American Politics Journal -- Napping On The Job

The APJ Mailbag

May 26, 2002

Dear Sirs,

As a citizen of the U.S. I read Robert Fisk's essay, "Firestorm Coming", with interest. This letter is simply to let you know that there are a considerable number of Americans who, similarly to you, see Mr. Bush as a threat to world peace, civil society and the global environment. He is not a "popular" leader as the hysterical media in this country continually try to market to a seemingly credulous public. The 70% "approval" ratings are fundamentally a metric of the national anxiety level, continuously stoked and inflamed by a cynical White House pumping out "credible" non-specific threats in order to cloud people's minds and keep them distracted from the active campaign being waged to destroy the broader social community of the United States wherever it is in conflict with the goals of an obscenely grasping group of pIutocrats bent on arrogating the world's resources and power to themselves alone. This is Mr. Bush's sole true constituency; the ones who fund the corruption needed to install and maintain someone of his negligible abilities in the highest office of this land.

It is important to keep remembering that Mr. Bush did not win the election in this country. He received 500,000 fewer votes than Mr. Gore and managed to prevail in the scurry to secure the electoral votes in Florida only by the active and, according to current lawsuits, lawless disenfranchisement of minorities by his brother through the auspice's of the Florida Secretary of State who was also George W. Bush's campaign manager. It was finally the Bush team's use of the Supreme Court of the United States to stop a legal recount of the ballots that "secured" his office. No less an observer than Jimmy Carter has said that if we had been sent to oversee this election, had it happened in another country, we would have refused to recognize the legitimacy of the outcome.

In short, George W. Bush is no friend to Democracy. His attribution of "hatred of Democracy" to his adversaries would be laughable if our mutual (ours and your) survival did not depend on the fearful power that was bestowed upon him by a cynical and corrupt elite. Please note that in this country the only campaign promise and policy that he has effectively focused on, pursued and implemented, is a treasury-emptying tax cut for his wealthy contributors and corporate backers. That is all we have to show for it. And we're supposed to be his friends and countrymen.

It doesn't take too much imagination to summon up the feelings of the other five and three quarters of a billion people on this planet who have to suffer his tender mercies in support of dictators, repression, violence, injustice, inequality and envirocide. I have every sympathy for those in the streets in your capitals and plan to be in the streets of this country with the same message wherever and whenever possible.

Peace,
Geoffrey DeWan
Los Angeles, Ca.

From: Ruth T.
Re: America's Future?
Date: May 26, 2002

The question I keep asking myself is how any reasonable person could support Bu$h. A man that has promised never ending wars and terrorist attacks on this country and its people. A man that promises nothing but deficit spending as far as the eye can see. A man that promises your children a future of fear, war, and terrorist attacks, a future that promises they will be serving in the never-ending wars and living through the constant attacks. A man that promises deficit spending and spending that goes to the military and nothing to improve our country and the lives of our people!

How could anyone want this type of future for our country and our children?

Bu$h gives us no solutions, just the prediction of more wars and terrorist attacks. His advice is live your lives, go shopping, go to amusement parks in Florida, and be alert.

My God, this is insanity and the American people seem to be in some kind of patriotic stupor that is allowing this to happen!

From: Mac MacArthur
Re: Jack Welch
Date: May 26, 2002

So -- now that it turns out that former General Electric CEO Jack Welch really didn't know jack about running the company, he is beginning to lose his nerve. Take one look at those eyes (note the wigged out pic of Jack to the right) and you'll easily be able to tell that this guy has been "unclothed."

So much for "Mavens". Add Welch to the growing list of potential crooks in American Big Business -- including Ernst & Young, Arthur Anderson, Enron (headed by good ol' uber-thief Kenny Boy "Lay" and Jeff "Shilling"), and -- of course -- our outraged and outrageous Vice President Dick Cheney (together with his Evil Empire Trophy Wife Lynne).