You Can’t Have Your Cake and Freedom Too!

By Adam Roufberg

In a speech on May 13^th to promote his Jobs and Growth Plan, President Bush put forth the proposition that most jobs are created by small businesses. He said that his tax cut proposals will give small businesses the money they need to hire the employees necessary to create and distribute their wares. On the very same day the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing regarding FCC Chairman Michael Powell’s (Colin’s son) impending June 2^nd ruling to lift the remaining restrictions on media ownership. How could Bush-appointee Powell’s ruling possibly function to support Bush’s plans for a budding economy by consolidating ownership within a corporate structure only ten companies wide?

While it is true that the nation’s flowering economy is scraping its chin on the floor, at least we can all feel safer that the potential threat of the use of weapons of mass destruction by Saddam Hussein against US has been removed. The cowardly illegal invasion of Iraq was a complete success! It’s unfortunate that one of the main pieces of evidence the Bush Administration used to sell the necessity of a preemptive strike to Congress and the American Peoples were a series of forged documents regarding the sale of nuclear materials from Niger to Iraq. Bush is having a difficult time explaining how he lured Americans into war with this artificial intelligence

Rumsfeld, addressing the Senate Committee on Appropriations on May 14^th, was experiencing equal difficulty defending the Pentagon’s extraordinary oversight in its failure to secure Iraq’s nuclear sites. Shouldn’t the top priority have been to protect these known nuclear sites from looting, to reduce the chances that some of the looted nuclear materials could get into the hands of terrorists?

Also discussed at this hearing were the pentagon’s plans to develop a new line of ‘low yield’ nuclear weapons. These new nukes, still in the conceptual stage, have been argued by scientists as being not physically possible. Somehow though, politicians know more about these nuclear weapons than scientists. The talk of these new nukes has sent shock waves around the world and there will likely be a new global nuclear arms race as a result of the proposed weapons, much in the same way which the war on terrorism has inspired a new wave brutal terrorist attacks such as those in Saudi Arabia and Morocco.

The costly Bush wars, in the name of freedom and democracy, have killed over 10,000 Iraqi and Afghani civilians and turned their cities into wastelands of depleted uranium. Again, we find that politicians somehow know more than scientists about the biological effects of depleted uranium munitions.

In order to protect us from the terrorists inspired by the blood for oil pogrom, the Bush Administration is eager to discard the natural rights protected by the US Constitution and the bill of Rights. Bush’s Tax cut plan and the FCC’s ruling, in the context of The Homeland Security Act, The Patriot Act, the impending Domestic Security Enhancement Act, The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, the suspension of Habeas Corpus, and attempts to repeal the Posse Comitatus will not stabilize our economy, secure our homeland or protect our rights, they can only serve to insult the foundations of freedom and democracy.