Bush’s Final Months

President George W. Bush says that he’s in a sprint for the finish line, as the countdown begins.  Since his “election” eight years ago, this statement stands unique as truth.  Within the last few months of his Presidency we have seen all of the questions miraculously answered, and a sealing of the deal in regards to illegal wiretaps.

9/11 and the events aftermath, for the last seven years has been clouded in secrecy, lies, and unconfirmed theories by both the government and the media.  Somehow, in the late stages of Bush’s term, the establishment punched through the red-tape and provided the people with answers.

The reporting media is not reminding people of the time that it took to produce the answers, or the lack of physical evidence.  They are simply touting the official story as fact.  We saw such behavior leading up to and during the Iraq war.  The media spent millions selling the war to Americans.  Fox News, and the like, continues to depict the government as the highest credible source.  Those that confuse authority with accuracy need to realize the flaw in their logic.

The Nation Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently concluded that WTC building 7 collapsed due to fire.  Shyam Sunder, NIST’s leading researcher on the WTC buildings, states that “Heating of floor beams and girders caused a critical support column to fail, initiating a fire-induced progressive collapse that brought the building down.”

An accusation of such should have irrefutable proof backed with experiments, documentation, and hard evidence.  NIST insists that video and photographic evidence, coupled with sophisticated computer simulations support the fire-induced collapse theory.  Sunder refutes the theory of explosives by claiming that the sound of explosions would be heard up to half a mile away in the range of 130 decibels.  NIST provides no hard evidence, and no real proof.  They attempt to explain away the event as a freak accident that has never occurred in history by the use of computer simulations.  Given the right time and money anything can be done with a computer.

While NIST was working through their “evidence” the FBI caught a huge break on the Anthrax attacks of 2001.  For seven years the FBI has been trying to pin down the suspect(s), and bring them to justice.  Steven J. Hatfill remained the person of interest for years until he sued the government and won a settlement of over 5 million dollars. Only in bush’s final months was the case, supposedly, solved and closed.

The American people were led to believe that a lone, disturbed bio-scientist for no reason, other than to cause havoc, hand wrote letters supporting Islamic radical ideology, dated them 9-11-01, filled them with Anthrax, and mailed them to media and political figures.  Luckily, the FBI’s suspect could not defend himself after committing suicide just before they filed charges.  No judge, no jury, and once again, no evidence; case closed.  Friends, family, and associates continue to dispute the “official” story, and hold firm that Bruce E. Ivins did not carry out the Anthrax attacks.

From the ashes of the World Trade Center, to the fog of confusion surrounding the Anthrax attacks President Bush sought to cripple the terrorist forces by attacking the Bill of Rights.  The Patriot Act and its extension, Patriot Act II, destroyed the limitations of the American government to intervene and spy on its citizens.  With new procedures signed into rule, and with near to no congregational oversight, the American idea of freedom was lost in the shuffle.  We have become a society accustom to random searches, checkpoints, and 24/7 surveillance.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act, otherwise known as H.R. 6304, retroactively granted immunity to telecommunication companies involved in spying on Americans.  The initiative passed the Senate on July 9th 2008 with 69% of the Senate in favor of the Bill.  The President signed the Bill into law that very day, which took effect on the 10th.  Now, not only can the government listen in on all of your communications, but there is nothing that you can do about it.

When the President said he was rushing to the end, he sure wasn’t joking.  From the looks of it the months to come will fill the holes, and smooth the surface of a Presidency gone rogue.