by Carla Sutherland

Created on: September 14, 2008

Listening and reading reports on the US political front, it seems that McCain is already president. Or at least he's influencing Bush and his minions before they are out of office. Or perhaps Bush's minions are influencing McCain. Either way, his policies are already under way.

He once stated not long ago that 'What worked in Iraq will work in America'. I took this to mean the fenced in sections of cities, the pre-emptive arrests, illegal arrests, security contractors and so on. Well let's look at the RNC shall we? Fenced perimeters for peaceful protests, security checkpoints anywhere near the RNC, pre-emptive arrests in hotel rooms, journalists and protesters arrested while doing nothing wrong, excessive force used during peaceful demonstrations, police forces gaining insurance to protect themselves against lawsuits, and so on...

Much of what I predicted is coming to pass. With Palin being chosen as McCain's running mate, I listen to her words of 'the Iraq war being a task appointed by God, drilling for more oil in Alaska being the will of God', and I just cringe. Religious zealots in power are never a good thing. They tend to go against the very nature of the laws of the country and change laws to suit their needs so that they cannot be held accountable in the future. Does this not remind you of Bush?

If John McCain is elected this November, I wouldn't be surprised. Not that Obama is much better. Both wish for more troops in Afghanistan, thereby switching our attentions from one illegal war to another. Albeit McCain is adamant that the Iraq war will last at least 100 years. But shifting a war from one country to another, as if that would put blinders on our eyes, would make us forget the illegalities and wrongness of the invasions? It would instill even more hatred, fear and terrorism in the world. Most especially if McCain continues to go even further with Bush's policies and choose to attack Iran.

In the meantime, things back on American soil are even worse. Liberties are being lost, as well as freedoms. People are going bankrupt partly because of a bad economy and partly because of government cutbacks, yet it's the corporations and banks that are getting the bailouts. The rich get richer and everyone else gets poorer, leaving some to take desperate measures, causing the government and police to clamp down even harder on their citizens by means of increasing 'security'. I don't think that the founding fathers of the country ever meant for America to stoop to these levels. How quickly a country falls from the most loved to the most hated in so short a time....

Let's see what else happens in the coming months, shall we?

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