David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust
Oct. 23, 2011 -- Only occasionally do we get catch a glimpse of this nation as it truly is. Occasionally can we smell it, but only when we get close enough to have our noses rubbed in what this country is actually about.
We are buried and immersed, indoctrinated, infotained and immolated in this collective candy wrapper called the United States of America. A Disney ride, a sitom with patriotic music played over the noise of a slaughter house.
A Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm image of America, but Rebecca is packing heat. She loves slasher flicks and violence; she craves more pictures of a bloody Qaddafi or Saddam on the scaffold. She loves and craves blood and violence and on Sunday she stops to kneel and to pray because Jesus, the prince of peace loves America. He loves our violence and our blood, our gushing gore and bonehewing.
Barack Obama is quick to claim credit for our troop withdrawal in Iraq; his administration has a kinder gentler machine gun hand. The truth is we were thrown out, can you believe it? After all we’ve done for those ungrateful wretches, after we’ve bombed and strafed their country with depleted uranium and killed over 150,000 Iraqi’s civilians we are being shown the door, all that we Americans ever asked for was immunity from criminal prosecution, and the Iraqi’s for some strange reason said no.
So we will leave behind one freshly purchased squadron of F-16 fighter jets in Iraq with another on order because the only thing we love in America more than blood, carnage and tears is high tech weaponry. We also plan through an American broker plan to sell the Afghan air force a fleet of Russian made helicopters. New helicopters would sell for $19 million per copy but because we really love democracy and Capitalism we are selling the Afghans used Russian helicopters for $21 million per copy. The argument is that the new helicopters were just too complicated for the untrained Afghan pilots; pilots who plan to start flight school just as soon as they are taught how to read.
This is who we are and this is what we do, we kill people and break things and cheat people for money. All is for profit, we love money, it is our God, our golden calf. Jesus said, “Blessed are the peace makers: for they shall be called the children of God.” In America, the short answer to that statement would be, "Fuck you hippie." That is who we really are; America would nail his hippie ass to a tree faster than you could say Dick Cheney. If you love America, then you are in love some absurd abstract concept which doesn’t really exist, some Madison Avenue slogan like Crest toothpaste, Pizza Hut or Mickey Mouse.
I know a woman who is sick and will probably die, not because there isn’t a treatment for her illness but because her job has been outsourced overseas. Her health insurance company is shouting, “Yippee Skippee” and dancing a jig because at the end of the month they are off the hook for her medical bills and because she is sick, no other insurance company will cover her at any price. Makes you proud to be an American, doesn’t it? Let’s let people die for money. Everyone is doing it! Well, Third World backwater countries are doing it. There aren’t any countries the world considers civilized doing these things, but then we consider ourselves separate from the rest of the world.
This is your bullshit freedom; your vulnerability is sold to you as John Wayne style freedom. Fourty-five Thousand American men, women and children die each year because they lack health insurance. I don’t care what your political affiliation is, that is shameful, that is a disgrace. While you chant your political slogans and invectives tell it to the mother of a dying child or tell it to a child with a dying parent, that this is all about your freedom little Bobby.
I am a Socialist, let me tell you what that means, it means the day Socialists take power in this country, Americans will stop dying because they lack health insurance. Socialism says that all peoples are equal, money; status and station don’t mean anything. It means that your child’s education won’t be dependant on your wealth. It means freedom from fear, freedom from fear of providing for your children’s education and freedom from fear of providing for your old age. Capitalism says people are tools by which to obtain wealth and only the money really matters, while Socialism says that money is only a tool and it is the people that really matter.
Students with good grades go to college because an educated population creates a more vibrant society and creates more than an uneducated population. Most of Europe offers their young people a free education but here in America education is a profit center. A billion dollars in student loans go to Internet Universities. “Learn ballpoint pen repair” or “join the fast paced world of Homeland Security” or even become a NASCAR mechanic. Their goal isn’t to educate but to profit from education because what else matters?
Ten million jobs outsourced with no end in sight, 12 million homes foreclosed with no end in sight. Isn’t the profit motive wonderful? WWJD? He’d tell America to fuck off; that’s what he’d do, he cast the money changers from their temples because he had this outrageous notion that God doesn’t need or want our money. Jesus believed in the separation of church and state.
Jesus would be found today at occupy Wall Street or more than likely in a New York City jail cell. He had overturned the tables of the money changers and thrown down their goods once before and there is no doubt, that he’d do it again today on Wall Street.
Yet there is then a third leg to this insidious iniquitous triad, included with our murder and larcenies are our lies. I found this the other day from ABC News quite by accident.
“MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Here are the latest developments on this 11th day of war. Another night of intense bombing in Baghdad hit key Republican Guard targets. And U.S. Central Command says the presidential palace used by Saddam Hussein's son Qusay, along with Fedayeen paramilitary barracks, were also struck.”
“MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I want to play now, show now, an editorial from the "Wall Street Journal" that basically says the United States has been too scrupulous. It says "These allied scruples have had important military costs. The decision not to bomb Iraqi TV avoided civilian deaths, but also gave Saddam an opening to show he was still in control. The sprint to Baghdad to end the war quickly opened allied supply lines to Fedayeen raids and the original decision to by-pass Basra denied to Iraq's suppressed Shiite majority any immediate motivation to revolt." Do you think this effort to save lives may actually be prolonging the war?”
So after an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation with reasons built entirely out of hot air and manufactured lies the U.S. military then bombs the capital of this nation repeatedly. We bombed their electrical grid and we bombed their water and sanitation facilities and in the end we even bombed Iraqi television. All of these events are war crimes but what question does the media ask?
Do you think that we are being too nice, too restrained in our murderous assault? Do you think those bludgeoned battered and bombed in Iraq were let off too easy?
There is contemptuousness which has caused a welling of anger that can no longer be suppressed. This anger, this rage goes meandering in the streets and is misunderstood by the politicians, the media and the commercial sector. They try to frame this rage through the lens of traditional party labels and what they get is a fuzzy image. They don’t see, they don’t understand, their credit card still works and they wonder, “What’s their problem?”
The other day in an interview Hillary Clinton laughed with glee and rubbed her hands together in self satisfaction at the death of Moammar Qaddafi. “We came, we saw and he died,” she said as she laughed at the wonderful murder. In America murder is good, murder is about smiles and laughter, trials and justice are passé’. The President issues death warrants in Murderland.
“I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream -- I see an American nightmare.” --Malcolm X