Watergate DID happen "today."

[JackRiddler]

Nixon did not go down because of the media. He went down because Congress refused to fold to his unconstitutional will. However, Congress later folded on a very important point: Nixon went down for making an amateur secret army of personal spies and black-ops guys, but in the end no one was punished or held accountable for the "legitimate" black ops exemplified by FBI operatives who ran COINTELPRO programs against dissidents - like W. Mark Felt, now celebrated as a hero.

Then in 2001, Congress folded altogether.

Rather than suffering the pranks, break-ins, and illegal bugging of the Nixon era, the Democratic leadership was anthraxed in their Senate offices.

The timing, targeting and message of the Oct. 2001 attacks were unmistakable: pass the USA PATRIOT Act and go home! Oppose nothing substantive in the Bush agenda, curtail talk of investigating 9/11. Shut the fuck up. They did.

A dead journalist who had made minor trouble for the Bush regime was among the "collateral" victims of the anthrax attacks, sending a message to journalists: "Kill one, frighten one hundred."

A year later, a loudmouth liberal senator who was scoring points on opposing war plans was selected for assassination by airplane crash, on the eve of a nearly assured re-election victory.

It worked, again on the principle of "kill one, frighten a hundred." No one in public office dared to question openly the obvious timing and targeting of the Wellstone hit.

One of Bush's Senatorial Rubber-Stampers for War later pretended to run against him for president. When the election was fixed against him, he made sure to keep his mouth shut.

Watergate times a hundred, and it's possible mainly because at the slightest pressure, the Congress folds and the ostensible opposition party folds. They never resist the intimidation of "wartime" and "national security" propaganda. And they remember the anthrax.

[judy]

1. Interesting take, JackR...

You might be accused of wearing a Mega Tinfoil Hat. However, there is something in your analysis that somehow rings quite true...

[Cleita]

2. There is so much to impeach these people with, all of them,

I wish Congress would come out from hiding and do it.