Hurray for the American people! We've delivered a clear repudiation of cabal policies: the war in Iraq, attacks on Constitutional rights, the economy, corruption, and the Bush junta in general.
But we must not settle for false promises, assuming that the 2006 election results will produce some kind of magic.
And we must not be deluded into believing that members of the Democratic Party are intrinsically more on the side of working-class American citizens than Republicans.
We must fully awaken to the real meaning and import of the 2006 election: we, the American people kicked the rascals out. Many fuzzy-thinking people are going to try to get us to misinterpret our citizens' rebellion If we look carefully at the 2006 election, we see that it reflects the broad, deep popular opposition not only to Bush, but also to the media, to the Iraq war, to rampant corruption, and members of Congress in general. American citizens didn't choose Democrats because we see them as more competent and more ethical than Republicans--we simply chose the lesser of two evils because we had only two alternatives.
We, the American electorate repudiated all members of Congress--Republican and Democrat--who backed the administration's war drive, promoted Bush's lies about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq-Al Qaeda ties, stood idly by and allowed the Bush junta to destroy quintessential Constitutional rights such as habeas corpus, 1 and continue to support the massive slaughter of American soldiers in the perverse cabal plan to privatize Iraq's oil resources and re-structure the geopolitical map in the Middle East.
What Americans 3 conveyed through the 2006 election was: We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore. At least 29 Republican incumbents went down to defeat in the House of Representatives and the Democrats gained a large number of state legislatures and governorships. This was no mild expression of easygoing discontent; it was a vehement outburst of revulsion at how the cabal--through its Bush junta--has been destroying our nation and our fundamental principles. American citizens expressed themselves in such extreme terms that it horrified the political and media establishment. The politicians and the media sycophants simply refuse to recognize that the American public is so furious with the status quo that it's expressing its disgust in this intemperate manner. During his Wednesday White House press conference to announce Rumsfeld’s resignation, Bush said, “I recognize that many Americans voted last night to register their displeasure with the lack of progress being made there [in Iraq].” But he quickly added: “Yet I also believe most Americans and leaders here in Washington from both political parties understand we cannot accept defeat.”
The political and media pundit-pretenders still haven't understood that the 2006 election showed that the American people have started thinking for themselves; they're no longer willing to be the pawns of the spinmeisters and propagandists. The political and media charlatans still want to pretend that they control American voters. So we get the outlandish explanations by people like Rahm Emanual and Howard Dean saying they produced the 2006 election results by "expanding the conservative center" and "asking more people to vote." And in elections where Republicans won, Karl Rove and his Nazis are saying that they controlled the results by "getting out the base." Hello imposters? The American people voted in the 2006 election the way they did because they're beginning to make their own judgments and act accordingly. They rejected the propaganda on the right and the left. And they showed that they're no longer going to tolerate lies and false accusations in election campaigns and campaign ads. The Republicans, it is now evident, can no longer assume that merely getting conservative voters to the polls will automatically result in a win for the GOP.
Many Americans had allowed themselves to be entranced and possessed by cabal lies. Those persons willingly succumbed to Bush junta propaganda, accepting the Republican false reality as true. Whether it was swallowing the Big Lie of the weapons of mass destruction and the necessity of a unilateral invasion of the sovereign state of Iraq or the necessity of giving up our Constitutional liberties for the sake of the war on terrorism, a large number of Americans have mindlessly acquiesced to Bush junta falsehoods. Here are other cabal delusions from which the American people must free themselves:
"In nominating Gates, Bush praised the career CIA official as someone who 'understands the challenges we face in Afghanistan' because of the role he played as Reagan’s deputy director of the CIA when he 'helped lead America’s efforts to drive Soviet forces from Afghanistan.'
"In other words, he is one of the American intelligence officials who established intimate ties with Osama bin Laden during the CIA-backed war that shattered Afghan society. As such, he played a role in fostering the very Islamist terrorists who ultimately carried out 9/11. "Gates’s ties to terrorism do not end with bin Laden. In the mid-1980s he was tied to the network of White House operatives and CIA agents who organized the 'Iran-contra' operation, in which covert arms sales to Iran were used to provide illegal funding for the US-backed 'contra' terror war against Nicaragua. He has likewise been linked to covert efforts in the 1980s to supply weapons to the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein during its war against Iran. "That such a figure is being introduced as the champion of a 'fresh perspective' on Iraq is the clearest warning that even more horrific crimes are being prepared." 2
The message we sent in the 2006 election demanding change will not be acted upon unless we come fully awake and make sure that policies and procedures are enacted that will:
In fact the majority of Democrats, fearing political reprisal, have maintained that the Iraq war was legitimate. This stands in stark opposition to the American people's anti-Iraq-war feelings. American citizens made it clear in the 2006 election that we have a strong antiwar sentiment which is contradictory to the Democratic Party leaders' pro-Bush stand on Iraq.
The American people spoke in extremes in the 2006 election because we want to see radical, fundamental changes in the ways of governing. This was a call for sweeping rectification of the outrages the Bush junta has perpetrated. We painted in bold, defiant strokes to register our total rejection of malefactors such as Dubya, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, et al.
Failing to acknowledge the deception which the appointment of Robert Graves as Secretary of Defense represents, the empty-headed Democratic party leaders began a chorus of praise for Bush's action, following in the wake of a series of statements by Democratic leaders pledging collaboration with the Bush White House. Incoming Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed that the Democrats would pursue "partnership with the president and the Republicans in Congress, and not partisanship." The Bush junta has already made it clear that it will pretend to work in a bi-partisanship manner with the Democrats--while all the while pushing through more of their police-state measures before the present congressional term expires.
In her 2006 election victory speech, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, considered to be the front-runner to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, declared that American politics had to return to the “vital center,” and pledged her commitment to work with the Republicans in prosecuting the war on terror.
The day after the 2006 election, Al Franken (a self-styled progressive) told his Air America audience that the outcome proved that the Republicans never steal elections--never have and never will. He then pretended humility--and contradicted himself--in saying that he never spoke about election fraud because he didn't want to discourage people from voting. As Democrats have begun to appear as newly-minted pundits on television news programs, we have yet to hear any of them mention such quintessential elements as getting rid of the Patriot Act and restoring Constitutional liberties such as habeas corpus.
The 2006 election is the first of many victories for the American people. In our ongoing battle to overthrow the criminal cabal that's seized control of American political and financial systems, we're fortunate to be joined by a growing number of courageous women and men. We have an excellent chance of success in this crusade if we prepare assiduously and act fearlessly. In setting the foundation for this absolutely indispensable citizen revolution, we need to assimilate the information contained in these essays.
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1 Habeas Corpus ("you are to produce the body"): That is, you, the accuser, must bring before the judge the body of the accused, that he may be tried and receive the award of the court, and you the accused are to abide by the award of the judge. Habeas corpus provides:
2 World Socialist Web Site: "Rumsfeld’s firing: First casualty of post-election crisis in US
," 11/9/06
3 Only 40 percent of those Americans eligible to vote cast ballots, which reveals that a large number of Americans are completely alienated from the political process and many are so apathetic and mindless as to be uninterested in what's happening in the nation and the world.
4 A bait and switch is a form of fraud in which the charlatan lures people by promising a good or service at an unprofitably low price, then reveals to potential customers that the advertised good or service is not available but that a higher-priced substitute good is.
5 Magicians use smoke and mirrors to accomplish illusions such as making objects disappear, when they really don't disappear at all.
6 Ringer: A counterfeit challenger brought into a contest to gain support when his real purpose is to lose, making sure the other side wins.
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against forces we recognize as destructive of the country and the people. For example, as the election evening wore on and the political implications of the massive anti-Bush, anti-corruption, antiwar vote became unmistakable, both Democratic pundits and cynical media spinmeisters tried to misconstrue the election results in completely reactionary and bland terms--pretending that a political revolution had not taken place. One self-appointed expert bemoaned that America had already had its revolution and didn't want another.
No, Mr. Bush, the American public is not merely amiably discontent with what your propaganda calls "lack of progress in Iraq," we're up in arms at your temerity in imposing a 
We mustn't mistake our being irate and appalled at Bush and his Democratic and Republican collaborators, however, as evidence of our having come fully awake; we've just partially awakened from a suicidal sleepwalking state. We must come fully awake and work assiduously to overcome remaining elements of somnolence. 
Nothing could express more starkly the cynicism of America’s ruling elite than Bush’s touting such a record as a qualification for leading the 'war on terror.'
We cannot remain asleep to the likelihood that the Democratic Party will make only cosmetic changes and basically continue the cabal policies. The Democratic Party in the 2006 election is the beneficiary of overwhelming anti-Bush, antiwar sentiment that that party did nothing significantly to encourage. 
We don't want the newly elected Democrats playing footsy with these monsters as though they were reasonable persons deserving of solicitude. We haven't forgotten that they've debased our country into a 
The clearest indication that we'll have to complete our citizen revolution ourselves is the Democratic leadership's preemptive promises to Bush and Schwarzenegger and other criminals that they will not be impeached or indicted. Our revolutionary agenda is something we the people will have to carry out almost entirely on our own. 
Hillary Clinton represents the kind of "bait and switch" 
Activists in the new Citizen Revolution must not be fooled by such dimwits as these into forgetting what we've suffered over the past six years under the Bush junta. Bush II was brought into the presidency in 2000 through a coup d'etat set up by Jeb Bush, Jim Baker, and the Supreme Court. That changed the entire structure of our government. The 2002 and 2004 presidential elections were stolen by the Republicans, through the connivance of Karl Rove and his Nazis. The fact that the Democrats became vigilant and created election oversight operations in the 2006 election, doesn't prove that the Republicans will not try--and perhaps succeed--in rigging the