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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (258676)	5/26/2002 12:28:48 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"The problem is too big, and too complex for mere citizens to have any effect" IMO, the end is coming relatively soon, due to the permanence and accountability of digital communications. Imagine LBJ's comments leaked to the internet, or another half-dozen Pentagon Papers. We'll see that kind of leakage, perhaps, and if so, people are ready for a change. There's been too much doom and gloom, and people want some hope for the future. The truth is in the accountability, the essence of representative democracy, and in the information age its even more true about all government-sponsored information, all of which belongs to the people, with very few exceptions for bona-fide military secrets, about 1% of so-called "nat'l security". As such, the accumulation and sorting out of so much captured content will force public servants to attempt to be more devious at first, then realize it's short-term. Eventually we'll get a better crop of political aspirants. When that happens things will clean up. That's my optimistic view anyway. As far as foreign policy, I've heard the first stirrings of common sense, from a spectrum of public commentators, ones who have no personal profit from the fights, who are starting to publiclly question. The comments are "we do not have the answers to their problems" Henry Kissinger, "nothing's worked for 50 years, we should get out altogether", Ben Wattenburg, etc. The people will demand common sense, eventually. Unfortunately, such changes come about most often through scandal, as the only way to break through the careful structure of bribes and business relationships among the parasites that live off of American's good intentions, and ignorance.

To: haqihana who wrote (258676)	5/26/2002 12:55:10 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

"we should stand back and let the others fight it out for themselves, but who will let us?? " If we let the all-powerful central government stick it's nose into these irrelevent wars with our sons and money, it is we who are the sheep... We need to fire those who engage is useless, debilitating wars. Check out the Columbian controversy. The administration proposes to support one side in that 40-yr old civil war, a $100 million to protect one oil pipeline... And the excuses are the usual crap: - It's the drugs! We need to help Columbia stop the drugs! Bullshit. After the last $1.2 billion, the production of drugs went up 25% - It's the suffering of the people ! More b.s., adding military equipment and money is fuel to the fire, causing more killing not less. Now, the entire pursuit of terrorism is country-by-country path around the world, primarily in the oil regions, with bupkus to show for it. Do you believe the "we got Al Queda on the run"? Not if we still have nuclear terrorism to fear. Where's Osama? Gosh, I guess we missed him, but we're sure his royal family has nothing to do with him. We'll see nuclear brinksmanship in Pakistan, and if we get involved in that, we're sure to see some fireworks over here. The current crop behind the Beltway should be systematically fired, impeached, recalled, investigated, if guilty jailed, and otherwise removed, and we citizens should put our energies towards that direction every time we see unrepresentative foreign military action. This isn't Republican/Democrat, this is common sense for the American citizen versus out-of-control government and military, especially the spooks that influence the media. [see the next post on the Mighty Wurlitzer] At this point, prayer might help, but the Lord helps him who helps himself, and we definitely need to help ourselves!