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THE RISE OF AMERICAN BARBARISM
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What the World is Saying . . .
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Uncle
Sam used to be everyone's favourite uncle. But not anymore. In recent times
he has shown his true colours as a vicious and ruthless killer of men,
women, and children and arch-proponent of unconstrained imperialism.
Under smirking commander-in-chief George W. Bush, America has lost its
way and gone Nazi. And become a serious threat to its own people and to
our entire planet.
But how could all this have happened in the 'Land of the Free'? It has
been the outcome of a conspiracy by a gang of extremists largely financed
by the American Enterprise Institute and zealots like media billionaire
Rupert Murdoch - an Australian who sold his soul to the U.S.A. Their scheme has been to infiltrate and hijack the Republican
Party and to then use that party's resources in order to achieve their
objective. And their end game is to seize power permanently, turning the
U.S.A. into a fascist state forever.
Once they had achieved political office the regime proceeded to enact the
Patriot Act and set up the Gestapo-like 'Department of Homeland Security'.
It effectively became a crime to express criticism of the regime and the
enabling of judges to openly issue 'torture warrants' is being seriously
considered. Law enforcement agencies adopt an increasingly militaristic
role, abandoning their role as protectors of the people and instead becoming
vehicles for suppression and control of the people. Intimidation and torture
are becoming orders of the day.
And the U.S. Military - now in effect calling the shots - is hell-bent
on military adventurism and it has embarked on a programme involving endless
war and conflict, at home and abroad, against anyone and anything standing
in the way of its ambitions. To this end the killing of children and innocent
people, and, indeed, every vile atrocity perpetrated, is always being excused
on the grounds that it was 'unfortunate' but 'justified'.
The Constitution has virtually been torn up, the Geneva Conventions on
human rights are being ignored, the United Nations is being bypassed.
Covert agencies have sprung up everywhere and are expanding at an alarming
pace. Never before have Americans known so little about what is really
happening to their country. Few realise that the National Security
Council, which advises the smirking president, is comprised largely of
questionable people with big business interests and ulterior motives, many
of whom are oil billionaires, many of whom have already been indicted for
fraud.
If you are an American, you've been told all your life that you live in
a free society. So by now you probably even believe it. But you are not
free. You have now not been free for a long time.
And you get to know even less about what is really going on in the world
at large. Everywhere in the world - even in 'allied' countries - the common
people are fearing and reviling loose-cannon America and Americans as never
before.
Has the U.S. itself turned out to be that much-spoken-of 'empire of
evil', greatest proponent of 'weapons of mass destruction', largest 'rogue
state' on earth?
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U.S. and British Newspapers shackle the Truth
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NOW
THE RISE OF AMERICAN BARBARISM
Uncle Sam used
to be everyone's favourite uncle. But not anymore. In recent times he has
shown his true colours as a vicious and ruthless killer of men, women,
and children and arch-proponent of unconstrained imperialism.
Under smirking commander-in-chief George W. Bush, America has lost its
way and gone Nazi. And become a serious threat to its own people and to
our entire planet.
But how could all this have happened in the 'Land of the Free'? It has
been the outcome of a conspiracy by a gang of extremists largely financed
by the American Enterprise Institute and zealots like media billionaire
Rupert Murdoch. Their scheme has been to infiltrate and hijack the Republican
Party and to then use that party's resources in order to achieve their
objective. And their end game is to seize power permanently, turning the
U.S.A. into a fascist state forever.
Once they had achieved political office the regime proceeded to enact the
Patriot Act and set up the Gestapo-like 'Department of Homeland Security'.
It effectively became a crime to express criticism of the regime and the
enabling of judges to openly issue 'torture warrants' is being seriously
considered. Law enforcement agencies adopt an increasingly militaristic
role, abandoning their role as protectors of the people and instead becoming
vehicles for suppression and control of the people. Intimidation and torture
are becoming orders of the day.
And the U.S. Military - now in effect calling the shots - is hell-bent
on military adventurism and it has embarked on a programme involving endless
war and conflict, at home and abroad, against anyone and anything standing
in the way of its ambitions. To this end the killing of children and innocent
people, and, indeed, every vile atrocity perpetrated, is always being excused
on the grounds that it was 'unfortunate' but 'justified'.
The Constitution has virtually been torn up, the Geneva Conventions on
human rights are being ignored, the United Nations is being bypassed.
Covert agencies have sprung up everywhere and are expanding at an alarming
pace. Never before have Americans known so little about what is really
happening to their country. Few realise that the National Security
Council, which advises the smirking president, is comprised largely of
questionable people with big business interests and ulterior motives, many
of whom are oil billionaires, many of whom have already been indicted for
fraud.
If you are an American, you've been told all your life that you live in
a free society. So by now you probably even believe it. But you are not
free. You have now not been free for a long time.
And you get to know even less about what is really going on in the world
at large. Everywhere in the world - even in 'allied' countries - the common
people are fearing and reviling loose-cannon America and Americans as never
before.
Has the U.S. itself turned out to be that much-spoken-of 'empire of
evil', greatest proponent of 'weapons of mass destruction', largest 'rogue
state' on earth?
It is well known that in overseas camps - notably at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
- people are being illegally detained and tortured. (In that infamous 'Camp
X-Ray' case, the American courts even said that torture was okay as long
as it didn't happen on 'American soil' and the victims were 'non-Americans'.)
Nonetheless, the Bush regime continues to insist that the U.S. does
not engage in torture. As recently as November 7th, 2005, the regime vehemently
opposed a Senate bill to outlaw torture. The White House wants the C.I.A.
exempted from any ban on torturing terror suspects.
It has also been revealed that the U.S. maintains numerous 'ghost
prisons' the world over. Ominously referred to as 'black sites' in regime
documents, these secret detention and torture camps
are thought to be located in Thailand, Afghanistan, as well as several
former members of the Soviet Union such as Uzbekistan and Romania. Operated
by the C.I.A., these sites were until now unknown even to most members
of Congress. Almost nothing is known about who is detained at these sites,
how long they have been there, or what interrogation methods are used on
them. The whole situation has now become dehumanized.
The European Union has its suspicions. Upon learning of the C.I.A.’s
black sites, the E.U. promised an investigation. Likewise, Scottish police
are investigating C.I.A. 'torture flights' which stop off at Scottish airports
en route to such 'torture-friendly' destinations as Egypt, Uzbekistan,
and Morocco. Iceland has promised its own investigation into the C.I.A.’s
use of Icelandic airports. Denmark, too. A Swedish investigation concluded
the C.I.A. violated Swedish law by flying two Egyptian men from Stockholm
to Cairo where they were tortured. In Italy, an arrest warrant remains
outstanding for 19 C.I.A. agents for kidnapping a cleric and shipping him
to Egypt to be tortured.
From an early age Americans are indoctrinated with this narrow, fervent
flag-waving kind of nationalism which is mistakenly called 'patriotism'.
They are inculcated with a sort of 'my country, right or wrong' mentality
and this is an ongoing process. Americans are cocooned in the 'red, white,
and blue' and 'the flag' is everywhere, ever-present just as it was in
soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. They are taught that 'the American Way'
- a phrase invented in old Superman comics - is always 'better'. Indeed.
they have been brought up to be a sort of superious 'Americankind', transcending
ordinary humankind. In short, Americans are now as 'conditioned' just as
much as the Soviets and German Nazis ever were.
The American public has been discouraged from taking a genuine interest
in the world outside. Furthermore, questioning the activities of the military
and covert agencies is frowned upon by the authorities. This is especially
a matter of great concern in a country forever espousing 'freedom' and
'democracy'.
So now secret agencies employ millions of people to spy on fellow Americans
so as to ensure that they subscribe to 'the American Way' and do not engage
in dangerous free-thinking. That not-so-kindly Uncle Sam persuades millions
of Americans to dress up in those ridiculous DarthVader-type law enforcement
black suits, carry machine guns, often be pumped full of mind-altering
drugs, and, in true comic book style, ordered to 'get out there to kick
arse the American Way'.
So what has happened to America and to Americans? People are nowadays so
quick to verbally abuse and denigrate each other and countless terms of
personal abuse have been invented and promoted by the media. A grotesque
taste for violence has surfaced as has a casual and flippant approach to
killing and maiming. Americans are now actually turned on by the presentation
of this violence just as were the ancient Romans in their arenas. All this
is reflected in Hollywood's output of movies and in the news media for
all the world to see and is also corrupting Britain and other nations.
Nuremburg-type rallies are no longer necessary in the U.S.A. because Americans
can now be fired-up and conditioned in the comfort of their own homes by
exposure to television's right-wing propagandists. America itself has become
an aggressivist country with demarcations between right and wrong, between
humanity and inhumanity, being deliberately blurred by the politico-military
establishment.
And all this in a supposedly Christian country. The motto 'In God We Trust'
rings exceeding hollow.
A
War on Terrorism outside the Rule of Law?
The 'war on terrorism',
as the smirking president and his blackguards like to remind us, is 'a
different kind of war.' But different from what? The only thing that is
really 'different' is that through the use of remote-controlled weaponry
the United States can now eliminate its 'enemies' from the comfort of offices
in Virginia.
At times such as these - when the politicians, and the military brass,
and the media are perpetually exploiting the public's fears - it is important
to realize that Law exists not only to administer justice but to
act as a constraint on the powers of those who hold political office.
Law is not a luxury that we can only afford during periods of peace; it
is our only defence against emergency powers being turned into instruments
of tyranny by unscrupulous or unprincipled governments.
No administration before George W. Bush's ever claimed such sweeping powers
for an enterprise as vaguely defined as the 'war against terrorism' and
they have clearly placed themselves above the law, consuming
such an enormous amount of the nation's resources for a mission whose end
would be difficult to recognize even if achieved.
Like previous forms of Fascism, the Bush administration boasts a reckless
unilateralism, believing it can demand unquestioning support and on terms
it dictates, ignore treaties and violate international law at will, invade
other countries, and imprison people indefinitely and at secret locations without charging them with any crime or allowing access to counsel.
The drive toward total power can take different forms, as Mussolini's Italy,
Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union suggest. The American system
is evolving its own form of fascism, displaying contempt for constraints
on its power.
The Nazis abolished the parliamentary system, instituted single-party rule
and controlled all forms of public communication. In the U.S. a similar
result is being achieved by alternative means. The elected legislature
is retained but a system of corruption - lobbyists, campaign contributions,
payoffs to powerful interests - short-circuits the connection between voters
and their representatives. The system responds primarily to corporate interests,
voters become cynical, resigned and opposition seems futile. And while
Hitler's control of the media meant that only the 'official story' was
communicated, the same result is being achieved in America by encouraging
concentrated ownership of the media, thereby narrowing the range of permissible
opinions.
This is augmented by having 'homeland security' envelope the entire nation
with a maze of restrictions and by instilling fear among the general population
by periodic alerts raised against a background of economic uncertainty,
unemployment, downsizing and cutbacks in basic services.
In institutionalizing its 'war on terrorism' the Bush administration acquired
a rationale for expanding its powers and furthering its domestic agenda
and direct the nation's resources towards endless war.
The business that Bush and his henchmen have embraced is the liquidation
of perceived enemies, ostensibly to protect American security. Yesterday
it was 'al Qaeda' and Saddam Hussein. After this, who knows? Who will
protect the American people from a government that sees itself as being
above the law?
The
American Delusion
Anyone who objects to events
under the present U.S. regime is persecuted. The harassment, arrest, detention,
and frustration of those who are against aggressivism has become routine.
Anyone who protests or takes part in public demonstration risks instant
and heavy-handed arrest by Homeland Security, the American equivalent to
the Gestapo. Relatives of victims who died on September 11th, who opposed
the Iraq war, were prevented from speaking in schools. Stephen Downs was
handcuffed and arrested after refusing to take off a 'Give Peace a Chance'
t-shirt in a mall in Albany.
There
are scores of similar incidents and television and newspaper reporting
is becoming increasingly right-wing and entrenched behind the paranoid
president.
The lynch mobs are certainly back in charge.
And, as Iraqi civilians and American, British and Iraqi soldiers still
perish in the Gulf, these wars are fast claiming another casualty - democracy
in the U.S.A.
America's rampant and violent brand of 'patriotism' has gone too far and
is seriously compromising the attitudes of nations everywhere in the world.
The American establishment has always been intolerant of customs and cultures
different from its own. It seems that unless other countries agree to do
things 'the American Way' they become targets for vilification and 'intervention'.
Do we have the will and courage to break out of our conditioning and to
oust Bush and his cronies and co-conspirators and restore fundamental American
values?
One problem is the gung-ho attitude of the American politico-military establishment
- derived from comic books, pseudo-myths from 'the Wild West', and Hollywood
hype. It is because of this mentality that the generals were forever pressing
the presidents of the day to let them nuke Russia and China as they did
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ("The Japanese were ready to surrender and it
wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing . . . the use
of this barbarous weapon was of no material assistance in saving American
lives . . . the Japanese were already defeated and and only seeking
some way to surrender with a minimum loss of face." - Eisenhower. ClickMe
)
The
attacks on the U.S. World Trade Centre were a godsend to the more extremist
elements in the U.S. politico-military establishment
and to the 'paranoia-forever' people in the Pentagon (those guys who read
kick-arse gung-ho comics and look forward to the day when they can drop
another nuclear bomb somewhere).
So when we speak of the military establishment we are not talking about
rational people. We are talking about fanatical zealots driven by delusions
of demonic proportions being in control of deadly weaponry. They live in
a twilight cloud-cuckoo horrorland of comic books and Hollywood hype.
So now is the time to step out of that 'American Dream' (yet another of
those made-to-order myths) into the Light of Reality. Let's be honest with
ourselves and stop living the Big Lie. Drop the pretences. Get rid
of the big guns and positively start looking after the people's welfare
properly, for that, not military adventurism, is the purpose of civilized
nations. Stop trying to be the superious 'Americankind' with pretentions
to superiority over other nations - we are all part of one human race.
And the 'Dream' itself? The bottom line is that 85% of Americans reaching
age 65 retire with less than $250 to their name (U.S. Social Security
Board reports).
The
U.S.A. is a land built upon and sustained by purposively-produced mythology.
If
a lie is repeated often enough it will begin to be perceived as truth and
nowhere is this so well illustrated as in present-day America.
How
'Friendly' does the Military get?
In contemporary
America, the military - which now has overall control of the F.B.I., C.I.A.,
and other secret service agencies - becomes a law unto itself, like a state
within a state. Under the U.S. Constitution the theory is that the politico-military
establishment is responsible only to the 'commander-in-chief', not to the
'president', and is therefore not subject to democratic scrutiny. It makes
up its own laws and rules and codes, formulates its own policies, even
kills its own soldiers and those of its allies with impunity.
It was the evil geniuses in the Pentagon who invented the concepts of 'friendly
fire' and 'collateral damage'. It used to be called 'criminal negligence'
or, at best, 'recklessness'. And up until now Joe Public has swallowed
it all - hook, line and sinker.
('Friendly fire' was invented during
the 1991 Persian Gulf War when U.S forces killed 31 British troops and
killed or injured 101 of its own. Since then there have been numerous other
incidents including the killing of Canadian and Australian troops, and
the death toll continues to mount.)
Efforts are growing to arrest Bush and his henchmen, for what they have
done to the peoples of Afghanistan, Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Kosovo, and,
indeed, for what they are now doing to America itself, for indictment as
war criminals and to hand them over to the International Court of Justice.
The C.I.A., N.S.A., N.D.I., Justice Department, and the Gestapo-like 'Department
of Homeland Security' - and countless other secret agencies, which have
been springing up like mushrooms in a dank cellar - are rapidly expanding
and feeding their tendrils into every facet of life, both at home and abroad.
Killing, maiming, blackmailing, torturing, and the ruination of lives is
becoming the order of the day. And opponents often 'disappear' or have
'accidents'. And soon, as it was to people in the former U.S.S.R. and
in wartime Germany, the dreaded 'midnight knock at the door' will become
a regular feature of American life.
In contemporary America there are now few constraints on the authorities
and anything goes. The lynch mobs are in charge. Peacemakers are denounced
as being 'un-patriotic', or 'un-American', or as 'traitors'. Words like
'freedom', 'human rights', and 'democracy' could all soon become bywords
for a past age.
Officially, America still believes in Free Speech. As long as you speak
the things that the authorities want to hear.
FURTHER
READING
U.S. fanatics
plunge world into new Dark Age ClickMe
Of rogue
nations and evil empires ClickMe
U.S.A.
- the biggest rogue state of all? ClickMe
Politicians
seek to destroy democracy ClickMe
What the American taxpayer is paying for
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Iraq
and the Gulf - currently 211,028 troops
Germany
- Currently 75,603 troops
South
Korea - Currently 40,258 troops
Japan
- Currently 40,045 troops
Afghanistan
- Currently 17,900 troops
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Italy
- Currently 13,354 troops
Britain
- Currently 11,801 troops
Qatar
- Currently 3,432
Bosnia-Hercegovina
- Currently 2,931 troops
Iceland
- Currently 1,754 troops
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MONEY
- THE ULTIMATE WEAPON . . .
What product sells best? What product
do you see advertised the most?
It is,
of course, MONEY - in one form or another, whether as mortgages, loans,
overdrafts, credit cards, or insurances. And for a very good reason . .
. The ruling authorities have made sure that there is never enough money
to go around everyone - thereby ensuring that the populations of the world
are kept firmly under the control of those who have it. The scarcity, poverty,
and deprivation in the world is therefore deliberately politically manufactured
- and it need not be so.
The
fact is that there is no scarcity save that which has been deliberately
engineered. There is enough money in the world to go around everyone.
There are enough resources to house and shelter the world's populations.
There is enough food produced worldwide to feed the peoples of this planet.
Why,
then, do these resources seem to be in such short supply? It is
because the vast majority of all world's resources are in the pockets of
just too few people. (And, it seems, the politicians are in their pockets
too.)
Those
who have it know that money is their ultimate weapon, that they
can even beat people to death with it without being indicted for murder.
Money
talks. Money corrupts and controls. Money ultimately enslaves.
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"History
records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue,
deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments
by controlling money and its issuance." - U.S. president James Madison
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"Money has
no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency: their
sole object is gain." - Napoleon Bonaparte
See
"Secret History of Money" http://www.celticsurf.net/freeworld/money/
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