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The Fear and Lies Bush Used to Manipulate You -- and how they are un-ravelling on the Bush Crime Family...At Last! |
November is a Referendum on Impeachment of the Bush Crime Family... do
your part to save mankind.... vote out all Republicans ( and if you
have a Republican in Dem clothes -like Lieberman- make sure you spot
him and vote him out too...if the Green will win vote for him... Only
vote for those who will support impeachment) In order to kill the
serpent of corruption that now controls America we must first cut off
the head...
From The Baltimore Sun, 7/5/06:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.fear05jul05,0,35...
The politics of fear, the revenge of hope
By Gordon Adams
WASHINGTON //
The Supreme Court decision about military tribunals for the detainees
in Guantanamo is another step in unraveling the politics of fear that
the Bush administration and the majority in the Congress have
manipulated for the last five years.
It is now time for a politics of hope to emerge.
The manipulation of fear has been the basis for a staggering array of
Bush administration policies and congressional votes.
Fear of terrorists led to the creation of a lugubrious federal
bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security, which spends $30
billion a year but cannot protect the citizens of New Orleans.
Fear of terrorists allowed the administration to create surveillance
programs over our finances and telephone calls, evading constitutional
protections and eroding our civil liberties.
Fear about energy supplies has led to the most damaging long-term
increase in oil prices in our history, a call for drilling in Alaska
and a "flash flood" of inflation, which is only starting to bear down
on the U.S. economy.
Fear of "big government" has led to the dismantling of environmental
protections built up over more than 30 years and the erosion of
international efforts to reverse global warming, putting the entire
planet at risk.
Fear that secular society and culture threaten each individual's choice
of religious practice has been manipulated by the administration and
the congressional majority to create animosity throughout American
society, solely in the service of electoral advantage.
Fear of the "other" fuels a brutal national campaign against millions
of residents of the country who migrated here at great risk, seeking
the kind of opportunities Americans have enjoyed.
Fear of change, especially in Congress, has been used to create hatred
and animosity targeted at gay Americans.
Fear has been used by administration officials to purvey a doctrine of
presidential "wartime" power unconstrained by the Constitution.
Fear is a powerful weapon in politics, but its days are numbered. The
administration and the majority in Congress have tried to arouse us
recently about gay marriage, the flag and the future of democracy in
Iraq. Polling numbers indicate it no longer works.
What we need is a politics of hope to replace the politics of fear.
What is the politics of hope?
That we can grow the economy and protect the environment at the same
time.
That we can protect our patronage and diversify our energy resources
successfully.
That we can welcome the diversity of this nation as one of its greatest
strengths.
That we can protect ourselves against terrorists while retaining our
civil rights.
That we can meet human needs without losing control of public spending.
That we can accept each other as brothers and sisters of the human race
because of our differences, not in spite of them.
That we can responsibly preserve the unborn and ensure private choice
in a reasonable way.
That we can provide adequate health care to the entire nation.
Hope is especially important in the way we engage the world.
Terrorists and proliferators are also moved by fear and hatred.
We must defend against them.
They are also symptoms of an underlying disease - the inequality, the
poverty, the inept, unresponsive governance and the ethnic and
religious hatred - that fuels terrorists and nations living in fear and
insecurity.
This underlying disease is a most important task as we engage the
world.
We need to balance the tools we use to tackle these problems.
The military is a fine but inadequate instrument for dealing with them.
This means strengthening our diplomacy and international assistance.
Above all, it means engaging the world with some humility - the
humility George W. Bush promised but failed to deliver.
Leadership is not "my way or the highway"; that is the course of
isolated unilateralism, rooted in fear.
Leadership is bringing others along - allies, international
organizations and nongovernmental groups, all of which have a stake in
a more hopeful world.
The politics of hope is not a palliative; it will not make the problems
disappear.
It is an attitude - that we and others can tackle these tough issues
and find solutions over time.
The door is open to this kind of politics.
It began to open when the administration and Congress intruded in the
private lives and pain of the Schiavo family tragedy in Florida last
year.
The politics of fear unraveled rapidly when the rhetoric of homeland
security met the ineptitude of the response to Hurricane Katrina.
It seeped away as the propaganda of progress in Iraq and Afghanistan
was exposed by growing uncertainty and insecurity in those countries;
we simply have not delivered what we promised.
The Supreme Court has, in the latest decision, put another nail in the
coffin of fear.
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One of many, hopefully.
Harry
(see all of Harry Hope's excellent posts as they break, put this link
in your browser, use it, this is a search on google groups, on the
author Harry Hope sorted by date... nothing fancy):
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&start=0&scoring=d&enc_author=-nIhFBQAAACtBOUGAhN9cSve8yYdFJBuOPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A&
With history moving so fast these days you might also want to sort
Harry Hope's posts by "relevance" particulary if the lies and
misdirection that we are all being sujected to by the extensive Bush
Crime Family Propagand machine are confusing you. Using the "sort by
relevance" option has a way of letting you take in the big picture.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&start=0&enc_author=-nIhFBQAAACtBOUGAhN9cSve8yYdFJBuOPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A&
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