Super Tuesday

On the eve of Super Tuesday, commonly known as the vote to determine the front-runners for President of the United States, I am left feeling uneasy.  The American people have been held hostage for the last seven years by a man who barely won the Presidency… once… in 2004.  He was “voted” in in 2000 on a platform of limited government and no nation building.  Yet here we are, seven years later, with such atrocities as “the war on terror” or the war in Iraq, however you feel comfortable identifying it, as well as a little branch of the government called Homeland Security.  President Bush has managed to turn a $4 trillion surplus into a $5 trillion deficit… in just seven short years… based on his platform of limited government and no nation building.  Can you imagine where we’d be if he had campaigned for larger government and Vietnam… er, I mean Iraq???  He squandered the support of the entire globe in the aftermath of 9/11 by inventing supposed weapons of mass destruction in a country that had nothing to do with the previously mentioned attacks.  Why did he do this?  The answer is unclear, but there are many theories.  Greed for oil (there’s lots of it in Iraq), war profiteering (carrying on in the footsteps of his father, George H.W. Bush and his grandfather, Prescott Bush, who incidentally helped fund the Nazis before WWII – don’t believe me??  Look it up!!), stupidity (do I really need to cite examples here??), or perhaps just plain ol’ delusions of grandeur.  Whatever the reason(s), we are locked in a war that was poorly planned, even more poorly executed, and completely lacks an exit strategy or time-line.  That being said… who wants another Republican at the helm for another 4 years??

Yes, President Bush cut taxes, however, the majority of the tax cuts went to the rich who ended up paying less taxes.  In conjunction with this, Bush also did away with the Estate Tax, which is a tax paid on the estate of someone after their death, but that doesn’t take effect if their estate isn’t worth so many millions of dollars.  Bear in mind many of these estates contain money that never paid a cent in income tax to begin with, which happens to be the reason the Estate Tax was instituted in the first place.  Then Bush decides to go to war.  I know what you’re thinking… he couldn’t possibly cut taxes again, could he?  Well, yes he did.  He is the only war time President to do so.  Now ask yourselves this question: where did that money come from to pay for the war?  Well, lowering taxes for his rich friends, including abolishing the Estate tax, meant that he had to find money that he could cut from spending.  Enter the middle and lower class supports that President Clinton worked to build up.  President Bush cut back Medicaid spending, Section 8 housing spending, welfare, social security, after school programs, and many other social programs designed to help out lower income people and families.  So not only did these people not benefit from the tax cuts, as Bush had promised in one of his debates with Al Gore in 2000, these people have lost essential services necessary to their daily lives.  It seems as though he has forgotten those who helped to vote him in…  wait a minute… was he voted in?  If those ballots from Florida had been counted, some 70,000 I believe and mostly from African American voters, would he have been elected?  Maybe that’s why his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush ordered the recount to be halted and declared his brother President of the United States of America.  Sounds a little fishy, right?  There’s more.  Voters were turned away from polling stations because they were convicted felons, well at least their names were similar to convicted felons.  A soldier who would go on to serve in Iraq was denied his vote because they said he was a convicted felon.  He wasn’t alone.  An independent investigation revealed that a P.I. firm had been hired by the State of Florida to do background checks on residents, find out if they were legal to vote, if they were criminals, and so on.  Well, they compiled a list of names of African American voters who’s names matched those of convicted felons from all over the U.S., disqualifying them from voting.  And the polls at that time showed that African American voters were more likely to vote Democrat for Al Gore.  Hmmmm…  Could this be true?  Could we really be witness to the greatest crime ever committed in history?  I think we were, and I am afraid it might happen again.

I have a feeling that the Democratic candidate for President (honestly I’m hoping for Hillary Clinton because I have a feeling she’ll shake some things up and it’s about time we let a woman in to run things – for the record, I’m a man, not a woman, so don’t think I’m hoping she wins because I have some feminist agenda because clearly I do not) will have so much support that one of two things will happen.  First, the election will be a landslide for the Democrat and there will be no chance of rigging the election as they have done in 2000 and 2004 and Hillary (I hope) will be elected President.  Should this happen, expect another “attack” or some other catalyzing event such as 9/11. 

Before I proceed I would like to clarify something: I am not Middle Eastern, I am a white male.  I am not a terrorist, just a concerned citizen who sees too many parallels between the U.S. of today and Germany of the 1930s.  They had the Reichstag, we had 9/11; they had Homeland Security, we have Homeland Security; they invaded the country of an enemy who did not attack them (Poland), we invaded the country of an enemy(were they an enemy at the time??) who didn’t attack us (Iraq).  There are more historical examples that don’t sit too well with me. 

For instance, there is the event that brought the U.S. into WWI: the sinking of the Lusitania.  A passenger liner, the Lusitania set sail from New York for Europe through U-boat infested waters after the German embassy took out ads in the newspapers warning that the vessel would most likely be targeted and destroyed.  Whether they listened to the warnings or not, the ship set sail and was sank, losing over 1400 people. 

Then there was Pearl Harbor.  I’m not insinuating that the government or anyone else had anything to do with that, but I find it strange that some 3 months before Pearl Harbor was attacked, Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt were discussing what it would take to get a swell of support for U.S. involvement in WWII.  Three months later, Pearl Harbor. 

Then there was the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the first incident, not the one that just happened a few weeks ago.  This was the mitigating factor that got the U.S. involved in the Vietnam War, an incident that has since had several witnesses come forward and say that it was staged, that it never happened. 

Then we had 9/11.  The world stopped and gasped in horror, myself included.  We found out that Saudi extremist boarded planes with the intent to strike several targets.  Three planes hit their intended targets and the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania… or did it!  All you need to do is look at the “crash site” and ask yourself these questions: where are the engines?  Where are the luggage?  Where are the bodies??  All you saw on TV was a crater and no physical evidence that a plane crashed there.  Then you have Donald Rumsfeld on TV saying something about the plane being shot down?  And if it crashed, why was the search grid 8 square miles instead of something closer like 2 or 3 square miles, as would be indicated by a plane crash?  An 8 square mile search indicates an explosion took place in the air, not upon impact.  Think back to when Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry several years back.  Remember how far that wreckage was spread out?  They were much higher than a plane could be and wreckage was spread over several states.  Just think of this fact: roll a ball on the grass and see how far it travels, then throw the same ball at the same speed and see how far it goes.  Which do you think will travel farther??? 

Ok, Saudi extremists.  Did you know that they found the passport of one of the terrorists at ground zero?  Do you know what that means?  The passport flew through 1400 degree flames, without catching fire, and landed nicely at the base of ground zero for law enforcement to find.  Does it seem a little bizarre to you that a fire that is hot enough to vaporize bodies isn’t hot enough to vaporize a paper passport?  What would you say if I told you that 5 of the terrorists who hijacked the planes were still alive?  Remember the passport they “found” at ground zero?  He was one of the guys who came forward and say look at me, I’m not dead!!  But the FBI to this day have not changed the list of terrorists.  The men who are still very much alive are still listed as those who perished in the attacks of 9/11.

The Pentagon.  All I have to say is this: if a passenger plane hit the Pentagon, where is the footage?  The Pentagon is the most heavily fortified building in Washington; lots of cameras and defensive measures – they have anti-aircraft missiles for Christ’s sake.  So why didn’t they fire at the “passenger jet” as it made it’s approach and miraculous descent to it’s target of an unoccupied under renovation section of the building?  Had they hit on their original approach vector, before their acceleration and banking took place, they would have hit the front of the Pentagon and take out Donald Rumsfeld’s office.  Seems like a more appropriate target to me if you’re trying to make a statement, don’t you think?  Next question: where are the 10 tons of steel that were the engines of the plane?  Steel cannot vaporize from the heat of a jet fuel fire, it is an impossibility and has since been proven.  Next question: why is the impact hole only 16 feet across, when a 767 is much larger?  And why were the adjacent windows still intact – windows that should have been broken by something on the plane called a wing??

Want more?  I could go on for hours and sounds even more like a conspiracy nut but I won’t.  Yes, I might be a conspiracy nut but why should we believe a government who fails to provide us with evidence that what they are saying is true?  That’s right, they say it will “embolden our enemies”.  WTF???  Forget our enemies and emboldening them because at this point, the whole world is our enemy because of how President Bush has acted.  What about the citizens who elected you?  Why can’t you answer to us?  What exactly are you hiding??  If you’d like to learn more about what I’ve just ranted about, check out the movie Zeitgeist or go to youtube and search for Alex Jones.  These two sources will provide you with more than enough material to form your own judgement. 

You may or may not believe what you watch, that’s up to you.  What you need to come away from this is a willingness to question authority.  They are the elected officials and they answer to us.  A government of the people, for the people, and by the people.  We are the powerful, not them.  On Super Tuesday, you have the chance to start the healing process.  In November you will have the chance to make history.  Please do not sit silently by while this country sinks further into despair and ever so closer to the brink of collapse.  Do the right thing and send a message to the Republicans: GET OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE!