The Worst Americans Who Have Ever Lived

Good Lord, look at the lunatics the Bush administration and the modern Republican party have loosed on the American people:

On the June 29 broadcast of Fox News Radio's Brian & The Judge, co-host Brian Kilmeade, who also co-hosts Fox News' Fox & Friends, suggested that the U.S. government should "put up the Office of Censorship," in the wake of reports in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal detailing a Treasury Department program designed to monitor international financial transactions for terrorist activity.

And, I know, I know--various other right wing nuts have suggested that Bill Keller be tried for treason and gassed to death or that the Free Press, in the home of the glorious First Amendment, is a menace to free people.

But, now, Fox News, the official mouthpiece of the Gee Oh Pee is proposing that the information The People receive about Their government first be approved by that government?

And why?  Because it's what FDR, Democrat, would have done!

KILMEADE: …You put up the Office of Censorship. You get a consensus to journalists to analyze and then you realize what FDR realized early. Winning is everything. Freedom is -- you don't have any freedom if the Nazis are the victors. You have no one to trade with if Western Europe falls. That's the reality.

Yeah, that's the reality.  We, Americans, will never forget FDR's rousing, inspirational statement, "We have nothing to fear but no one to trade with!"

To trade with???  The new reality is that we fought fascism in Europe because if Western Europe--which, apparently, if you watch Fox News Germany is not a part of--we'd have no one to trade with.

Apparently, if you're a loyal Fox viewer--or a member of the Bush family--fascism is fine until it fucks with trade.

That's not a joke. 

I hate to be a nitpicker here, but if Western Europe fell, America certainly would have had someone to trade with.  They're called: the Germans.  You know, the people who brought the world Krupp and Thyssen, Porshe, Volkswagon, and so on.  Sure, it's not as sexy as trading with the Netherlands.  But, I'm sure, had Western Europe fallen, Bush's grandfather, Prescott, would have had no qualms about picking up where he left off.

How crazy and dumb are these people?  And they're on television every night.  With no caption beneath identifying them as totally insane.  How amazingly dumb and crazy are the millions of people who watch this crap because they watch this crap?

FDR, the great Democratic president, didn't fight Hitler for any other reason than to protect trade partners.  Also, he was no friend of the Constitution.  That's the New Reality.

And America is now in a War, just like when FDR was president--though, our cause is more just now because our War is about Freedom, whereas FDR was just taking the country to war over trade--and the government should be able to censor the free press.

Probably the only thing FDR ever did right, according the lunatics of the modern Gee Oh Pee, was keep secrets and censor the press during a time of war.  And, now, in our time of war, we should, for purposes of this war and this war only, look to the example of FDR.

Except FDR's war was declared.  Against countries.  Not behavior.  FDR's war had clear objectives.  And some conceivable way of knowing whether we've won or lost.

One way or another, the American people would know World War II was over.

The War On Terrorism?  When does it end???  How will anyone know?  When no person, anywhere in the world, is able to commit an act of terrorism???  When no person, anywhere in the world, can blow something up or shoot some innocent person for political reasons?

It's important for the government to take reasonable steps to prevent terrorism.  But declare a War on it?  It's like declaring a War on rudeness.  Someone can always be rude.  It's a War without end.  Claiming War Powers to fight a War without end is a declaration of a new form of government.

Forever.

It is repealing the Bill of Rights and much of the Constitution.  Without even asking The People.

That is the New Reality.

And why should we repeal the First Amendment until the end of time and establish another totally creepy sounding new federal agency to do so?

Because the New York Times published a story which said that the United States was monitoring international financial transactions in an effort to disrupt terrorist activities.  And that was a super huge state secret.

It was such a super huge state secret that lunatics on the right are suggesting Bill Keller should be gassed to death, that Congress is passing resolutions condemning the Free Press, that the Preznit--himself a huge leaker of state secrets--is calling the story a disgrace!

Without that story, terrorists would never have known the United States was monitoring international financial transactions with the intent of thwarting terrorist intentions!

Not unless they went to the official White House web site or, um, I don't know, watched Preznit Bush's press conferences on CNN.

THE PRESIDENT:  We know that many of these individuals and groups operate primarily overseas, and they don't have much money in the United States.  So we've developed a strategy to deal with that.  We're putting banks and financial institutions around the world on notice, we will work with their governments, ask them to freeze or block terrorist's ability to access funds in foreign accounts.  If they fail to help us by sharing information or freezing accounts, the Department of the Treasury now has the authority to freeze their bank's assets and transactions in the United States…

We have developed the international financial equivalent of law enforcement's "Most Wanted" list.  And it puts the financial world on notice.  If you do business with terrorists, if you support or sponsor them, you will not do business with the United States of America…

And, by the way, this list is just a beginning.  We will continue to add more names to the list.  We will freeze the assets of others as we find that they aid and abet terrorist organizations around the world.  We've established a foreign terrorist asset tracking center at the Department of the Treasury to identify and investigate the financial infrastructure of the international terrorist networks…

And his Secretary of the Treasury?

SECRETARY O'NEILL:  Thank you, Mr. President…[t]oday's executive order gives us a new weapon to deny terrorists access to funds.  The foreign terrorist asset tracking center that we announced last week is up and running, coordinating information from among government agencies with the express purpose of identifying and stamping out the financial network that funds terrorism.  And we're working with the G-7 nations, and many others, to attack all parts of a global infrastructure that finances these acts of evil.

That is a press conference.  In September of 2001.  The New York Times was invited. 

It's still on the goddamned White House web page, for crying out loud.  What exactly did the New York Times reveal to "the terrorists"?  That Bush might, for once, actually do what he publicly claimed he was going to do?

Maybe the terrorists were, again, supposed to "forget" what they already heard and so anyone reminding them of stuff Bush already told them is a traitor!

Despite the fact that Bush announced to the world, on TV, five years ago, and invited his Secretary of the Treasury to elaborate on it, that the United States was monitoring international financial transactions for the purpose of thwarting terrorists, the biggest bullshitter to ever reside on Pennsylvania Avenue had the appalling contempt for the American people and their Constitution to say this:

WASHINGTON -- President Bush said yesterday that it was ``disgraceful" that the news media had disclosed a secret CIA-Treasury program to track millions of financial records in search of terrorist suspects...

"The fact that a newspaper disclosed it makes it harder to win this war on terror," Bush said, leaning forward and jabbing his finger during a brief question-and-answer session with reporters in the Roosevelt Room.

It's crazy, isn't it?  It's infuriating. But beyond that, it's frightening.

George W. Bush will say anything to the American People.  He will lie to them and mislead without hesitation.  And, unlike the biggest liar the world ever knew, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush lies to the American People about their government.  Not about his social life.

It's not an attack on the New York Times.  It's an attack on the facts.  It's a silly, totally bullshit attack by not just the White House, but Republicans in Congress, on the Free Press altogether.  It's an attack on The People running Their government, as opposed to Their government telling them how the People will be run.

You want to know what kind of people are shoving this new form of government down your throats?  This Fox News commentator beats you over the head with the answer:

KILMEADE: You're in love with the law, but I'm in love with survival.

Your modern Gee Oh Pee.  It's taken us a long, shamefull, cowardly way from "Give me liberty or give me death."

Comments

[merl]

Are those people really that goddamn scared? Good thing they weren't around in 1776

[Elkit]

> but if Western Europe fell, America certainly would have had someone to trade with. They're called: the Germans. You know, the people who brought the world Krupp and Thyssen, Porshe, Volkswagon, and so on.

Rrrricky, my frrrreeend, it's time to unpimp ze auto!
(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)

[Kit E]

Stalinists, all of them!

[grytpype]

A bunch of pissing-themselves terrified pussies, threatening us with death if we don't knuckle under to Dear Leader.

Fuck them.