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January, 2003


 Fear Year

by Frank Scott

We begin the new year as we ended the old ; preparing for an assault on
innocent iraqis,  calling it war, as though  involving equal military
powers. The major context, and not a subtext of this manufactured crisis
is that  light skinned dominators  make murderous and impossible demands
on darker skinned subjects. Western history marches on.

Some distraction from the  imperial plan  was provided by the joyous
holiday season of love, peace and consumption. The year end shopping
orgy  may have needed more viagra than was available, but figures are
not yet in to show whether the economy is very troubled , or only
slightly very troubled.

Mind management has placed corporate crimes in our collective
unconscious, while the  regime and its opposition make us conscious of
how much they love  our country, while they rape our democracy. Recent
mass detentions of legal immigrants are another frightening sign  not
only of racism, but complete disregard for constitutional rights .

In an ugly display of U.S. led arrogance, nations armed to their teeth
have demanded that Iraq submit to having everything but it’s leader’s
underpants inspected in a search for hidden weapons. Any Iraqi attempt
at openness  is treated as a trick or a lie , by our governing lynch
mob.

The staggering hypocrisy of a nation which has invented and used the
most deadly weapons ever devised by science insisting that Iraq is a
menace to humanity because it may be armed is evident to all but the
war heads in Washington, and the air heads in  media.  Because Iraq may
someday have a nuclear weapon, it must be destroyed, before the fact.
This, while our corporate-racial affiliate in the middle east, israel,
stockpiles nuclear weapons and regularly employs  murderous firepower on
an occupied Palestinian population.


The U.N. continues to operate under American domination. Its members
privately express contempt for the USA, but publicly scrape and bow in
obedience,  fronting for this outrage of diplomacy. Maybe this year, it
will become  an independent international body that expresses the
majority will. Maybe.

The vast, empty space between the president’s ears is filled with
nonsense  by advisers who are often fanatics, at best mild skeptics, and
at worst, nearly insane. If these national nut cases weren’t enough,
further guidance on the fictional  threat comes from rich Iraqi exiles,
possibly less in touch with their native land than  are the deranged
exiles of Miami. Those light skinned gusanos from Cuba - who
immediately became more affluent than darker skinned Americans living
here for generations -  now await Castro’s death, in expectation that
Cubans will welcome them back, having forgotten their class treachery
and support of the tyrant, Batista.

Some of the Washington Iraqis are advocates of democratic change, but
most are like our regime puppets in Afghanistan. These exiles are
upper-class supporters of western, market values, with little or no
connection to the people of their nations. They have more in common with
their foreign, white “benefactors”. From fanatic loonies in his cabal,
and international hustlers  in the iraqi exile community, our presiding
pinhead devises a  comic book policy that would be hilarious, if it were
not so deadly .

The pitiful opposition speculates about which nonentity it will run for
president in 2004, with the nation facing more problems than can be
solved by one inept corporado, let alone a  party of corporate servants
. If the Democrats were our only hope for the future, we would be
without hope . They continue to represent a lesser evil; a polio chosen
when the alternative is cancer. They seem enlightened only by comparison
to the endarkened  Republicans, but both  represent the status quo of
capital controlled private markets , and a strangled public sector that
is gasping for breath.

The race bigotry of imperialism is not only  evident in foreign affairs,
where the light skinned dominate the dark in global fashion. Foreign
policy is an extension of domestic policy. Our  nation’s institutional
racism is only cosmetically covered by affirmative tokenism  for
individuals from groups long locked out of mainstream power. Behind the
cosmetics, the truth  can be seen in America’s prisons, filled by the
black and brown, presided over by the white. it isn’t odd that many see
the globe as a larger prison, with the  majority of darker poor
subjected to the  domination of the   lighter rich , who use their
handful of tanned servants in high places to make corporate capital look
good.

The recent  obsession of some to turn Lott into a pillar of dung is
useless; it does nothing about the  policies of institutional racism.
Attacking the individual’s speech, it  neglects the system’s actions.
Lott was mistakenly overt in language about a situation that is supposed
to remain covert in practice.  But no matter who runs the senate or sits
at the “very” white house, it is the material policies of the empire
that need change, not the language of corporate employees who simply
maintain it.

Happily, many  are not fooled by the lies of our government and media.
The  idiotic fiction depicting iraq as a menace to the USA  is not
believed by a substantial minority of citizens. They have openly
demonstrated their differences with the regime , and polls have begun to
show greater public doubts about the policy of slaughter, disguised as
war. And this under a deluge of propaganda that would have people
cowering under their beds, believing that Hussein, terrorists, Christ
killers and anti-semites all menace the earth from headquarters in “the
middle east”.

2003 does offer hope, but none of it comes from our government or its
official opposition. The global community calling for humanity and peace
is striving for democracy, and it includes millions from the USA who
oppose war. The need for new organizations to achieve that democracy
will be a most positive outcome when it is realized. In hopes that this
year will bring it closer; Happy 2003.



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