I cannot possibly craft a better Winter Solstice message than the following, created by Ed Naha. We are in the midst of the a Constitutional Crisis on par with the Civil War, in which most of our civil liberties, civil rights, and truth has been cravenly destroyed for the pursuit of consolidation of power and greed.
'Tis a thought before Christmas
by Ed Naha | Dec 18 2007 - 10:20am |
'Twas a country quite listless, for in the White House
All the shredders were shredding, fed by the dry souse.
The Department of Justice did not have a care,
Full knowing that Congress would never go there.
The Cabinet was smirking, with zero street cred,
While visions of pardons danced in their pinheads.
And Bush in his flight suit with Dick spewing his crap,
Called up party faithful to cheerlead their pack.
When from the front lawn there arose such a clatter -
'Twas an army of citizens (as if they would matter).
Junior and Cheney were up in a flash,
And to the back exit they carried the trash.
Trucks took the confetti away to a dump
And Junior was giggling, like a lame frat-boy chump.
When, what to their wondering eyes should appear,
The Statue of Liberty, and for all to hear,
She roared at the duo that they made her sick.
The scoundrels, they trembled (especially Dick).
And, with a bald eagle, she hurled out the blame,
At appointees and annointees, she called them by name.
"Out, Dubya! Out, Cheney! Out, Rice and Mukasey!
Out all the enablers, both crooked and lazy.
You've ruined a nation, with your greed and gall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"
Junior was frightened. He squealed like a sow.
Cheney retreated. "Feets don't fail me now."
So into the White House, they ran and they hid.
They both called their lawyers. What facts could they rig?
And then, in a twinkling, they saw in the hall
A figure approaching, both regal and tall.
He had a white beard, wore a star spangled hat.
He sneered at the duo. "Your uncle is back."
He was dressed like a flag, from his head to his feet,
But the flag was all tarnished from lies and deceit.
He stared at the culprits. "Do you know who I am?"
They both nodded dumbly. It was Uncle Sam.
"To the words of the law, you have turned a deaf ear.
You've squandered your power. You've made people fear
For their lives and their families. You've tortured the facts.
You've never been leaders, just political hacks."
Uncle Sam bristled, rolled paper in hand.
"It's the Constitution! The law of the land!
This land isn't your land. This land isn't mine.
It belongs to the people and you've run out of time.
"They'll no longer listen to vows learned by rote.
In next year's election, they'll turn out and vote.
They'll fix up this nation. They'll bring freedom back.
We'll no longer torture. We'll get out of Iraq."
Old Dick tried to argue, but as the Veep rose
Sam launched a haymaker upside Cheney's nose.
Bush began spinning, and whined like a girl
As Sam opened the window and spoke to the world.
"Trust in your Uncle, Lady Liberty, too.
We'll be back here in '08, after this wrecking crew."
And the people all cheered as Sam called through the night.
"Don't give up on freedom. Don't give up the fight."
You have discovered arachnoanarchy
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Hello?? Hello???? Are any of you paying any attention??
I propose that there are, among the meta-causes of the collapse of the US empire (and along there with, the very fabric of the US Constitutional government and the nation as we once knew it), two streams of political power that derive their authority from a nearly identical insane claim of manifest destiny. The first stream is dominated by the Israeli lobby funded by Jewish-based US economic interests grounded in the dogmatic belief that they have a divine right to claim a chunk of the planet regardless of any other person’s life or limb. This first stream must demonize and dehumanize the whole of the Middle Eastern Muslim people in order to garner justification for taking possession of territory and natural resources. The second stream is the expansion of Xtian fascism throughout the US, mirroring, in its own vitriol, the very ideals and rhetoric of their sworn enemies, the Islamic population of the planet. The Xtian fascists envision their nation as their version of Israel (albeit an Xtian homeland, free from infidels and blasphemers), seeking to transform the US into teh Xtian nation; one that removes their non-Xtian neighbors, recreating a reservation system (not unlike Israel’s various Palestinian enclaves) that began by the systematic destruction of the native indigenous populations of the lands.
To accomplish their goals, both of these streams demand obedience and direct support from the US government and US-globalized media. Israel needs the US to control (read this as destroy infrastructures and kill millions of inhabitants) the Islamic nations of the Middle East, thereby freeing the natural resources (first and foremost water, then oil) for their use and profit making. The Xtians need the US to enter a permanent state of war against all of their enemies, including it seems the very planet, in order to free up access to the remaining natural resources necessary to protect their own survival at the expense of all others. Both religions, view the Muslims as a grave threat; all the more so because usury and corporate profiteering are among the greatest of all sins in Islam, while considered the greatest of all virtues for the Jewish and Xtian leaders. Theocracies built on profit and massive accumulation of wealth and control of resources, good; theocracies and all other governments that might offer progressive distribution of resources to all of their constituencies, very bad!
In Mearsheimer and Walt’s heavily researched and factually supported study, the authors demonstrate the deleterious effects “the lobby” has had on U.S. relations with Palestinians, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Lebanon. The two scholars conclude:
"The lobby's influence helped lead the United States into a disastrous war in Iraq and has hamstrung efforts to deal with Syria and Iran. It also encouraged the United States to back Israel's ill-conceived assault on Lebanon, a campaign that strengthened Hezbollah, drove Syria and Iran closer together, and further tarnished America's global image. The lobby bears considerable, though not complete, responsibility for each of these developments, and none of them was good for the United States. The bottom line is hard to escape, although America's problems in the Middle East would not disappear if the lobby were less influential, U.S. leaders would find it easier to explore alternative approaches and be more likely to adopt policies more in line with American interests."
When one reviews the basic infrastructural developments in Israel, one easily discerns the hallmarks of ethnic/religious cleansing, subjugation of the indigenous populations; certainly not at all unlike the treatment in the US of the American Indians. Carving out reservations and then subsequently and continuously invading them, shrinking their boundaries in violations of treaties and agreements, claiming dominion over all of the necessary life sustaining resources, until, one day, there are only a handful of the original inhabitants left. Seems like one model develops the other, in turn leading the new one to model for the old.
In James Aho’s landmark sociological study he writes about the essential underpinnings of Xtian fascism: (on page 220)
First and preeminently, dualism. Relative to the doctrine of divine transcendence, of a perfected, spiritualized (male) Creator residing in distant heavens, the material (that is, feminine) world is profanity, unconsciousness, and death. Among the images of this fallen world are the “curse” of matriarchy, “bull-dyke” women and ladylike men; actions alleged to be associated with them – sex education, birth control, sloth, drunkenness, pornography, drug addiction, raucous music, gluttony, revelry, dance, and provocative dress; policies that presumably promote these – passivity, pacifism, communalism, and moral “dissolution” as expressed in the practices of profit without productivity, pay without work, crime without punishment, seizure without compensation, purchase without cash, and its inexorable accessory, usury; knee-jerk tolerance; the promiscuous mixing of “distinct” things – creeds, nations, species, races, classes, and roles; philosophies of hazed vision, blurred edges, and relativity; games of chance, ouija boards, the I Ching, astrology, and other New Age “satanic” technologies; and promoters of these policies – secular human educators, the liberal media, “politicians” (by which is meant those aggrandize themselves by compromising with all of the above), the “Soviet controlled” National Council of Churches, “socialist” bureaucrats, and chief conspirator himself, the archetypal “Jew.”
… A second element in the projections of those called to patriotism is the reduction of historical events to the conscious intentions of the omniscient and all-powerful. The search for the ultimate causes of social decline invariably ends in the quest for whom to blame and whom to eliminate.
Third and finally, there is a pervading conviction of cosmic exigency, that the world and thus life itself is in dire emergency, the never-ending search for signs of the Apocalypse and the Last Dispensation, and that the Second Coming is imminent. {The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism, James Aho}
Rush Limbaugh: "I tell people don’t kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus -- living fossils -- so we will never forget what these people stood for."
Ann Coulter: "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."
Or: "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too."
Bill O’Reilly: “Everybody got it? Dissent, fine; undermining, you're a traitor. Got it? So, all those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please? Send over the FBI and just put them in chains, because they, you know, they're undermining everything and they don't care, couldn't care less.”
Michael Barone: “Our covert enemies are harder to identify, for they live in large numbers within our midst. And in terms of intentions, they are not enemies in the sense that they consciously wish to destroy our society. On the contrary, they enjoy our freedoms and often call for their expansion. But they have also been working, over many years, to undermine faith in our society and confidence in its goodness. These covert enemies are those among our elites who have promoted the ideas labeled as multiculturalism, moral relativism and ... transnationalism.”
Karl Rove: “Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.”
Kathleen Parker: “Here's a note I got recently from a friend and former Delta Force member, who has been observing American politics from the trenches: ‘These bastards like Clark and Kerry and that incipient ass, Dean, and Gephardt and Kucinich and that absolute mental midget Sharpton, race baiter, should all be lined up and shot.’ "
(courtesy of David Neiwert column series)
Is it any wonder that the David Addington crafted for Dick Cheney documents for the President to sign: initiating martial law preparations under Presidential Directive #51, which abrogate the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878; the termination of habeas corpus (even for Americans) with Military Commissions Act of 2006; the widespread incarceration of non-violent and petty offenders in a corporate, prison-industrial complex; the outsourcing of elections to companies pushing paperless virtual voting; the development of a mass surveillance society based upon Orwellian principles; and unprecedented state-sponsored propaganda and fake news.
We are at a critical crossroads in the US. The challenge is whether we, the citizens, allow this nation to become its own xTian version of Zionist Israel—a theocracy that marginalizes and fratricides the non-believing majority into non-existence, or do we reject in toto the theocratic impulses and drive them back to their own lands in the Middle East from which they claim to have originally come. If you don’t think it can happen, just ask any of the remaining American Indians you might be lucky enough to find. At one point, we comprised 100% of the continent’s two-legged population, now in the US we don’t even count much over a single one percent.
To accomplish their goals, both of these streams demand obedience and direct support from the US government and US-globalized media. Israel needs the US to control (read this as destroy infrastructures and kill millions of inhabitants) the Islamic nations of the Middle East, thereby freeing the natural resources (first and foremost water, then oil) for their use and profit making. The Xtians need the US to enter a permanent state of war against all of their enemies, including it seems the very planet, in order to free up access to the remaining natural resources necessary to protect their own survival at the expense of all others. Both religions, view the Muslims as a grave threat; all the more so because usury and corporate profiteering are among the greatest of all sins in Islam, while considered the greatest of all virtues for the Jewish and Xtian leaders. Theocracies built on profit and massive accumulation of wealth and control of resources, good; theocracies and all other governments that might offer progressive distribution of resources to all of their constituencies, very bad!
In Mearsheimer and Walt’s heavily researched and factually supported study, the authors demonstrate the deleterious effects “the lobby” has had on U.S. relations with Palestinians, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Lebanon. The two scholars conclude:
"The lobby's influence helped lead the United States into a disastrous war in Iraq and has hamstrung efforts to deal with Syria and Iran. It also encouraged the United States to back Israel's ill-conceived assault on Lebanon, a campaign that strengthened Hezbollah, drove Syria and Iran closer together, and further tarnished America's global image. The lobby bears considerable, though not complete, responsibility for each of these developments, and none of them was good for the United States. The bottom line is hard to escape, although America's problems in the Middle East would not disappear if the lobby were less influential, U.S. leaders would find it easier to explore alternative approaches and be more likely to adopt policies more in line with American interests."
When one reviews the basic infrastructural developments in Israel, one easily discerns the hallmarks of ethnic/religious cleansing, subjugation of the indigenous populations; certainly not at all unlike the treatment in the US of the American Indians. Carving out reservations and then subsequently and continuously invading them, shrinking their boundaries in violations of treaties and agreements, claiming dominion over all of the necessary life sustaining resources, until, one day, there are only a handful of the original inhabitants left. Seems like one model develops the other, in turn leading the new one to model for the old.
In James Aho’s landmark sociological study he writes about the essential underpinnings of Xtian fascism: (on page 220)
First and preeminently, dualism. Relative to the doctrine of divine transcendence, of a perfected, spiritualized (male) Creator residing in distant heavens, the material (that is, feminine) world is profanity, unconsciousness, and death. Among the images of this fallen world are the “curse” of matriarchy, “bull-dyke” women and ladylike men; actions alleged to be associated with them – sex education, birth control, sloth, drunkenness, pornography, drug addiction, raucous music, gluttony, revelry, dance, and provocative dress; policies that presumably promote these – passivity, pacifism, communalism, and moral “dissolution” as expressed in the practices of profit without productivity, pay without work, crime without punishment, seizure without compensation, purchase without cash, and its inexorable accessory, usury; knee-jerk tolerance; the promiscuous mixing of “distinct” things – creeds, nations, species, races, classes, and roles; philosophies of hazed vision, blurred edges, and relativity; games of chance, ouija boards, the I Ching, astrology, and other New Age “satanic” technologies; and promoters of these policies – secular human educators, the liberal media, “politicians” (by which is meant those aggrandize themselves by compromising with all of the above), the “Soviet controlled” National Council of Churches, “socialist” bureaucrats, and chief conspirator himself, the archetypal “Jew.”
… A second element in the projections of those called to patriotism is the reduction of historical events to the conscious intentions of the omniscient and all-powerful. The search for the ultimate causes of social decline invariably ends in the quest for whom to blame and whom to eliminate.
Third and finally, there is a pervading conviction of cosmic exigency, that the world and thus life itself is in dire emergency, the never-ending search for signs of the Apocalypse and the Last Dispensation, and that the Second Coming is imminent. {The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism, James Aho}
Rush Limbaugh: "I tell people don’t kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus -- living fossils -- so we will never forget what these people stood for."
Ann Coulter: "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."
Or: "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too."
Bill O’Reilly: “Everybody got it? Dissent, fine; undermining, you're a traitor. Got it? So, all those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please? Send over the FBI and just put them in chains, because they, you know, they're undermining everything and they don't care, couldn't care less.”
Michael Barone: “Our covert enemies are harder to identify, for they live in large numbers within our midst. And in terms of intentions, they are not enemies in the sense that they consciously wish to destroy our society. On the contrary, they enjoy our freedoms and often call for their expansion. But they have also been working, over many years, to undermine faith in our society and confidence in its goodness. These covert enemies are those among our elites who have promoted the ideas labeled as multiculturalism, moral relativism and ... transnationalism.”
Karl Rove: “Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.”
Kathleen Parker: “Here's a note I got recently from a friend and former Delta Force member, who has been observing American politics from the trenches: ‘These bastards like Clark and Kerry and that incipient ass, Dean, and Gephardt and Kucinich and that absolute mental midget Sharpton, race baiter, should all be lined up and shot.’ "
(courtesy of David Neiwert column series)
Is it any wonder that the David Addington crafted for Dick Cheney documents for the President to sign: initiating martial law preparations under Presidential Directive #51, which abrogate the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878; the termination of habeas corpus (even for Americans) with Military Commissions Act of 2006; the widespread incarceration of non-violent and petty offenders in a corporate, prison-industrial complex; the outsourcing of elections to companies pushing paperless virtual voting; the development of a mass surveillance society based upon Orwellian principles; and unprecedented state-sponsored propaganda and fake news.
We are at a critical crossroads in the US. The challenge is whether we, the citizens, allow this nation to become its own xTian version of Zionist Israel—a theocracy that marginalizes and fratricides the non-believing majority into non-existence, or do we reject in toto the theocratic impulses and drive them back to their own lands in the Middle East from which they claim to have originally come. If you don’t think it can happen, just ask any of the remaining American Indians you might be lucky enough to find. At one point, we comprised 100% of the continent’s two-legged population, now in the US we don’t even count much over a single one percent.
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