Shocking, but True

The truly horrifying thing about the Bush administration lies not in its blatant and unremitting corruption, but rather, in the America’s docile, sheeplike acceptance of it.

For example, when the General Accounting Office was planning to sue Yice President Dick Cheney for release of notes which would reveal those who met with the veep to formulate the Bush Energy Bill, Bush threatened to slash GAO funding, and the suit was dropped. There are plans afoot, supported by the Bush administration, to contract the production of computer voting machines, with easily manipulable code, to 3 companies. This may have been done in Georgia in 2002 resulting in wins for that states Republican governor and US Senator. Such tampering may have also resulted in Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel’s re-election. He owns a voting machine company there. Chairman of the FCC, Michael Powell ( son of Colin) is pushing the Administration’s policy of scrapping regulations keeping nearly all mass media from being monopolized by a few mega-corporations.

These are just a few example of what I am talking about. I haven’t even discussed Dick Cheney’s role as Haliburton CEO in revitalizing Iraqi oil-fields after Gulf War I. Or What about Donald Rumsfeld”s cozey little chats with Saddam Hussein in the !980’s? There’s so much more, but I’ll get to it in the days to come.