Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Division of Labor Among the Evildoers
Today's column in the WP by E. J. Dionne, Jr. is so good I have to reference it a second time.0 comments
Dionne clearly points out the power wielded by the National Rifle Association over the legislative branch of our government. They are the ultimate, monomaniacal single-vote operation—and every other issue of import to the commonweal can go to the back of the bus. Or take a long jump off a short pier. Nope, just not interested.
The NRA leaders are the real "Evildoers."
Their attacks in southern states cost Vice President Al Gore the election in 2000; they have both Democratic and Republican members in Congress and in every state legislature scared to death of them; they've already budgeted $400,000 A WEEK to spend on ads aimed at skeet-shooting Senator John Kerry's campaign for the White House; and their most vile and evil habit—they hold rallies nearby to locales where children have nortoriously just killed other children with pistols and rifles, so that any anti-gun outcry is dwarfed and muted and the press agenda safely returns to how put-upon gun owners are.
These are bad people.
Very bad people.
And a perfect complement to any Bush White House.
It's a macro/micro thing.
From before the First World War, the George Herbert Walker/Samuel Bush-led family has made its immense fortune—over eighty years and four well connected Connecticut generations—from being major players on the world's armaments stage, and in the financial houses and oil/energy companies around the globe which have enabled the very Military/Industrial Complex that Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the country against in his farewell speech.
The Bush family response?
"That Ike. What a kidder!"
The Bush family wasn't about to listen to a U.S. General then, and it's not about to listen to any generals now. Not when there is SO MUCH money to be had by being a "wartime president." Consider the Bushes the "Anti-Ike" administrations.
So the Bushes have the big picture, big-ticket cannon, bomb and fighter jet markets cornered; they needed someone to cover the smaller, street-level death-stick market.
Voila! Les NRA!
How do you think the NRA can afford $400,000 a week for presidential election search-and-destroy ads? Where do you think that money comes from? There are some governments that can't afford ongoing outlays of $400,000 a month!
So whether your child is blown to pieces by automatic weapons fire in uniform in Fallujah, or by just walking to the store in Fremont, California, Butte, Montana or Biloxi, Mississippi, he or she will still be just as dead.
And you'll still be just as blinded and powerless.
And the money will still flow freely.
The NRA takes the inside; the Bushes take the outside. Everyone walks away fat and happy.
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or your Senator represented YOUR interests?
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posted by Gotham 2:36 PM
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