Political Whispers: A Look Into Today's World of Dark Politics

FANTASY BECOMES A NIGHTMARISH REALITY

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

Forget Iran.

Let’s worry about a nuclear-armed Pakistan.

Yes.

A nuclear-armed Pakistan.

This isn’t just some fantasy spiel concocted by the Bush administration over the case of phantom weapons of mass destruction with Iraq–or the possibility that Iran might be developing nuclear weapons.

No.

This is reality.

The US’s worse nightmare imaginable.

For years now, we’ve heard the Bush and neocon cabal tell us that their worse Cold War fears is that terrorists somehow get a hold of some nukes and detonate them abroad or on US soil.

The perfect harbinger to and end to our democracy.

They’ve been telling us that we should be vigilant and fear everyone around us whom is not an American citizen. (a.k.a: Muslims)

They’ve told us that if we didn’t rat out those whom we saw as a threat–we would only play into the terrorists’ hands.

Oddly enough, Pervez Musharraf’s recent actions in Pakistan seems to have born out some of those fears.

But let’s not get a hold of ourselves here and start preaching doom and gloom just yet.

After all, we supported this latest military strongman (for democracy’s sake–naturally), and we’ll go on supporting him until it’s convenient for us to either cut ties with that country and our former ally–or invade.

We did it with Iraq. So why not Pakistan?

Of course, with Musharaff cracking down on dissenters, the media, and the opposition–he’s making the terrorists’ job of obtaining nuclear matériel that much easier.

And given the fact that we practically gave Pakistan the weapons technology and material to make nukes–that Cold War fantasy of terrorists getting their hands on them…

Makes it all the more real.

And to think…we have Bush to thank for that?

Who would’ve thought: A US President supposedly upholding freedom and democracy–by giving the terrorists just what they could’ve wanted and more...?

Only because our esteemed President (George W. Bush) thought it would be swell!–to park some nuclear weapons in the middle of a predominantly Muslim country?

I guess it is really true what they say about people and their ambitions these days: You really don’t need a brain to become President of the United States of America!

Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.com

Labels: Al-Qaeda, fantasy, Iran, Iraq, Musharaff, Muslims, nightmare, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, President Bush, terrorists, US

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RUSSIA’S POWER GRAB SHOULDN’T ALARM U.S.

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

It’s official: Vladimir Putin’s power grab seems–by all accounts–a threat to democracy and the freedom of the press.

But before we start harping on what Russia is doing, maybe we should–instead–take a look at what we are doing to our own country:

Bush and Cheney have made it a point to disregard the powers of the Oval Office since taking the reins in 2001.

In doing so, they have usurped the power of the government, Congress, and the people–in a concentrated (and visible) effort to build themselves an imperial democracy that pretty much runs parallel to something you see in any of George Lucas’s movies.

The Patriot Act was created to destroy many of the protections afforded by the US Constitution. It allows the government to search and seize personal property with any of us knowing.

It also lets the government consider any one of us a threat to the US and its fight for democracy and freedom (commonly known as the war on terror). This in turn let’s the US seize American citizens and charge them as being an “enemy of the state”.

Holding them indefinitely without charge.

Coupled with the illegal spying, media censorship, torture of prisoners (also known in the CIA as “rendition flights”), why is Condoleezza Rice so up at arms over what Putin is doing in his own country?

After all, he pretty much has seen what we’ve done here in the United States.

Why should he have any worry about what we say and do? After all, one only has to look into the infamous history of the Soviet Union during the Cold War–and you will easily see how the US and Russia are now kindred spirits.

A chip off the ol’ block as it were.

It just took 50 years for the U.S. to finally do what the USSR had done for that long: Become a mirror image of its former enemy.

Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.com

Labels: Cold War, Constitution, democracy, enemy, George Lucas, illegal detention, illegal spying, imperial presidency, power grab, Russia, Star Wars, unlimited power, US, USSR

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