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Pattern of Megalomania
Posted June 2, 2003
thepeoplesvoice.org
By:
Schuyler Ebbets
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 regime’s
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 regime’s rise to power and the emergence of
Napoleon and Hitler. Among the most glaring of similarities shared by the
infamous three is the manner in 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 a terrorist attack
was carried out against him on Christmas Eve of 1800. Napoleon used
the atmosphere of fear and confusion surrounding the failed assassination
attempt to
suppress the Directorial Constitution and set up rule by a consul of three
in which he was the head. Napoleon swore an oath to "'assure
the integrity of the empire", the security of property, the
perpetuity of institutions, the respect for law, and the happiness of the
nation. The oath of Napoleon shall be forever the terror of the enemies of
France". 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 country’s military and economic forces against enemies. In
May 1804, the coup d'etat was complete when Bonaparte had himself crowned Emperor of France. Napoleon
Bonaparte was then able to assume the roles of both ruler and supreme
commander of the Frances’s army with an expanded authority to
wage war.
Persuaded by ex-Chancellor and political opportunist Franz van Papen and the
extremists within the Nazi party, President von Hindenberg reluctantly
appointed Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor on January 30th, 1933. Soon after
Hitler took office a terrorist attack was carried out against the Reichstag,
Germany’s 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, the coup
d'etat was complete, with the death of von Hidenburg army leaders and van Papen agreed to the merging of the
Chancellorship with the Presidency. Adolf Hitler was then able to assume the
roles of both Reich Fuhrer and supreme
commander of the Reich’s armed forces with an 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
Center 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 victory
in the election, Bush introduced the Department of
Homeland Security, establishing a new centralized command structure within
the federal government while transferring legislative powers to himself and his
Cabinet. On October 11, 2002 the coup
d'etat was complete, when the Senate voted 77 to 23 in favor of granting
Bush independent war making powers to "preemptively strike" Iraq
or any other country at his digression. George W. Bush was then able to
assume the roles of both President and Supreme Commander of America’s Armed
Forces with an expanded authority to wage 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 detonated 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.
Hitler’s method of consolidation and militarization of power was similar
to Napoleon’s, 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 Lubbe’s 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 Bush’s popularity rose in the
‘polls’ and his threats of war and revenge against America’s 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 America’s 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 PNAC’s 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 by attacking impoverished Afghanistan with
the indiscriminate high-altitude
bombing of 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 America’s 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 neocon’s so called, “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 it’s 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 Bush took office the Russians have been under no illusions
about the Neocons and their expansionist intentions . Moscow has moved tactical nuclear
weapons into Kaliningrad in a continuing campaign to derail NATO’s
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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This article is © copyright 2003 by Schuyler
Ebbets (sebbets@comcast.net) Permission
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