Unplug the Icemaker

Disrupt the 2004 Election - By David J. Rothkopf

Recently, I co-chaired a meeting hosted by CNBC of more than 200 senior business and government executives, many of whom are specialists in security and terrorism related issues. Almost three-quarters of them said it was likely the United States would see a major terrorist strike before the end of 2004. A similar number predicted that the assault would be greater than those of 9/11 and might well involve weapons of mass destruction. It was the sense of the group that such an attack was likely to generate additional support for President Bush. These are serious people, not prone to hysteria or panic -- military officers, policymakers, scientists, researchers and others who have studied such issues for a long time. They know that in country after country, elections have held an irresistible lure for terrorists. In Israel, Colombia, Russia, Sri Lanka, Spain, Turkey and elsewhere, recent elections have been disrupted by strikes designed to commandeer the spotlight, to derail democracy, or to discredit or perhaps inflame a political leader. Even in this country, there is at least one notable example of a contest that was altered by anti-American radicals. When we go to the polls next November it will be 25 years after Iranian militants captured U.S. diplomats in Tehran and began the hostage crisis that dominated the 1980 election and helped bring down President Jimmy Carter. From the perspective of the terrorist, attacking in an election year makes perfect sense. The objective of terrorism is not so much to strike a blow against a particular physical target as it is to strike a psychological blow against a target audience. That is why terrorists will often hit symbolic targets such as the World Trade Center or conduct "message" strikes on buses or sidewalk cafes to suggest that no one is safe. Elections heighten the stakes because a blow during an election is a blow against a society's political foundations. Elections also enable terrorists to lash out more directly at individual political figures and to do so in a highly visible way.

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So it looks like Bush may once again generate his own major terrorist event (with al Qaeda doing the dirty work) to scare us back into submission. With the proven connections among Bush, al Qaeda and 9-11, you could say that Osama bin Laden and Bush will be working hand-in-hand.

As Left-is-Right has been saying for a year now, there will be another catastrophic event right before the 2004 election, and Bush will get re-elected as a result of both catastrophe and the Democrat's inability to mount a cohesive opposition. The only course of action is to either accept our fate as dictated by the Neocons, or start a revolution. Nothing less will bring resolution to the rapidly deteriorating state of our nation.

Most readers refuse to accept such an extreme view, and that's understandable given our undying faith in humanity as taught in school, at church and in our homes during our childhood. Once you do accept the fact that we are entering a period of a power-hungry, elite class that is rapidly assuming control of government and business, revolution as the only course of survival makes a lot of sense. The Left so far has failed miserably at nurturing the acceptance of these facts, and time is running out.

Oh, golly gee, we temporarily stopped the Energy Bill, and filibustered judicial nominations, and threw a bone to Massachusetts gays. In the meantime, the Ultra-Right has become so blatantly successful they could care less if their "lies" are uncovered, or their illegal Medicare HR votes are dissed, or environmental bills are passed that undermine decades of reform, or that everyone and their daughters know that Halliburton et al. are getting billions funneled into their coffers with no accountability or consequences, or that the christian "god" is becoming a major player in the formulation of bills/laws, or that they violated international law by invading and occupying, for no justifiable reason, a third-world nation of good, hard-working people.

We are all so focused on the "little" things going on, like tax breaks for the rich, Iraq, the Clean Air Act, electronic voting, who lied about what, No Child Left Behind, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, AWOL Bush and his flight suit/aircraft carrier banner, the deficit, redistricting, Halliburton, partial-birth abortions, Florida and California, that we are running around trying to put out the fires with our liberal rhetoric. Sure, these are all important issues, but has anyone stopped to notice that they all started from the same source? We're not attacking the source, we're haphazardly trying to hold onto everything. It's like grabbing an ice cube made of Neocon blood and watching it melt through our fingers. Forget the ice cubes, unplug the icemaker!

Exactly what consequences has the Bush Administration paid for their behavior over the past three years? None. We are all standing around, praying that SOMEONE will get their act together, confront evil Bush, and save us all. It isn't gonna happen because the Neocons now hold all the aces.

The only way to upset the card table and throw out the cheaters is to revolt. At least think about it.