What Do They Plan To Do With The Rest Of Us?

What does this administration already have on our dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap Congress? Is this why Congress sits lamely by as more and more of our civil liberties are destroyed—because the Bush administration has black-mailed our elected representatives? It is now time for Congress to speak up—grant our elected representatives amnesty in exchange for any information that shows what this administration has already done to coerce Congress and subvert liberty in America.

Who knows if ordinary people, bloggers, for instance, against the Bush administration are already being ‘renditioned’ to other countries and tortured, ‘re-educated’, murdered, and who knows if less than famous reporters critical of the administration are also being disposed of under the heading of “terrorism”?

Fear. Fear is the biggest danger inherent in surveillance damaging the American people. We are not guilty of anything, yet we stand accused by default when the Bush administration watches and records our every move and fear is the first way to subvert the rights of the American people. These people are surveilling your grandmother, for god’s sake—and fear enters our lives that we might be misjudged—some innocent action might be misinterpreted and behind that is the fear of “rendition” where we could be taken off to some godforsaken country and ‘disappeared’ from the lives of those we love who would have no recourse to find out what happened to us.

This amounts to behavior modification so that we no longer live free, but become inured to looking over our shoulders for no good reason. We are not guilty of anything, but yet we are forced to take on the aura of criminality simply because we have made a phone call.

Consider this: if you call AOL or any other ISP; if you call any large corporation for customer service, including your bank—your state social services in some cases—you are calling out of the USA. You are calling India, Africa, Pakistan—predominately MUSLIM countries that are our sworn enemies and where customer services have been outsourced to provide more profits to American corporations. That makes you a suspicious person. That gives this government carte blanche to inspect every detail of your life.

Consider this: you have a technical problem with your computer software. You call them. You are routed to a call center in another country. Easy, right?

Yes: easy to become a person of interest, labeled subversive, and opening yourself through no fault of your own to further surveillance and loss of privacy. Perhaps you are an anti-Bush blogger, or perhaps you communicate through e-mail with your children and share events reported in the news that are not advantageous to the Bush regime.

Perhaps you incorrectly access a politically “forbidden” website such as Al-Jazeerah newspaper by following search engine links relative to something completely unrelated: are you willing to trust the Bush regime to “understand” your mistake?

I was having a conversation with my daughter this morning regarding the old King James Bible versus the new and redacted versions that the theocracy works from. Jesus threw the money-changers out of the temple in the King James Bible, and I do not remember where I heard this parable—perhaps from my grandmother, or in Sunday school around the time I was three years old. Jesus himself taught us that money (politics in America today, for instance) and religion are not supposed to mix.

The theocracy, the Dominionists, would have us believe that God wants us to be rich; that wealth is a sign of God’s favor of the wealthy over the poor. Wealth, as with all other things, is a relative matter. To me, who grew up somewhat privileged and watched my parents destroy their health in the pursuit of money, wealth is a matter of healthy and happy grandchildren; a pet cat, a few fish watching my doings from their aquarium, and just enough cash to get by on and keep the wolf from the door.

More cash would be great and would buy more toys. I could drive around in a car that now costs a minimum of $60.00 for a tank of gas instead of getting on the bus and riding anywhere in town for a dollar; that costs hundreds of dollars per year to insure, thanks to the works of the Bush administration and their cohorts, the oil industry and the insurance industry among others.

I’d still be poor and my life would not be much different than it is today. There would appear to be a scheme in place to take whatever money the lower and middle classes are able to amass and to deprive us of a comfortable life. Own a home? You’re probably one or two paychecks from losing it, right? Drive a car? Have a phone, a cellphone, internet access? Running water and electricity? You’re a few paychecks from losing all the creature comforts to which you have become addicted.

Keep voting for these Dominionists. Keep on believing your theocon preacher when he tells you that God wants you to vote for George W. Bush and the Republican gang.

And do not ever consider thinking in realistic terms about what our future holds if the Bush regime continues to destroy America, to ignore global warming, to drill in the wilderness, to pollute our skies, our water, and the earth from which our food grows in order to secure the wealth of the richest 1% of our population.

But, consider this:

What do they plan to do with the rest of us?