With whole sections of the military and intelligence bureaucracies in revolt agains the neo-conmen and President Bush it is time to speculate upon what form the putsch that takes hime down will take.
Seymour Hersh writes nothing that is not passed to him from very senior military and intelligence officials. His recent expose of the operations currently ongoing in Iranian territory is only one of many such exercises which cannot and never have come to light without leakage from these senior officials.
And the reason that happens is because the settler mentality -- one familiar from South Africa through Palestine to Zimbabwe infects our majority population. They return bizarre and incompetant nationalists and militarists to high office. This has been consistantly the case since 1968. When the hegemony of white Americans was broken by blacks at home and yellows abroad. There could have been nothing more threatening except the revolt of their wives and daughters . . .
Lyndon Johnson had to be politically liquidated, followed by Richard Nixon in order to end the Vietnam debacle. And in each case leaks to Hersh and other favored reporters played an important part.
Forces within the CIA and the Army likewise leaked much information about Iran/Contra, the massacres in Central America and the coke trade which financed all that stuff to Gary Webb and others.
Some of these bureaucrats, like the rest of us, feel like puking when they see things done in the name of the Republic which would better fit Nazi Germany.
And judging from some of the stories leaking even into the yellow establishment press there are plenty of such dissidents within the carreer levels of the government and the services.
But the real problem is with the delusional fantasies of our electorate. In a very real sense, politicians cannot really get away for very long with telling any lies the people do not want to hear. And yes, two generations of reactionary and nationalistic and militaristic propaganda, the shrinkage of public education and the rise of cult-like protestant sects have all played a role in the debauchery of the electorate. But these things too could not have been seeded into more fertile ground.
The problem is our electorate. Suburbia needs those cars. And those cars need cheap gas. Rural white America has always been and always will be racist as hell, super into guns and prone to holy-roller religion. And all that stuff turns right. As does the Catholic Church, with its peculiar concerns for the sexual, and its record of accomodation with the Fascists in the Europe of the 1930's. And most of this "Amerique profonde" is all too happy to go with demonisation of gays, subordination of women and all the rest of it.
A lot is made of this religious stuff. That is what it is: Stuff, Buncombe. Before the Civil War of 1860, the Baptists and the Methodists, then as now the primary Protestant sects, split into Southern and Northern churches. Naturally the Southerners emphasising that the sons of Ham should ever be hewers of wood and drawers of water for their betters.
Slavery made the church, the church did not make slavery. And so it is today.
Our own people want the impossible. They wish to take from others without trading of their own production. Because they have outsourced all that to China, and know full well they cannot. Our people are no fools. They know we are the world's largest debtor, but if we can stave of bankruptcy by the forced seizure of the Iraqi National Oil Company, or anything else . . Well let's take a shot at it. And all this crap about a war of faiths, Christianity versus Islam is just so much silliness.
I have worked in the homes of professional military officers. Some of these guys are really very smart cookies. Certainly smart enough to know that when it goes down, people like Bush give the orders, Bubba puts yellow ribbons on his redneck limosine, and the soldiers get their butts shot off.
Yeah, there are lots like General/Secretary Powell who brownose the politicos, and get promoted for it, but the soul of the Army is its colonels and below. And even more its senior non-commissioned officers. And I'll bet big bucks one hell of a lot of these guys are not thrilled with what is going down. Maybe if they were paid with Halliburton stock . . . But that's a political perk for the big shots only.
In 1968 Lyndon Johnson was told not to run for the presidency by the movers and shakers of the Democratic Party. This after winning the election of 1964 by the largest margin in modern history. Vietnam.
Only two years after his own landslide win, Richard Nixon quit, not merely because he was threatened with impeachment, but because General /Secretary Al Haig took away the doomsday button. At that moment we had something very like a classic Latin American "golpe". Vietnam.
Throughout the 1980's there were constant rumblings from within important sectors of the establishment about various aspects of the Reagan Revolution. But because the wars were so low-level, at least in terms of their effects on either the Army or the population at large, all this remained mere rumblings.
And throughout Clinton's presidency there were constant attempts by the neo-conmen to overthrow him. Including several very interesting incidents of outright disobedience from the military command. Turn-about being fair play.
But now we have a very, very bizarre President, supported by very bizarre people, doing very bizarre policies. And not about to be replaced anytime soon by operation of the antiquated constitutional political process. In fact, five will get you ten it's his brother Jeb in 2008. Meanwhile the establishment has to contemplate life without the dollar as world reference currency, among other little difficulties. Iraq.
This column's challenge: Identify the nature of the "golpe" that takes the man down -- before it happens.
From the Imperial Capital
Chris Herz
cdherz44@yahoo.com
I wish I could say I thought he'd be taken down
Submitted January 28, 2005 - 10:56 am by Don Henry Ford Jr.I hear the attack against him. It is based on good sound information, but just doesn't seem to stick.
Perhaps due to this:
But the real problem is with the delusional fantasies of our electorate. In a very real sense, politicians cannot really get away for very long with telling any lies the people do not want to hear. And yes, two generations of reactionary and nationalistic and militaristic propaganda, the shrinkage of public education and the rise of cult-like protestant sects have all played a role in the debauchery of the electorate. But these things too could not have been seeded into more fertile ground.
The problem is our electorate. Suburbia needs those cars. And those cars need cheap gas. Rural white America has always been and always will be racist as hell, super into guns and prone to holy-roller religion. And all that stuff turns right. As does the Catholic Church, with its peculiar concerns for the sexual, and its record of accomodation with the Fascists in the Europe of the 1930's. And most of this "Amerique profonde" is all too happy to go with demonisation of gays, subordination of women and all the rest of it.
A lot is made of this religious stuff. That is what it is: Stuff, Buncombe. Before the Civil War of 1860, the Baptists and the Methodists, then as now the primary Protestant sects, split into Southern and Northern churches. Naturally the Southerners emphasising that the sons of Ham should ever be hewers of wood and drawers of water for their betters.