sep21, 01
The Supreme Court decision signed by Rehnquist did state, in no uncertain terms, that: "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States." So now we are treated to the repellent spectacle of a man who we had no right to vote for - according to the interpreters of our Constitution - teaching the world by show of force exactly how democracy is practiced.
That didn't stop Bush from declaring, in his Thursday night speech, that: "We have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century ... they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism." Quite a remarkable statement coming from the grandson of one of the men who financed the rise and genocidal reign of those ideologies.
Even more remarkable is that he made that statement immediately after declaring that: "We're not deceived by their pretensions to piety."


Dave McGowan December 2000:
Shortly into the new administration, expect a fire to be staged in the Reichstag, providing the pretext to dissolve Congress and usurp legislative powers .... Oh, wait a minute ... I was thinking of another head of state that 'legally' assumed power. Never mind.
Expect also a stepped-up 'war on terrorism.'

Hatfield turned up dead in a hotel room just weeks before September 11. His last published piece was a story in the Online Journal entitled "Why Would Osama bin Laden Want to Kill Dubya, His Former Business Partner?"

And consider this rather curious factoid: "One stockbroker, Alan Redmond, said he had arrived for work at the Nasdaq exchange to be told that there was a delay in opening, and to wait." Why was there a delay in opening the Nasdaq that morning, and how many prominent lives were spared due to this 'delay'?

July 3, 2001 hatfield
According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.
Why would Osama bi Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner?
From the what-it's-worth-department: I think Dubya's handlers have fed disinformation through the CIA and other backdoor channels to German and Italian intelligence agencies about a possible hit on Dubya by the fugitive terrorist to gain public sympathy and concern for a U.S. president who has taken a nose-dive in the opinion polls.

October 16th is not, as it turns out, a good day to travel by air if you happen to be a politician who has become, shall we say, troublesome. Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan found that out the hard way this year when he hopped aboard a chartered plane to get to a campaign appearance with less than three weeks to go before the November election. He never made it.
Carnahan had been making a run for a U.S. Senate seat, challenging Republican incumbent John Ashcroft in what the L.A. Times described as "one of the tightest, fiercest - and most closely watched - Senate races in the country." (2) Just before his campaign was abruptly ended, "a few recent polls ha[d] showed him with a slight edge," (1) breaking a months long deadlock.
The Carnahan story, by the way, has something of a happy ending (though not for the Carnahan family, which also lost the governor's son in the crash). The people of Missouri, possibly sensing that something wasn't quite right about Carnahan's untimely death, defied expectations and chose to elect the corpse rather than the incumbent. Hats off to the good people of Missouri.

While we're on the subject of untimely deaths, I should probably mention another that occurred just weeks ago. Remember when some guy ran his truck into author Steven King not long ago and banged Spooky Steve up pretty good? And remember how Steve was really pissed off about it, and how he thought that the courts let the guy off way too easy? Damned if that guy didn't turn up dead in his home of unknown causes. Shit happens, I guess.
On a completely different topic, did you see where another blatantly fraudulent Hollywood 'liberal' exposed his true fascist leanings? We're talking here, of course, about Martin "I'm not the president, I just play him on TV, though I was offered the Green Party candidacy before they ended up going with Ralph" Sheen.

nov2000
I don't know if anyone's noticed, but the industrial age is pretty much over. We are now in what is being heralded as the 'information age,' and the American workforce is once again being transformed. Rapidly disappearing are all those industrial jobs that once needed to be filled with a steady source of bodies.
In other words, in the eyes of our leaders, public schooling has lost its purpose. What this means for future generations of Americans is, to put it bluntly, you are not needed. The state has no desire to impart knowledge to you, and no reason to condition you for jobs that no longer exist.
The good news is that you need not worry about becoming some random, insignificant cog in the wheel. The bad news is that the state has no other use for you either. You have become, in the immortal words of Adolf Hitler, a generation of "useless eaters."

In my book, Derailing Democracy, I wrote that: "Well known among State Department and intelligence personnel, though not among the American people, is the U.S. desire to unleash the power of tactical nuclear weaponry upon the world." Absurd, scoffed the critics.
Eighteen months after those words were written, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that: "For more than 50 years, there has been a taboo against unleashing the terrible power of the atom in war, but some in the U.S. nuclear weapons establishment and their political allies now envision a world where nuclear combat could become almost a commonplace event. Sound crazy? Unfortunately, it's true." (11) I hate to say I told you so, but ...
The Chronicle went on to note that: "Top Senate Republicans already have pushed through a measure that will allow U.S. weapons labs to begin studies on a so-called 'mini-nuke,' intended not to deter a potential enemy but for use in small, regional wars ... The aim would be to kill national leaders such as Saddam Hussein or Slobodan Milosevic, or to destroy stocks of biological/chemical weapons held by so-called 'rogue states'."

Let's follow up on Gary Bauer's argument -- noted below -- that gay marriage shouldn't be allowed because "homosexual behavior is fraught with adverse health affects."
In fact, when you try to wrestle Bauer's foolishness and sexual authoritarianism down to some measure of reality, you realize that what he should really be calling for is something like mandatory gay marriage, ambivalence about straight marriage and more or less letting the lesbians just run wild.

"Tobacco use," says Bauer, "is heavily regulated by the state and smoking is strongly discouraged. A major study conducted by Oxford University demonstrated that homosexual conduct is three times more deadly than smoking. Homosexual behavior is fraught with adverse health affects. Again, this is not opinion, but documented medical fact. Public policy must not be ignorant of medical facts associated with this lifestyle and from a public policy perspective, the behavior should not be encouraged by affording it the status of marriage."

After detailing all the reasons why the president's pre-war rationales for war make sense in retrospect, she uncorked this beauty. "And to me," she told CNN's Heidi Collins, "the most important thing was his biological weapons program, which we've now confirmed he was continuing to pursue up to the day of the invasion, and the ability to deliver those biological weapons against Americans on American soil."