The Legitimacy Crisis in Washington among "Good Fellas"

Jun 27, 2007 08:04

There is a direct relationship between what happened to Fatah in Gaza and what is happening to the feds in Washington. Both have a legitimacy crisis that they will not perceive. Fourth Generation theory says that the state is dying and being replaced by stateless (leaderless) non-organizations held together by a common belief.

In Gaza the belief is Islam and the stateless entity is Hamas, that defeated the state built by Clinton/Bush despite heavy support from the US and EU of cash, arms, intelligence, and all the usual government type help. The Gazans rejected it all and voted Hamas. The statist Bush rejected his own "democracy" and supported the election loser, Fatah.

What happened was that "By rushing to embrace Abbas and Fatah, with money as well as praise, Bush and Olmert may help them at the physical level of war, but at the moral level, it is the kiss of Judas... Nothing could do more to de-legitimize Fatah and PA President Abbas than open support from Israel and the United States."

Washington is doing to Bush what they did to Abu Mazen and he probably deserves it. Lately the elected tyrants have begun complaining that citizens writing and calling to oppose their worthless bills were annoying. They even mocked the electorate who say that they will not support them if they vote wrong! We admire their honesty: it has long been a joke that "conservatives" could win 70%, 80% of a vote and the government could simply say "no" and no one would do anything about it. Now the congress knows it.

Even if the "conservatives" refuse to do more than write and call, there is a Fourth Generation component in the US that could bring the US to a complete halt in a few hours. The state does not care that it has no legitimacy, they have guns. But so do 16,000 gun owners who know how to shoot well. The core of the Fourth Generation phenomenon is legitimacy and Amnesty may become Bush's Gaza.

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