1. Following 9/11, President Bush demanded that
the Taliban surrender Bin Laden. They said they would on receipt of evidence
showing he was responsible for the hijackings. Bush refused to submit any
evidence and proceeded to bomb Afghanistan.
2. Plans for the bombing of
Afghanistan were on Bush's desk prior to 9/11.
3. The crime of 9/11 does not
appear on Bin Laden's FBI-wanted poster. When asked why, the reply was that
they had no "hard evidence" of his involvement.
4. The Chairman and Vice
Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, in their book "Without Precedent", state that
they were "set up to fail" and were "misled", which led them to contemplate
"slapping officials with criminal charges."
Connect the dots.
We are now confronted with a
situation in which the "checks and balances" set down by the Constitution for the three
branches of government no longer function. The Executive Branch has now taken
unto itself the power declare war, suspend Habeas Corpus, order the
assassination of American citizens without due process, indefinitely detain
citizens without stating cause, make use of the practice of extraordinary
extradition, and torture detainees under the euphemism of "enhanced
interrogation."
Connect the dots.
When you have connected all
the dots you may find a nation quite different from the one whose textbook
history and American "exceptionalism" has taught you to believe in. You've
heard that hideous phrase shouted by pseudo-patriots, "MY COUNTRY RIGHT OR
WRONG", ignoring or excusing America for its somewhat sordid past as well as
its dubious future; if so, you might do well to consider the source of that
misused phrase. It was Senator Carl Schurz on the floor of the Senate, February 29, 1872, who felt a need to correct
a far less erudite and bombastic colleague:
- The Senator from
Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, "My country, right or
wrong." In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the
great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept
right; and if wrong, to be set right.
His statement was followed by
a thunderous applause.
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