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A Degenerating Tyranny

Comment by Larry Ross, March 4 , 2007

Richard Mynick has done a brilliant job diagnosing the sickness of US society that has produced and continues its unjustified and genocidal assault on Iraqis based on lies concocted by the Bush neo-con regime. This essay should be read by every US citizen, especially politicians on both sides of the house. It shows how the Bush regime has dragged America into a giant whirlpool of evil. It is desperately trying to persuade them with media co-operation - that this is America's endless role and its people's duty to obey in Bush's deranged new world order of perpetual lying, bombing and killing any  opponents he names. The Bush Regime believe they are the sole creators of truth, with a God-given right to define who is the enemy-of-the-day. No doubts, criticisms or questions allowed. Blind obedience is the sole criteria of virtue.

Mynick shows how America, as people knew it, is disappearing and being transformed into a de-facto dictatorship - a perpetual war machine serving the military-industrial-governmental complex. There is little or no resistance. People are behaving like lambs. It is an indictment of what America is becoming under a blanket of well-designed false propaganda, ladled out to a confused public by a corrupted media.

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America on its Knees Before Tyranny

by Richard Mynick, ICH, March 3, 2007

"The Star-Spangled Banner" painted the United States in 1814 as "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." These words, though still mumbled by apathetic consumers at sporting events, amount to a cruel satire of the American people in 2007.

The 4th sentence of the Declaration of Independence reads "...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (ie, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness) it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..." It would be hard to find a more apt description of the US government in 2007, or a more appropriate remedy for this oppressive regime, increasingly loathed and feared by the citizenry.

We have a Constitution which defines a separation of powers. It also defines procedures for impeaching officials who violate its bedrock principles -- in particular, its Bill of Rights, its separation of powers, and its foundational notion that power derives from the consent of the governed. We make elected officials swear an oath to "protect and defend" this Constitution. Why bother with all this, if, when the day of tyranny finally arrives, the Constitution's own provisions are not used to defend the document's principles against the would-be tyrants who have so egregiously violated them?

In November, US voters told Washington that the public does not support the war; sees with increasing clarity that it is immoral and was launched on false pretexts; and wants it terminated. In response, Vice-Emperor Cheney snarled in a TV interview with an obsequious Bush toady that regardless of what the public or Congress might say about it, the White House intends not only to continue the war, but to escalate it.

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