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-THEODORE ROETHKE
DALE FLOWERS
OIL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL’
BY LESLIE MILLER
Bush The First was the head of the CIA when
Noriega, Saddam, Osama, the Shah of Iran, and
Muamahr, were all our cherished free-market, hand
picked, and deniable Tyrants. (The Israelis and English
have been strange bedfellows, for that matter; Cold War
buddies.) Short range market projections dictated our
mercurial alliances. Their fealty to democratic principles
were the least of our overt concerns. It was a simpler time
(as if no one else could read the Wall Street Journal).
You think the Saudis like us either? How soon
we forget. We found the oil and built the pumps, but it’s
basically their oil, not ours. No wonder they hate us,
generally. It’s not as mucha matter of individual liberty
as it is our collective corporate gluttony that creates more
enemies for us. If we were more sufficient we would not
have to expend 70% of the world’s natural resources.
Might this explain the attacks (including the first on
the subterranean parking lot) of the World Trade Center,
U.S. Marine barracks (in a hotel) in Lebanon, embassies
in Africa, troops in Somalia, the L/SS Cole, the Pentagon?
These operatives were recruited, and abandoned, by the
CIA.
Hundreds of “sleepers” may be planned to actuate
as we exercise the Pax America from outer space in order
to dominate Earth and the near Universe
Most of our deadly enemies are past surrogates
of George The First, King of the CIA & Insider President.
What wehave here is a bad case of plausible deniability.
Democracy suffers for the sake of the elevation
of the Republic, Deregulation and MultiNational Empire
We offend our conscripted and voluntary military patriots
who swear to protect and defend the Constitution against
all enemies, foreign and domestic, only to receive conflict
ing and deadly orders — the President may request a
declaration of war but only Congress can truly declare
and finance a war.
No declared war: we don’t know who our real
enemies are but we kill anyway.Another police action —
die and withdraw. Bomb refugees and livestock by remote
control, often referred to as 'collateral damage’ — even if
* Apologies to the Bard of Avon
dumb weapons are 90% accurate: 100 bombs = 5 dead
refugees + 5 dead livestock = more new enemies for us.
Politicians keep the Army on a short leash. No win
scenario. Gunboat diplomacy. Congress is getting great
consul-tation. We have to recruit expatriate mercenaries.
Renege on pollution agreements. Local taxpayers
subsidize international corporations for lost money for
not polluting. Import wage slaves while local citizens are
denied decent job opportunities.
Allies hold our coat. The coup d ’etat by executive
and “shadow” governments. (Is this the old shadow that
killed the young President in 1963?) The putsch of Wash
ington, D C. by the electoral college, Florida, Texas and .
the Supreme Court. Now we are informed of a shadow
government; the arrogation of executive power beyond
oversight. Supply-Side economicsdo not “trickle down”
(re. Enron).
Future portends of Enron, Cheney reaction,
martial law and ‘theater’ neutron bombings. Past speaks
of Teapot Dome, Tammany Hall and Three Mile Island,
except almost every elected official has accepted tainted
contributions — Whitewater pales beside this but the
media are too Bush friendly. Who has the intestinal
fortitude to reform military driven disposable economics,
corporate welfare and campaign financing? Dead issues?
The very constitutionality of the executive coup
should be challenged and George II impeached, as well
as every paid for politician who accepted enron com
money. (PGE must be converted into a citizens’ utility.)
HYPOCRACY!
A socialist editorial sheet that demands
a capitolist (sic) contribution to read
Isn’t America wonderful?
-Note found in Times Eagle cash jar
at Bill's Tavern in Cannon Beach
Corporate welfare, not universal health care, may
yet drive us to extinction.
It isn’t just politics. It is the worship of greed above
kindness. Corporate aspiration vs the needs of ordinary
people. We confuse democracy with economic opportun
ity, as if they were interchangeable. It is abandonment.
Who could blame those who wish to get back at us? The
pity is, the same forces hurt our own citizens.
This new war is an undeclared, unconstitutional
war, an unspecified police action with no end in sight.
People get just as killed in declared wars, yet the
undeclared war in (and upon) Vietnam drained the nation
of its treasure (billions of public dollars disappearing into
corporate pockets) and the greater cost of nearly sixty
thousand American lives (for a war that depended on
body count, there will never be an accurate accounting
of the millions of Southeast Asian lives lost) for a decade
Market tip: invest in munitions.
We must invoke the impeachment of Bush II. Not
only is he an apologist for the failed policies of his progen
itor, nor is he simply a sophomoric, narrow-minded multi
national corporate puppet, he is a major real and symbolic
threat to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Because he has such a high approval rating, it
means that he is doing poorly. Blame it on an ignorant
electorate and slanted poll-taking. It helped to have his
brother pull the tabs in Florida and to have the Supreme
Court stop the recount for the sake of old political
appointments. (Impeach them too!)
Ever since the insubordinate fools at the Alamo
failed to blow up the place and withdraw to the San
Jacinto River with General Houston, Texas has been a
major embarrassment. It is where President Kennedy was
shot and Armalite Corporation got a pork-barrel contract
for M16 ammo for Vietnam. A facetious suggestion is that
the first thing to do in a revolution would be to kick Texas
out of the Union and invade.
Every voter who thinks there is a difference
between 'D’s & 'R’s is Troll food Go Green.
It might seem that this article was written today but
Leslie Miller actually wrote it for the Marpril 2002 Times Eagle
under the nom d6 plume Troll Under the Bridge'. This reprint
is occasioned by the perspicacity of his vision and as a tribute
to Times Eagle contributors this 25th anniversary issue of the
Bom Again Bird
Dale Flowers is a teacher at Astoria High School His
cartoons are a regular feature in the NCTE.
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