Pattern
Of Megalomania
By Schuyler Ebbets
11 June, 2003
The Republicans were the
first to use the term "coup d'etat" to describe the events
surrounding the 2000 election. As each day passed without a clearly
defined presidential leader fear and apprehension increased. Many believed
that the absence of tanks in the streets proved that American democracy
was still in tact. A flawed reasoning based on the assumption that a
"coup d'etat" is always defined as the violent overthrow of
a legitimate government, accompanied by arrests, executions, and torture.
In reality a violent government takeover is more characteristic of a
"putsch," and coups are usually covert in nature.
The events surrounding the
November 7th, 2000 election were ominously similar to the CIA rigging
of legitimate elections in Nicaragua, Venezuela, El Salvador, and democracies
around the world. In a government manual entitled "Coup d' Etat"
by Edward Luttwak, a Washington think-tank insider with close ties to
US intelligence, he says; The power will come from the state itself.
A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment
of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government
from its control of the remainder."
The hand full of men who
seized power in the United States used the Supreme Court, a small
but critical segment of the state apparatus, to facilitate their
immediate takeover. The day after the September 11th, 2001 hijackings
the Neocons established a shadow government absent of both legislative
and judicial branches. On October 26th, 2001 President Bush signed the
USA Patriot Act into law, abrogating Constitutional rights and the Bill
of Rights, and facilitating the declaration of Martial Law. On November
5th, 2002 Bush signed The Homeland Security act, consolidating the duties
of 22 federal agencies into one cabinet level Department of Homeland
Security and strengthening Public Law 101-647. Signed by his father
in November 1990, Law 101-647 allows Bush to declare a national emergency
for almost any reason, an earthquake, a terrorist attack, or even an
economic crisis. In the event of a Bush declared emergency, the Federal
Emergency Management Agency FEMA, is empowered to implement the
horrific Executive Orders 10995 through 11005. As acting president of
the United States during the declaration of a national emergency and
Martial Law Bush can also issue Executive Orders, granting him far reaching
powers to unilaterally create law without congressional oversight and
approval.
We euphemistically refer
to this little gang, which now threatens the world with their violent
vision of the future, as the 'Neocons', the radical right,
and some have called them fascists. Although Cheney appears
before the American people as the Vice president, he is truly the leader
of the Neocons. Should this gang decide to declare martial law and implement
the dictatorial shadow government, Cheney will be first in command and
Bush will be his subordinate, according to a plan which is not based
on the principles of presidential succession as defined by the US Constitution.
The regimes mastermind behind invasions and military takeovers
is the controversial Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld serves as his media front man and helper.
Some of the lesser gang members include Douglas Feith, number three
at the Pentagon, I. Lewis Libby, a Wolfowitz clone assigned to the State
Department, and Cheney's chief of staff, John R Bolton, a right-wing
radical also assigned to the State Department to monitor Colin Powell.
This is not the first time
that a great democracy has been infiltrated and forced to serve the
interests of a few. There exists a chilling pattern of events surrounding
the Bush regimes rise to power and the emergence of Napoleon and
Hitler. Among the most glaring of similarities between the infamous
three is the manner by which they achieved their status as heads of
state, none having been democratically elected by a clear majority of
voters, but instead coming to power through the compromise of electoral
processes, or by coup d'etat.
President Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon's nephew) abolished the Legislative
Assembly and appointed Napoleon Bonaparte as first consul of France
on November 9th, 1799. Not long after Napoleon took office an assassination
attempt was carried out against him on Christmas Eve of 1800. Napoleon
used the atmosphere of fear and confusion surrounding the failed attack
to suppress the Directorial Constitution and set up rule by a consul
of three in which he was the head. With the establishment of his new
triumvirate, Napoleon used his self-ordained dictatorial powers to appoint
hand picked Judges and administrators and reorganized the judicial and
financial branches of government. He instituted radical new internal
reforms placing all aspects of the administration directly under national
control, establishing an efficient centralized government that was effective
at mobilizing the countrys military and economic forces against
enemies. In May 1804, the coup d'etat was complete when Napoleon had
himself crowned Napoleon I, Emperor of France.
Persuaded by ex-Chancellor
and political opportunist Franz van Papen and the extremists within
the Nazi party, President von Hindenberg reluctantly appointed Hitler
as Reich Chancellor on January 30th, 1933. Soon after Hitler took office
a terrorist attack was carried out against the Reichstag, Germanys
capitol building in Berlin. Hitler used the atmosphere of fear and confusion
surrounding the attack to push through the 'Enabling Act', a law that
legitimized the policies of his regime, authorizing far-reaching restrictions
of civil liberties and constitutional rights. Hitler stated; An
evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great
nation. We must take steps to insure our domestic security and protect
our homeland." With support from the nationalists and by using
propaganda, terror, and intimidation, Hitler was able to secure his
hold on power in the last "democratic" elections held in Germany
on March 5th, 1933. The patriotic ideals of Legal Revolution
and "National Awakening" had helped neutralize any potential
opposition and disguised the 'Nazis' behind a facade of traditional
values. With his victory in the election Hitler passed more enabling
laws, effectively eliminating parliamentary procedures, transferring
legislative powers to himself and his Cabinet. On August 2nd, 1934,
with the death of von Hidenburg the coup d'etat was complete, army leaders
and van Papen agreed to the merging of the Chancellorship with the Presidency.
Hitler became Reich Fuhrer and supreme commander of the Reichs
armed forces with a new expanded authority to wage war.
Prosecuted by ex-Bush Sr.
advisor and political opportunist Carl Rove and the extremists within
the Republican Party, Bush was appointed President on December 12th,
2000 by five Republican Supreme Court judges. Soon after Bush assumed
office a terrorist attack was carried out against the World Trade Centre
in New York. Bush used the atmosphere of fear and confusion resulting
from the attack to pass the Patriot Act, a law that legitimized
the policies of his regime and authorized the abridgement of civil liberties
and constitutional rights. Bush stated, I propose sweeping changes
that will strengthen our homeland against the ongoing threat of terrorist
attacks. With the support of conservatives and by
using media propaganda, the terror war, and political intimidation,
Bush was able to secure his hold on power in the last "democratic"
midterm elections held in America on November 5th, 2002. The seductive
notions of "Patriotism and nationalism" had helped
neutralize any potential opposition and disguise the Neocons behind
a facade of traditional values. With his victorie in the election, Bush
introduced the Department of Homeland Security establishing a new centralized
military command, effectively eliminating congressional approval, transferring
legislative powers to himself and his Cabinet. On September 2002, with
the passage of the Homeland Security act, the coup d'etat was complete,
Bush was newly established as Head of State and Supreme Commander of
Americas Armed Forces with an expanded agenda for war.
Although Napoleon Bonaparte had no personal involvement in the actual
terrorist act, which set into motion his quest for world domination,
he escalated tensions intentionally and used the event to militarize
France. Royalist plotters had attempted to position a horse and wagon
carrying a large gunpowder and shrapnel filled barrel along the Rue
Saint-Nicaise, so that it would explode as Bonaparte's carriage neared.
The timing of the fuse was off and the bomb detonating too late resulting
in 52 unintended victims. Bonaparte selected the innocent French émigré
son of Louis Henri Joseph de Condé, unjustly accusing him of
participating in the conspiracy of Georges Cadoudal to assassinate him.
Napoleon ordered that young duke de Condé be kidnapped from his
residence in Ettenheim, Baden, court-martialed and shot at Vincennes
all in a matter of hours avoiding the intercession of a civil court
trial. The callousness of this act had the predictable and desired effect
of enraging Europe's monarchies and turning them against Napoleon. Using
the pretext that France was under danger of attack by surrounding countries,
Bonaparte amassed a huge army - the first 200,000-man Grand Army, and
thus began his march across Europe preemptively striking his perceived
enemies.
Hitlers method of consolidation
and militarization of power was similar to Napoleons, however
Hitler was complicit in the actual terrorist act, which set into motion
the desired chain of events. On February 27th, 1933, while having a
beer in a pub in Berlin, Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist and
petty criminal bragged that he wanted to set the Reichstag on fire.
A Nazi SA, informer overheard van der Lubbes drunken ravings and
immediately reported them to Hitler. This was precisely the opportunity
that Hitler had been searching for. Later that evening one of his SA
detachments entered the Reichstag, possibly through a large central
heating tunnel, and planted gasoline incendiaries burning down the building.
Hitler immediately seized the opportunity to stage a media event the
next day among the smoldering ashes. He proclaimed that Van der Lubbe,
a Communist, had destroyed the Reichstag and the fire had been part
of a conspiracy. Using a manufactured fear of communism as an excuse,
Hitler abandoned the Versailles Treaty and began to build up the German
army. In November 1937, Hitler outlined his plans of world conquest
at a secret meeting of his military leaders.
Bush was briefed on the danger of a terrorist attack involving the hijacking
of US airliners over a month before September 11th, 2001 and it seems
he took no action to forestall the horrific event. The White House certainly
received numerous warnings from many foreign intelligence agencies concerning
a possible attack. As early as June 2001 the National Security Agency's
Echelon electronic spy network notified Washington that Middle Eastern
terrorists were planning on hijacking commercial aircraft to be used
as weapons against important American buildings. A July 10th, 2001 memo
to FBI headquarters from a Phoenix FBI agent warned of Arabs attending
U.S. flight schools and urged an investigation but his recommendation
was ignored. The CIA warned the Bush administration on August 6th, 2001
that Al Qaeda planned to hijack US planes and yet they took no action.
The Bush administration disregarded information from Russian, Jordanian,
Israeli, Moroccan, and Egyptian, intelligence agencies all in August,
all warning of an impending terrorist attack. Then inexplicably, the
White House allowed government counter terrorism agencies to "stand
down" from the highest level of alert also on August 6th, 2001
despite repeated warnings from CIA director George Tenet.
Word of the tragedy first came to President Bush in the hallway of a
school in Sarasota, Florida at 8:46 a.m., only one minute after American
Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashed into the north
tower of the World Trade Center. Bush was then escorted to an empty
room where he spoke briefly by phone with National Security Advisor
Condoleezza Rice. After his conversation Bush proceeded to visit with
the children. At 9:04 a.m., while Bush listened to second-graders reading,
staff chief Andrew H. Card Jr. whispered in his ear that a second plane
had struck the south tower of the World Trade Center. With a third plane
off course and headed for Washington D.C., Bush continued to visit with
the second-graders, smiling, he commented, These are great readers,
very impressive, thank you for showing me your reading skills. I bet
they practiced. Strangely, Bush waited until 10 a.m., when he
was aboard Air Force One, to call Cheney and place the American military
on high alert status, however by 9:43 a.m., American Airlines Flight
77 had already crashed into the Pentagon.
After constant patriotic
media propaganda Bushs popularity rose in the polls
and his threats of war and revenge against Americas enemies real
and manufactured seemed to gain acceptance. The White House seized upon
the fear and confusion surrounding the September 11th, 2001 tragedy
to radically redirect Americas foreign policy, releasing their
National Security Strategy document on Sept. 20th, 2002, and instituting
the largest government reorganization since the Department of Defense
was created by the Truman Administration. Centered on a new Department
of Homeland Security, the National Security Strategy consists of the
fundamental reorganization of the FBI, with new directives for the CIA,
Justice Department, and Pentagon. It encompasses every level of government
and includes an Increase of active duty military personnel from 1.4
million to 1.6 million. Coming a year after the attacks of Sept. 11th,
2001, the National Security Strategy is the coalescence of the principles
underlying the Neocons approach to foreign policy based on world domination
achieved through preemptive war.
A secret strategy for US
global domination released in September 2000 by the neo-conservative
think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC), verifies that
Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and I. Lewis Libby had been
planning a premeditated attack on Iraq long before seizing power in
January 2001. The plan entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses:
Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century was originally
conceived in 1992 during the waning days of the first Bush Administration
by then Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Pentagon analysts Paul Wolfowitz,
and I. Lewis Libby. It was later refined with the help of PNACs
founding members, among whom were Jeb Bush (brother of George Jr. and
governor of Florida); and Condoleezza Rice.
In October 2001 the Neocons
began their war march across the Middle East, attacking impoverished
Afghanistan with the indiscriminate high-altitude bombing of heavily
populated areas. In an attempt to exterminate the Taliban over 3400
innocent men women and children were killed. Less than a year and a
half after Americas declared victory, warlords terrorize the population
and religious fundamentalism is on the rise. If nothing else the war
in Afghanistan, which more resembled a brutal attack, served to christen
in blood the new National Security Strategy principles. On the morning
of March 20th, 2003 the Neocons attacked Iraq, launching cruise missiles
and dropping bombs, putting into practice the right of self defense
by acting preemptively.
What will be the end result of the neocons never ending
war on terror and what will be their undoing? How might their
desperate and dangerous gamble at world domination end? We have but
to examine the examples of Napoleon and Hitler to find possible answers
to these questions. Napoleon began his march across Europe in 1805 preemptively
attacking and defeating the armies of Britain, Russia, Prussia, Austria,
and Spain. On June 23rd, 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia a second time
with a force of 650,000 men, intent on punishing tsar Alexander I. Napoleon
was Confident of an easy victory before summers end, but instead found
himself and his army trapped in Russia in their summer uniforms and
short of rations as the first winter snowflakes began to fall. Only
he and 10, 000 of his 650,000 compatriots lived to see their beloved
France again. Napoleon had suffered his greatest losses in Russia and
it would prove ultimately to be his undoing. Britain, Austria, Prussia,
and Russia seized upon the opportunity to finish Napoleon and end his
megalomaniacal dreams. Their coalition force crushed his army in the
Battle of Nations in 1813 near Leipzig, and drove him back
to Paris. Before Napoleon could again gather an army, Tsar Alexander,
and King Frederick William III of Prussia marched into Paris on March
31st, 1814 and forced Napoleon to abdicate, exiling him to the scenic
little island of Elba off the coast of Italy. Napoleon easily escaped
the island and formed another army, which was quickly destroyed in the
battle of Waterloo on June 18th, 1815 by the coalition forces under
the command of Wellington. Napoleon was then exiled to the remote St.
Helena Island, a cold rainy rock in the South Atlantic where he died
in 1821 powerless and forgotten. His endless war to rule the world had
lasted nearly ten years, cost millions of lives and in the end, left
France an economically devastated shadow of its former greatness.
In 1935 Hitler abandoned
the Versailles Treaty and conscripted five times the permitted number
of men into the German army. In March 1936 he occupied the demilitarized
Rhineland without opposition. In 1939 He annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia
and invaded Poland. In 1940 he occupied Denmark, Norway, and France,
and on June 22nd, 1941 he invaded Russia with 7.2 million men. Confident
of victory before summers end, Hitler chose not to provide his soldiers
with winter uniforms and equipment. By August the Reich had advanced
to within three miles of Moscow only to be halted by 43° below zero
cold and a massive Russian counter attack of 6.2 million men. The summer
blitz had turned into a muddy bloody freezing rout costing the Reich
1.4 million soldiers. By 1943 Russia had recaptured the majority of
her lost territory. On June 22, 1944, the third anniversary of the German
invasion, Russian command sent 2.5 million fresh troops armed with new
tanks, artillery and airpower against German positions in Byelorussia
annihilating 28 German divisions and capturing 350,000 soldiers. In
the months that followed German High Command would admit to 3,500,000
men killed or missing in Russia. By February 1945 the Russian line had
advanced to within fifty miles of the Furerbunker in Berlin. Hitler
decided if he did not survive Germany too should be destroyed. On March
19th, 1945 he ordered the demolition of what remained of German industry,
communications, and rail systems. On April 30th, 1945 Hitler committed
suicide by shooting himself in the mouth. His attempt to defeat Russia
and dominate the world had lasted nearly 8 years and killed 56 million
human beings. Allied bombing had flattened every major city in Germany
leaving the country physically and economically devastated for many
years.
The buck always stops in
Russia for every would be world dictator. President Bush
and his regime must conquer the Slavic people as Emperor Napoleon and
Reich Furor Hitler attempted to do. Without control of Russia the New
World Order is only the New Half a World Order. Russia, which has been
labeled by the American media as a collapsed country, possesses
the largest concentration of wealth and natural resources on the planet:
13% of the world's oil reserves, 32% of the world's natural gas, the
largest coal reserves at 30%, and the world's largest iron ore output
at 101,400Mt per year. Russia is the world's leader in aluminum production
and the leader in tin, titanium, tantalum, niobium, and Rare Earths
mining. Russia possesses one third of the worlds gold reserves, 10.2%
of the world's platinum, and 50% of the world's diamond reserves. Russia
builds and exports all forms of machines, from rolling mills to high-performance
aircraft and space vehicles; ships, trains, automobiles, communications
equipment; agricultural machinery, tractors, construction equipment;
electric power generating equipment; medical and scientific instruments;
consumer durables, textiles, and foodstuffs. At 17,075,400 sq km Russia
is twice the landmass of all fifty United States and is the largest
country on earth. Russia has 20% of the world's supply of unfrozen unpolluted
fresh water In lake Baikal alone, and The Siberian region contains the
largest forested area on earth, an estimated 750 million hectares. Russia
maintains 1,520,000 total active duty military personnel with 78.2%
army, 13.2% navy and 8.6% air force. In 2002 Russia let it be known
that they are capable of fielding an army of 38,906,796 men, age 15-49.
In addition to their ability to fight a massive tactical war Russia
also has 6,000 strategic nuclear warheads, most of which are deployed
on MIRVed land-based missiles aimed at the U.S. and China. Since the
Neocons took office the Russians have been under no illusions about
their expansionist intentions. Moscow has moved tactical nuclear weapons
into Kaliningrad in a continuing campaign to derail NATOs assimilation
of the Baltic States. On April 29th, 2003 British Prime Minister, Tony
Blair personally delivered a warning to President Putin at his dacha
outside Moscow. He spoke of a New World Order with two different poles
of power acting as rivals to one another. The world faced the
choice of a partnership with the US or a continued "diplomatic
stand off", Blair said. Putin has responded to the coercive rhetoric
with plans of launching the largest military exercises Russia has carried
out since the cold war. Russian strategic bombers and submarine missile-carriers
will simulate nuclear attacks against several military targets in the
United States and Great Britain. They will also work on locating and
liquidating US aircraft carriers. Russia is making a point; they will
not come willingly under the control of America and the New World Order.
As President Putin told Blair on April the 29th, We are not with
you and we don't believe you.
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