Neil Diamond's "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show". I owe my skepticism of packaged religion to these folks. In my case, their efforts were counter-productive.

Press on with the holy crusade to rid the world of all things Bush!

Thanks : ) I learned enough about Christian fundamentalism to recognize 'The' Beast when I see him.

Jung and Joseph Campbell, I think, were very close to pinning it all down. 'Religion', I think, are manifestations of 'archetypes' but papered over with socially acquired rationalizations. Many creation myths begin with 'man' emerging from primordial oceans, just as modern biology traces our origins to the sea. One of my favorite paintings is Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus', a painting that I have been fortunate enough to have viewed for quite a long and contemplative time in the Ufizzi. It is an image of woman, one who gives birth, a life-giver, emerging, radiant, windblown from the sea.

The poet Stephen Spender wrote a self-analytical essay entitled 'The Birth of a Poem'. In the poem, Bath of Aphrodite, Spender reverses the image, depicting woman returning to the waves.

What birds are those that ride the rising seas?
Slow shorelong pelicans
Fanned by the shoreward green

Her thighs curved like the Venus's-shell submerge,
She wades into deep waves, her body drowns
Up to the lifted breasts and lifting arms;
Foam floats the tendrils of her tightening curls.

What birds are these that fall with never a swerve?
Far waves where morning burns,
Terns shatter into glass.

Now the rich moment, as she leans and swims
Folded into a hissing slope of foam:
The sear receives the shape that once it gave:
Her gold and roses to its dazzle of waves,
The shadow of all her secrets to its shade.

Anonymous said...

Personally, I find many religious beliefs appealing and some of them socially useful. I am intrigued by reincarnation suspecting that it may have some basis in reality. Just by way of speculation it's possible that actions and emotions might exist as subtle energies and, like diluted radio waves, might persist after death and be "received" by newborn infants. Certainly, in some hindu and tibetan buddhist beliefs an evolution in consciousness takes place upon the first breath of a new born and, according to these theories, the reincarnated human soul enters the body at this time. I have no idea if this is true but I don't rule it out. Of course, one should not build one's life around such idle speculation.

The two big bugbears of bad religion:

(a) Morality, rather than a deeply considered affirmation of one's own mortality and a desire to enoble oneself, appears as a bludgeon to beat others around the head. I can think of nothing worse than people with these views foisting themselves on others (eg hating homosexuals).

(b) Women are hated in most religions. There is no escaping it. They are seen at worst as the source of all evil giving rise to miserable "honor killings" by emotional arsehole males. At best, they are seen as "inferior beings" who can never aspire to higher consciousness. Most religions are beset by this lunacy, proof positive of their essential intellectual bankruptcy on this key issue. Your reference to Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' and to Spender's sensitive essay both touch on this point. As long as women are not only disrespected but hated for the pleasure they bring to men, for their laughter, their intellects and their being, as long as they are denied an integral and equal place as men, religious belief systems will continue to be worthless.

Thanks for the Spender. Cheers.

Anonymous said...

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/317.html

" THE ECONOMIC HITMAN ",
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'Everything of value (beauty) is defenceless' (Dutch Poët)
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The first priority in life for the mighty and the rich is;

"TO POSSESS" everything of value,

They crave to own, to possess the beauty, all beauty, be it in marble or gold or in paint or in anything else beautifull they lay theyr greedy eyes upon.

Beauty-Value created and crafted by people, be it by a painter or a sculpturist or a musician a poët, a writer a carpenter an automechanic, you name it, is defenceless the moment it is created.

The mighty and the rich know this and because they're mighty and rich and cannot create anything of beauty/value themselves, like theyr ancestors in prehistoric times the alpha primates, who wanted to possess, to have possession of the most and the best foods, to possess the most females, they use force they steal and plunder or buy with the money (wich is an abstract mode of force and power)wich they claim they have created.

The last shall be the first, we're on the verge of a total collapse of the evolutionairy primate like hiërargical culture indoctrination. Life, Human Life, is not about primate-like possession, it's about learning to be human, to create and evolve our lives with a sense and craving of beauty and value that cannot be 'possessed' by the mighty and the rich, for they do not comprehend nor want to comprehend that the future of humanity, the progress from a evolutionairy primate into an evolving human-beïng lays in the 'secret' of creating beauty/value while doïng just that, its in the proces, during the proces of creation in the working on and towards a creation, that the humanity of a human-beïng grows, its in the proces, in the work that he or she reaches towards created beauty and value as a human-beïng. And when this is done, when this creation of a painting or sculpture or music or writing or cabinet or automobile is finished, when its beauty/value is clear and shining to be admired, then the artist, the creator go's on with his/her life, for he/she who knows, who experiënced his/her creative abilities also knows that 'possession' to possess, is a deadtrap, an end with no means.

And the times they are a changing (Bob Dylan)

Linda-Sama said...

here's one for ya, Len....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lyaMrS0hzk

Unknown said...

That's a good one, Linda! Another snapshot of the American police state under Bush, der Fuhrer!

I wonder --what was the date of the repeal of Freedom of Speech? Was it when Bush stole the election of 2000 ---or was it later on 911, Bush's Reichstag Fire?

We simply must pull together as a nation to bring Bush to trial for his capital crimes!

When he's found guilty and sentenced, the nation must then RESTORE the Constitution.

Otherwise, nothing will have been gained if the MIC merely sticks us with another 'ringer'.

Anonymous posted...

The first priority in life for the mighty and the rich is TO POSSESS everything of value,


Henry Miller speculated that at some point in human evolution, we might experience a 'quantum leap' in human consciousness --a time when life itself would become art.

I might have believed that possible at one time. Lately, we seem closer to devolving. The 'quantum leap' into a higher consciousness seems to have receded beyond the horizon.

Anonymous said...

Another wonderful article encompassing numerous areas of Orwellian outrage.

And, another related video response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpFivgfo4qc

Thanks for all your efforts, Len ~

Anonymous said...

Speaking of alien reptiles :
A friend in Arlington, Va. told
me that over the years she had
attended numerous social functions
at the White House, meeting several
of the First Ladies.She told me the one actually scared her was
Hillary Clinton. The way she described it,while the lights and
cameras were on her, Clinton's
personna was the one we have come
to know on TV. But when the cameras
shut off, Hillary's countenance,
and her eyes went so cold, my
friend said the hair stood up on the back of her neck.As in Not-of-
this-Earth scary.
It's an interesting observation,
to what degree an individual is
willing to expand their conciousness; how far they will go
in their personal suspension-of-disbelief.In Astrology, Saturn
symbolises control, caution,
limitation,etc., but still these
matters remain an individual
proposition. For instance, even if
Dick Cheney stood up tomorrow and
said,"Yea, I did it"(which he
virtually has), X number of people
will NEVER accept 9/11/2001 was an
inside job, a false flag attack on
America by the elected Executive
branch of the United States government. Their psyches are
restricted (emotionally?) to render
them unable to conceive of such a
thing. I am also aware of the very
real trauma-based mind-control
aspects of 9/11/2001, and the
constant reinforcement, for the past seven years,of the suggestions
(program) thereof.Truth by degrees."Do you believe everything you read(smirk)?"---"No, you idiot,
I don't believe eveything I read,
but I am willing to consider SOME
of the things I read. I have always
been an outsider, so that probably
makes it easier for me, that and
certain organic substances that
facilitate an open mind,however
temporarily. Perhaps you have seen
the You Tube video of Bush the Elder, when he and Clinton were
shilling for a disaster relief
appeal on TV ("Just send money,that
helps the most...")Did you see HIS
EYES?! My God,were those really HIS
EYES?! Somebody, tell me it was a
fake, that somebody doctored that
video! Because if those really were
HIS EYES.....
And what of these stories and rumours about Dulce, New Mexico ?

Anonymous said...

The above response from:

Jack D.