- America is frightening the world. The vaunted beacon
of freedom has turned into a Ku Klux Klan bonfire.
Maybe some sadists think that's a good idea, but the genuinely decent
people of this planet surely don't.
Incited by an endless barrage of dubious bluster about the sudden
need for all-out war against a bomb-ravaged Third World nation, people
in 38 different countries came out by the hundreds of thousands last weekend
to sound the alarm about this spreading American madness.
And we all know the reason why.
The man who claims to lead the fight against terror is terrorizing
the entire world.
He terrrorizes little old American ladies by making them strip naked
at airports and having their private parts probed by minimum-wage security
Nazis searching for weapons of mass destruction. He terrorizes allies around
the world with bribes and threats into saying exactly what he says regardless
of what they actually think. He terrorizes opposition party politicians
into nervous silence when planes fall out of the sky with no explanation.
The belligerent little twit from Texas has singlehandedly has turned
the world's greatest democracy into a paranoid police state. He recently
killed 5,000 people in Afghanistan without a shred of verifiable evidence,
and now is threatening to do it again ... and again and again and again.
No single person in recent history has motivated so many people in
so many places to interrupt their daily lives and stand out on some strange
street in order to try to save the lives of innocent people they've never
met.
Colossal demonstrations took place last weekend in cities all over
the United States, from Portland to Tampa to Montpelier. Washington drew
500,000 (in 20F degree weather, no less) and San Francisco saw 200,000
(although the pro-war, corporate shill TV networks cynically refuse to
confirm those totals). Concerned people protested all over Europe as well,
from London to Istanbul, and in Brazil, Japan and New Zealand. There was
even a peace demonstration in Antarctica.
Yet the plans for another United States war against its former ally
Iraq continue at a frenzied pace, with rumors circulating across the Internet
this weekend that America will begin dropping bombs on the Iraqi people
at the exact moment George W. Bush delivers his State of the Union event
this coming Tuesday night.
How cynically telegenic! Death from the sky as a hot new TV show.
Despite all the hysterical mumbo jumbo about unending terror alerts
that never seem to materialize and draconian new laws that have gutted
America's fabled Bill of Rights, people of the world with the intelligence
to analyze events without the aid of cutesy but ignorant commentators on
the Fascist News Network (a.k.a. Fox) know that all the pro-war propaganda
is just a screen of strident lies.
People know America wants to steal Iraq's oil, and if the U.S. gets
away with this, there will be no reason for it not to continue its Genghis
Khan-like rampage into Iran and Saudi Arabia, all the while trumpeting
the hollow mantras of "national security" and "war on terror."
This is exactly the rationale a falsely speaking America used in Vietnam.
"We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Only now
it's: "In order to fight terror we must use terror." It's all
just another variant of Orwell's "war is peace."
America wants to enslave the entire world to make it "free."
Another raison d'etre for this continuing American aggression in Iraq
is Israel, which seeks to expand its own borders far beyond what they are
now, and having a U.S.-controlled Iraq in which to dump Palestinian exiles
would fit nicely into the plans of this conscienceless neo-Nazi state.
I myself, however, don't believe that either oil or Israel are the
primary reasons behind this new Iraq attack. I believe it's really about
controlling the focus of the news, manipulating the opinions of the population,
and most of all, deflecting attention from the hunt for who really engineered
the World Trade Center disaster.
And, to a lesser extent, to divert the public's attention from the
criminal activities of Enron, Halliburton, and Harken, which robbed and
in some cases continue to rob the American people of billions of dollars
at the exact time when the American stock exchange is essentially bankrupt
and certainly unworthy of the attention of intelligent investors.
A war in Iraq keeps people from focusing on these more important issues,
and the petro-connected corporate news media are only too willing to assist
Bush in the deception.
Just look at what has happened in the recent past. When people began
asking questions about the 9/11 horror, anthrax attacks were invented to
deflect the public's attention.
When crucial votes about new security measures effectively nullifying
the U.S. Constitution caught the public's eye, terror alert after terror
alert grabbed the headlines, and the USA Patriot Act was passed without
most of the members of Congress even reading it.
Then, when the Enron effluent finally hit the fan, after tens of thousands
of people had been robbed of substantial amounts of money by Texas billionaires,
suddenly Iraq became a pressing problem, and the mass media has scarcely
looked elsewhere since. It has had absolutely no time or space to property
investigate Vice President Cheney's conspiracy with energy executives to
fleece the populace in the biggest scam since the S&L fire sales, which
not-so-coincidentally was another Bush operation.
Now, I'm sitting here on this bright, chilly Saturday morning watching
CNN blather on about the supposed pros and cons of getting the government-mandated
smallpox vaccine, but of course the beautiful anchorpeople fail to mention
the most salient fact about this issue: that all smallpox epidemics throughout
history have been caused by vaccination programs. This program was invented
as a response to those staged anthrax attacks, which have never been solved
and were dropped from the media lineup when the trail seemed to lead right
back to the government.
- When was the last time you heard a word the criminal
activities of Enron, or all those other corporations which helped enrich
our leaders while it screwed ordinary people?
But most importantly, when was the last time you heard a whisper about
why the U.S. air defenses ALLOWED the 9/11 attacks to happen, why fires
at the bases of three towers burned for 100 days, or why billions of dollars
changed hands in stock machinations in the days immediately preceeding
this unprecedented tragedy?
A long time, for sure. All we've heard for the last six months is
how Saddam is connected to al-Qaida (not proven), how Iraq is hiding weapons
of mass destruction (not proven), and how Iraq is an imminent threat to
the security of the United States (you couldn't prove this in a court of
law even if you bought the whole jury!). And all these repetitive lies
have served the purpose of the criminals in charge, to distract us from
the truly important issues.
That's why Bush can calmly comment about how peace demonstrations
are a natural and expected part of American "freedom." Although
these statements make many people vomit for their blatant insincerity,
he can express this thought because the demonstrations are an unwitting
part of the coverup of the more important questions, which certainly are
about what cabal of insiders engineered the execution of this "new
Pearl Harbor" that a Republican think tank so urgently recommended
more than a year before the 9/11 tragedy.
Whatever happened to Osama bin Laden? He disappeared faster than
last year's hot new sitcom. I believe " if he is not dead, or never
existed in the first place " that someone in American intelligence
knows exactly where Osama bin Laden is, but that he's fulfilled his contract
with the CIA, served his purpose, and now is to be left alone. Hell, he's
probably in the federal witnesss protection program.
And what of al-Qaida, the mystery revolutionary group that these days
is blamed for just about every untoward event in the entire world. al-Qaida,
like Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega, was originally funded by the United
States for geopolitical intrigues in central Asia. This relationship, like
the one with bin Laden, supposedly ended somewhere along the way, but the
people who are telling us this are the same big media buffoons who insists
that smallpox shots are safe, that Iraq is an imminent threat to the security
of the United States, and that polls say Bush is the cat's meow.
Maybe he's the dead cat's meow.
I don't know if it's really fair to call George W. Bush a terrorist
president, because he is really only using the terrroristic threat of using
the American military to get what he wants politically. But on the other
hand, just as he did signing all those Texas executions, he does seem to
be enjoying it, a Napoleonic martinet strutting upon the stage with his
draft-dodging cronies, playing commander-in-chief with a warchest of deadly,
high-tech toys. So maybe it is fair to call him a terrorist president.
There's an old biker legend that insists: when you fire a bullet at
someone in anger, that bullet will " someday, someplace, someway "
come back on you.
Or, to put it more simply, as you sow, so shall you reap. Just think
about what's coming to us as a result of how our unelected president has
terrorized the whole world.
The real terrrorist is George W. Bush.
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- John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the coast of Florida
and knows that the American government is now treating its own citizens
in the same way it treats everybody else in the world.
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