Skullduggery, The Bush GOP's Security Blanket -- Second Hand or Second Nature

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

BuzzFlash,  

In reference to The New York Post, Mark Karlin, you are too kind. As a young adult in Kansas, maybe I've told this story before, how my grandfather, as a young boy, would tell us about seeing those night riders all dressed in white, and they were scary to him. They evidently rode in from Missouri, because he lived close to the state lines. Before I ever saw the costumes those bigots wore back then, when I was in country school, the teacher would always threaten us students when acting out, with putting us in a corner wearing a "dunce" hat before the class. As I grew older and saw the costumes worn by single-minded simpletons, these racists, I laughed and laughed, because I thought, how appropriate that these people, who think they are so politically correct, not only hide behind white sheets, but also wear dunce hats. Their costume couldn't have been more perfect for who they were and what they represented. They did the American people a favor by separating themselves from the rest of us.    

Oh, and did I mention that many of these same people, without their costumes, love to spew out verses from the Bible? I guess that is supposed to act as some kind of antidote for their verbal poison they are cramming down people's throats, making it all easier to swallow.

The non-apology "apology" is a staple response of Republicans who find that people have caught them wearing white hoods -- and invariably the corporate media accepts what is really another insult and defense of racism as an "apology."

NY Post Non-Apology for Racist Cartoon Makes Monkeys of Us All (BuzzFlash.org)  

Yet, to this day, I've never heard anyone call them what they were, dunce hats. If there was ever a more significant sign of backwardness, hate, abuse, murdering, cowardly acts, studded with stupidity, it was by those criminals, who to this day, many of whom, never paid the price for their crimes against our fellow Americans. Today, they wear only suits and ties, adorned with a smug arrogance, but the dunce hat is still there for all to see. And, we have been seeing this for the last thirty years of Republican rule. And, if we lived in a perfect world, they, too, would be wasting away in some far off corner of society, along with their businesses.  

What I still find amazing is that racism was invented and designed to control the masses, and people absorb racism and don't even know why. Simply put, this was done by favoring some people and abusing others, until after a few years, to get the favors, those who were being abused, the black Americans, were shunned. Whites back then were given land and ways to pay their way out of slavery. This separated them from the black and Indian slaves. Then we have the reservations for the indigenous people, our American Indians. Separated from the masses, abused and mostly poor.  

Can you imagine never lifting a finger unless someone did it for you? Forty-thousand slaves, blacks, whites, and Indians, was one number that I've read about, residing on a large plantation. The number alone bred fear, however, the owners were not going to give up their greed. They, instead, developed tactics to separate the slaves using racism.  

We can still see these types of mannerisms in the South today. It's in the news. Oh, the language is different, but the message is the same. Ask the people who are being used and abused through the years by a Republican government. For instance, these Republican governors, such as Jindal, who is willing to accept the stimulus package, except for the money that goes to the people who need it the most, Louisiana's unemployed and poor ... never mind the children who are suffering. Haven't these people endured enough pain under Republican rule?

If that wasn't ample insult, he is trying to blame the Democrats for what the Bush regime did during Katrina. It sounds like it. I watched some of those trying to rescue people, they were using their own cameras and it was on Current TV. We saw the dead bodies left for weeks. We saw the recovering stopped. We saw guns used to keep people from leaving the city, and threats for those who tried to stay and rescue. All due to a Republican agency. They turned away food and supplies, would not deliver them. They closed apartments to the poor, that were not damaged. The cruelty goes on and on, it filled a documentary.  

Many of us Americans, for the first time in years, saw a government that was full of sinecures at work. Listen to these Republicans today, howling and complaining about President Obama, who is trying to keep the American people from suffering too much for the problems that came about because of the Bush GOP's greed for money and power. A greed that has caused much death, debt, and destruction, not only to the American people, such as in New Orleans, but around the world, and was supported 100% by these same howling Republicans. Why should we listen to any Republican today, until they stand up for justice for the crimes of the last eight years. Then I will believe they are sincere in what they say. And, only then.  

We don't expect these Republicans to take responsibility for these crimes caused by them, and they are crimes. Mess is too innocent of a word to describe what this political party has done to this nation and to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Bush GOP have always used these same tactics to separate the masses of this country. Just as these Republicans are having tantrums and speaking out against the Obama administration, hardly a month old, they and others did the same, all during the Clinton administration. The difference, I hope this time, will be that President Obama understands them and will not give into them, like Clinton did. For the future of this country, we really need most all of the legislation passed by the Bush GOP regime to be thrown out. It's all anti-Democracy, pro-Fascism.  

Why do these racist retreads still work today? I wish I knew. The story behind racism and how it was contrived is in books and documentaries, but is it being taught in the schools, that I don't know. My guess, would be that it is not, because it still exists. People hate complete strangers, who have never done anything to them, and they don't question their own behavior and don't even know why they hate ... and most of all, they don't question the Republican leadership that uses racism, but also any kind of tactic that is anti-worker, anti-woman, anti-ethnicity.

In other words, these Republicans don't really like anybody. They are in love with power and the privileges it gives them. This is true with every other type of hate, because it instilled that when people are different from themselves, they must be hated. This kind of rhetoric only works when people are willing to be told how to think and what to think.  

Will all of the American people who heard these Republicans stand up against the debt, death, and destruction that was in the news and going on for eight long years by the Bush GOP regime, please stand up and be counted? It won't happen. They supported the Bush GOP regime completely. They are at fault. Let those who know how to work US government, alone ... and, since they don't give a damn about the American people, except for themselves ...  the very least they could do, would be to stand down, and shut up. And, since they are not going to do that ... this is the main reason that we need accountability and justice for US law in US government. That would shut these Bush GOP loyalists up. Tell the American people how they voted for these last eight years ... and run them out of office.  

Thank god, the majority of us are cast in a different mold. We believe this government belongs to us, not to them, they are supposed to just work for us ... and many Americans, who want to call themselves Republicans, also understand today, that they cannot follow these Bush Republicans. Why? It's the facts, those plain and simple facts, many of which we are hearing from the Republicans themselves.  

Facts: Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. Henry David Thoreau (d.1862) Miscellanies 

Take care,