What if you were offered $500 MILLION to join them? [View All]

Maybe not that much...maybe 10 million for some of you...perhaps more even into the BILLIONS for others? And all you had to do is be a good team player? Look at your life. Think about all you could do for your family, where you could live, all you could buy. Think about how distant some of the concerns you have now would become. Don't answer quickly. Think about it. Would you be true to your political ideas in the face of almost infinate wealth? Then look around yourself and ask yourself how the people around you would answer when confronted with that sort of temptation.

And do it because it is understanding the answer to this that helps us understand the enemy we face. Bush and his cronies don't do what they do for the sake of some abstract philosophical exercise (though they use straussian thoughts to justify it). They do it for a very simple reason. IT MAKES THEM GROTESQUELY RICH AND POWERFUL. And our alternative strips them of these things.

So don't expect them to have a change of heart or to come along meakly if we kick the legs out from under them on this one (or any of the future ones). They are going to claw and kick and bite and cling to that golden key of infinite wealth and power.

Face it, people will practically kill themselves and each other to save $50 bucks on a DVD player at Wal-Mart. We never blink if we hear that some CEO embezzels 3 million here or even 25K there. We are surrounded by it. And if the scale of the profit is any indication of the temptation toward crime...then there is NO greater temptation than to take over this country and loot its treasuries.

Every day these PNAC NEOCON slimebags are confronted with the Subject question. Not in theory...but in reality. They have everything to gain and...if they play it right, very little to lose in a gambit like this. Their parachutes are very large and very golden.

Happy thoughts on temptation. How do you make someone see the risk isn't worth the profit of Billions if we have a system that allows them to pay fines from the profits of the money they steal?