The Beast We Serve

The Beast We Serve

Benito Mussolini and his mistress Claretta Petacci, along with a
baker's dozen of famous fascists, were hung from the naked girders of
a bombed out Milan gas station, on a lovely morning in late April of
1945.  Italian patriots at the scene apparently felt that Mussolini
had stolen so much - so immensely -- from generations of Italians that
they were inspired to tie up each of his feet separately, hanging him
by his heel times two, departing from tradition only in the fervor of
its expression. Once was not enough, they felt

I believe there is a corner of Dick Cheney's dark and dying heart that
knows such an end is his due. In his lusting grasp for more money than
he can spend in ten dozen lifetimes, he has become a caricature even
of venal sin.

George W is a caricature president. A liar and a fraud, a traitor to
his oath of office and to his nation.  He has never been more than
Cheney's creature, right from the early days when Dick was
"interviewing running mates" for him.  When his morning comes, Bush
will be merely one among the baker's dozen alongside Cheney and Rove.

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These people in power now are traitors in that they have forsworn
their oaths of office in order to place our freedoms and possessions
in the hands of their supporters.  They are thieves in that they have
taken the taxes of unborn generations of Americans unto themselves,
burdening our babies with crushing debt before they have even drawn
breath. These people are frauds in that they have no intention of
governing,
only of clinging to power so they can loot ever further afield.  The
whole world is not enough for them.

Of course, Cheney, Bush and all the other ringers in this
Administration think American patriots will never actually come for
them.  And if it happens, they think they can hide.  Do a deal.  Work
the angles.  Get away with it.  They always have.

They always will, until one lovely morning they don't.  It is the
peculiar tragedy of tricksters that they arrange their own ruin in the
very act of stealing successfully.  In truth, the thief only steals
his own peace, from his own soul, coin by coin.  He works his own end,
inevitably.

The high crimes they have committed so far will sink Cheney, Bush and
Rove in due course. The crimes they have yet to commit, in the two
years they think they have left -- will only hasten their lovely day.

Until the very moment their upending arrives, they will continue to
grasp and then grasp further, not knowing how to cease or slow down,
or how to control the many monsters they've unleashed in themselves,
and upon this world.

Like Dick Cheney, Benito Mussolini claimed to be writing history anew,
for lesser men to study as best they could.  Like Il Duce's hysterical
fascisti horde, Cheney's conservatives now run wild before the beasts
he set free, staying just in front of a tide of blood and gluttony and
calling his leadership inspired.

But lo, these beasts ever grow in strength and number, in tooth and
claw, and the very mortal men of this Administration will find, at the
last, that there is not enough flesh to be found to feed them.  That
the whole world is not enough.

And so the day must come when these very common crooks hang by one
foot while American patriots throw coins at them and ask, "Is this all
you wanted?  And is it enough?"

George W is a caricature president. A liar and a fraud, a traitor to
his oath of office and to his nation.  He has never been more than
Cheney's creature, right from the early days when Dick was
"interviewing running mates" for him.  When his morning comes, Bush
will be merely one among the baker's dozen alongside Cheney and Rove.

Those two are the real President and real Vice President; for six
years those two have directed our nation toward wholesale ruin to
benefit only their backers.  When their lovely morning arrives, will
once be enough for the patriots present?

Enough!

It is high time to try these neocon traitors in absentia, and to
portray them in public print and paintings as the unbalanced thieves
they are.  As con men who make war on innocents for wealth and for
power, who slaughter to satisfy slavering greed, who will feed our
children into the fire, who will feed the whole world into the belly
of a beast they cannot sate.

Enough!

"Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's
person may be with one knife."
- Thomas Fuller (1),
The Holy and Profane States--The Traitor
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