“Half the Truth is often a great Lie.”
—Ben Franklin

Why America Needs a Good Smacking Around:
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Friends, Romans & Betrodden Countrypeople:
 
Now that the “Decider in Chief” has crashed our “superpower” into the ancient culture of Babylon, he appears prepared to smash our entire country even deeper into the Bear Trap of Iraq. I tell you, country of wealth and stupidity, if this had been a Roman emperor—wait a minute, it basically is! As Mark Twain said:

“History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme alot.” Except a Roman emperor leading his empire into such stupidly simple “terror” traps to bleed the populace out would have been deposed or executed by now.

Face it, Americans, your President is a drunken fool, and we are paying in the most dire ways. The real tragedy is that our children and grandchildren will be bearing even more terrible consequences of a world at war, for the sake of one man’s megalomania. As a Sun Tzu-type strategist, one could even conclude that the stupid son of a Bush was working for Bin Laden, since he has done almost everything the guerilla fighters have intended, to bleed our country out in defeat (can he Google “Custer”?)
 
Meanwhile, we “average” Americans in the outlands are scratching our heads, wondering why Bush wants Iraq to be the 51st state? Oh yes—the OIL thing. While America’s roads and cities are falling apart with bizarre storms and withering budgets, the so-called ‘leaders’ in Washington are obsessed with a bombed-out Islamic country half a world away. The New Years hanging of their leader was a poison cherry on top of the cocktail. Good Lord, are demons driving this thing?

It’s time for America to wisen up and start asking the probing questions, taking historic stances. In this new millennium, why are we still be ruled on a Roman model of “Hail Ceasar/Heil Bush”? With the dawn of internet, the “presidency” seems so—two centuries ago. Since we are in the midst of such a crisis, it would be wise to take the opportunity to expose the roots of the corruption.

Never has a state existed in a “war” mode without tyranny. The past century was a history of tyrannical movements and nations coming to a boil and being simmered in secret. The United States was colonized by a network of elite brotherhoods and military corporations, now cloaked under the ironic euphimism of “intelligence.” Bush, Jr. is desperately trying to reconfigure his intelligence heads, when the real problem is corruption all around him, from his CIA daddy on down.

As with Hitler and other psychotic despots through history, we look back and wonder how the legislators, the lawyers, judges and generals allowed such a person to lead the nation into obviously criminal warfare? Three letters will sum up America’s affliction fairly—if one wishes to research and read, it’s all there on Amazon—“C.I.A.” A half-century of meddling and manipulating other countries, assassinations, torture, secret prisons, secret armies, spying, black budgets, etc., has led us to this criminal meltdown at the top. The 20 billion dollar question is: Now what are we going to do about it? Consider the very likely possibility that Bush 43 just doesn’t know what the hell is going on, so the country is falling into permanent crisis…

Is it possible to address this current tyranny without a revolutionary uprising, as in other times and places? Or will we just stand back and witness as it collapses into bloody machinations of barbarians and extremists, like Rome fell? How about we start by answering one simple, childish question for posterity: “Why did we allow the bombing and total destruction of civilian cities?” Remembering—it’s all being done with our taxes, and in our name.

  Sincerely, Bee Zee
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“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious”
—Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just a dick.”
—Falzmania

“A book if necessary should be a hammer or a hand grenade which you detonate under a stagnant way of looking at the world.”
—Wole Soyinka

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Dear Abby:

My father is a businessman who travels.
Each time he returns from one of his trips,
his shoes and trousers                      
are covered with blood-
but he never forgets to bring me a nice present;
Should I say something?
                                   
Signed, America.

I used to think I was not part of this,
that I could mind my own business and get along,

but that was just another song
that had been taught to me since birth—

whose words I was humming under my breath,
as I was walking through the Springdale Mall.

Tony Hoagland from Hard Rain

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out ‘stop!’  When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable, the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”
- Bertolt Brecht

“For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or civilization perishes, one condition may always be found ~ they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.”
—Carl Sanburg

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”
—George Bernard Shaw

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“A book if necessary should be a hammer or a hand grenade which you detonate under a stagnant way of looking at the world.”
—Wole Soyinka

Tomgram:
Pentagon to Global Cities—Drop Dead

In our world, the Pentagon and the national security bureaucracy have largely taken possession of the future. In an exchange in 2002, journalist Ron Suskind reported a senior adviser to President Bush telling him:

“that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality… We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.’”

Slowly, step by step, the present White House has found itself forced back into at least the vicinity of the reality-based community. This week we may, in fact, get to hear one of the last of this President’s great Iraqi fictions.

The same cannot be said of the Pentagon and the Intelligence Community (IC). They have settled into the future and taken it in hand in a business-like, if somewhat lurid, way. It’s the Pentagon that, in 2004, was already producing futuristic studies about a globally warmed world from Hell; it’s the Pentagon’s blue-skies research agency, DARPA, that regularly lets scientists and other thinkers loose to dream wildly about future possibilities (and then, of course, to create war-fighting weaponry and other equipment from those dreams). It’s the National Nuclear Security Administration that is hard at work dreaming up the nature of our nuclear arsenal in 2030.

Typical is the National Intelligence Council, a “center of strategic thinking within the U.S. Government, reporting to the Director of Central Intelligence.” In 2005, it was already expending much effort to create fictional scenarios for 2010, 2015, and 2020. Someone I know recently attended workshops the Council’s long-range assessment unit organized, trying to look at the “threats after next”—and this time they were deep into the 2020s.

The future—whether imagined as utopian or dystopian—was, not so long ago, the province of dreamers, or actual writers of fiction, or madmen and cranks, or reformers and journalists, or even wanna-be war-fighters, but not so regularly of actual war-fighters, or secretaries of defense, or presidents. In our time, the Pentagon and the IC have quite literally become the fantasy-based community. And yet, strangely enough, the urge of our top policy-makers (and allied academics and scientists) to spend their time in relatively distant futures has been little explored or considered by others.

A couple of things can be said about this near compulsion. First, it’s largely confined to the arts of war. There is no equivalent in our government when it comes to health care or education, retirement or housing. No well-funded government think-tanks and lousy-with-loot research organizations are ready to let anyone loose dreaming about our planet’s endangered environment, for instance. The future—the only one our government seems truly to care about—is most distinctly not good for you. It’s a totally weaponized, grimly dystopian health hazard for the planet.

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posted by Admiral B23: Bombshelter.org on 1-12-07 at 2:21 AM