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Here in Oceania, if something does not appear in the New York Times
or mentioned on Fox News, it did not exist. For instance, it is reported
that our fearless leader believes the Constitution is little more than a worthless
piece of paper. “Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into
the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing
the controversial USA Patriot Act,” writes Doug
Thompson for Capitol Hill Blue. “GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore
push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate
conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate
White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.” Thompson reports
the following exchange:
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m
the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is
a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back.
“It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
“I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and
they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution
‘a goddamned piece of paper.’” Thompson adds.
Of course, for Bush, the neocons, the corporate neolibs, and the authoritarian
rabble currently in control of the United States, the Constitution is indeed
a worthless “goddamned piece of paper” of use only on the Fourth
of July. Instead of constitutionally limited government, the Bushcons advocate
“democracy,” in other words mob rule—and the mob is brainwashed
by the corporate media and “entertainment” industry. “We have
the freedom to elect our dictators every four years,” remarked a friend
of Jacob Hornberger’s
from Latin America. Here in Oceania—thanks to Diebold voting machines
and vote rigging—we don’t even have the “freedom to elect
our dictators every four years,” they are basically appointed by the plutocrats
who control the government and run it for their own gain.
If you defend the Constitution, you’re now considered a terrorist.
Consider this FBI
Joint Terrorism Task Force brochure. “Defenders of the US
Constitution and the common law from which it grew are being classified on the
same level as the bottom-feeding Skinheads, Nazis and the KKK,” notes
Angel Shamaya.
“Each Fourth of July, the speeches are filled with oratory about how
fortunate Americans are to live under ‘free enterprise.’ And now
that the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights is approaching, the platitudes
of freedom will inevitably increase,” Hornberger wrote in 1990. Of course,
most of us here in Oceania are oblivious to such oratory nor do we realize “free
enterprise” means the freedom for a small raptorial class to rape, pillage,
and steal from people who cannot defend themselves against the onslaught of
neoliberal capitalism.
“Unlike their counterparts in the 20th century,” Americans in the
1700s “did not trust politicians, democracies, or governments—and
especially not their own! They required the passage of the first ten amendments
to further expressly restrict the powers of their democratically elected authorities,”
writes Hornberger.
Before he was “elected” (appointed) in 2000, Bush “joked”
about dictatorship and said it would be fine and dandy by him so long as he
was the dictator. Now we have this authoritarian cretin on record trashing the
Constitution and the corporate media does not take note and for obvious reason—the
corporate media is owned by the same “free trade” (unhindered depredation)
marauders and amoral charlatan neolibs that own the government and just about
every whore (politician) in Congress.
