"A military given free reign to decimate and destroy,
without punishment or moral leadership, allowed to unleash death upon
the population of Iraq, has in the span of two years perpetrated such
massive war crimes as to make the Nazi army proud. It has lost all sense
of compassion, understanding and humanism, instead brutalizing and dehumanizing
a citizenry of 25 million people. It has resurrected human wickedness,
becoming a reincarnation of all human malice that has come before." ...Manuel Valenzuela
By Manuel Valenzuela < manuel@valenzuelas.net>
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/landofmurkaB10mar05.shtml
March 10, 2005
To live in Murka is to see firsthand its degeneration into
an emerging Christian theocracy, with its collection of televangelists,
cult leaders, mullahs and Taliban, nothing more than corruption-filled,
hypocrite-behaving, masterminds of pervasive ignorance, false prophets and
preachers drunk off the liquor of fundamentalist thought misguiding tens
of millions of lost souls through the chalice of brainwashed and unenlightened
thinking.
Commanding the attention of born again, salvation-seeking,
messianic and Armageddon-searching souls in need of finding their way past
the fires of hell and into the gates of heaven, these wolves dressed in
sheep skin embrace principles of extremist belief and fanatical dogma. The
flock of sheeple succumbing to the distortions, deceptions and delusions
of their dangerously unwise shepherd leaders follow blind, deaf and dumb,
disregarding all semblance of rational thought and analytical thinking in
their discarding of common sense and proven scientific fact.
Instead, mesmerized by the incantations of those they follow,
eager to buy lifetime supplies of snake oil being sold, captivated by the
charlatans speaking the tongues of fraud and deception, tens of millions
of Christian fundamentalists choose to place blind faith in make-believe
stories of fantasy, relying on the primitive myths of ancient and unlearned
tribal men and their archaic fables used to explain both the world of yesteryear
and their psychological fears and insecurities, of no more significant use
to modern humans today than the technology of 8,000 years ago.
In the land of Murka, the most prosperous and wealthy nation
on Earth, there exists the constant friction between the secular and the
religious, perpetually in battle over the minds of the masses. It is a schism
that is dividing a once-united populace, having become over the years a
most dangerous manifestation that is an enormous threat in 21st century
Murka, helping to shake the pillars of society itself and which, in the
end, will contribute to the forces imploding the nation from within. This
internal war between secular and religious belief only continues to grow,
their diametrically opposed views and goals further distancing themselves,
creating, in the next decade, a tug of war of ideology whose winner will
decide the future course of Murka. Either Dark Ages will approach or secular
progressiveness will continue.
In a land where one would expect abandonment of primitive
and archaic dogma as a result of greater socioeconomic integration, enlightened
investigation and advancement of both technology and knowledge, one finds
the opposite to be true. In order to maintain their subjects hypnotized
by the aura of supernatural myth, and by consequence under the control of
those who usurp the interpretations of religious dogma, those living off
the fruits of the sheeple maintain their subjects in abject ignorance, forcefully
demanding the absolute right to teach youngsters in Murka's educational
system fantasy written thousands of years ago, choosing to indoctrinate
youth to rudimentary and backwards thought instead of the advanced evolutions
of modern thinking.
In addition, they stridently seek the fusing relationship
between church and state, constantly seeking to impose their delusional
beliefs on secular citizens and on believers of other faiths. To them, Murka
is and always has been a Christian nation, failing to understand Murkan
history, the philosophies and beliefs of its Founding Fathers and the changing
evolution of its society. They fail to comprehend and practice the teachings
of the Christ they claim to worship, going against the tenets of his meaning
to mankind, conveniently forgetting his messages of peace, love, compassion,
acceptance and forgiveness.
Living under the fumes of fantasy, these Taliban seek to impose
Christian prayer in schools and other government functions, trying to weave
ever-closer the connection between church and state, desperately clinging
to the idea of a theocracy. They wish to exhibit the Ten Commandments in
public buildings, no matter how many times their kind breaks many of these
same tenets and no matter how hypocritical they are in the behaviors they
exhibit and the exhortations they proclaim.
Murkan Taliban wish to control a women’s right to her
own body, and hence her own decision making, thereby robbing her of freedoms
and rights finally granted after millennia of suffrage. They rabidly seek
the protection of pin size cell structure yet have no problem applauding
the death penalty or an Iraq war that has killed 100,000 innocent civilians.
They detest same sex partnerships, wishing to banish this human form of
love from contributing to a better world, seeing it as an aberration and
not a free choice and genetic predisposition. They would rather endanger
the lives of teenage youth, contributing to ruined lives, venereal diseases,
teenage pregnancy, divorce, the destruction of a nuclear family and a vicious
cycle of indigence and ignorance, than abandoning their asinine belief of
preaching abstinence as well as the sin of using contraception to the most
sexually driven age group known to man, simply to appease fanatical views
and extinct dogmatic belief.
Seeking this fraudulent form of teenage control and brainwashing
in public education, in an age group saturated with chemical changes, hormonal
firework explosions, psychological alterations, bodily transformations and
an increased attraction towards sex is so out of tune with reality, with
biological truth, with common sense, that it is preposterous it is even
being implemented. Self-defeating and dangerous, this push to condition
children is about control and retaining power over the mind of blossoming
independence.
One can no more succeed in stopping a frog from jumping or
a dog from barking any more than you can inhibit a teenager’s sexual
libido. Teenage sex is as old as humanity, a manifestation of biological
urges and evolutionary behaviors, molded by the hands of nature and our
inherent need to procreate, and to try putting a stop to it using primitive
dogma, issuing edicts that fail to embrace human truth, instead of using
pragmatism and educating children to its reality, teaching protection and
wisdom, is to see how out of tune with reality, and with life in the 21st
century, extremist fundamentalists truly are.
Indeed, they seem more worried about their own insecurities,
fears, stereotypes and in the private lives of people who will never cause
them harm than in helping billions of humans worldwide, just as Jesus asks
them to do, many of whom subsist on two dollars a day or less, many of whom
die of malnourishment, disease and misery. Yet their interests lie in maintaining
control, and thus power, over the dwindling supply of sheeple still able
to be shepherded in Murka than in pursuing true religious convictions worldwide.
In order to maintain a dumbed down following, as well as to
keep free-thinking children in the flock, and under control, the false preachers
corrosive to human society demand the teaching in public schools of ancient
creationist fantasy along with the scientific realism that is evolution.
Fighting a perpetually losing battle with reality, and evolution, and clinging
to the hopes inherent in desperation, they continuously repackage, remarket
and relabel the fantasy of creationism in hopes of sneaking their religious
dogma into the public domain. Never mind that the concept of “intelligent
design” is nothing but pseudo-science, completely discredited by the
scientific community, a desperate quasi-attempt to evolve a primitive fable
into the modernity of 21st century thought, knowing that the reality of
evolution continues to feast on and eat away at the carcass of an extinct
idea worthy of the cavemen that invented it.
The Falwell’s, Robertson’s and Graham’s
of the land of Murka, along with their clones, shills, hacks and lackeys,
see more and more members of the population escaping their detrimental grip
and the trance-like belief in the fundamental theology they inspire, and
feel the very real threat to the continued existence of their power and
control. They see the intrusion of secular thought, of logical, analytical
and reasoned minds penetrating and obliterating those segments of society
once reserved exclusively to the ancient domains of scripture and realize
that if not halted, if momentum is not shifted, the logical wisdom and knowledge
that comes with time will inevitably make their kind, and the fantasy they
believe in, an extinct reality.
They only need to take a peek at Europe to squirm at the thought
of their coming demise, and with it their control over vast segments of
the population. Yet they fail to realize that the world they inhabit no
longer resembles that of 8,000 years ago. It has progressed forward into
the 21st century, not back to the Stone Age or into medieval times, no longer
in need of the theology of primitive thought and archaic belief, no longer
needing the stories of agrarian imaginations to help explain human complexity
and the world we inhabit. Of course when living in delusion one cannot but
fail to see reality, preferring to dwell in the treasure trove of fantasy
rather than confronting the uncomfortable abyss of reality.
It is therefore vitally important to these Murkan Taliban
to establish, as much as is presently possible, the parameters of a theocracy
in the land of Murka, making ignorant the children of today in order to
maintain present numbers tomorrow. Knowledge and wisdom are their enemy;
education and enlightenment their Satan, which is why they seek to impose,
at the risk of expediting the decline of empire and abandoning the futures
of our progeny, religious lunacy upon the children of the country.
In their minds, the continued fusion of church and state must
continue, using the appointment of conservative theocrats to the benches
of the nation, the religious zealots in Congress and state legislatures,
government officials who can affect policy and members of school boards
to impose upon the peoples of Murka their Christian Taliban ideas of theocracy.
These false preachers are selfish creatures who would rather implement policies
that will endanger members of their flock than subscribe to the notion that
their coffers will dry up and their power will be eroded. With the legions
of political prostitutes masquerading as leaders scattered throughout the
hallways of power, many of which have been recruited to join and further
the interests of the fundamentalist army of Armageddon-seeking sheeple,
there exists the very frightening possibility that they may succeed in augmenting
their already growing power.
At present they are emboldened; their power has never been
greater, their numbers are strong. Residing in the White House is a born
again Christian, conduit to the Almighty itself, doing the arduous work
of the Lord, holding the spear of war and shield of crusade. Since his ascension
as Emperor to the Christian Right and Dictator of Murka, the war between
the secular and the religious has increased. At no other time has the distinction
between church and state been so compromised, and never has the struggle
to keep both mutually exclusive been harder. Under the bull manure of ‘moral
values’ those seeking expanded power onto the Christian Taliban have
hijacked the nation, making millions believe that their power is greater
than it really is, in the process silencing a great majority of the secular
population. Yet they have gained in strength and numbers, and have become
a major threat to the Land of Murka.
The weak minded capacity of the dictator who twice stole office
aside, the Establishment knows that with religious belief comes greater
control of the masses, clearly exemplified in the last three years of perpetual
war. With theological belief comes unenlightenment and ignorance, a citizenry
less likely to question authority and the decisions of leaders. Emulating
the herd mentality, extremist believers in the metaphysical have been conditioned
to place blind faith in leadership, whether seen or invisible. They do as
they are told, not as they want. They are blind and so are told what to
see; they are deaf and so are told what to hear; they are mute and so are
told what to say; they are ignorant and so are told what and how to think.
Easier to control and manipulate, this group can be, at the
push of a button, at the showing of emotional video or the speech of a demagogue,
stirred into the frenzied lunacy of hatred or the violence-seeking, blood-thirsty
plague of vengeance. In time, and with enough propaganda and brainwashed
stimuli, this segment of the population, millions strong, can be made to
focus all attention and all animal emotion at a chosen enemy, the scapegoat
created by government and needed for the perpetual wars necessary for the
continued hegemony of the Establishment. Through systematic precision, the
Establishment can manufacture enemies, new Pearl Harbors and the quick mobilization
of large segments of the population made to think and behave in accordance
with the wishes of those pulling the strings of a marionette masquerading
as a society.
Blindly following, never asking questions, naively believing
everything they are told, this group of Murkans is quickly molded into a
nationalistic, patriotic, religious and warmongering fervor, wishing death
upon innocents and made xenophobic racists conditioned to hate anything
alien. In their lunacy they seek the use of nuclear weapons upon foreign
lands, without regard to life. They seek the suffering of untold civilians
through ceaseless bombing and the sadistic torture of human beings through
disappearances and kidnappings. They hate because they are told to hate;
they detest because they are conditioned to detest; they seek violence and
unconditional death of innocence because they blindly follow the words of
hatred; they are filled with anger because they suffer frustrations in their
daily lives, repressed in their employment, never being able to think for
themselves, instead incorporating the jingoistic and anger-filled tirades
of fascist commentators as their own.
Without empathy, without understanding and without humanity
these millions stand complicit, through their silent acquiescence and in
deriving sadistic pleasure in the misfortune of others, in war crimes and
crimes against humanity upon their fellow beings. Advocating religious belief,
proclaiming themselves seeds of Christ, believing themselves good Christians,
these lost energies turned hypocrites seek the total annihilation of innocent
life for simply being of different color, ethnicity and religious belief.
They champion their beliefs on others yet fail to implement teachings into
their own lives, breaking sacred tenets in their Crusade of Rabid Hatred
against concocted enemies of the state.
These are the Murkan Sheeple, a grave and gathering threat
facing the nation, tens of millions strong, looking forward to the total
destruction of humankind, the fulfillment of prophesy (had the stories of
the Bible been written in Russia, would they care about the Middle East?
End Times would be sought in Siberia, not the Fertile Crescent), becoming
suicidal seekers of Armageddon, desperately seeking a Rapture their kind
have been waiting for every generation for the last 2000 years, only to
be disappointed every lifetime that passes as fable never delivers upon
its promise. They are told to hate diversity, secularism, heterogeneity,
embrace everything Israel (in order to fulfill prophesy; exploited severely
by Zionists of all kinds), hate foreigners of dark complexion and different
religious belief, accept war against infidels and violence against heathens,
label as communist progressive secular thinkers and loathe anything unorthodox
not in tune to their – and their false preachers’ – idea
of a world that has long since passed them by.
Humanity Lost, the Human Animal Resurrected
The land of Murka is today an incarnation of an Evil Empire, a terrorist
state unleashing carnage and barbarity abroad and exploiting, with callous
indifference, its own citizens at home. It has bastardized human rights,
in essence stomping with its marching boots of “shock and awe”
the innocence of humanity, becoming an overgrown hypocrite moralizing virtue
but mandating criminality, no longer able to light the torch of human rights
or reprimand fellow abusers. It smears with the feces of wickedness universal
principles of human rights, in a mere matter of three years unleashing,
along with its thousands of tons of bombs and missiles raining down from
the skies, a devastating aura of human suffering that has resulted in over
100,000 innocent deaths and countless more injuries, maimings and forms
of mental and psychological devastation. A beacon of human rights and humanity
has vanished from Earth, becoming that which it most abhorred and fought
to make extinct.
With the destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11 Murkan humanity
also collapsed, disappearing into the massive white cloud of debris, lost
in perpetual purgatory, chained to the dark walls of the deepest reaches
of the human animal. The disintegration of true moral values quickly gave
light to the worst in the human condition, creating in the citizenry an
army of crusading hatreds, fears and anger. The armies of the Evil Empire
have destroyed an entire nation, with great success devastating infrastructure,
culture, government and the foundations of society itself. They have made
to suffer, in unquantifiable terms, and in horrendous amounts, millions
upon millions of human beings.
A military given free reign to decimate and destroy, without
punishment or moral leadership, allowed to unleash death upon the population
of Iraq, has in the span of two years perpetrated such massive war crimes
as to make the Nazi army proud. It has lost all sense of compassion, understanding
and humanism, instead brutalizing and dehumanizing a citizenry of 25 million
people. It has resurrected human wickedness, becoming a reincarnation of
all human malice that has come before.
As sadistic and as hate-filled as millions of their compatriots
in the Land of Murka, those soldiers illegally occupying foreign land have
killed without remorse, shooting joyfully at innocents, taking pleasure
in targeting women and children, much like the video games they play at
home. This army has wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Iraqis, treating
them inhumanely, overcrowding their cells, dehumanizing them with the lessons
learned from Israeli Defense Forces, barbarically torturing many, sodomizing
some, raping others and treating all with the cruelty of occupiers thinking
their conquered subjects sub-human creatures unworthy of human sympathy.
Entire cities have been destroyed, with homes and infrastructure
turned to rubble; WMDs have been used, including napalm; mosques have been
obliterated, Iraqi religion spat on; Iraq’s – and the world’s
– cultural patrimony has been destroyed, including the relics of man’s
first civilizations and the ruins of Babylon; mass graves have sprouted
in clusters where non existed before, full of innocent men, women and children,
killed by Murkan soldiers; news reporters have been targeted and assassinated,
attempts have been made to shoot and murder those possessing information
the Murkan government does not want released; young children throwing stones
at tanks have been shot; Iraqi freedom fighters, wounded and unarmed, have
been shot point blank by sadistic, trigger happy soldiers; hospitals and
doctors have been targeted, bombed and killed because they constitute “enemy
propaganda”; thanks to depleted uranium radiation festers throughout
the land, penetrating soil, water, air, vegetation and human bodies, with
Iraq’s environment now equivalent to 250,000 Nagasaki’s, promising
to be infested with the invisible poison for billions of years to come.
The army of Murka has embarked, with the tacit approval, and
some would say with the sadistic pleasure, of its Commander in Chief, on
a hurricane-like annihilation of Mesopotamia, killing hundreds of thousands
through weaponry, condemning scores more through the purposeful disregard
of infrastructure and basic services such as electricity, sewage, clean
water, healthcare and the providing of food, which will in the end result
in the deaths of more Iraqis than all the bullets and bombs used by Murka’s
military. Whether dying by bullets or bombs or by the collective punishment
of an entire nation, such as in the complete destruction of infrastructure
or the disregard of basic services, Iraqis, especially the young, old and
frail, will continue to perish by the tens of thousands, dying of disease,
malnourishment, lack of medicine or from the sorrow of what George W. Bush
has wrought onto their land.
When one combines these present and future casualties with
the million and a half, including half a million children, that died at
the hands of economic genocide implemented by Murka in the form of sanctions
during the 1990’s, along with the silent mass murder of depleted uranium,
the ultimate WMD, that has already killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis
through illness, cancers, disease and birth deformities, the world will
in the future recall what the Land of Murka unleashed upon Iraq as nothing
short than a systemic holocaust comparable to the worst crimes of Nazi Germany.
It is not necessary to construct gas chambers, incinerators,
gulags or concentration camps to exterminate millions of human beings. We
are seeing this reality today in Iraq, in multiple forms, in degenerate
warfare, in countless acts of war crimes and crimes against humanity being
perpetrated by Murkan forces. In the end, millions have and will die at
the hands of the Land of Murka, some quicker than others, some in silent
placidness and some in terrible agony, some by bullets and bombs, some by
water-borne disease and malnourishment, some by radiation-filled cancers,
mutated deformities and destroyed immune systems. The seeds of the Iraq
Holocaust have been firmly planted in the now barren lands of the Fertile
Crescent.
Yet the Land of Murka, being the sole superpower, unable to
be touched by the peoples or nations of the world, dictating and trumping
the laws of humanity, never surrendering even in defeat, will erase these
truths from the history of the planet. Nobody will be tried in Nuremburg,
no one will hang for war crimes, no one will be brought to justice, for
in today’s world, those in power create reality, writing and revising
history to suit their needs. In the end, and much like the three million
southeast Asians who died in their own holocaust a few decades ago, Iraqis
and their stories of human wickedness reborn will disappear into the abyss
of nothingness, their silent cries going unheard, their truths sequestered
and their horrible suffering forgotten.
For Iraqis do not manage and operate Hollywood, the printed
media or the televised media, those great bastions of propaganda. They do
not have as advocates the gatekeepers of information, those who take it
upon themselves to inundate the memories of old Holocausts into the conscious
of humanity, monopolizing and exploiting its horrors to garner sympathy
or pity, using its evils as excuses to cleanse native peoples, occupy lands,
dehumanize populations, ignore resolutions, claim perpetual victimhood,
silence protest, intimidate criticism and further vested interests at the
expense of the rest of the world.
No, the lessons of history will go unlearned, new generations
will never be made privy to the evils of human malice, truth will be whitewashed
and glossed over and in the span of a few years or a decade or two the same
horror will befall mankind once again, for we never learn, we never understand
and we never care, giving birth to yet another holocaust like those in Rwanda,
Congo, Vietnam, Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Cambodia,
Indonesia, World War II Europe, Sudan and Yugoslavia.
The occupation of Iraq has been nothing short of a barbaric
and savage assault on humanity itself, resurrecting into the collective
conscious of mankind memories of those nations of yesteryear possessed with
the demons of human wickedness that launched the world entire straight into
the crosshairs of death, destruction, suffering and the devastating onslaught
of the human animal. The occupation of Iraq, much like the pervasive occupation
of Palestine, exhibits to the world, once again, that the human animal is
alive and well, living in maniacal leaders sprouting the seeds of human
wickedness among their subjects.
Indeed, what this decade’s war crimes and crimes against
humanity show, much like those of every decade throughout the globe, is
that war criminals have little problem mobilizing their populations into
the arms of fear, anger and hatred, nationalistic lunacy and religious fervor,
manifesting in the easily controlled masses – nothing more than violent
apes awaiting to be resuscitated from the black holes of depravity –
a hunger for violence, a thirst for vengeance and an indifferent disregard
for the suffering of innocent human beings that is nothing short of barbaric
and primitive. The human animal never changes, ending one millennium with
war, violence and destruction and commencing another with worse of the same.
Until we confront this truth, primitive we will remain.
Once the right buttons are pushed, once new Pearl Harbors
are manufactured, the Establishment has little problem bringing out their
mobilized army of hypnotized primates, millions of citizens mutated by fear,
hatred and anger, conditioned into them by the same elite that will begin
exploiting their emotions, in short order bringing to the surface the ever
dangerous, never thinking, blood-thirsty and always self-destructive human
animal.
With millions of little Hitler’s rising together in
unison, each possessed by the demons of conditioned and manipulated hatred,
anger and fear, a mob-like mentality springs forward inside the psyche,
thereby allowing warmongers acting as leaders the flexibility to spawn unimpeded
and unquestioned policies to enact their malicious war crimes against entire
populations. The millions who have granted their leaders such power prefer
to be led into blindness and ignorance rather than being confronted with
the savagery and suffering taking place behind their silent acquiescence,
purposefully imposing on themselves deaf ears and dumb minds to hide from
their conscience the guilt of knowing the crimes against humanity being
perpetrated in their name.
It is better, it seems, to bask in the comfort and self-delusion
of ignorance than face the guilt of reality, preferring to remain living
in the façade of innocence than being confronted by all they validate
by their actions and words. For a war culture and a blood-thirsty population,
this is how granting mandates for mass murder and crimes against humanity
gets shielded by human psychology. Just ask Germans of the 1930’s
and 40’s.
In the invasions and subsequent occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan
– nothing short of chess moves on the geopolitical board game taken
for imperial hegemony, energy resource control and geostrategic maneuvering
hidden under the fantasy, for consumption of the masses, of now proven lies
of WMD, “fighting the terrorists” and bringing freedom and democracy
to tyrannical lands – the land of Murka has taken it upon itself to
contravene all laws of peaceful nations, waging preemptive and aggressive
offensive warfare on sovereign and non-threatening nations in order to begin
securing for itself, and the Establishment, the last remaining vestiges
of the primitive form of energy called oil. Welcome to the Age of Resource
Wars, a most ominous and dark period that will soon befall humankind.
Land of Lies, Illusion and Rabbit Holes
In the daily atrocities and carnage being committed in Iraq the
world sees the degeneration of Murka and its society. With half the population
rabid in its hatred of Arabs and Muslims, full of xenophobic fears and violence-laden
thoughts, easily manipulated and conditioned, serving the interests of power
and control, one is witness to how low the Lands of Murka have fallen since
9/11. Human rights no longer have meaning as illegal wars of offensive aggression
have been validated through the vote of tens of millions, or the indifferent
acquiescence of millions more, who cared too little to help alter the course
of the nation and the world. As a result, the murderous rampage of Murkan
soldiers, laying waste to both land and man, has gone on without so much
as a whimper from the population.
With the re-election of George Bush, many will argue through
his second coup d’etat, though one cannot argue with the close to
60 million citizens who voted for him, the war crimes leading to the death
of 100,000 innocent Iraqis and 10,000 Afghanis were endorsed, granting the
war criminals in office a mandate to continue their reign of terror in the
Middle East. Through elections, uncontested appointments and silent submission
to crimes against humanity, torture has been given reason to exist, making
it, in the minds of millions of Murkans, the preferred way to deal with
Iraqi freedom fighters in Iraq and innocent Arabs and Afghanis in Afghanistan
and Guantanamo Bay, kidnapped and left to rot in the many Bush gulags.
It has not seemed to bother Murkan society that the Iraq war
was based on lies and deceptions that have led to the murder of over one
hundred thousands people. Living in a state of perpetual amnesia, embracing
all forgetful principles of Alzheimer’s, the Murkan people quickly
chose to disregard an amalgam of lies and scandals that would have rocked
to pieces any other western nation and would have helped to bring down the
vast assortment of scoundrels lingering like flies on fecal matter in the
halls of power. Instead, using the remote control, Murkans change the channels
showing them the little reality made available, finding instead escapist
fiction or sensationalized gossip. Such is the mind of the average Murkan.
Onwards the Murkan people continue, never looking back and
seldom looking forward, preferring to never remember and always forget.
Conveniently they overlook how their government clandestinely ships their
dead loved ones in transfer tubes under cover of darkness, placing a media
ban on coffins and funerals so as to better control the psychological mood
of the populace. It understands that images of dead soldiers and flag draped
coffins are a powerful and sobering reminder of the horror of war, helping
to mobilize the anti-war movement in Vietnam, which helped put a stop to
that wicked debacle. This the government knows, which is why it lies and
manipulates, hiding death, funerals, mourning and anger away from the public.
Preferring to live in ignorance rather than confront the horrific
truth, the Murkan people have deluded themselves into believing the official
death count of Murkan soldiers, which presently hovers around 1,500 dead
and 10,000 wounded. In reality, as happened during Vietnam, the death figures
are being manipulated, deceiving the public as to the real casualty numbers.
Presently, the Department of War is implementing an Enron-type accounting
method that fails to count as dead those dying en route to hospitals outside
Iraq. If a soldier does not die inside Iraq, but dies while evacuated abroad
or once inside a hospital, say in Germany, he is not counted among the official
list. Also, many new immigrants, mostly those from Mexico, have been recruited
into the army with the promise of a green card if they fight in Iraq. When
these soldiers are killed, since they are not Murkan citizens, their numbers
are not counted in the official list. Granted that these immigrant soldiers
are routinely sent directly into the front lines, so as to limit the deaths
of Murkan citizen soldiers, the implication arises that many of these soldiers
have died in combat but are not counted.
Finally, expunged from the lists of official casualties are
Murkan contract workers, mercenaries and private security that have been
killed while working for the Murkan military. Estimates, then, place the
number of dead Murkan soldiers at between 5,000 and 7,000, with more than
20,000 wounded. Add to this the untold thousands of Murkan soldiers that
will inevitably die in the next decade due to their exposure to depleted
uranium, not to mention the 11,000 that have already died of depleted uranium
exposure from the first Gulf War, and one can see the damage done to our
loved ones.
Seen in this light, the Murkan quagmire in Iraq takes on an
entirely new and horrific dimension, becoming not the rosy delusions of
Bush but the fields of carnage they in reality are. For the profit and wealth
and empowerment of the Establishment thousands of young and talented soldiers
have and will die, for a war based on lies and deceptions. Sent to secure
oil fields and geostrategic lands, sent to allow the robbery of the national
treasure and the pillage of Iraq’s finances, businesses and resources,
Murkan soldiers were thrown into a hornet’s nest of anger, forced
to battle resistance fighters waiting for a guerilla war those in power
must have clearly seen coming. These soldiers have been sent to die for
greed and the Almighty Dollar, representing to the Establishment nothing
but cannon fodder in a war of illegality, designed to enrich a few miscreants
in the military-industrial complex and further aggrandize the power of the
elite over the masses. This is what Murkan soldiers are dying for; this
is what they are being maimed over; this is the reason so many are returning
home mentally destroyed.
The truth is that the Iraq debacle represents what Murka and
half its population have become since 9/11. A war culture conditioned to
the drums of war needs enemies to fight, new Pearl Harbors to help mobilize,
scapegoats to profit from, and bogeymen to instill fear and insecurity in
the minds of the masses. It needs blind patriotism to function, nationalistic
tendencies to mobilize and distract, jingoism to unite and vanish from public
thought the corruption of the Establishment and evildoers to spawn the hatred
and xenophobia inherent in the human condition that makes entire populations
conduits of violence and easily controlled and manipulated beings. Finally,
new Pearl Harbors are needed to thread the needle necessary to bring all
of the above into fruition, creating the veil binding the masses to their
continued subjugation.
Without a constant battle of cowboys and Indians, of English
and Revolutionaries, of Communists and Murkans, of good versus evil, Arab
versus Christian and terrorists versus Bush, the Establishment cannot convince
the masses that wars, invasions, occupations and the subsequent pilferage
and profiteering of conquered land, resources and Murka’s national
treasure are necessary components of a concocted and bogus ‘war on
terror’ or its mutated and repackaged ‘war on tyranny.’
Already $200,000,000,000.00 have been wasted in Iraq, with an additional
$100,000,000,000.00 already set aside for the continuing debacle that has
no end in sight. Additionally, the Defense budget continues to skyrocket,
going from $350,000,000,000.00 per year to 2005’s record sum of $420,000,000,000.00.
Each year the monies allocated to the military industrial complex rise;
each decade that passes results in the voracious gorging of the Department
of War to the detriment of all other Murkan expenditures.
Also, billions of dollars have been appropriated for rebuilding
Iraq’s infrastructure destroyed by decades of Murkan imposed sanctions
and aggressive warfare, further enriching the elite, friends, profiteers
and crony capitalists close to the Administration. Nine billion dollars
($9,000,000,000.00) of this sum has simply vanished into thin air, unaccounted
for and lost, having become a casualty of war, though probably safe and
sound and well hidden in the Swiss bank accounts of Republican lackeys and
hacks that worked in Baghdad’s Green Zone and in those accounts owned
by Bush-friendly corporate executives and profiteers. With so much money
and power at stake, so much treasure to plunder and wealth to accumulate,
perpetual wars and perpetual enemies make good business sense to the Establishment,
courtesy of our taxes and the blood of loved ones.
Without enemies, real or concocted, the Establishment cannot
expand its wealth and power. It cannot warm up the profitable assembly lines
of its machines of destruction and violence, spitting out from its conveyor
belts those weapons that will kill, maim and destroy. Profiting from human
death, suffering and destruction, the military-industrial complex, with
an ever-increasing budget allocated to it, needs perpetual war and violence
to continue expanding its mammoth hegemony. War, after all, is the ultimate
revenue-making business model that is guaranteed to redistribute Murka’s
treasure away from the people and towards the elite. By destroying the infrastructure
of a nation, the Establishment assures itself of having to rebuild it back
up again, using cronyism, corruption, fraud, Enronesque accounting practices
and Halliburton-style robbery to further enrich itself at the expense of
the masses.
Using up and exhausting its weapons of war, manufacturing
new and ever-more supplies, creating evolved technologies, flattening cities
and infrastructure, rebuilding once again using the businesses it owns,
taking possession of the oil industry and all its resources, having Iraq’s
industries, utilities and businesses privatized, buying and carving them
up, monopolizing the nation, exploiting Iraqi citizens through lower wages,
higher prices and the evisceration of social programs, the elite of Murka
assure themselves of the enormous bounty created by war, occupation and
the implementation of their neo-liberal policies that continue to decimate
scores of underdeveloped nations throughout the world.
Meanwhile, in the Land of Murka the population goes about
its daily lives, amnesia guiding its short-term memory, its attention span
converged on the celebrity trial of the week, diverting its attention away
from disasters at home and abroad. Fed a steady diet of bread and circus,
enthralled by the latest Michael Jackson story or celebrity gossip headline,
millions continue gorging on the intravenous feeding tube called denial,
becoming so out of tune with the rest of the world’s opinion and reality
that rabbit holes continue to sprout everywhere, sending the Land of Murka
into a wonderland of delusion, manipulation and fantasy.
Today’s lone superpower is dangerously falling down
a slippery slope of perilous undertakings, dumbing down its population,
creating, with each new generation, an army of worker bees and soldier ants
not capable of rational and analytical thought. Millions of unenlightened
drones are now the rule rather than the exception. They now allow state-sponsored
terrorism in their name. War crimes are ignored, as are gross violations
of human rights. Voluntarily and without protest or debate they are giving
up their civil rights and freedoms. Democracy has vanished before their
unknowing eyes. Murka has become an Evil Empire, hated by the world and
detested by billions, yet those residing inside the belly of the beast seem
not to care, not bothering, not understanding and not giving a damn. It
is this hubris that will in the coming decades cause Murka to implode from
within.
Recovering America’s Imprisoned Energy
The Land of Murka is a wonderful spectacle of heterogeneous synergy, a land
of impeccable beauty and multi-talented humans. Tens of millions of its
citizens are honorable, good and decent people striving for the highest
integrity and virtues, seeking life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The greatness of humanity exists in abundance in this country, waiting for
the world to see. Millions possess the intelligence, wisdom, talent and
ability to move the nation forward into stratospheres of greatness.
Yet an entire nation is being led astray, hijacked by greed,
unenlightenment and the forces of the Almighty Dollar. We are being sodomized
by the cross and buried alive with the red, white and blue, allowing ourselves
to be gang raped by miscreants in power. Murka is a nation currently lost
in the netherworld of amnesia (remember Enron, Halliburton?), sickened by
a plague of Alzheimer’s, possessing the attention span of a gnat,
the wisdom and IQ of a shoe, gleefully handing over our civil rights and
freedoms, becoming submissive fatalists to corruption, rotting with fascist
momentum, infested with the maggots and leaches consuming us from inside.
Tens of millions residing inside the belly of the beast have been sucked
into the fog of schizophrenia and paranoia, allowing their frightened and
stressed out minds to yield to frustrated angers and exploited hatreds.
Without a doubt, the Establishment and the corrupt lackeys it owns are ruining
a great people and majestic nation.
We deserve better than what we presently have. If the People
do not rise the land entire will eventually fall, flattened by powers too
strong for a small cluster of dissent to fight alone. Great potential lies
within our shores, yet it is crushed and exploited, made submissive and
manipulated to the dictates of power, turning many into seekers of war and
violence. The many are made subservient to the few who use a vast array
of tools to control and divide us. From our hypnotized slumber we must wake
before all that has been gained is lost. There is still time for the Land
of Murka to once again become America, yet this window of opportunity is
passing us by.
Let us, then, recover our great energy that once transcended
oceans and borders and cultures and differences, making this land the bastion
of goodness and humanism. Let us become the shining example of all this
is good with mankind, once more lighting the beacon of greatness that has
been extinguished by the veil enveloping our land. Let us once more be Americans,
for we are the world just as much as she is us. Let us rejoin the peoples
of the world, embracing the fraternity of nations, educating our progeny,
enlightening our population and learning how to lead not as an empire, but
as one global village, through wisdom, reason and a humbleness that will
make our children stand proud to live in the land we once knew to exist.
This legacy we must leave our future, not the one we are presently embarking
on.
Let us purge alternate worlds and parallel universes from
our lands, making extinct the sickness that has plagued us for years. We
are the solution, not the problem, and inside each of us is the energy that
has been imprisoned inside the dungeons of the human animal. It is time
to make it free, allowing it to fly unhindered through the zenith of renaissance,
granting it the freedom to change the direction this country has taken,
giving it life to fill dark skies with enlightenment. The key to unhinging
the locks holding back America lies within us, one and all. Searching deep
inside we will find this catalyst for change, and what we decide to do with
it then could very well alter history as we know it.
Manuel Valenzuela
Manuel Valenzuela is a social critic and commentator, international
affairs analyst, Internet columnist and author of Echoes in the Wind,
a
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A collection of essays, Beyond the Smoking Mirror: Reflections on America
and Humanity, will be published in early 2005. His articles appear
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