Republicans for Voldemort, Repent!

6 September 2004
By Jim Weller

Not all Republicans are irredeemably evil people. Some of them are ignorant fools. Those are the redeemable ones. As Jesus is supposed to have prayed upon the cross, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Maybe God will have mercy on their souls.

On the other hand, villains like Dick Cheney and his front-man George W. Bush decidedly belong among the former, hell-bent for election group. In a glimpsed video of Cheney addressing the Republican Convention in New York last week, I was astonished by the technical wizardry which somehow erased images of the fiendish reptilian tongue flicking out between his lips.

Though Bush is deeply malevolent and implacably hateful, his practice of the dark arts of deception seems sort of semiconscious, with a dim, zombie-like awareness. Cheney, on the other hand, brings to his role as grim mastermind the fully self-aware malice aforethought of the inveterate assassin.

In an unholy alliance with legendary Republican Svengali and political saboteur Karl Rove, this White House junta, in control of the awesome coercive and destructive powers of the United States, deserves to be thought the greatest single threat to world peace - as indeed it is by most of the earth’s peoples. “Public Enemy No. 1” signs should begin to be posted by the millions, in every U.S. city, prominently exposing Bush and Cheney as the 21st Century war criminals they truly are.

Let’s ask whom the parents and siblings and spouses of the thousands of people killed in Bush/Cheney’s misbegotten wars would hold ultimately accountable for their loved ones’ deaths.

Would they name Sadaam Hussein, who never posed a real threat to the U.S.A., and who had complied with U.N. Resolutions to get rid of his so-called weapons of mass destruction? Would they name Osama Bin Laden, who had no organizational connection with Iraq and little with the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, even though a few of his protégés did manage to do a great deal of harm with their hijacked airliners?

No doubt some, perhaps more than a few, American families have begun to suspect the secret, criminal collusion with which the Bushites were involved in the 9/11 events. No doubt they are beginning to see that the men ultimately responsible for their grief and losses are the imposters Bush and Cheney, illegitimately ruling in the White House, and scheming to do anything it takes to win the next election, even if thousands of U.S. citizens and untold numbers of others must die, in order to make the electorate terrified enough to elect the warlords.

I say to those Americans, it is the soulless thugs, thieves, and assassins in the Bush War Cabinet who are directly responsible for your losses and suffering, and for those of hundreds of thousands of families abroad.

What are you going to do about it? Are you going to do everything in your power to help bring them a resounding electoral defeat in November? Are you going to demand they be imprisoned and publicly tried in a world court for their crimes against humanity?

I say to you, “Carpe diem!” November 2 may be the last chance we have to halt this nation’s descent into the hell of Republican fascism.

As we longhairs shouted ages ago in the 1960’s, now as greybeards we must vow out loud again, “Power to the people! Right on!”

I bet you'll vote this time - eh, hippie?

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