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Jayhawk
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 Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject: Gore Vidal: Bush has destroyed the US republic |
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Listen to the Front Row interview from tonight on Radio 4 with Gore Vidal and hear somebody with no illusions whatsoever about the state of American politics. The interviewer has nowhere to turn!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/ |
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, astonishing interview from such a figure.
He says America is 'over' (....if anyone comes up with the truth about high political crimes the press simply refuse to print it).
He expects the Republican Party (or 'slime' as he calls them) to try and steal the next election "just the same as they stole the last two."
Mark Lawson doesn't seem to know where to go with his questions at times. I can't remember...but think he uses the term 'conspiracy theories' and obviously is uncomfortable with what is being said.
A bit depressing though....he doesn't get positive or suggest what people should be doing to put things right......but maybe he's doing enough by just saying it like it is. |
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That was a short interview.
He was taling to Melvyn Bragg last week for a whole hour on TV,with the same agenda.
I understand he's saying it's the Republicans fault, so by that statement
presumably he thinks if H Clinton,or Obama got in now things would turn out differently!
Sounds very much like another limited hang-out stance for the viewing public,sanctioned by the BBC.
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| Newspeak International wrote: |
I understand he's saying it's the Republicans fault, so by that statement
presumably he thinks if H Clinton,or Obama got in now things would turn out differently!
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I don't think so.....he was just saying that he hates the Republicans more. He had nothing optimistic to say about a possible Democrat victory did he? |
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| kbo234 wrote: | | .....but maybe he's doing enough by just saying it like it is. |
No matter if he never said another word, it was a Vidal article in (I think) 2004 that first made me aware that other (serious) people were even questioning 911.
I'll always be grateful to him for that, nevermind his writing with his insider's insights into the ruling class.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/7414438.stm
Hardtalk interview - one hour.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: Gore Vidal: Bush ended US as a republic |
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2008/280608republic.htm
| Quote: | Vidal: Bush ended US as a republic
Press TV, Saturday, June 28, 2008
Gore Vidal, US novelist, historian and social critic says the Bush regime has killed all of the constitutional links that made the US a republic.
On early Friday morning Iran time, in an exclusive interview with Press TV, Vidal said that President Bush has rid the country of the Bill of Rights, habeas corpus and the entire legacy of the Magna Carta in the name of war on terror.
He also criticized the House of Representatives for not impeaching President Bush, over a wide array of subjects such as disclosure of CIA agent Valerie Plame's covert status. Vidal did however single out Rep. Dennis Kuchinich for drawing up articles of impeachment against the president.
Vidal, long strongly critical of the Bush administration, said the administration has both an an explicit and covert expansionist agenda.
In his writings he has made the assessment that for several years, the administration and its associates, many of whom are magnets in the oil and gas industry have had clear aims to control the oil of Central Asia which is to follow on the heels of gaining effective control of the oil of the Persian Gulf--a project that took a new twist with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1991.
That event inadvertently served as the basis for the neo-conservative American Project for the 21st Century document and policy guideline that has been the hallmark of the Bush-Cheney years.
Regarding the September 11, 2001 attacks, Vidal has written the American intelligence community clearly warned it was coming but the event provided political cover and pretext for the plans that the administration already had in place for invading Iraq--plans that can be traced to the waning days of the first Bush family presidency. . |
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http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=171986
| Quote: | Monday, June 30, 2008
‘The United States is not a republic anymore’, says Gore Vidal
By Afshin Rattansi
TEHRAN (Press TV) -- An interview with legendary American essayist, author, social and political critic.
Press TV: We hear that Michael Mukasey is going to become the latest of the President’s Attorney-Generals to be subpoenaed, this time over his conversations with Bush and Cheney -- does this show that Congress is serious about calling the executive to account?
Gore Vidal: No, Congress has never been more cowardly, nor more corrupt. All Bush has do is to make sure certain amounts of money go in the direction of certain important congressmen and that’s end of any serious investigation. After all, one of the bravest members of Congress is Denis Kucinich who brought the article of impeachment in to the well of the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives must then try the president, and then after that it goes to the Senate for judgment. However, none of these things will happen because there’s nobody there except for Mr. Kucinich who has the courage to take on a sitting president who is kind of a Mafioso.
Press TV: How can it just be one person among so many hundreds of Congressmen who wants the impeachment of George W. Bush in these circumstances?
Gore Vidal: Well it’s because we no longer have a country. We don’t have a republic any more. During the last 7 or 8 years of the Bush regime, they’ve got rid of the Bill of Rights, they’ve got rid of habeas corpus. They have got rid of one of the nicest gifts that England ever left us when they went away and we ceased to be colonies -- the Magna Carta -- from the 12th century. All of our law and due process of law is based on that. And the Bush people got rid of it. The president and little Mr. Gonzales who for a few minutes was his Attorney General. They managed to get rid of all of the constitutional links that made us literally a republic.
Press TV: You have often written about the United States’ superpower status in terms of the history of previous superpowers. Do you think we’re witnessing the end of U.S. power as some suggest. Will the White House be seen like Persepolis?
Gore Vidal: Well it won’t make such good ruins, no. It’ll be more like the tomb of Cyrus nearby. They managed to destroy the United States -- why? Because they’re oil and gas people and they’re essentially criminals. I repeat that this is a criminal group that’s seized control of the country through what looked like an ordinary election. But there’s some very nice films and documentaries about what happened in the year 2000 when Albert Gore won the election for president and they saw to it that he couldn’t serve. They got the Supreme Court -- which is the Holy of Holies ordinarily in our system - to investigate and then accuse the thieves of being absolutely correct and the winners -- Mr. Gore and the Democrats -- of being the cheaters. It’s the first law of Machiavelli, whatever your opponent’s faults are, you pick his virtues and you deny he has them. That’s what they did when Senator Kerry ran a few years ago for president. He’s a famous hero from the Vietnam War. They said he was a coward and not a hero. That’s how it’s done. When you have a bunch of liars in charge of your government you can’t expect to get much history out of that. But later on we’ll dig and dig… and we will dig up Persepolis.
Press TV: Senator Obama talks about change but of course he has courting Wall Street as well as the Israeli lobby -- do you see any prospect of change with him as president?
Gore Vidal: Not really. I don’t doubt his good faith, just as I do not doubt the bad faith of Cheney and Bush. They are such dreadful people that we’ve never had in government before. They would never have risen unless they were buying elections as they did in Florida in 2000, as they did in the State of Ohio in 2004. These are two open thefts of the Presidency. When I discovered that this did not interest the New York Times or the Washington Post or any of the press of the country I realized our day was done. We are no longer a country we are a framework for crooks to go in and steal money. Knowing that they’ll never be caught and they’ll be admired for it. Americans always take everybody on his own evaluation. You say I’m a state and they say “oh, yeah yeah yeah, he’s a state, isn’t that great.” And you accuse the other people of your crimes before you commit them. It’s an old trick which was known to Machiavelli who wrote about it in his handbook, the Prince.
Press TV: Finally that issue which is exercising so many minds in the Middle East and beyond. You, yourself have written about so many Imperial wars of the United States. Do you think Bush and Cheney would risk another war in what Mohammad ElBaradei of the IAEA calls a fireball?
Gore Vidal: They are longing to but they have spent all of the money. They have got it in their own private companies like the Vice-President and a company called Halliburton which is stealing more money and should be on trial sooner or later before Congress. But perhaps not, who knows? But it’s well known in Washington, these people are leaking away the money of the country. Well there’s no more money. They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies.
The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don’t stop. When the public that’s lied to 30 times a day it’s apt to believe the lies, is not it? |
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