ADAM ENGEL
Uncle Sam is YOU
Sat May 17 17:16:04 2003
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May 17, 2003


Uncle Sam is YOU
A Field Guide to Boobus Americanus
By ADAM ENGEL

Bloated and paranoid addicts of sugar, salt, lard, beer,
nicotine, aspartame and MSG-- Oh, Boobus Americanus, carnivorous
sheep, slaughtering and led to slaughter--Uncle Sam is YOU!

Fighting fighting fighting. Against whom? Has any "foreign enemy"
ever tried to mess with my freedoms? Any man, woman, or child
from the Mid-East (or France) ever once caused me grief and
aggravation by obliterating people, forests, cities in my name
while simultaneously snooping on me, stripping me of my
"cherished freedoms" all on my dumb tax-payer dime? No way. Never
ever. It's YOU, Jackson. It's always been YOU. THE MAN says jump
and YOU jump. THE MAN says "Wreck the joint" and YOU start
smashing everything in sight, and leave me holding the bag.

I can't, I won't even blame "America," for what is a nation but a
fiction, a set of laws agreed upon by it's people, in a real
democracy, or enforced by it's elite, as in whatever we have now?
America might not be such a bad place if YOU had stood up to the
MAN instead of running to fight every war HE gets himself into,
waving HIS symbols, hating HIS enemies even if formerly they were
HIS friends, even if his enemy is YOU. That's the deal isn't it?
YOU'LL do anything HE says, so long as the enemy isn't YOU.

And why? Cause it's "YOUR" country? It is not YOUR country, it
hasn't been for years (if it ever was), and YOU know it. Even so.
If a band of thieves broke into YOUR house and wrecked the place
and abused YOUR children would YOU excuse them because they did
it all in "YOUR" home? When they decide to do the same thing to
some poor family two blocks away, a family YOU'VE never met, a
family YOU have nothing to do with, will YOU go along with them
on their terror-fest because the idea was hatched in "YOUR" home?
Do I have to push the analogy further or do YOU get the point? I
know YOU'RE not big on subtlety, but this seems pretty cut and
dry.

YOU are an ignorant, violent, boorish people addicted to bad food
and overpriced drugs. I know, I know: it's the Media, the
Corporations, the Government, the evil gnomes from outer space.
Well, maybe if YOU hadn't been so dazed and confused we wouldn't
be in this mess. What kind of power would a first rate third-rate
moron like Dubya possibly have over a free and informed populace,
which would demand the truth from ALL media sources and probably
wouldn't care to buy ninety percent of the junk the
"all-powerful" Corporations sell daily by the Garbage Bag-full?
Such a people would never buy the idea that a legal fiction had
the "rights" of an individual person (whoever thought that one up
deserves to be dictator, as opposed to Il Dufus who merely
stumbled into the job).

Don't gimme that crap YOU don't know about the thousands
slaughtered for no damn good reason in Afghanistan, Iraq,
Palestine just cause YOU didn't see the corpses in the New York
Times or YOUR local gazette. YOU saw the photos of cruise
missiles smashing into cities. Think Uncle Sam's gonna waste
millions in hardware to smoke empty buildings?

"We" did it all for the thousands killed in the WTC. Oh really?
Then why aren't "we" clamoring for an investigation into just who
did all that killing. I grew up with someone who died there, as
did my wife. And I smelled the burning from my west side
apartment. YOU didn't. Yet YOU wave yer little flags like when
teacher told YOU to in the fifth grade about how grand it all
was. Send teenagers who should be living life and studying it
instead of destroying it thousands of miles away to kill other
teenagers and teenagers' children just so YOU can feel safe in
your twice mortgaged shit-box of a house, so you can march off to
your corporate cubicle, if you have one?

That "it's not the American peoples' fault, it's their
government" line wore thin years ago. Isn't this supposed to be a
government "of the people, by the people and for the people?"
Then how do we point the finger at the government if the
government is us? Of course, it's not us, not even remotely so,
but that doesn't excuse YOU for pretending that it is. There's
the "evil," as Dubya, who wrenched that term back from the 19th
century, might say. Pretending that "we" are all in this
together. "United We Stand." Isn't that what the corporate
sponsored billboards and banners say?

So, what to do.

Nothing. Shut yer yap, if YOU know what's good for ya. Eat yer
Beef-a-Roni. Suck yer Bud. Chew yer corporate cud, crud, crude,
cruel, crucifixion of the real. What's on TV? I hear they're
making last week into a movie. Or was it next week, or the week
before? Well anyhow, one of these weeks is going to be coming to
a theater near YOU. Then on video. They signed Today and Tomorrow
to play the leads. Yesterday's in it too, but YOU know how it is
in show biz once you're 24 hours old. The roles stop comin. Gotta
get what you can. Supporting character's not bad. As Boris
Karloff once said, "A Yesterday is a working Day." Something like
that. Remember Boris? The guy whose make-up informed YOUR
nightmare visions of Frankenstein's monster (that's Mr.
Frankenstein, to YOU, Jackson). Speaking of Frankenstein...oh,
never mind.

Peek-a-boo. I see YOU. Eating snacks before the telly. Man on the
screen says

"We like you."

Astounded, mouth full of chewy goodness, YOU gurgle,

"You like ...me?"

"We love you. Very much."

"Love. Loooovvvvve. Love ME?"

"We've always loved you."

"Love. Gooooooooood. Love good."

"But there are people who want to hurt us."

"Hurt...you?"

"If they hurt us, who will love you?"

"Love. Good. No hurt. No hurt you!"

"You wouldn't want bad people to hurt us, would you?"

"Bad. Bad. No hurt. Love."

"You'll protect us, won't you?"

"Me. Protect. You. You me protect. No hurt love. Kill. Kill.
KILL!"

And so on. YOU'VE been through it all before, I'm sure. And it's
a good thing, a noble thing, that YOU want to protect the guys on
TV who appear to love YOU, beasts that YOU are. But let's be
clear. What do I get outta this? I'm not the guys on TV. In fact,
I hate the guys on TV. It's not me they claim to love, but YOU.
And to be honest, I'm not alone. There are almost six billion of
us, and we hate those guys on TV.

So, it comes down to this. It's us against YOU, whoever YOU are,
and the Guys on TV. I refuse to take any blame for all this. I've
been fighting YOU since Reagan. True, I should have done more to
protest the First Gulf Massacre, but it was such a tidal wave of
YOU, YOU everywhere waving yer little flags. And it seemed to be
over pretty quick-- until the sanctions.

YOU are a danger to myself and others. Think about it. Think THE
MAN would have any power whatsoever without YOU? Who's he gonna
get to do HIS dirty work, me? But with YOU and your unquestioning
obedience HE's got Auschwitz, the Gulag, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq
and all sorts of global chess games-- and guess who's the pawn? I
mean, YOU put Hitler into power. True, YOU and your kids ended up
cannon fodder ten years later and had your cities bombed, but I
ended up in concentration camps (and I'm not just talking about
Jews and Gypsies, but Communists, Anarchists, Conscientious
objectors, clergymen, intellectuals, dissidents, in short all the
folks who are what YOU are not: free.)

I guess, ultimately, it's YOUR cowardice that gets me the most. I
don't honestly believe YOU'RE stupid-- willfully ignorant, yes,
but not stupid. YOU'LL just do anything, ANYTHING to anyone to
save your pasty skin. Be honest: YOU'RE terrified; hence, the
"war on terror." YOU hope maybe THE MAN will make fear go away?
The fear that began when Daddy...uh, let's not go there. Suffice
it to say that THE MAN controls YOU through fear-- and that's a
lot more powerful than Stupidity.

Anyway, YOU and I are through. There's nothing left between us.
As Michael Corleone said to his weak, stupid, cowardly brother
Fredo, "You're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're
not a friend..."

Yes, I believe in what the founding fathers said about the
peoples' right to dissolve a government that turns on them. And
hell yeah I believe in the Second Amendment, though
unfortunately, with a mega Trillion Military built on "the
American peoples' tax dollars," the opportunity to form a
"well-regulated militia" to protect myself and others against the
tyranny YOU support is long past.

But don't worry. I'll think of something. Me and the other five
billion some-odd other folks who want to save the world from YOU.

Adam Engel is not YOUR "countryman" or "fellow citizen." He'd
feel safer confronting a real enemy, with or without arms, than a
mob of rats like YOU (patriots seldom travel alone, eh?) with
YOUR symbols and "United We Stand" yackety yak one Nation under a
vengeful, psycho god in love with DEATH go tell it to Dubya and
Perle and the Gang. Johnsons and other Free People can contact
Engel at bartleby.samsa@verizon.net . No patriotic SPAM or pre-fab
slogans, please.



--
"Strange times are those in which we live when old and young are
taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell
the truth is called at once a lunatic and a fool" - Plato

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