http://www.almartinraw.com/column31.html *** Nobody cares about national security. It's all a money game. This is directly pursuant to what George Bush said in 1992 about the continuous "consolidation of power and money into higher, tighter, and righter hands." This stems from the belief that the people are nothing more than fodder for the schemes and ambitions of those that govern them. Keep the people simple Keep the people stupid. Keep interest rates low. Keep inflation rates low. Keep the dollar high. And by the time everything falls apart in twenty years time, when it hits the fan, and you can not maintain this type of policy anymore, then anyone who is in power now isn't going to be in power then. They'll all be dead. Or they'll be like George Bush Sr., living in a fantasy world, drinking Jack Daniels, taking Prozac, and jumping out of airplanes hoping their chute won't open. The Bush Administration is exerting an agenda here, an agenda for the return to the true form of Bushonian government -- government by shadowy cliques, secret commissions and defacto star chambers, government by a military defense policy wherein fifty cents out of every dollar is wasted and effectively defrauded by a small group of Republicans within the Military-Industrial Complex. Even George Bush Jr. once said that the Military-Industrial Complex has been wounded. What they're doing is repairing the wound. In other words, they aren't any more excuses. With the Soviet Union having fallen apart, with China's inability to become a modern military power, there wasn't any excuse anymore to maintain a Military-Industrial Complex and the right wing political cabal that it supported. What Bush is doing is repairing the damage by turning back the hands of time - and re-instituting the excuse. After a hiatus, the Republicans are returning to an agenda of continuous consolidation of power and money. The Big Lie Principle, according to George Bush Sr., maintains that if you're going to commit a covert illegal operation of state, it is best to commit an operation so huge and so egregious that the people would never believe it, if it ever became public. In this sense, we see the vast pools of money -- the slush funds of HUD, Social Security and the S&L fund. These government agencies have been hollowed out and gutted to such an extent that they are essentially floating slush funds for the all-powerful right-wing cabal. They do not generate any real money. They do not return any money to the Treasury. They don't originate any money. They have no money. Social Security has no money. A hundred percent of the social security general trust fund is gone. All of Social Security's assets are now three percent non-convertible US Treasury Notes. There is no cash left in the system. It's been said, quite correctly, that there ain't nothing left to steal. They can keep it afloat as long as the American people are kept stupid and kept happy. As long as they're kept happy, you can keep them in ignorance because they don't care. As long as they got the Beamer in the garage and the chicken in the pot, they don't care about how it got there. And most people don't care what's going to happen twenty years from now - as long as their present needs can be met. The Achilles Heel in the Bushonian notion of government and economic management is that you're constantly robbing from the future. The only thing that maintains all capital markets is the individual citizen and the collective confidence therein. For anything to change - and for there to be any real reform - that confidence must be shaken. And the only way that confidence would be shaken is if the Dow Jones, which is now ten thousand and change, was five thousand and change next year. If people understood that their 401K accounts have effectively become 201K plans. Their equity has been reduced in half, yet they still believe in the notion taught by the government, that investing is a long-term deal. You have to look at it twenty years down the line, they're told, when nothing is going to be worth anything. But regarding the shipments, it's clear that the Pandora's Box has been opened a crack more, that the risk is now lessening. The lid's come off -- when the FBI is directly involved in protecting these shipments and covering it up. It's clear that illegal covert operations of state are expanding and getting closer to those actually doing the footwork. Thus the risk factor declines. The retired FBI guys were easier to deal with because they're not under scrutiny. Now these active duty FBI agents want something too, but it has to be done discreetly, even though they've been told to do it from on high. They know it's illegal, so they expect that every shipment, a couple grand will be deposited in one of their offshore accounts. The Friendly Colonel even had to open an offshore account in the Santo Domingo branch of the Banco de Popular -- in order to accommodate payment. These FBI guys still expect deposits in their offshore accounts. How else do you explain retired FBI agents with a pension of $62,000 a year with million dollar luxury townhouses in St. Lucia?
