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--- Seeing as how the six months since the 2006 election have not exactly been very good ones for the still-crumbling Bush neocon junta of an administration,.. possibly even worse, in fact,.. looking forward to the 2008 election is becoming more and more encouraging. Can we just follow that train of thought with a few rosy speculations for a moment?
--- Okay,... let's posit first of all that a democrat is elected president. Hell, let's even say that we pick up another thirty seats in the House, giving the democrats a 60% majority there,.... and another net gain of four or five for a 55 - 45 advantage in the Senate. (Screw Lieberman) And since we're speculating wildly anyway, let's even go so far as to dream that a republican Supreme Court Justice gets drunk and drives his car into a concrete wall at 75 mph the day after innauguration. Still with me?
--- So,... where does that leave us? Free and clear? The neocon curse lifted? Things back to normal? Would happy days, in fact, be here again?
--- Nope,.. not for me, they wouldn't. That victory would afford all the relief and gratification of the Iran-Contra pardons. There's no point in dealing with political criminals in a "catch-and-release" fashion. We have to teach them a lesson,.. one that will leave a searing memory to act as a deterrent in the future. We have to make "shock and awe" believers out of the neo-nazis,.. as well as a few of their corporate enablers.
--- Now,.. I realize that democrats are supposed to be more civilized than to be extracting a pound of flesh. I know that non-violence and pacifism are big items around here. Vindictiveness a non-starter, for sure, eh? But folks,... these people tried to destroy the United States of America, lock, stock and Constitution. Quaint ideas like majority rule were too inconvenient for the entitled aristocracy. And it was they who first decided that they preferred the Law of the Jungle to the Constitutional rule of Law as propounded by our Founding Fathers. Just imagine for a moment that there are people in this country who are so wealthy and privileged that the Constitution isn't good enough for them. They want it all,... and they put together the PNAC to take it away from the rest of us.
--- Hate to put it this way,.. but we have to hurt them,.. inflict damage,.. take some of their pieces off the board. And to be sure, this sort of retribution would go a long way in reassuring the rest of the world that the US has truly spit out the neocon poison.
--- Prison sentences HAVE to be forthcoming. And more than two or three,.... more like twenty or thirty. (I'm trying to be nice,.. I'm very economical and prison costs money) And legal cases that drag on for a decade wouldn't help, either. I'd offer the principals a deal: Cop to a ten-year sentence right away,.. or find out how your Patriot Act works from the inside out. Ten years or oblivion, take your pick.
--- Right afterwards of course, the Patriot Act would be history.
--- No,.. I don't expect this to end up being the reality of 2009,... even if all the optimistic speculations came true. The political industry seems to observe "professional courtesy" rules. Too bad for us.
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