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 Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest

by frank scott


"The greatest rule of safety is justice, and stopping injustice and
aggression.  Oppression kills the oppressors... The situation in
occupied Palestine is an example. What happened on 11 September (NY) and
11 March (Madrid ) is your commodity returned to you."

Foreign policy is an extension of domestic policy, so given the
attention to the rich and the disdain for everyone else here, we should
not be surprised at the  bigoted and bloody stupidity of our foreign
affairs. We are treating the global majority, especially the Arab
world, even worse than we treat our own majority.

Following the most disastrous intelligence  error in history, which
completely missed the plans and execution for 911, our government has
recklessly destroyed lives,  our international reputation, and our state
of mind, with  actions that should mean prison for those responsible.
This assumes a democracy, which we have in theory but are nowhere near
in practice . Still, given our material status , we ought to be capable
of a much better  governing class. Ours is incredibly ignorant,
fanatically obsessive and rabidly destructive.

Our major media have acted as stenographers and broadcasters  for its
propaganda, with little  criticism of the regime’s  deception and
outright lies. Idiotic fables that linked Iraq to al quaida and a
weapons threat, with as much evidence as links chicken soup to AIDS,
were  treated as feasible,  and acceptable. Disgrace  should not only be
reserved for  government figures but for our corporate media, without
whose cooperation these demented policies could not be maintained.

So we approach an election in November, and what is the status of our
thought-free, court appointed president? Despite his  staggering
ignorance and treachery, he is still in power, still making policy, and
still screwing up the world, our economy and our future. And he remains
free of anything but wimpy criticism from the opposition,  which can
wait until the election before  making stylistic changes, if that, in
the disaster that is the American government.

The democrats are poised to nominate a candidate who looks as if he uses
Novocain as a recreational drug. More troublesome than his funeral
director personality are his funeral creating politics, even going
beyond the zionist line of Bush on the middle east. Nevertheless  he
will be supported by many who are desperate, angry, terrified and
confused, in an electorate which has good reason to experience those
psychological states.

This regime is truly an American tragedy. Its deranged policies, driven
by faith in an “almighty” constantly called upon to bless every
murderously stupid move it makes, threaten to bring on disasters that
could make horror films seem like sit-coms by comparison.

The unholy alliance of Christian loonies in Washington and  Jewish
crackpots in Tel Aviv, make the global threat of deviate
Judeo-Christianity more dangerous than ever. Many here are still
blissfully unaware that we are perceived as one country by  millions in
the arab world who see us led by forces unified in their racist ,
religious and supremacist  belief systems. But it is for the people of
that nation  - USrael -  to do something about their regimes before the
rest of the world has to do it for them. And terrorism is the only
weapon possessed by the aggrieved, at least in the short run.

The unilateral  war on terror, really a war on reason itself, has
aggravated and increased problems rather than solved them. Hatred for
USrael in the arab-muslim world has never been greater, as the
Judeo-Christian pretenders shout “civilization” while conducting their
new crusade of  slaughter and disregard for millions  deemed a lower and
less civilized species. The very notion of a  court appointed U.S.
madman initiating democracy in iraq, and a criminal Israeli butcher
creating fairness in Palestine, would be hysterically funny, if it
weren’t so dreadfully stupid.

The past rape of the native people of the Americas -   once called a New
World when europeans  stumbled on it, thinking they were really in India
- is being revisited upon the present native inhabitants of the middle
east. It is the same historic experience, in which dominators steal land
and wealth from the dominated , all the while claiming rights given them
by a double-talking deity which preaches goodness in words, while
rationalizing evil in deeds.

In response, reactionary elements of the oppressed  lash out in the only
way left to them, however manipulated they may be by more sophisticated
forces. What cannot be forgotten by the developed world, especially its
richest inhabitants in USrael, are the words in the opening quote. The
brutality and murder practiced by our “civilization ‘ is what is coming
home to roost. And we will probably suffer more acts of terror, if we do
not begin to act on our best , rather than our worst, impulses.

The relatively affluent 25% of the developed world  must come to its
senses, or the most estranged and hopeless among the 75% will continue
to take drastic  action that may be bloodier than anything we have
previously experienced. And it is not Islamic or Arab terror that is the
greatest threat, but our own ruling god squad of fanatics. As long as
religious fundamentalists  are running the show from Judeo-Christian
headquarters in Washington-Tel Aviv, things will get worse and more
dangerous. It is not the creation of democratic government in the arab
world, but its absence in our world, that is the problem.

This president and his cabal of crusaders and zionists should be
impeached, or at least disarmed, before the election. One way or
another, for the good of humanity and the safety of the American
people,  they must be placed in restraints. We will suffer for every day
that he and his unholy counterpart in Tel Aviv are dictating our
affairs. The spirit of democracy had best become substance , or the
prevailing material  madness and stupidity will create new horrors
beyond what the world has already experienced.

Copyright (c) 2004 by Frank Scott. All rights reserved.

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