Axioms of the world

In previous Pravda articles I explained that evil has two forms: recognizable and seductive. Almost everyone, save perhaps the evildoers and those who profit from their misdeeds, is repulsed by recognizable evil. Seductive evil, however (the type personified by the Bush dictatorship) uses religion and/or “morality” to deceive people into thinking theyare supporting good, when they are actually supporting evil.

When future historians examine the legacy of the Bush dictatorship, they will discover a time of death and destruction throughout the world, from disasters both natural and humanly created: The attacks of September 11th, 2001, that permitted the Bush dictatorship to decimate the Bill of Rights and America's already precarious “check-and-balance” system; Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, which exposed the ineptness of the Bush dictatorship; The Tsunami that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths; The floods in the Northeastern United States; The deadly tornados in Indiana; Hurricane Wilma in Florida; The devastating earthquake in Pakistan; and, of course, the Iraqi war.

There are some Bush apologists who argue that his dictatorship cannot be held responsible for these occurrences, particularly those that resulted from “natural” phenomena. But others have argued that Bush's environmental policies created or contributed to the conditions that spawned these destructive acts of nature, and that his failure to strengthen the levees surrounding the City of New Orleans amplified Katrina's devastating impact.

But what is it we actually call “nature?” Is it some random convergence of wind, rain and/or plate tectonics? Or are these so-called “natural catastrophes” the earth's attempts to purge itself from the evil that is consuming it. Unfortunately, since nature is no respecter of men, the evildoers rarely suffer its wrath. Instead it is the innocent who suffer.

In fact, Bush's mother openly demonstrated the callousness of this evil by proclaiming in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that many of those forced to stay in the Houston Astrodome after losing their homes and possessions, “were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

So is it any wonder that Rap Artist Kanye West felt compelled to observe that “George Bush doesn't care about black people?” After all, not only did African-Americans make up a large percentage of those who suffered from Hurricane Katrina, they also make up a large percentage of the military who are now serving and dying in Bush's illegal war. The veil has been lifted from the American dichotomy, and the world can finally see the poor suffering in the streets and dying in Iraq, while Bush, Cheney and their corporate “fat cats” get rich from lucrative “rebuilding” contracts and inflated energy prices.

Several years ago the renowned folk-singer Bob Dylan wrote a song entitled “A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall.” The evil of the Bush dictatorship has caused this rain to start. The question is, “Will it ever stop?”

David R. Hoffman
Legal Editor of Pravda