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How many dirty little secrets we should be told, are instead, laboriously hidden from us?  If you are not born a game player, you will abhor the mentality that seeks to pull the wool over your eyes as that old adage goes.  Insulting your intelligence is bad enough.  But, when the game continues to the point where the player is maniacal about getting one over on you, it's difficult to restrain your anger.

The game is really a jig saw puzzle.  Except, that you are given all but the most crucial puzzle pieces.  Your eyes and brain formulate the subject of the puzzle; but, with a handful of important pieces missing. 

A puzzle piece here and a puzzle piece there and you aren't supposed to eventually figure out what the picture is supposed to be.  Because, the player assumes superiority over your intelligence.  That's not game strategy, either.  It's merely strategic control.

Take for instance, how easy it was for a president and vice-president to pull off the biggest gasoline extortion in history.  We aren't supposed to know that in 2001, VP Cheney met with the energy barons at the White House and the back room agenda was to withhold oil reserves in order to increase gasoline prices.  So, a couple hundred thousand barrels a day go into US oil reserves while gasoline prices terrorize the working class who soon may have a choice of working for a living or going bankrupt trying to get to work every day.

When you consider that this isn't the first dirty little secret Bush and Cheney have pulled on Americans, you have to wonder who's minding the store and all that jazz.   Dirty little secrets that shouldn't be secrets to Americans footing the bill for their extravagances. 

Nothing grizzles me more than a VP who thinks Americans are stupid fools and the Executive Branch is an autonomous decision-making government agency unto itself. 

It isn't enough that they put one over on Americans getting themselves elected, destroyed the integrity of the CIA and FBI with their cronyism and dominate the Justice Department and Supreme Court.  They had to insure  Americans don't get the last few remaining pieces of the puzzle that would hold their feet to the fire of accountability.  So, all evidence in the form of memos, documents etc are to be destroyed before they leave office.  This would be fine if the memos were benign and of little consequence to the rest of the country and more importantly, this country's history.

Americans, like a flock of misguided sheep, ask no questions, accept what they are told and like an Orwellian script, look the other way while they are being fleeced by two of this country's worst elected officials.  Why didn't Bush broadcast how much tax revenue he used to build that Baghdad embassy?  Maybe because $2 billion added to the near trillion for his Iraq debacle would put salt into the wounds?  Why isn't Blackwater held responsible for the actions of their employees?  Why is agenda of that 2001 Cheney Energy Meeting such a dirty little secret?  What was Cheney doing?  Moonlighting with his Big Business cronies on Government Time?

We've got the puzzle pieces.  A 60% increase in the number of government employees where government jobs are the only tenured jobs that pay well and offer 14K health and pension benefits.  Jailing protestors in 2004 who got too near an RNC campaign headquarters, in violation of the First Amendment.  Changes to search and seizure laws.  Refusal to hold telecommunications companies responsible for aiding and abetting a president and vice president in unconstitutional wiretapping of American citizens.  Secret detainee and torture camps.  Worse, a glut of government departments privatized to Bush/Cheney cronies, including federal prisons.  

Put the pieces of this puzzle together.  The missing pieces blare out at all of us like an air raid siren.  If the only jobs available are in government, how long will it be before all of us will have no choice of employment but a government job the government chooses for us?  If government eavesdropping leads to a warrantless search and seizure of you, your family or your personal property, will you be granted a reinterpreted version of due process and end up in a privatized prison never to be heard from again?  Privatize a prison and the prison population must increase to increase profit. What else can  a president and VP do with the largest prison population in the world?  Put them in low level government jobs or force them into a penal military draft to fight continuous wars all over the globe to keep the miltiary, intelligence and energy cronies from losing profit.  This is what our veterans died and were maimed for?

The last and final puzzle piece, guarded by Bush/Cheney like the relic of St. Peter in the Vatican, is your freedom.  Freedom to speak your mind publicly and privately without government oversight.  Freedom to choose where you want to live and work.  Freedom to choose who you want to run your government. These are two men who dictate what your freedoms can and will be.  Or, IF they will be. 

That's their dirty little secret.