Friends of Liberty: The Whore of Babylon by the Potomac: John McCain's Unfurling Program

by Mark DankofSeptember 6, 2008

    P. T. Barnum’s famous dictum about a sucker born every minute becomes apocalyptically axiomatic when applied to a fawning Republican Christian Right constituency infatuated with Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, John McCain’s latest gambit in a bid to win the American Presidency for both the Senator and an Israeli Lobby lurking just behind the Arizonan in a subterranean underworld of manipulation and intrigue.  One thing is clear: the endgame is both treason and a massive dosage of death on a global scale. 



    During the past week, my mind subconsciously switched off the Republican National Convention and the Palin speech, even before my right hand confirmed this mental selection by consciously pressing the “off” button on my television remote control.  As my mind blanched at the dreadfully deceptive televised scenario unfolding in St. Paul, it simultaneously wandered in a reverse direction in time.



    The journey into the past took me back to August of 1996 and the Republican National Convention of that year in San Diego.  For the record, I was one of the Buchanan supporters who left the Republican Party in the wake of the events of that election cycle, which culminated in the disastrous nomination of Bob Dole for President in California.  I never turned back.  I would never vote for a Republican Presidential nominee again.



    I remember the departure from San Diego like it was yesterday.  My small clothes bag and toiletries kit were tossed in the back of a vehicle owned by one of Buchanan’s longtime operatives, who had committed himself to transporting me back to the Texas Hill Country on his own way back to the East Coast.  His own gear was unceremoniously tossed into the spacious trunk whose lid was subsequently slammed shut.  The announcement of final departure was a terse, “Let’s get the hell out of here.”  As we sped out of San Diego, headed east on Interstate 10, the sun was setting in the west–not only on California and the Pacific Ocean, but on our own lives and the American Republic as well.  And we knew it.



    From my vantage point now, the decision to leave was a sound one.  Twelve years later, the United States is mired in a no-win war of counterinsurgency in the Middle East and Central Asia that should never have been started to begin with.  The national debt has doubled just since the tenure of George W. Bush in the White House.  The manufacturing sector of the economy continues its eclipse.  The foreign invasion of America represented by the existence of 20 million illegal aliens continues apace as well, with the full blessing of the current Presidential nominee of the Republican Party, who also endorses a brand of New World Order globalism embodied in the North American Union, NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, the FTAA, and the utilization of NATO as a Neo-Conservative police force in endless disputes abroad.  



    Not to worry, however–Mr. McCain and his fawning delegates in St. Paul will insure that the imagery of Old Glory and the long gone glory days of the Old American Republic Past are employed to sell P. T. Barnum’s Faithful on the palatability of this malignant package of evil exponentially multiplied by the speed of time and light.  They will have plenty of minions within the transnational corporate news media to assist in closing the deal.  The endgame of the project to close the deal is an aerial assault on Iran, possibly with tactical nuclear weapons. Make no mistake about it, the dark forces behind the McCain Presidential candidacy, epitomized by the peripatetic Joseph Lieberman, are angling for this tragic outcome.   If the Arizonan makes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, as Pat Buchanan has recently indicated, the path to war with Iran will be virtually guaranteed...