John Kaminski
An Emperor Gone Mad
Sat Oct 4 10:37:56 2003
67.1.138.147

American Satyricon -
The Perverting Of Reality
A People Gone Bad Cheer
An Emperor Gone Mad
By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net
10-3-3


"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that
trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that
in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce
nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those that deal, not in
goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and
pull tan by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but
protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and
honesty becoming self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is
doomed."

-- Ayn Rand (from "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal")


For some reason - perhaps it's just the passing of time - it has
now become somewhat fashionable - or at least permissable - to criticize
the utterly insane, totally criminal and horrifically inhuman
performance by what is known colloquially in Washington these days as
the Bush Administration.

Yet because of the eager cheering of the television networks
covering up bestial carnage by U.S. troops upon hapless citizens of
defenseless countries, and the continuing lawless behavior of those in
charge of our nation's laws, nothing significant has yet been
accomplished by those throwbacks like you and me still clinging to the
faded, prostituted dream of liberty and justice for all upon which our
country was ostensibly founded.

True, there has been some tongue-wagging about how America
dropped its radioactive torture on Afghanistan and Iraq after telling
whoppers of lies that never would have gone unchallenged in an
eighth-grade debate class, but nevertheless managed to hold spellbound
the entire American populace while these evil massacres took place.

But the identification of the nub of the problem that has turned
America from a promising melting pot of financial and social opportunity
into a grim gulag of greed and graft is still very far from happening.

And it may never happen. It never has yet. All those famous
crimes we all talk about have never been solved. At least no actual
perpetrator has ever been charged, though a few convenient patsies have
been executed.

The intense flag waving and hyped-up security measures -
accompanied by the flaunted but bogus claims of less liberty means more
safety - continue to inhibit public debate on these matters, as is
evidenced by the focus on irrelevant issues by the current pack of
Democratic presidential panderers, who like the rest of the country, are
simply too insincere to admit that behind the red, white and blue
bunting lies a bloodthirsty beast which is now cannibalizing even its
own citizens in its desperate effort to sate the infinite appetites of
the trillionaires who run the war machine.

Sure, questions are being asked about the lies used to justify
the wars, but the men who do the lying continue to victimize the folks
who do the dying, both at home and abroad. No one of any social
consequence in the entire world has yet seriously questioned the single,
suspicious event that enabled - by the patriotic mobilization of public
opinion - America to come out of the closet as a worldwide
murder-for-hire operation.

And amid talk of treasonous illegal procedure in the outing of
an ambassador's wife who may have been a CIA operative, there still is
no discussion of the core issues that have catapulted this relatively
trivial matter to the top of the the newscasts. The criminals have yet
to be caught, because, unfortunately for everyone, they are the ones who
are running the police and the army, not to mention the TV networks and
major newspapers.

But foremost among the silently complicit are the brainwashed
American people, who accept their watered down news like the prisoners
they are, eating pathetic bioengineered gruel from cardboard boxes in
their sad towns with abandoned department stores, no decent jobs, and
starving senior citizens.

How is it that wide-eyed young journalists can graduate from
America's finest colleges (not Harvard; that's an Israeli school now)
and know about U.S. troops laughing during target practice on unarmed
Iraqi civilians and simply turn their heads away and not write those
stories because they accept the perverted propaganda of national
security justifying the massacre of innocent civilians?

How is it that churchgoing American parents can let their
beloved children put on their proud uniforms when they know - or should
know! - that those kids are going to be cursed with lifelong diseases
caused by the vaccines they are forced to take and the poisonous
ammunition they are commanded to handle?

How is that our most respected statesmen and religious leaders
can remain silent when they know that the evidence of the biggest, most
horrendous crime in American history was deliberately destroyed without
a thorough forensic examination which could have revealed how that crime
was committed, can remain silent when their government tells millions of
people that their air is safe to breathe when it wasn't, can remain
silent when the big pharmaceutical companies give court-ordered
vaccinations to children that turn many of them into vegetables, and the
grieving parents can't even sue the makers of the poison?

How is it that the American people can have available to them
infrared footage of the Waco massacre that shows federal agents putting
bullets into the heads of little children, that they can have documented
evidence of respected generals explaining how multiple bombs were
attached to the stanchions of that building in Oklahoma City, that they
can see convincing photographs that prove that none of the three planes
that took off full of happy people on that sunny morning of September
11, 2001 were the same planes that hit their bloody targets ... how is
it the American people can turn away from these things and not go ... ?

Those well-meaning people around the world who carefully
stipulate that it's not the behavior of the American people they object
to, but the behavior of the American government that upsets them so ...
those people are wrong.

Something has curdled in the American bloodstream.

Honesty and integrity of purpose are now merely historical
relics in a seldom-visited museum that now also houses the American
Constitution.

Maybe there are too many nuclear power plants reducing the
number of brain cells in the typical American cerebellum. Maybe it's the
food additives, the antidepressants, the electric power lines, the
cellphones, HAARP, subliminal images in advertising, backward masking in
the music, the elimination of important historical facts in our school
textbooks (anybody know about the Santa Clara decision? most important
law change in American history), the childhood immunizations, the
flouride in the water ... this list could fill a book.

And everything on this list, from aspartame to phthlates, has
had a debilitating effect on the American psyche, warped it in the minds
of our soldiers from someone who would protect and defend the people's
God-given rights to home and happiness to someone who mistakenly
hallucinates real people with kerchiefs and lollipops into lifeless
figures in a video game, which become lifeless figures on a forlorn
desert roadway quickly forgotten on the way back to camp to get high.

Certainly the schools have something to do with it, and the
media as well, as both have altered the American psyche from one of
compassionate seeker of justice to self-destructive, self-hating
narcissist.

Hmm, sounds like somebody we know, doesn't it? Can you say
psycho-anal-y-sis?

And we arrive the big issue, the one they call you an
anti-Semite for talking about. Think about it, my friends. All the
media, all the schools, all the hospitals, all the movies, the entire
nation's phone system. Much, very much of the government.

The American mindset has changed over the past 40 years from
live and let live to follow the orders of our leaders, even if we know
they are lying. Did you ever wonder why that happened? Did you ever
wonder who did that?

Did you ever wonder who is working so hard to turn our teenage
daughters into prostitutes on the covers of national magazines and the
walkways of our glittering malls? Whom do you suppose owns those
magazines, those malls?

In the same way we took worthless land in America and imprisoned
our continent's original inhabitants, now in Israel they are building
giant walls to quarantine the world's inconvenient people, the ones who
used to own that land before it was stolen from them. When these same
walls start going up in America, you'll know the game is really over.
Right now, all we have are numerous chain-link fence enclosures topped
with razor wire ready to contain our own inconvenient people.

The future of the United States is already scrawled in
blood-soaked grafitti on the hearts of its cowardly citizenry. Do not
resist. There is nothing you can do. Narc on your neighbor.

American Satyricon, the story of an emperor gone mad cheered by
a people gone bad, wrapped in the red, white and blue called Old Glory
by some, but called something worse, something very much worse by most
of the rest of the world.

To be continued - time, the decaying biosphere, and the sadistic
government permitting.


John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a
collection of his internet essays published by Dandelion Books. To
purchase a copy, so the author can continue to eat his canned green
beans, click http://www.johnkaminski.com/
Or, if you prefer to read these essays for free, go to
http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html and dig your
way through the links.



--
"When governments fear the people there
is liberty. When the people fear the government
there is tyranny." Thomas Jefferson

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