Reply #45: the coup occured in 2000 [View All]

it was a "soft" coup- no military used, just a brother and his whore who disenfranchised tens of thousands of people who mostly vote democratically.

when this was not sufficient, five supreme court "justices" made what they called a ONE TIME RULING which installed the Bush junta.

With 9-11, the Bush junta pulled out the already existing USA "Patriot" Act and when Congress didn't want to go along, two dems were sent anthrax, Congress was kept up late into the night and I wonder if anyone read the whole thing before it passed.

They already had the plan to attack Iraq in place as well. Again, so coincidental that 9-11 gave them a "new Pearl Harbor" to enact their Machiavellian schemes.

Since then, whenever Bush pushes the buttons of the American public with orange warnings which coincidentally, occur at the same time he wants the right wing repukes to gain control of both legislative branches, as well as the executive and the judiciary.

in the meantime, Bush accrues more and more power to the executive branch at the expense of the legislative. pre-emptive war allows him to attack Iraq, in violation of the Nuremberg principles our country helped to write.

Rummy and his and Wolfowitz's Office of Special Projects cooks intelligence to justify an invasion of Iraq, over the protests of State dept. and military and other intelligence, ambassadors...

they don't care. they are gonna get their war on.

Rummy forces out a general who tells the truth about the amount of forces and time needed to invade Iraq. Rummy is an idiot who believes his own press.

but Rummy is part of the cabal, and the one thing they know how to do is exercise raw power. So now Rummy is "downsizing" the military and putting in the people who will agree with his looney intelligence assessments.

Dr. Strangelove, anyone?

So, this firing is not a coup.

the coup against Chavez failed because someone warned him and he stationed 200 troops in the presidential palace, left the place, and called to let the coup plotters know they were about to be toast if they didn't leave. they left.

I have been contacting my reps since the 2000 coup. for the first time in my life I got out to protest a war before we attacked. They don't give a damn what I think.

I've written letters which were published in my local paper...one, on the anniversary of 9-11 mentioned that the Saudis, not Saddam, were allied with Al Q, as was/is Bush. I called for Bush to resign.

apparently 14 million people around the world are not signficant to the Bush junta...not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Americans alone.

What am I supposed to do against this abuse of power, then?

vote and hope that diebold doesn't count too many votes in this country?

What are our elected representatives in Washington to do? What are they there for? I thought they were supposed to be the defense against tyranny, via upholding the Constitution.

I thought this was a representative democracy, even with the abuses.

Obviously I was wrong.