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George Wa*ker Bush
and his rule of error. 

Or God help the USA!  

It's not that I am anti-American or anything, far from it. I obtained a degree from an American university, I have several good friends from the USA and for every grease oozing carcinogen-heavy hamburger, fanatical Mormon/moron missionary loony, anti-abortionist who happily murders an abortion clinic doctor, or vacuous Hollywood spectacle there is bluegrass music, rock n roll, New Orleans Jazz, the novels of Mark Twain, the gothic wonders of Edgar Allan Poe, the "transendentalist" writers such as Walt Whitman and his "I think I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree." As well as the crap, Hollywood also gave us classics of cinema such as "The Wizard of Oz," "Star Wars" and the legendary dancer Gene Kelly in "Singing in the Rain" not to forget one of the greatest all round entertainers of all time Bing Crosby. Now I've put this in perspective, let's get really nasty!

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April 7^th 2002

Robert Jensen is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Texas, Austin. You might not expect the home state of the Toxic Texan to exactly be a hotbed of radicalism, and yet in his recent article, Professor Jensen attacked corporate capitalism as being the enemy of the people.

First he ran through the “Highlights” of the first Bush year. “Tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy. Environmental regulations gutted, an obsession with an unnecessary and unworkable national missile defense, which will defend little except the profits of the weapons industry.” And then he really put the boot in “ An energy policy plotted with the companies that will profit, through a consultation process the administration wants to keep secret.”

He went on to state that a country with an economy dominated by large corporations finds itself stuck with politics dominated by those same corporations – and that ordinary people don’t fare well in such a system. There is no such thing as democracy within a corporation, and the corporations do their level best to subvert democracy at home through the bribes that are renamed “campaign contributions.”

He concluded that under the Bush regime, the “corrosive effect on democracy has accelerated.” and posited the question “Are corporations and democracy compatible?” Polls in the US show that three quarters of respondents do not think they are. He ended with the remark “Corporate capitalism is about concentrating power. That means the struggle to make American democracy even more democratic in practice will have to be a struggle against corporate power.”

I wonder though, when it comes to the next election, will the American people wake up and hurl the rascals out on their ears? I’ll believe it when I see it

December 7th, 2001

Robert Fisk, a journalist in the Independent is of the opinion we are all war criminals now. US and UK forces helped in the massacre of 300 Taleban fighters. The Afghans have a "Tradition of revenge" so let's help out while we are here? US Secretary of Defence Rumsfield admitted that US raids on Taliban defenders would stop if "The Northern Alliance requested it." The US and the thugs of the Northern Alliance team up to destroy the thugs of the Taleban.

The Toxic one has signed into being a secret military court to try, then liquidate everyone believed to be a "terrorist murderer."  It's now official, America has legally sanctioned death squads. As Fisk points out, even the Nazi monsters who exterminated 10,000 times more people than died on September11th were afforded a trial at Neuremburg. President Truman said that "without definite findings of guilt fairly arrivedat, undescriminating executions or punishments would not fit easily on the American conscience or be rembered by our children with pride." It's no surprise that Bush is incapable of grasping such a concept, but what of the leaders of European nations who are "gutlessly silent" on the issue. Even in Britain, we are on the same slippery slope with legislation rammed through Parliament that goes some of the way to create the same conditions as Bush is hoping for in the States. 

November 30th, 2001 ( Quotes from the Los Angles Times)

The cartoon shows perhaps Bin Laden pressed up against a cave wall. He is greeted by a woman who has dropped her sword and set of scales. She is Liberty and declares "I am hiding from John Ashcroft." It's a cartoon in the Los Angles Times but sums up the reaction of anyone concerned with the future of democracy to the Toxic Presidents latest assault against the rule of law. As Jack Balkin in the Los Angles Times points out "Moments of crises do not merely create emergencies, they also create temptations." The scales that our blindfold lady just dropped are in danger of being skewed well away from liberty and far into the arms of security.

"In times of fear," as Balkin continues, "authoritarian impusles are less constrained and people feel less able to complain about them. An increasing authoritarian tone is pervading the Bush administration. First the USA patriot legislation, then the military tribunals without right of appeal to anyone less than the president. Little by little the proceedural fairness that keeps governments from acting arbitarily are being chipped away." Perhaps hacked away with a sledgehammer or blasted to infinity like the Bamiyan Buddahs would be more accurate. Balkin concludes "as tempting to use authority as it is, it should be resisted, for what profit has a country is it shall control the whole world and lose its democratic soul?" Do you suppose that Bush cares one iota about such matters? I for one do not.

The title of this page by the way comes from an Editorial in the Independent Newspaper that really stuck it to the bastard...