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DECEMBER 8, 2004 –
It was the day after the anniversary
of Pearl Harbor, December 8, 2004 – the day America and the West’s
victory in the Cold War was reversed and Russia officially reemerged
as a powerful dictatorship submissive and secondary to no one.
As reported by the
Washington Post, today Russian President and former KGB head Vladimir Putin
officially eliminated the democratic election of governors. A law
was passed today by the Russian parliament which, as the Post
reports, “would give the president the right to appoint governors,
who would then be confirmed by regional legislatures.”
And just in case you
have been following the non-Moderate Independent media’s lead in not
following this situation at all, this would all made possible by a
power consolidation which Putin has undertaken during President
Bush’s misguided, naïve era of Middle East obsession.
To make the point
clear – that democracy no longer exists in any form in the former
Soviet Union – look at what the vote to make this change was in the
Russian parliament: “145-1, with two abstentions.”
Sound like any
democratic vote you’ve ever heard of? Of course not. The Russian
parliament has been reformed back into rubber-stamp-for-the-ruler
mode.
Putin has taken back
over the media, eliminating any free press and once again asserting
state control and censorship, and has completely taken such full
control of the government that he can pass any law, or even rewrite
the nation’s constitution, at will. (See
article: "The Biggest Issue No One Is Talking About -
President Bush's Naive Foreign Policy Allows Putin To Play Him And Set
The Stage For The Second Coming Of The USSR")
He has turned around
the Russian economy by letting private industry develop the nation’s
oil reserves to the point where Russia is now the second largest
exporter of oil in the world, behind only Saudi Arabia. And then,
he used his government power to jail the heads of the private
companies that did this and to hand control of the now massively
rich oil export business to the government. (See
article: "Pay Attention To
Russia, Dammit!")
And, of course, Putin
announced just weeks ago that Russia is about to build a new
generation of nuclear weapons “of the kind that other nuclear powers
do not and will not have,” a new generation of nukes that can carry
4 times the nuclear payload their previous missiles could and which
will be able to outmaneuver any missile shield we might develop.
(See article: "We Begged Anyone To Pay Attention To Russia.
No One Did. Now It Is Official, Russia Will Shortly Be More
Powerful Than The US")
Even beyond this, he
has begun to try and take back the nations the Soviet Union used to
rule, as seen by his recent attempt to rig the election in the
Ukraine to put control of that nation essentially in his hands.
(See article: "Speaking
Of Fixed Elections: Ukrainian Election Dubbed A Fraud -
Excessively High Vote Counts In Certain Districts Cited (Sound
Familiar?)")
This is a sad and
tragic day for America and democracy. While we are busy fighting
new enemies of our own creation in a sandbox that never was a
threat, the biggest adversary our nation has ever known has arisen
once more from the grave we had laid it in. The ugly head of
Russian dictatorship is back, backed by nuclear weapons we can’t
compete with, and powered by an economy that is moving forward as
quickly as ours is receding into exactly the sort of debt that
brought the Soviet Union down to begin with.
For those who
wondered why it was a bad idea to flip off the UN and the world and
go into Iraq as arrogantly as we did, now you see. Not only did we
create millions of new enemies for life in the Middle East, but
surrendered the most powerful weapons we had used to secure our Cold
War victory and power in the world: the allure of and respect for
American culture and democracy.
A billion a week in a
sandbox that never was a threat. What was supposed to never occur,
a resistance that was supposed to be flower greetings, our Defense
Secretary can’t even say for certain will be done within the next
four years, he admitted this week.
President Putin
endorsed President Bush for re-election. It has not even been a
month since the election, and he is moving with lightening speed.
The first week after our election he announced the new nukes. The
next, he fixed the Ukrainian election. Now, he has eliminated the
democratic election of governors and changed rules so that forming
opposition parties is near impossible.
Now you know why he
wanted Bush to win. He now has four more years to take advantage of
Bush’s bankrupting, naïve foreign policy and absolute
spinelessness. He knows the difference between a bully and someone
truly strong. The bully is bold in attacking the weak but cowardly
when confronted by anyone who truly is a match. Putin knows Bush
loved acting tough by launching a massive attack against Iraq, a
nation that had been rendered defenseless by a decade of UN
sanctions, but that he doesn’t dare stand up to any real threat:
not to Pakistan, not to North Korea, and certainly not to Russia.
President Bush’s
publicly announced strategy was to “shock and awe” the world into
fearful submission with an awesome display of America’s power in
Iraq.
That is how bullies
operate, attack the weak to try and create the illusion of
toughness. But it is obvious to anyone truly strong and courageous
the cowardice of such ploys.
Three weeks since
Putin’s chosen man won. And within this short time frame, three
decades of American perseverance have been lost.
And still, no one
from either party is even beginning to start to make any sort of
call to do anything about it.
We now return you to
FOX News, where bragging about how it will only take four more years
to defeat an unarmed nation urges the naïve and unthinking to be
proud in our nation’s greatest ever moment of defeat. | 
