The stakes are enormous

“As when Ronald Reagan dedicates the space shuttle Columbia's 1982 journey to the freedom fighters of Afghanistan, with the sounds of 2001: A Space Odyssey playing on the soundtrack and the recent memory of Columbia's eventual crash playing in our frontal lobes. Two decades later, and in Reagan's lifetime, the space shuttle and the land of those freedom fighters would both go up in flames.”

“Gunsmoke and Mirrors” Susan Gerhard, San Francisco Bay Guardian,
Art and Entertainment review of BBC “The Power of Nightmares Part II”


"’The stakes are enormous. This is all about whether our government can take us to war on lies without any fear of being held to account, and whether our democracy can survive the coalition of fascist forces that have seized control of the levers of power.’"

Letter by former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson
To William Rivers Pitt The Bunker Mentality
Posted at Truthout.org, Oct. 24, 2004
(FCF emphasis, underlined above)



A big shot in Washington used the word. He is not the first now days to use it.

Wilson called them “fascist forces” in referring to the Bush regime. Are you ready to join some partisan unit? Many Kansans I know do not know what the word "fascist" means.

If you don’t know who Joseph Wilson is by now, then you really need to come up for air and take a look at any favorite news source to find out how far the leaders in our government have taken this fight. Any U. S. citizen today should be acquainted with him and the numerous figures and issues surrounding the Wilson family, which have dramatically affected hundreds of thousands of lives on a daily basis in this country.

The ambassador who served twenty years, under constitutional obligations as a career diplomat married to a woman who worked as an operative and analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency under a non – official cover (NOC) have been placed in what Wilson has called a 27-month “vortex.”

Wilson, named by the first President Bush, “a true American hero” for his sheltering of over 100 people in the Baghdad U. S. Embassy during the run – up to Gulf War One and his last exchange with Saddam Hussein before military actions in Kuwait took place has been effectively destroyed, along with his wife, as federally employed wage – earners for their young twins.

Funny, President George Bush’s father was responsible for the law that was supposed to protect CIA agents’ identities to the public.

Wilson is not a “communist, liberal sympathizer,” as the conservative talking heads in the main$tream media seems to label anyone who opposes their deceptive wars for the big energy companies.

The storm of controversy swirling around this couple’s career problems finally came to surface in a court document, in the form of an indictment served on Vice President Richard Cheney’s number #1 man, Irwin “Scooter” Libby.

Are people beginning to think about what is going on?

Is it possible that even you sitting at the monitor somewhere will soon face personal hardship in your health, family and communities because of our shared complicity in U. S. imperialism.

Yes, your life is about to be mightily influenced – many people today put on their pod ear buds; slap on their UV sun blinders and go about their SUV 10/mpg distracted lives, oblivious to what President Bush called “background noise” when referring to the investigations that are probing and exposing “high crimes and misdemeanors” committed in his offices. Various critics of the Busheviks have stated that any attempts by political foes to nail the administration are doomed because of the lock down the Republicans have on both houses of Congress, and soon quite possibly the judiciary.

Would this be why Wilson uses the term “fascist forces” when describing them in his letter to Pitts cited above?

A former senior Reagan administration official, Paul Craig Roberts, who has since called for a mass petition drive to impeach Bush, most recently with an internet campaign to sign on millions of users to “embarrass” the government is an attempt to vitalize the badly damaged image of America with the world. Does this mean that getting an impeachment before Congress is pointless?

All those who want a radical change probably ought not to counsel the angry dissenters of all political persuasions toward ineffectual exercises in change and risk their own credibility. Who really should seek to spend their precious days ahead in dollars or endless letters to the editors?

Getting my electronic signature on a demand for impeachment is really a small effort, which anyone should support, but the real machines of change are going to be a lot tougher to grease, oil and start up. It is going to be more about survival and community against political and economic forces too big to do much about.

In this particular case, I think after the economic calamities descend upon us, the whole nation will be in a bunker mentality as mentioned below. I recommend a book I just finished describing some positive steps each of us can take to get ready.

Things I will describe in future installments.




“ Welcome to the bunker mentality, courtesy of George W. Bush and the folks who brought you the catastrophic invasion of Iraq, the escape and continued freedom of Osama bin Laden, the annihilation of faith in the business community by way of Enron, the annihilation of any sense of personal security by way of Katrina, the annihilation of our standing on the international stage, the big lie about weapons of mass destruction, and an awful lot of dead American soldiers. They used September 11 against you to get these things, or to get away with these things, depending on the need at hand. The result is a proud, great nation on its knees.”
William Rivers Pitt The Bunker Mentality
Posted at Truthout.org, Oct. 24, 2004