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Think about this question: In the 21st century, what regime is more lawless than the Bush regime?

Everyone is entitled to his own answer. The only answer I can come up with is the Zimbabwe regime of Robert Mugabe. Voted out of power in the last election, the great man hasn't left. Zimbabweans are going to have to vote again, and the great man has said that any vote that is not for him will be cancelled by a bullet.

Does anyone remember how determined the British and the Americans and everyone else was to turn Rhodesia over to Mugabe in order to save that country from the evil Ian Smith? What a fool everyone was.

But before we laugh at those fools, we had best laugh at ourselves, or cry.

It is now an incontrovertible fact, known all over the world, that George W. Bush and his regime lied through their teeth in order to launch wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq, and that the Bush regime is doing the same thing again in hopes of launching an attack on Iran.

There have been a number of memoirs from high-ranking Bush appointees who cannot stand all the lies. Bush's first secretary of the treasury, Paul O'Neill, told us that an invasion of Iraq was on the agenda prior to 9-11. There is the leaked Downing Street Memo, in which the head of British Intelligence told the British prime minister and his Cabinet that the Americans have decided to attack Iraq and are creating the "intelligence" to justify the attack.

And now we have the White House's own spokesman from 2003 to 2006, Scott McClellan, ratifying what we all already knew — that President Bush deceived us and led us into war based entirely on lies and fabrications, and that he, Scott McClellan, was deceived into issuing a false public denial that top Dick Cheney aide Scooter Libby and White House operative Karl Rove were involved in committing a felony under U.S. law by revealing the identity of a covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame.

As a consequence of Bush's lies, there are a million dead Iraqis, mostly women and children, and 4 million displaced Iraqis, 4,100 dead American soldiers and tens of thousands of seriously wounded. No one knows how many are dead in Afghanistan. And there is the ongoing Israeli slaughter of Palestinians and Lebanese that has fallen under the rubric of the "war on terror."

The only ones pleased with these wars are the American neoconservatives, the Israeli right wing, the U.S. corporate military-security complex and Osama bin Laden.

The Bush regime has created enormous hatred and disrespect for the United States. A recent worldwide poll found that George W. Bush ranks at the bottom of world leaders as one of the least trusted, along with U.S. Pakistani puppet Pervez Musharraf and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has the disadvantage of being the victim of demonization by the U.S. and European corporate-controlled media, which serve as ministries of propaganda for the governments that control their broadcast licenses. The American and European media lie for their living.

The two leaders with the highest approval rating are U.N.

Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

So, the old adversary, Russia, now has a more respected leader than the "leader" of the Great Free Nation — a Great Free Nation that has sat on its hands while its "leader" destroyed America's civil liberties, America's reputation and the jobs of Americans, and committed the United States to a course of war crimes punishable by the International Criminal Court at the Hague.

A number of readers took issue with my recent column, "Elect Obama or Fall Into Tyranny." Echoing former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, readers said Obama would make no difference. But that is what I wrote.

My point was not that Obama would make any difference, as he has put himself and his administration into the hands of Wall Street and the Israel lobby. I said that the American people could make a difference by rejecting the Republicans, as it was the only accountability that the Republicans were likely to suffer.

If Americans return a Republican regime, Americans will validate the right of the president to violate with impunity U.S. and international law. Americans will validate the use by the president of the United States of deception and lies in order to initiate wars of aggression — aggression that is a war crime under the Nuremburg standard established by the United States. Americans will validate the infringement of U.S. civil liberties in the name of "safety" and "national security." Americans will disembowel the U.S. Constitution and leave themselves at the total mercy of the government.

Re-electing Republicans means the end of the United States as a land of liberty.

I am sympathetic to the argument that we, as a country of liberty, are near our end regardless. Look at the Democrats. On June 20, the House of Representatives, which the voters gave to the Democrats in the 2006 congressional elections in order to end the pointless barbarity that the United States has brought to Iraq, voted the largest war-spending bill ever. The "anti-war" Democrats completely collapsed, giving the warmonger Brownshirt Republican regime everything it wanted.

The House Democrats, led by "impeachment-is-off-the-table" Nancy Pelosi, added to the Democratic Party's shame by passing a bill that shields from punishment the criminal Bush regime and the telecommunications corporations that the Bush regime coerced into committing felonies under U.S. law by cooperating in Bush's illegal spying on American citizens.

The great hope of the Founding Fathers, the people's house, the House of Representatives, has passed an illegal and unconstitutional retroactive law making acts legal that were illegal when they were committed.

If a Democratic House of Representatives will pass a retroactive law in order to legalize the criminal violations of a Republican regime, the same House will pass a retroactive law making illegal what you did legally yesterday. No one is any longer safe in America. By abandoning the U.S. Constitution, Republicans and Democrats have made America as potentially unsafe as Zimbabwe for anyone who takes exception to the government.

The total collapse of the Democratic Party and the House of Representatives signals the end of liberty and democracy in America. Henceforth, led by the Republican Federalist Society, we will gravitate toward the beautiful regime of "energy in the executive" that has been achieved in Zimbabwe by Robert Mugabe.

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Craig:
I must vote the Vatican as the most corrupt regime, and the most corrupt regime since at least
Gregory the Great. I was just thinking today that Thomas a Becket was probably delusional. PJB
does not seem to reckon the RCC an empire, but it surely is. I will go so far as to blame the Vatican
for the abortion holocaust it claims to oppose. The death of Paul Hill by lethal injection, under the
signature of nominally Catholic (he too has a "warrior queen") Jeb Bush amoumts to human sacrifice at the
hands of the Jesuit cabal. But, as I have written elsewhere, we have an Ezra.
I do believe that American catholics have had some positive impact on the USA. Roger Taney
was not completely worthless, in spite of Dred Scott. He was right in opposing Daniel Webster in
the case involving the question of the Boston bridge (I forget the exact name.) He was brother-in-law
to Francis Scott Key, so I presume that he agreed with the "Conquer We Must" doctrine. Also, I
recently read that it was some Catholic who first endored the radicalism of the Boston Tea Party.
I was just this Sunday "trespassed" at the Baptist Church I have been attending for 5 years or so.
I delivered my copy back via a friend, with the message that it was not worth the paper. Larry the
preacher boy violated a fundamental tenant of Baptist churches in not asking the congregation to
"trespass" me. Of course the whole idea of a church using the power of the state is as old as the
Papacy. I think it was the prior Sunday, I went singing through the parking lot at St. James RCC,
and the parking attendant came racing out to tell me to leave. Of course, I was already off the
property before me was 10 out of the building.
The WSJ reported Monday concerning Planned Parenthood building mega-centers. These will
be marked for destruction.
I did not agree with Anthony Kennedy on GITMO; however, the decision to reverse the death
penalty for a man who "raped" his granddaughter seems to me to be correct. I recall being in
a chapel meeting at Columbia Bible College, and the speaker was actually bragging that a
woman in the congregation accused her husband of molesting their infant. I must first point
out that "rape" is a much abused word. It should mean something more than simply forcing
oneself on the "vicitim". Rape to me goes along with Pillage. Also, it makes a difference
whether the victim is male or female. The average conservative talking head will not
agree with me, for fear, probably, of having to acknowledge that all sodomy is more heinous
than any kind of herterosexual "rape."
Comment: #1
Posted by: John Mark Coney
Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:52 PM
Dear John (McCain):
I did not bother to read closely the Phil Gramm interview in Saturday's WSJ. I read enough to confirm
that he is a poor excuse for an economist. His rediculous commitment to outrageous CEO pay is in
obvious contrast to what I believe is your position. It is time to can Phil; appoint Jack Kemp your
TreasSec designate, ASAP!
Also, I am disappointed to read Dick Armey write in this month's IMPRIMIS (from Hillsdale Colege)
that George Washington could have been king if he so chose. Certainly James Madison would have
objected, so too, I think, would even alex Hamilton! Armey does not seem to know that the Convention
gave us a provision forbiding the granting of tittles of nobility. I had hoped that Ronald Reagan would
have contemplated this provision before bowing his knee to the queen of England in order to be knighted!
Comment: #2
Posted by: John Mark Coney
Thu Jul 3, 2008 12:46 PM
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