What You Going to do About it? Nothing ....

by Jeremy Pikser and Huffington Post

So they've been collecting records of ALL our phone calls. Can anyone really claim to be surprised? I guess the same folks who were surprised there were no WMDs in Iraq. The folks who believe Iran is somehow a potential threat to anyone. (Oh, surely Israel, they squeal. Yeah, right. Has anyone said that Israel, with its longstanding stockpile of battle ready nukes is a threat to Iran?) What Iran is a threat to, as was Iraq before it, is an absolutely unquestioned free hand for unhindered US dominance in the Middle-East. (including oil, including military basis, including what financial instruments will be used to trade in oil, etc. etc.). But I digress. Badly Or do I?

What is the significance of this new phone calls "disclosure?" I confess to a rather cynical view. Every new revelation that the Bush Regime is moving blithely and blatantly along the path to a quasi-fascist state seems to disappear in the same sinkhole of "ain't it a shame" paralysis of the body politic.

No, no, I'm chided. First off, this may mean that Governor Hayden, newly nominated to head the CIA, may be in for "a rough time" at his confirmation hearings. We don't hear "there's no way in hell he's getting the job now," ( my guess is that unless he has some personal scandal like playing s&m games in his basement with his illegal Honduran nanny, he will be confirmed, but that's just a guess) and we CERTAINLY don't hear that anyone much better will even be considered. What we WILL hear is more astounding blather about how the president can do anything he wants on account of... heck, he's president. End of subject. Eventually, in another hearing, or court of law, we may hear about why Porter Goss, former Head of the CIA, resigned so suddenly, about how the man he oddly raised several pay grades to be third in charge at the CIA, Rusty Foggo, (Jesus, you really can't make this shit up, can you?) was allegedly (yeah, right) involved in bribes and whores. What we will never hear in any official hearing (except in our dreams of seeing the whole gang from Bush on down at the War Crimes Tribunal that will never happen) is what Foggo was doing as a CIA operative in Honduras (at the same time, I'm guessing, that John Negroponte, who now heads the entire US "Intelligence" community and reportedly wasn't getting sharp enough "yes sirs," from Goss, which in the PG-rated version was the cause of his resignation). Nor will we hear any truthful account of what Negroponte's role was in the 50-100,000 civilian murders committed by our "ally" the Honduran Government during his tenure there. Negroponte, we are told, is a man "qualified" to be the highest power in all of the US spy networks. And I'm supposed to worry about collecting phone records?

But I'm being too morally righteous; not politically sophisticated. The Hayden hearings themselves will be an opportunity for Democrats AND honest Republicans to raise serious questions in open forum about the true nature of what our government is up to. People may not care about the slaughter of brown innocents, but Americans' right to privacy??! What it all really leads to is a smashing Democratic landslide in November. Maybe.

I notice that all the polls are showing two-digit leads across the country for the Democrats.... Except for Fox News, which shows only a 3% lead. Is there something they know that we don't know?

Between the massive Gerrymandering of congressional districts, and the largely unreported, but highly documented technical and organizational revolution in voter intimidation and fraud perfected by the Bush Putsch Gang... I'm expecting a miraculous narrow victory in both Houses for the underdog Republicans, confounding exit polls showing a Democratic victory. Maybe I'm too pessimistic.

My own view is that new revelations are mainly fodder for the news junkie industry. We already know more than we need (way, way, way more) to be certain that this cabal of fanatics, liars, thugs, and criminals (at international, constitutional, and national levels), are simultaneously bent on destroying true democracy or self determination anywhere in the world and ecologically making that world seriously less habitable. The only real question is not about what we know or what new startling revelations come to light, but what are we going to do about it?

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