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Dr. Charles Mercieca ~ STWR Member

President of International Association of Educators for World Peace NGO,
United Nations (ECOSOC), UNDPI, UNICEF, UNCED & UNESCO
Professor Emeritus of Alabama A&M University

Vulnerability of Republicans in America

For the past two to three decades, Republicans have proved themselves to be remarkably shrewd and effective in their political planning. They usually get what they ultimately want by any device conceivable. The Machiavelli dictum: The end justifies the means, has certainly become their characteristic banner. To this end, they adopt subtle lies through distortions and exaggerations. Also, they demonstrate phenomenal ability to turn the strength of the Democratic Party into apparent weakness that makes it look like obvious.

Promotion of Deceitful Phraseology

The Democratic Party must handle the Republican elaborate manipulation of people by using the same strategic plan in reverse. This problem may not be so easy to solve since several Democrats talk and act like Republicans in many ways. Republicans developed a habit to control the nation’s people through well chosen phraseology, like the most classic one: national defense and security. Hence, they continue to spend countless billions of dollars to build more devastating weapons and wage more atrocious wars, either directly or indirectly.

Republicans claim that they can keep this nation fully safe and secure through the allotment of more billions of dollars on the development of more sophisticated weapons and the build up of more US military bases around the world. Under the administration of George W. Bush, Republicans have revived the Star Wars concept of President Ronald Reagan. This consists of numerous weapons orbiting the world to be used, as they want everyone to believe, to shoot enemy weapons down before reaching the country!

Moreover, they want to militarize the space because, they say, they could control terrorism better from there! If the U.S. government officials cannot detect suicide bombers from a few yards away, how can they detect them from several hundreds of miles away up in the air? One has to be a dead brain person or a moron to even suspect that there may be a shadow of reality in this argument.

The Republican concept of national defense and security reveals the Achilles’ heal of the Republican Party. Just as in wrestling, the wrestler constantly concentrates on attacking the weaker arm or leg of his opponent, the Democratic Party should constantly concentrate on attacking the weakest element of the Republican Party. Of course, the Republican Party has many weaknesses that would include their virtual indifference toward providing a good health care plan for all Americans without exception and their determination never to provide free education from the cradle to the grave for its citizens.

Infliction of Crucial Pain

Needless to say, the weaknesses of the Republican Party that are inflicting crucial pain to countless millions of people are too long to enumerate properly. Besides, the sole purpose of this presentation was for us to concentrate on the real terminal cancer that is being inflicted ruthlessly everywhere and that is affecting the lives of hundreds of millions every year. This enormous suffering that the entire world is experiencing unnecessarily originates mostly from the U.S. Republican Party’s policy that is commonly known as national defense and security. This policy has evolved into being so sacred that it succeeded to hypnotize several leading Democratic Party members in the US Congress.

Anyone that criticizes this Republicans’ concept of national defense and security is immediately labeled by Republicans as being dangerous and unpatriotic. To turn insult into injury, those that have the courage to demonstrate against the continued manufacture of weapons of destruction and the waging of needless and unnecessary wars are viewed as insurgents who are likely to encourage terrorism. In fact, many have been arrested that included Catholic priests and nuns and even prominent figures like John F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the former Democratic US Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy who was once the U.S. Senator from New York.

During the first term administration of George W. Bush, the Republican Secretary of Education warned American teachers, who periodically were outspoken against the continued manufacture of weapons of destruction and the waging of wars, saying: In the United States all teachers who speak of peace and conduct peace demonstrations are terrorists! Teachers were infuriated to the extent that they asked this U.S. government official to apologize and to resign. He did neither. So the question that has been raised is this: “What is secretly going on behind this Republican agenda of national defense and security?”

We are all familiar of the fact that in the United States people tend to vote for name recognition, which comes from plenty of advertisements in the press, radio and television. This would amount very often to millions of dollars. So the big corporations, headed by the weapons industry, step in to bribe virtually all those running on the Republican ticket and most of those running on the Democratic ticket. Republicans, who are top notch experts in the manipulation not only of people but also of the English vocabulary and phraseology, refer to this kind of bribe as political contribution!

Bribes as Political Contributions

Needless to say, leading Democrats who became victims of several big corporations headed by the weapons industry also refer to their bribe as political contribution! This explains why in political elections both Republicans and Democrats feel obligated toward the promotion of the products of their major contributors most of whom are linked deeply with the weapons industry. That is why they advocate the putting of more and more billions of dollars on the further manufacture of weapons of mass destruction and on the continued growth of the military.

This emphasis on national defense and security is nothing but an elaborate organized scam by US government officials to continue to pump money into this satanic agency of death. For anyone to realize that this is not a matter of opinion but a matter of tangible evidence, one has to read literature provided by the Center for Defense Information in Washington, DC and watch most of the excellent videotapes it produced to this end. The Center is composed of retired U.S. top military commanders and Pentagon officials who happen to be a very good Christians in the sense that they view their Master Teacher the way He chose to proclaim Himself: Ego sum veritas – I am the truth.

In fact, you may hear on videotape Rear Admiral Gene R. La Rocque and others stating categorically that the weapons industry is not interested in the security of the American nation, nor of any nation as a matter of fact, but only in profit. It also explains why former US President Dwight Eisenhower warned the American Congress saying: Remember that all people of all countries want peace; only their government wants war. A recorded history of 6,000 years of civilization has taught us constantly that violence breeds more violence. What difference does it make for innocent and good people to be murdered brutally by unknown assailants or by a military force sanctioned by the government?

If the Democratic Party were to be really serious in assuming the reign of government in all the branches of the U.S. government, it must take drastic steps to distance itself from the belligerent policies of the Republican Party. It must expose properly and effectively the hypocrisy and evil intent of the so called national defense and security agenda as presented by the Republicans who have become helpless hostages of the brutal and ruthless weapons industry. Many journalists around the world believe that John Kerry might have lost the election because he tried to present himself as a Republican when it came to the Iraqi war.

Dire Need for Distinct Agendas

With leading Democrats demonstrating that same belief of national defense and security as advocated by the Republicans, the American people do not seem to have any more choice in politics. Let the Republican Party continue to protect the business interests of the weapons industry by instigating more wars so as to justify the pouring of billions of dollars on the continued manufacture and sales of weapons. On the other hand, let the Democratic Party continue to protect the human rights of the American citizens to receive free medication and free education while, at the same time, bring into focus the criminal aspect of the weapons industry on a constant daily basis all the year round.

This way, Democrats could shift the billions of dollars that are going needlessly and wastefully on weapons of mass destruction to the vital and basic needs of the people everywhere, not only in the United States but across every continent. At this stage of history, Republicans in America are in control of all the branches of the American government. The harm that they are doing both in the United States and overseas cannot be detected easily, since they are in full control of the news media: radio, press and television. Everything is heavily censured. If American reporters were to present objective news so that the viewers could know exactly what is going on, their employer would immediately warn them to stay away from details, otherwise they would be fired.

Recently, the whole world was witnessing the devastation that Tsunami left in several regions of South Asia: houses destroyed, electricity gone, and countless thousands of people lost their lives that created many orphans. Many women lost their husbands and many men lost their wives. This was a tragedy that turned these regions virtually into a cemetery. People could witness this because there was no censorship since this was not the fault of any government but the natural behavior of Mother Nature.

We need to invite historians from all over the world to make a comparison between the devastation caused by Tsunami on people in southern Asia and the devastation caused by American bombs in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The scenery is identically the same. Hundreds of thousands died brutally in both Iraq and Afghanistan by American bombs in no lesser way than people in Asia died because of Tsunami. American weapons have destroyed the infrastructure of both these two nations same way as Tsunami destroyed the infrastructure of the regions that were hit like Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and the Maldives.

Reckless Expenditure on Weapons

In their effort to regain the reigns of government, the Democratic Party must not only emphasize the need for Americans to have free health care and education, they need to become highly critical of the Republican reckless expenditure on weapons. They must show that this expenditure is meant merely to boost the product of those big corporations, headed by the weapons industry that contributed money to their political campaign. Democrats must make it very clear on a constant basis that when Republicans speak of national defense and security, they do not have in mind the welfare of the American people, but the profit that comes from the lethal product of their vicious benefactors.

In fact, we need to create a legislative committee that would demand all members of Congress that made money out of the manufacture and sales of weapons to return all of that money to a general fund. Such money, which would certainly amount in tens of millions, if not billions, could be used then to provide shelter to the homeless, food to the hungry and medical attention to the sick across every continent. The American people must learn to what extent they were deceived by politically motivated well chosen vocabulary and phraseology, so that they could dehypnotize themselves from their false political beliefs.

In conclusion, all those who would like to see how American instigated wars and weapons have created numerous Tsunamis all over the world may write to secure a catalogue of videotapes available from: (A) Maryknoll World Productions, P.O. Box 308, Maryknoll, New York 10545-0308, USA. Phone: 800-227-8523, Fax: 914-945-0670. One may request copies especially of (1) School of Assassins, and (2) Arms for the Poor. (B) Center for Defense Information, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Ste. 615, Washington, DC 20036-2109, USA, Phone: 202-332-0600, Fax: 202-462-2559. One may request copies especially of (1) War as a Business Enterprise, and (2) The Legacy of Hiroshima.

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