Revolution
By John S. Hatch11/26/05 "
ICH" -- -- President Bush was recently criticized for not being forceful enough in denouncing Chinese human
rights abuses during a trip there. Excuse me? This is the torture president. How on earth can the United States preach to
anyone in the world about human rights or the rule of law, or morality? In even raising the question, has Mr. Bush abandoned
any claim to sanity? If it is wrong for China to abuse human rights (and it’s true that their record is horrible) how
is it acceptable for the US in Iraq to sexually torture imprisoned children as a means to coerce their (probably completely
innocent) parents to disclose information they most likely don’t have?
There is within the mythology America
finds so indispensable something so sick and downright evil, but so pervasive that even after all the revelations of torture
and rape and murder sanctioned at the highest levels of government, even now the numbness persists, and writers still insist
on thinking that America is somehow a shining example of decency to a world which needs its sanctimonious preaching. Who in
their right mind would want to emulate America in this century? Who on earth would want to be an American in this darkest
of times? America is like a born-again Christian fundamentalist—mean, ignorant, full of hate and rage and superstition,
but utterly convinced of his own righteousness. In short, insane. Dangerously insane.
In Iraq American sanctioned and
trained elements of the Iraqi military are back to using electric drills on ‘insurgents’, an old Saddam phenomenon.
Drill for oil, drill for blood. They’ll drill your knee, or your arm, or your head. You are innocent. Doesn’t
matter. Think George cares? White phosphorous. Depleted uranium. Shock and awe. Cluster bombs. Etcetera. Where are those photographs
and videos of children undergoing torture at Abu Grahaib that a judge ordered released months ago? Whatever happened to the
rule of law? Where did accountability go? Where the hell is the outrage? Why are Bush and Rumsfeld and Rice and a bunch of
others not in jail cells? Where is the outrage?
For those who think that change is coming in ’06 or ’08,
think again—these people cannot relinquish power, whatever further lies and outrages they must commit to retain it.
There are simply too many crimes against humanity and war crimes for which to avoid accountability at all costs. Lives depend
on it. Many more crimes are yet to be reported. Do not for a moment consider that this bunch would not, if they saw it in
their interests, engineer another deadly 911 incident (blamed on Muslims, of course) to once again terrorize the populace
into meek submission. It may be pathologically manipulative and barbaric, but that’s Straussian politics. To them it’s
not only acceptable, it’s business as usual. It’s probably going to happen, as Bush’s numbers continue to
decline.
America has seen bad times—slavery, the civil war, McCarthyism and communist hysteria, never-ending
racism, Nixon and Kissinger, the unheralded horror of Reagan, but Bush has brought disaster on a completely different level.
Bush is a dupe, if an evil one, but there are truly ugly, nasty people pulling his strings. Nothing short of a second American
revolution is going to rescue your nation. Even now Bush is making plans to violently stop such a thing from happening. We’re
going to see once and for all if Americans stand for the vaunted values to which they give such eloquent and loud lip service.
If so, then I fear they will have to pay in blood. It’s come to that. I’m sorry.
John S. Hatch
is a Vancouver writer and film-maker. He can be reached at johnhatch@canada.comwww.jhatchfilms.citymax.com Source:
Information Clearing House
We thank John S. Hatch for the permission to publish his remarkable comment.
When all is said and done, it is now appropriate to change "God Bless America" to "God Forgive America".
We elected
the representatives that let this happen, without so much as a whimper of protest from both Democrates and Republicans.
Same goes for the Patriot Act.
Bests,
John
