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Empire of a Racist God
by frank scott



Americans fear another terrorist attack here in the USA , almost
guaranteed by the policies of our court appointed regime. The potential
attackers are seen as fundamentalist fanatics, but the most dangerous
holy warriors are in our own  governing cult . These zealots are  an
alliance of true believers whose schemes are predicated on their total
faith in a god they claim to know, personally. This god represents them,
and  they represent “him”, as specially chosen agents for carrying out
“his” wishes .

Their imperial jihad against terrorists is really part of a continuing
global war of the rich, lighter skinned  west against the poor, darker
skinned  rest . It pits the generational recipients of the benefits  of
colonial power against the descendants of the colonized and slaved, on
whose backs and geographic wealth much of  western civilization was
built.

It conducts this war based on the political and economic power of
poorly developed  democracy and richly developed  capitalism.  Its
ideology relies in great part on a belief in religious and racial
superiority that finds - in complete contradiction to science - some
humans better, closer to god, than  others. Historically it has treated
those others - the overwhelming majority - not only as lesser in the
eyes of this  perverse god, but often as creatures  lower in status than
the domestic pets on which this enlightened civilization lavishes great
affection and wealth .

The current phase of this racial holy war  began long before the events
of 911. It will continue until an international democratic movement
becomes politically empowered, and translates the  more benign biblical
teachings and beliefs of that majority into political economics that end
the control of Judeo-Christian global capital over the people of the
world.

That will mean closing the gap between the rich minority , its upper
class servants, and the great mass of the world’s people, now numbering
more poor and suffering than ever before. This is not due to an
explosion of population, as malthusians believe, but to an explosion of
human and environmental  destruction. This massive assault on  nature
and reason is a direct result of the privately dominated system of
religious marketing that has  run rampant under what some call
neoliberal policy , totally out of any public control, real or symbolic
.

Christian and Jewish fanatics have taken leadership of this system in
the  U.S. and Israel  to form the unholy alliance of USrael. Their
policies of racial and religious  domination rest comfortably on a base
of global corporatism .

The rich and most powerful USA, supposedly a beacon of democracy,
reduces its citizens  to  consumers - “ United Shoppers of America” -
whose only  exercise of choice  comes, at great cost, when  charging
purchases with their credit cards.

Israel, a supposed nation of high ideals realized after past
sufferings,  has been transformed into a tragedy of hypocrisy and crimes
against humanity. As their rulers terrify and alienate the world, many
Americans sink more deeply into debt and fear, while Israelis are
destroying an indigenous population  in order to create a “promised
land” of peace and tranquility. It is difficult to say which  leaders
are more deranged, or which population more confused, as it follows
leaders who follow a seemingly rich and racist god of merchandising.


The inhumanity  of war is fully accepted by this god-squad leadership,
since they find biblical rationale for it, whether using old or new
testaments. War is also bad business, in that it kills consumers, but
even this cash consciousness is unachievable in the lurid atmosphere  of
the empire of market god.

The secular market, as old as the urge to communicate and trade, has
been transformed into  a mystical form of selfish personal
aggrandizement. Instead of bringing people together in commerce, it
alienates them with its gigantic size, its minority controllers, and its
single minded pursuit of private profit, without regard for human and
environmental costs. The democratic impulse of fair trade among humans
has become anti-democratic  “free” trade among the corporate inhuman .
This perverse form of progress has brought the world closer to economic
and ecologic  disaster.

The USA is running its greatest deficits in history; without  imported
foreign capital and a consumer credit binge, the whole economy might go
up in smoke. The underground commerce of undocumented workers and “off
the books” business, along with drugs, gambling and pornography, is
supplying much of the dollar power of this “free” market, giving  more
lies to  its religious zealot propagandists of moral value . The
religious belief is handmaiden to the economic policy. Together, they
fill a moral cesspool to overflowing and threaten to completely inundate
the social and natural environment.

The search for Iraq’s invisible weapons of mass destruction  that
rationalized that helpless nation’s defeat has done more to reveal the
empire’s economics of mass disfunction, its politics of mass corruption,
its media of mass distortion and its language of mass confusion. Acts of
terror have increased, and the continued persecution of the
Palestinians, worse since the Iraqi government was destroyed,  has  made
the suffering and hopelessness that are the source of suicidal terrorism
even more unbearable.

The fundamentalist leaders of  USrael believe in the most violent
biblical mythology, but ideas from antiquity and fable mixed  with
modern weapons of mass murder  can only spell disaster, which is what
these fanatics would welcome, since it is based on biblical “prophecy”.

Biblical stories of  people rising from slavery,  striving for social
justice, of a prophet called a prince of peace, are  part of what create
movements to change the world for the better. The religious believers in
that movement  may have to call themselves something other than Judeo
-Christian. The owner-controllers of that religious business are serving
as executive staff for global capitalism, and represent the greatest
threat to humanity . The good news is that they are a minority. The bad
news is that they are in charge.


Copyright (c) 2003 by Frank Scott. All rights reserved.

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