The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the
principles of DOUBLETHINK
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WHY THE PRESIDENT IS LYING
Jack Random
The Jazzman Chronicles
January 27, 2006
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Here are seven reasons why every objective observer should
conclude
beyond all reasonable doubt that the president is lying.
1. He lied about the war. For those who hold the reservation
that the president may not have been properly informed, that
he was in fact duped by bad intelligence or twisted
advisors, let me take this rare opportunity to defend the
chief executive. He is not a dumb as you think. He is not an
observer on the periphery of Dick Cheney’s power circle. He
is a fully informed, fully engaged member of Cheney’s
circle. He knew about the canyon-sized gaps in intelligence
and he conspired to close them with a chain of deceptions.
The president lied because he wanted war. He lied because he
was convinced that the little man from Crawford, Texas,
could only reach historical greatness as a war president.
2. The president lied repeatedly on the very topic that
should now become the basis for impeachment proceedings but,
instead, is becoming the centerpiece of the Republican
midterm election campaign. He told us over and over, in
every public setting he could find, that wiretapping was
never done without a court warrant. Just in case we did not
fully understand him, he spoke slowly and with absolute
clarity: Wiretapping on American citizens is never done
without a court warrant.
3. If the president is telling the truth about the scope of
the eavesdropping – that it only involves Al Qaeda club
members – there should be only a handful of cases on file.
According to published reports, the NSA domestic spying case
(by any other name) involves thousands of Americans. How
stupid do we think Al Qaeda is? Are we seriously to believe
that they are calling the USA on a regular basis? Are they
calling in complete confidence that our government will only
listen in if they have a court warrant? How stupid do they
think we are?
4. If the president is telling the truth, that the scope of
the program is limited and that civil liberties are
protected, then there is absolutely no reason to circumvent
the FISA law. There is a rubber stamp at the FISA court for
warrants on the communications of known Al Qaeda members. In
such cases, the process would take all of thirty seconds
beyond the mechanics of sending a fax. Furthermore, as any
informed citizen should know by now, the
spy-now-get-approval-later provision of the FISA law gives
the Justice Department 72 hours to shuffle the paper work.
In other words, to the extent that the NSA domestic spying
program is legitimate, it is completely unnecessary. If that
is the case, either the Attorney General and his coterie of
legal advisors are incompetent to the point of absurdity, or
the president is lying.
5. If the president were telling the truth, he would open
the books on all surveillance targets that are no longer
current, with the targets identified only by profession. We
would stipulate that the Attorney General and the head of
the NSA should certify that the list is complete and
accurate on penalty of felonious perjury. Knowing
generically who has been spied on would offer no information
of value to our terrorist enemies – who already presume they
are being monitored with or without warrants. It would be of
great value to the defenders of civil liberties and would
give us all assurance that our president has not simply
taken the law into his own hands. I guarantee you, even
without the names, the list would read like a Who’s Who in
dissident politics. It is the political hit list of Richard
Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover, whose name should be stricken
from the FBI headquarters.
6. If former NSA insider Russell Tice, who has identified
himself as a whistle-blower, is never prosecuted or held to
justice, then the president was lying about conducting an
investigation into a serious breach of national security. If
that is the case, we must conclude that it was a deliberate
leak. It bears all the markings of the twisted mind of Karl
Rove, plotting to replace Plame Gate, Iraq Gate, Katrina
Gate and Abramoff Gate with NSA Gate. They like the odds.
They like how it plays in Middle America. They would rather
take their chances as the tough guys who write their own
laws in the fight against terrorism against a party still
trying to decide whose hand to hold while the Republicans
rip out their guts.
7. Just look at him. I mean, really look at him, leaning on
the podium, chumming it up with the press corps, acting as
if an impeachable offense was nothing more than a discussion
of the Sammy Sosa trade back in the day. He chuckles, hems
and haws, mugs and guffaws. He has all the moves of a real
estate agent or a used car salesman. We should react just as
we would with any other salesperson. He is not on our side.
Lying is second nature to him.
Jazz.
JACK RANDOM IS THE AUTHOR OF THE JAZZMAN CHRONICLES (CROW
DOG PRESS) AND GHOST DANCE INSURRECTION (DRY BONES PRESS).
THE CHRONICLES HAVE APPEARED ON DISSIDENT VOICE, THE ALBION
MONITOR, BUZZLE, COUNTERPUNCH AND PEACE-EARTH-JUSTICE. SEE
RANDOM JACK:
HTTP://www/jazzmanchronicles.blogspot.com.
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Jazzman Chronicles - Jack Random - President George W. Bush
went on the offensive this week, defending his authorization
of spying on American citizens, within the boundaries of the
nation, in direct contradiction to the Federal Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978. The president asserts that
he is only spying on those in communication with known Al
Qaeda agents or their affiliates.
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The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the
principles of DOUBLETHINK, this aim is simultaneously
recognized and not recognized by the directing brains of the
Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine
without raising the general standard of living. Ever since
the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do
with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in
industrial society. At present, when few human beings even
have enough to eat, this problem is obviously not urgent,
and it might not have become so, even if no artificial
processes of destruction had been at work. The world of
today is a bare, hungry, dilapidated place compared with the
world that existed before 1914, and still more so if
compared with the imaginary future to which the people of
that period looked forward. In the early twentieth century,
the vision of a future society unbelievably rich, leisured,
orderly, and efficient—a glittering antiseptic world of
glass and steel and snow-white concrete—was part of the
consciousness of nearly every literate person. Science and
technology were developing at a prodigious speed, and it
seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing.
This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment
caused by a long series of wars and revolutions, partly
because scientific and technical progress depended on the
empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a
strictly regimented society. As a whole the world is more
primitive today than it was fifty years ago. Certain
backward areas have advanced, and various devices, always in
some way connected with warfare and police espionage, have
been developed, but experiment and invention have largely
stopped, and the ravages of the atomic war of the
nineteen-fifties have never been fully repaired.
Nevertheless the dangers inherent in the machine are still
there. From the moment when the machine first made its
appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need
for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for
human inequality, had disappeared. If the machine were used
deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt,
illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few
generations. And in fact, without being used for any such
purpose, but by a sort of automatic process—by producing
wealth which it was sometimes impossible not to
distribute—the machine did raise the living standards of the
average human being very greatly over a period of about
fifty years at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning
of the twentieth centuries.
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