President's monomania is ominous

[Qanisqineq]

(This is kind of old but I just found it and thought it was pretty good)

President's monomania is ominous
Ross Nelson, The Forum
Published Sunday, January 30, 2005

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=81789§ion=Columnists&columnist=Ross%20Nelson

We intervene not for conquest, not for aggrandizement … we intervene for humanity's sake … to aid a people who have suffered every form of tyranny and who have made a desperate struggle to be free." So spoke Republican Sen. John C. Spooner 107 years ago on the eve of the Spanish-American war. With nothing but the noblest intentions in our hearts we liberated Cuba from Spanish rule and crushed Spain's army and navy. We also became an empire when we replaced the Spanish dictatorship in the Philippines with our own. Somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 Filipinos died rebelling against us.

Having learned nothing from this and other misadventures in imperialism since then, a majority of the American people furiously waved flags and bellowed for blood when President Bush told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. We came, we saw, we obliterated, but we found no such weapons. A shameless president finally told us that we smashed Iraq in the name of liberty. We intervened for humanity's sake.

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The irony of Bush's blather is that Uncle Sam will happily hop into bed with the vilest tyrants on earth if they just coo the right words in his ear. Libya, Egypt, Pakistan - all headed by autocrats and despots - are our bosom buddies now.

Compare Bush's vision of America as the world's cop, judge, and executioner - a vision with no support from the Constitution, experience, or good sense for that matter - to that of former president John Quincy Adams:

"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been unfurled, there will her heart be…. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."


(guess this guy will be blacklisted, too! ;) )

[MNTrueBlue]

1. You forgot our Saudi "friends"

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibd/20050202/bs_ibd_ibd/200521issues01

One of those articles that should be all over the national news and brought to the attention of the American people that's conveniently tucked away in a back-corner of online news.

[NAO]

2. THE MADNESS OF GEORGE W. BUSH (malignent egophrenia)

THE MADNESS OF GEORGE W. BUSH:
A REFLECTION OF OUR COLLECTIVE PSYCHOSIS
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/georgews.html

excerpt:

George W. Bush is ill. He has a psycho-spiritual dis-ease of the soul, a sickness that is endemic to our culture and symptomatic of the times we live in. It’s an illness that has been with us since time immemorial. Because it’s an illness that's in the soul of all of humanity, it pervades the field and is in all of us in potential at any moment, which makes it especially hard to diagnose. Bush's malady is quite different from schizophrenia, for example, in which all the different parts of the personality are fragmented and not connected to each other, resulting in a state of internal chaos. As compared to the dis-order of the schizophrenic, Bush can sound quite coherent and can appear like such a "regular," normal guy, which makes the syndrome he is suffering from very hard to recognize. This is because the healthy parts of his personality have been co-opted by the pathological aspect, which drafts them into its service. Because of the way the personality self-organizes an outer display of coherence around a pathogenic core, I would like to name Bush's illness "malignant egophrenic (as compared to schizophrenic) disorder," or "ME disorder," for short. If ME disorder goes unrecognized and is not contained, it can be very destructive, particularly if the person is in a position of power.

In much the same way that a child's psychology cannot be understood without looking at the family system he or she is a part of, George Bush does not exist in isolation. We can view Bush and his entire Administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, etc), as well as the corporate, military industrial complex that they are co-dependently enmeshed with, the media that they control, the voters that support them, and ourselves as well, as interconnected parts of a whole system, or a "field." Instead of relating to any part of this field as an isolated entity, it’s important to contemplate the entire interdependent field as the "medium" though which malignant egophrenia manifests and propagates itself. ME disease is a field phenomenon, and needs to be contemplated as such. Bush's sickness is our own.

People who don't recognize Bush's illness and support him are unconsciously colluding with and enabling in the co-creation of the pathological field that is incarnating itself into the human family. People who support Bush become unwitting agents through which this non-local disease feeds and replicates itself. By supporting Bush they are collaborating with and becoming parts of the greater, interconnected and self-organizing field of the disease.

The situation is very analogous to when seemingly good, normal, loving Germans supported Hitler, believing he was a good leader trying to help them. The German people didn't realize that the virulent pathogen malignant egophrenia had taken possession of Hitler and was incarnating itself through him. By not seeing this and supporting Hitler, they became agents used by this non-local, deadly disease to propagate itself. This was a collective psychosis, and this is what is taking place in our country right now.

full article at above link.

More articles by Paul Levy

Awaken In the Dream
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/

[indigobusiness]

3. Making sense of the scheme of things

only adds clarity.