I am almost ashamed to see that it has been a year and a half since I wrote part 4 ("The Onion Peeled"), which ends on the optimistic note that Bush and Cheney might be impeached if the Democrats won the 2006 elections.
That optimism was born of desperation, because I felt the danger of another, and worse, 9/11 false flag event was imminent at that time. The fact that it did not occur, and the fact that the Democrats won that election, subsequently gaining control of the Senate as well as the House, coupled with the immediate declaration by the party leaders that impeachment was "off the table," makes it clear why we were spared a second "new Pearl Harbor" and, so far at least, war with Iran.
The Democrats are in control: damage control. There can be no better evidence that the Democrats and the Republicans are merely the left and right hands of the devil than what has happened since the 2006 election--namely, nothing. This extends in perfect continuity to the coming 2008 election, which has been predictably narrowed down to three candidates--McCain, Clinton and Obama--who have made it quite clear that the neo-con "war on terror," that is, the politics of fear, the pursuit of manufactured enemies and the expansion of the police state, will continue as planned, though perhaps at a less frenetic pace. There will be no prosecution of the crimes of the Bush administration, and no real investigation of 9/11. There will be more wars and, if necessary, more 9/11s to justify them. The concentration camps) for dissidents, i.e. "potential terrorists," are already being built.
This is the scenario that all the factions of the powers-that-be have accepted. Whether they all accept it because they believe in it or because they are afraid not to doesn't make a lot of difference. There is obviously some disagreement in their ranks over "tactics," however; otherwise we would be even farther down the road to the Brave New World of fascism, perpetual war, Total Information Awareness and slavery than the Bush gang has taken us.
What we have gained, in other words, is a bit of time, a small window of hope. I say "we" because there can be no doubt that the dissension among the powerful that has put the brakes on the neo-con march to tyranny has been caused by popular protest on two fronts--9/11 truth and anti-war. The politics of fear does work both ways. There is one thing that our controllers fear, and that is the spread of ideas and subsequent mass action that they cannot control. Everything is about control. If one does not believe in democracy, one must believe in control. There is nothing in between.
(continued at http://www.mdmorrissey.info/logical5)