THE LIBERAL CASE FOR REGIME CHANGE IN AMERICA

I thought I'd post a few links and comments to help illustrate where John Kerry and others on the far out left are coming from when they call for an end to the Bush "regime." The key thing to understand is that Kerry didn't just come up with a "humorous" association of the Bush Administration with Iraq's state-sponsored P.O.W. torture, rape, execution, terrorism, war crimes and WMD use carelessly off the top of his head. The design of his leftist rhetoric was clearly strategic in that he knew it would inflame the political discussion at a time when the debate was becoming too passive due to the successful war. He was unapologetic, and immediately had his "free speech patriot" card ready to play under the media limelight to further attack Republicans. The combined effect was to highlight his past patriotism while inserting "regime change for Bush" into the mainstream political debate during a war against an evil regime. It was an attempt to create for Americans a lingering association of Bush with pure evil, while Kerry then nominates himself for the role of savior of the oppressed people. It was a bold political move to publicly embrace a growing segment of the far left who have long been throwing around accusations that Bush's Administration is illegitimate, and guilty of almost all the evils of Saddam except, I think, state-sponsored rape. These are the people Kerry was appealing to, the chorus of voices he was joining, and the movement he was selfishly trying to tap into when he jumped on the "regime change" bandwagon:

Dissidents -- A Proposal for Regime Change in the United States:

For thirty years we have held demonstrations, written books, cajoled the Democrats, castigated the Republicans, submitted letters to the editor, thought globally while acting locally, created websites, held more demonstrations, written more books, and generally acted as though fundamental change were possible from within the existing political process. It is long past time to abandon that foolish belief.

UK leftists -- A government in power without the legitimacy of a democratic majority:

The Spanish speaking minority in the south might be induced to rise up. There could be assistance from Minutemen in the mountains. But the democratic opposition is too defeated and divided to provide much help. The answer could be an "inside-out" strategy using special forces to take Washington and a few key nuclear bases. Provided the rest of the country was left to get on with its business, there would probably be little internal opposition to a seizure of the capital.

Leftist kooks -- appeal to the UN to liberate the American people from the Bush regime.

Serious kooks -- NESARA Brings 9/11 Indictments on Bush Regime

Communist led protestors (photos) -- San Franciscans rally for a regime change in the US

Marxists -- Bush regime shamelessly exploits 9/11:

Of all the repressive governments in the world, many of which would not be in power without U.S. support, none presents such a threat to the people of the world as does the current rogue regime in DC. If a "regime change" is needed anywhere in the world, it is here in the U.S.

Kerry's gambit is no different than a candidate appealing to Islamists, the Militia movement, or the KKK for votes and then launching a follow-up attack on any critics by claiming he once served in uniform and America is all about absolute free speech. Free speech and previous service in the military have nothing to do with who a politician is aligning himself with right now while pandering for revolutionary hate votes. Kerry's desire to have freedom from the political consequences of his speech is beyond laughable, and his Vietnam service has no bearing on the ultimate question of whether Americans can now trust Kerry as a political leader in a government he sees as a "regime."