By Jim Oberg
As many public revelations pile up against
this regime, further exposing their criminal and despotic nature, they are
arrogantly going forward with their claimed âmandate’ with little consideration
of these impacts. Even the recent
exposure of their widespread spying on American citizens without the securing
of warrants, a clear violation of the 1978 FISA Act, is dismissed with a claim
that our âwartime’ president is above the law.
Those who recognize the outrageous nature of their actions, and observe
the growing decline in public support for their leadership, sense that a swing
in the public’s perception will surely coalesce as the midterm elections
approach, and the electorate will firmly repudiate their party, leading to a
halt in their march against our constitutional guarantees. We who fervently oppose this regime’s
radical attempt to secure total control must recognize that this is not going
to happen anytime soon, and aggressively share this reality with others so they
might come to realize how seriously threatened we all are by these power-mad
zealots.
This assertion that a pendulum swing in
public opinion away from their agenda won’t stop them seems contrary to
historical experience, as we have seen the rise and fall of other ideologies
and regimes in history, as well as cyclical shifts in our political parties’
fortunes. Those in power have often
tended to overreach in their attempts to cement their advantage with the public
when their power was at its peak, and saw their dreams of total victory for
their agenda crumble before their own hubris.
As we look at the current moment in history, it appears we are on the
cusp of a similar collapse of this regime’s extreme agenda, as their outrageous
actions seem destined to turn our shocked and shamed citizenry firmly against
them. Why is it any different this
time?
It is important to recognize that this
regime has secured several weapons against the forces of public opinion that have
not been in place before, and we need to identify and acknowledge these now,
lest we yield to the comforting belief that their day is soon drawing to a
close. Until we truly recognize the
desperate circumstances that face America and the world now, we cannot embrace
the extreme actions necessary to defeat them.
As Harold Pinter, the Nobel Laureate writer says, this regime is even
more dangerous to the world than Nazi Germany was in the 30’s. It is that sense of dread that we must
embrace if we are to find the resolve within ourselves to engage in the
challenge to oppose this regime and all it stands for.
One fundamental new reality we must embrace
is the total control they now have over our election machinery, and therefore
all election results at the national level in America. Using their majority in Congress, they have
now succeeded in installing un-auditable voting and vote-counting machines
across the country, manufactured and programmed by their supporters, which are
vulnerable to outside manipulation.
Nearly any election now is possible for them to ‘win’ with the help of
one person sitting behind a computer somewhere. Our opposition party now is only permitted to exist as a
permanent minority simply to maintain the illusion of democracy in America. We are now a de-facto one party system,
which the Democrats appear to recognize, and therefore moderate their
opposition so they can retain the few seats they have been permitted to keep.
This guarantee of a permanent majority
government has brought about a new arrogance and determination by those in
power to use this illegitimate, unaccountable and total power to impose
conditions on our system that will ensure that their agenda going forward will
face little serious opposition. Nearly
all of our important agencies and regulatory institutions now have had
dependable cronies installed at their head.
The one branch of government that now offers any resistance to total
tyrannical rule is our judicial system, where the longevity of appointments
still has left some pockets of resistance to their goals. As new appointments to the courts, including
our Supreme Court, accumulate with their extended reign, soon this branch also
will be totally within their confident control as well.
With their unchecked power, they have
successfully redirected the resources of our nation into the massive buildup of
a military juggernaut that is now aimed at securing total control over the
world. In concert with the corporate
giants who benefit from this control, they are now in the process of securing
control over the energy-rich middle eastern region to largely complete the
network of forward bases that position them to dominate the geopolitical
sphere. While it appears on the surface
that the present action in Iraq is failing, in fact the chaos there has
guaranteed our military presence as they complete the building of permanent
bases, and prepare the platform for their further advances into Iran and Syria,
and eventually into Saudi Arabia.
Control of the world’s remaining energy resources will then give them
unassailable domination over the economies of every other country, and prevent
any serious challenges to their imperialistic objectives and unchallenged rule.
As we look ahead, the prospects for those
who oppose this regime look bleak indeed.
Given their proven capacity to stand above the law, and to use any
method possible to suppress opposition to their rule, we can expect the actions
taken against dissent to accelerate as our anger erupts at their grab for total
power, especially if their present outrageous claims to stand above the law are
not forcefully challenged by an irate public.
We stand on the threshold of seeing a tyrannical fascist dictatorship
established in America soon if we do not find the courage to stop this now.
There is now only one force in the world
capable of providing a serious challenge to this apparently unstoppable march
against the rule of law, freedom and democratic participation in the
world. That force resides in the
citizenry of America. Only a massive
peaceful public uprising of we, the people, empowered by our growing awareness
and outrage at this illegitimate takeover of our country, and the destruction
of our constitution and Bill of Rights, can stop this now. Until we awaken from the slumber brought
upon us by their propaganda beamed to us by our corporate media, and awaken to
the disaster befalling us, we will continue our willingly participation in this
tyrannical rule over us, which ultimately will lead to our material and moral
ruin.
The world can’t wait any longer for this
regime to fall due to some general swing of the pendulum of democratic
opinion. The usual mechanisms that
allow for we, the people, to hold our government accountable for their misrule
have been taken from us. It is now up
to us, by actually coming into the streets to declare our refusal to accept
this outrageous situation, to bring this message to every citizen loudly and
clearly. This regime must go, and it is
our responsibility to make it possible.
Join with me, with your friends
and your neighbors, and come to the streets as Bush presents his State of the
Union address on January 31st, offering us more of their failed and
destructive agenda, and together let us declare that, instead, we face a State
of Emergency in America, and demand loudly that BUSH, STEP DOWN, AND TAKE YOUR
WHOLE PROGRAM WITH YOU!
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Jim
Oberg is a retired Engineer who lives in Wilsonville, OR, with his wife and two
cats, and is volunteering with the World Can’t Wait movement to help mobilize a
public response to the terrible abuses of this regime. He can be reached at worldcantwait2005@yahoo.com.
(For
more information about the actions taking place around the State of the Union
address and how you can assist with this effort, go to the worldcantwait.org
website.)