Titanic Post

WALTER WILLIAMS - On the eve of the 2nd anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, March 18th, 2005, the Pentagon released its National Defense Strategy of the United States of America, in which it made clear its views on international law. The document states “Our strength as a nation will continue to be challenged by those who employ a strategy of the weak, focusing on international fora, judicial processes and terrorism.” Douglas Feith, the outgoing undersecretary of defense for policy, explained that “the arguments some people make try to, in effect, criminalize foreign policy.”

CHRIS FLOYD, MOSCOW TIMES Let’s face the facts. The game is over and we — the “reality-based community,” the believers in genuine democracy and law, the heirs of Jefferson and Madison, Emerson and Thoreau, the toilers and dreamers, all those who seek to rise above the beast within and shape the brutal chaos of existence into something higher, richer and imbued with meaning — have lost. The better world we thought had been won out of the blood and horror of history — a realm of enlightenment that often found its best embodiment in the ideals and aspirations of the American Republic — is gone. It’s been swallowed by darkness, by ravening greed, by bestial spirits and by willful primitives who now possess overwhelming instruments of power and dominion.

A gang of such spirits seized control of the U.S. government by illicit means in 2000 and maintained that control through rampant electoral corruption in 2004. The re-election of President George W. Bush last November was a deliberately shambolic process that saw massive lockouts of opposition voters; unverifiable returns compiled by easily hackable machines operated by avowed corporate partisans of the ruling party; and vast discrepancies between exit polls and final results ­gaps much larger than those that led elections in Ukraine and Georgia to be condemned as manipulated frauds. Indeed, a panel of statisticians said last week that the odds of such a discrepancy occurring naturally were 959,000 to 1, the Akron Beacon-Journal reported…

Let’s have no illusions about where we are. Gangsters are in charge, and nothing and no one will be allowed to challenge their dominion. They are waging aggressive war to cement their position and that of their allies: the energy barons, the arms erchants, the construction and services cartels, the investment bankers. These power blocs now command monstrous resources and unfathomable profits; they can buy out, buy off or bury any force that opposes them. Meanwhile, they use the loot of the stolen Republic — its blood and treasure — as fuel for their ever-expanding war machine: Bush now has a “secret watch-list” of 25 more countries ripe for military intervention, the Financial Times reported.

With more war crimes afoot, last month Bush issued an official “National Defense Strategy” that openly declares “judicial processes” as one of the enemies confronting the United States, actually equating them with terrorism, The Associated Press reported. Law is “a strategy of the weak,” says the Bush doctrine, in a chilling echo of Hitlerian machtpolitik: might makes right. The judicial process must not be allowed to “constrain or shape” American behavior in any way, the gangsters declared.

Think of it: Law is now the enemy. Democracy, as we’ve seen above, is the enemy. This, the demented code of criminals and tyrants, has become the ruling doctrine of the United States — replacing the Constitution, replacing the noble struggle for liberty and enlightenment with the howl of the beast, with a freak show of avarice and death.