Is It Really the Brits?

I saw South Park this past week, an episode spoofing the Fox show 24.

A Muslim boy moves into town and Eric Cartman automatically assumes the boy and his family are terrorists.
A visit to the town by Hillary Clinton results in a terrorist incident but at the end of the show the real terrorists, the ones who have been subverting America all along, are revealed to be the British in the person of the Queen. When the plot is neutralized, the Queen shoots herself in the head.

I remember reading somewhere, maybe Skolnick's Report, that the British royal family has ties to the Bush family, all that once or twice removed nonsense. He talks about the betrayal of America by the Bush family and shows cancelled checks deposited in a European bank account controlled by the royals as evidence that there is a sinister connection between America's premiere crime family and the inbred loonies on the British throne.

As odd as this sounds I am of the opinion that someone other than the idiot-in-chief and his crew are responsible for the goings-on that are contributing to the death of the American republic.

This doesn't just apply to Bush or to Republicans. The Clinton-Gore administration gave the OK to the destruction of old growth forest in the US in addition to allowing industry groups to write regulations; George W. Bush is not the first president to allow industry to call the tune.

Clinton-Gore pushed through NAFTA which significantly weakened the power of labor in the US and that administration was in power when the WTO, a completely illegal organization which trumps national sovereignty in trade matters, was brought into being.

Clinton-Gore also did what no GOP administration would have been allowed to get away with....the total destruction of the welfare system which was the last bit of protection on the social safety net protecting poor people in this couintry. Once that was done away with, it was easy for the Bushies to come into power to finish the job.

The 2000 presidential election was stolen. The Supreme Court committed an outrageously unconstitutional act by declaring that a recount in Florida should stop because if it continuted, George W. Bush would not become president. That's what the opinion said, in a nutshell. An egregious meddling in the electoral process by the branch of government that has no place in elections. A disputed election is supposed to be decided by the House of Representatives, not the judiciary. But even with a GOP majority in the House, Bush's people couldn't take the chance that he would not actually be installed. They had an agenda and it was imperative that Bush be made president.

Once again the American people witnessed a coup d'etat and once again they did nothing about it.

George W. Bush was put in place to accomplish three things. First, he had to hide the criminality of the previous Republican administrations, those of Reagan and his father. He accomplished this by eviscerating the Presidential Records Act of 1978 by issuing an executive order barring the release of records of presidents or vice presidents without the approval of the current president or the families of those who would be affected by the release. Second, the military-industrial complex was eager for the money that Clinton had managed to accrue in the federal treasury by his judicious fiscal moves. That surplus had the thieves and con men of the GOP drooling over it. What better way than to start a war in the Middle East killing two birds with one stone: removing Saddam Hussein from power and securing the oil reserves controlled by Iraq. The last thing Bush had to accomplish was the enslavement of the middle class.

The social safety net was already shredded by Clinton-Gore with the attack on welfare. Now the GOP went after the middle class by attacking the bankruptcy laws. In the same way that Reagan portrayed women on welfare as Cadillac-driving liars, Bush and the GOP portrayed people who took advantage of the bankruptcy laws as thieves and liars who intentionally spent to the limit on their credit cards just so they could later declare bankruptcy. Never mind that many of the people who were in financial trouble were in that situation because they had used their credit cards to pay for increasingly expensive medical care which many families were faced with when the main wage earner lost his or her job.

With the help of traitorous Democrats like Joe Biden, the GOP was able to completely overhaul the bankruptcy code in such a way that credit card companies became secured creditors who would be among the first claimants to be paid off if the people who actually were allowed to declare bankruptcy received any relief.

Now middle class people were confronted with the prospect of a government that, on the one hand, in the wake of the horrific attacks on 9/11, encouraged everyone to forget their troubles and go shopping and then, on the other hand, refused to come to the aid of people who were stretched beyond their limits and had no place else to turn.

To understand why this happened you have to understand the psychology of the thieves who are in power in Washington, DC.

Look at the scandals that have surfaced in the past 27 years, roughly the same time period that the Republicans have held the White House except for the Clinton-Gore interregnum. The Nugan Hand bank run by ex-CIA and armed forces people; the savings and loan debacle; Iran-Contra with its back channel financing controlled by the office of the vice president through a cut-out, Ollie North; BCCI, the Outlaw Bank.

These scandals cost the American taxpayer in terms of bailout money for the institutions affected. Every American family was made to pay for the excesses of the S&L fiasco although the people who perpetrated the crimes never paid anywhere near what they had stolen if they paid anything at all. Two of George H. W. Bush's sons were involved in that little ripoff. Members of congress were aware of what was going on but never stopped taking money long enough to do aything about it until it was too late. John McCain was a member in good standing in the Keating Five, a group of lawmakers who accepted money from Charles Keating in return for looking the other way while he and his buddies looted the treasury.

These people don't think twice about allowing their friends or political cronies to steal really large amounts of money as long as they get their cut. For them to empathize with some shmo who's going to have his house foreclosed on because he can't make the payments or who's going to lose everything he's worked so hard for because he's like everyone else in this insane consumer-driven rat race and he's maxxed out his credit cards trying to keep food on his table and clothes on his family would be like having to sit at a table in a restaurant to calculate the tip when the meal has cost way more than he thought it would and he can barely pay that.

They cannot do it. These people are so used to living the high life that they forget where they came from, unless, of course, they either came from money or were corrupted early on and have always had the way paid for them.

They do not understand that bills need to be paid, that the faucet doesn't always piss out dollars, that when you are trying to provide for a family deficit spending only goes so far. When you're a guy trying to provide for your family you can't get your creditors together and ask them to vote to extend the amount that you're allowed to be in the hole for like the congress can do when it wants to extend the debt ceiling. For the average American the debt ceiling is already pushing down on him and his family and it isn't letting up.

The pressures of just making ends meet in this society have so far ensured that many Americans are not aware of what these criminals have pulled off for the past 27 years. Clinton is not to be excused for his part in this. He was only allowed to become president (and if you've been paying attention to the election machine scandals you'll know that allowed is the only word that works here) because the GOP could not get away with killing welfare. A pseudo-populist Democrat was needed for that.

Just as if a Democrat wins the White House in 2008 with a Democratic majority in congress Social Security and Medicare will be the targets of "much needed reform." When you hear those words uttered shortly after the 2008 elections start packing and stock up on non-perishable items. Middle class Americans are going to become survivalists whether they like it or not.