Psychohazard Mk. II

7/26/02

Time for a change

This has previously been a vanity site, and not a very good one at that.

It will continue to a vanity site of a sort, but hopefully a more insightful, more thought-provoking one. I've been doing a lot of reading and soul-searching lately.

Current events have motivated me to start a publicly-accessible bile-repository for those times when I have a momentary excess of same. Since the inauguration of the current executive branch of American government I've been thinking that perhaps I should go on some acid-reflux medication. My hope is that this site will curb my daily I.Q. (irritation quotient), and maybe provoke a little thought while I'm at it.

It seems that our political helmsmen are taking us straight towards a socio-economic waterfall. As a citizen in a democracy, I believe it is my civic duty to stand up and bellow, "Lets turn this ship around now!"

I'll be honest. It appears to me that if the Bush administration has its way, we will be well on the road to fascism. Our country's democratic experiment seems to have eroded so badly that it can only scarcely be called a democracy anymore. It would be laughable if it weren't so sad.

Shall we examine the facts?

• Voter turn-out declining each year. It is my firm hope that the Bush/Cheney regime will trigger a throw-the-bastards-out ground-swell. Each election year seems to find less and less of us finding our way to the polls to bring folks to office who represent our point of view. Of course, there seem to be fewer and fewer politicians and would-be-politicians who care about something as intangible as "the will of the people".
• Our executive branch of government can not be considered democratically elected. They were appointed by the Supreme Court in an unprecedented show of power.
• While the problem of business interests swaying the tide of government against the people started long before our current president was born, it has certainly gotten farther out of hand recently. It now appears that the will of the people has been hijacked to represent the economic will of the business sector, which is code for the pocket-books of the elite.
• Our unelected president and his cronies are doing a rather good job at gutting what remains of our democracy. Initiatives like TIPS and a centralized intelligence and law-enforcement agency, impervious to the will of the people (no FOIA for you, no sir!), the PATRIOT act, the willful disregard for subpoenas and congressional inquiries -- all indicators that our administration couldn't care less about due process of law, or government by and for the people, and will do anything in their power to undermine these values.
• We know that there were ample signs that the events of September 11th, 2001 were in the works, which, it is my feeling, the Bush administration deliberately ignored in order to create a situation where he and the people he represents could access unprecedented executive power, like:
• The centralized intelligence agency Bush is trying to create would not only be unaccountabe, it would be unsubjected to federal labor rules, if he has his way, leaving him free to make appointees for life, or fire whistle-blowers should it turn out that he is creating a gestapo.
• And beyond all else, Bush has admitted that he already has a secret government in place should America fall into a state of emergency. We know nothing of this secret government aside from its existence and its probable leadership of Cheney, and management by FEMA. Call me paranoid, but evidence looks like Bush allowed 9/11 to happen, and if it takes further disasters to cull dissent and make the asninely rich asninely richer, then so be it.

In such a clime, it is imperative that each of us act to the greatest of our ability to dike the erosion of our civil liberties. In addition to communicating with my representatives and observing freedom of peaceable assembly, I am observing my freedom of the press (that's me), and I encourage you to do the same."

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