- It is in times of fascism rising that armies of ignorance
are once more resuscitated from the bowels of a society bordering on the
edge of mass psychosis. The America at the dawn of the twenty-first century
is no exception, for an army of fascism is being born inside its womb,
its growing power in numbers and ideology granting freedom of action to
immoral despots and juntas of warmongering greed addicts. Contrived through
the mass manipulation of fear and hatred, xenophobia and ignorance, searing
nationalism and blind theological faith, this army represents the greatest
threat to the nation, and the world.
-
- From all walks of life diluted brains and weak-minded
individuals are answering the call of the beacon of fascism shining bright,
from Atlantic to Pacific, from north to south, embracing its dastardly
tentacles with the warm acceptance of comfort and submission. Millions
of Americans are presently falling prey to a virulent haze gripping the
United States, furthered and pursued by a small cabal of corporatist evildoers
perched at the upper echelons of governance and power that seek to transform
the nation into a black widow's nest of fascism spiked with the venom of
a militarized citizenry acquiescent to imperial hegemony.
-
- Growing daily like a malignant tumor, still entranced
by the devastating images of the new Pearl Harbor, which the corporatists
in power did nothing to help stop and everything possible for it to succeed,
this multitude cannot see in shades of gray nor in the prism of color.
Instead, like living inside the television sets of the past, only black
and white can they perceive, their antenna only receptive to the microwaves
of good and bad, evil and good, friend or foe. Different shades of reality
escape them just as much as the reality of what transpires around the world.
-
- This army of fascism is the product of years of methodical
ingraining of ignorance and indifference into society by those holding
the reigns of power. It is the end result of the re-wired human brain preyed
upon and feasted on by television and the corporations that control thought
through it. Obedient to the monitor, blind to reality, the army now gathering
life takes direct commands from the images, sounds and war cries emanated
by television. Acting on instinct, and on the televised propaganda they
are conditioned to obey and follow, the army now walking among us neither
questions nor searches for answers, preferring to exult the fantasies of
fiction over the embarrassments of truth, preferring to dwell in ignorance
rather than being liberated by knowledge.
-
- Like the drones they have been bred to be the army of
fascism lines up one behind another, marching to the drums of warmongers
and trumpets of false prophets exalting hatreds and fears and cries for
death and destruction. This monolith lacking the precepts of analytical
and logical thinking minds follows the lies and deceptions of governance
and the propaganda of corporations, believing every word uttered or image
manipulated, absorbing as truth blatant lies and incorporating into their
own thought processes the vitriol-filled, hate-induced, xenophobic-spewing,
gay-bashing, women-hating, Arab-scapegoating, jingoistic-packed diatribe
that litters the airwaves and acts as a conduit for the further recruitment
of grunts comprising the army of fascism.
-
- Disguised as national dialogue, this propaganda, disseminated
by the minions and lackeys of government and the corporate world, serves
the purpose of unleashing inside the ignorant legions of sheep boiling
magma of animalistic passion and emotion which, with further manipulation
of psychology, erupts like a smoldering volcano, releasing throughout the
nation toxic gases of hatred and fiery lava of violent thought.
-
- Thus, the harvesting of ignorance, hate and fear - all
molded by the same clay, none mutually exclusive of the others - by those
in power produces an army of fascism whose blind thirst for Arab blood
and rabid addiction for Muslim destruction fuse to engender in the Establishment
the tools necessary to mutate the United States in the direction of fascism
and despotic rule, while at the same time increasing their power and control
over the same army which blindly follows without knowing and is easily
herded to slaughter.
-
- Conditioned War Culture, Dumbed-Down Education
-
- Millions who today march proudly in the army of hate,
fear and ignorance have, since birth, been conditioned to violence and
indifference through the incessant bombardment by television of those images
necessary to transform a once benign citizenry into a violent and militarized
war culture, in the process succeeding in shaping apathetic creatures devoid
of concern for their fellow man, now desensitized to death, destruction,
suffering and ceaseless violence.
-
- From cartoons laced with aggression and conflict to movies
saturated with pyrotechnics and bullets to video games blurring the line
between reality and fantasy to television shows romanticizing violence
the human brain, from cradle to grave, and in a society as addicted to
television watching as is America, loses all sense of shock and awe at
the very real spectacle of human violence. Glamorized and white-washed,
fantasy-riddled violence on television, movies and video games desensitizes
the now conditioned human brain to the very real and horrific parameters
of our species' self-destructive ways, making violence accepted and indeed
sought, for violent overtures to conflict resolution are all we have been
trained to see, hear and believe in.
-
- In the realm of fiction bombs explode yet the shrieks
and the misery are never seen. Bullets whiz by yet their effects on human
flesh are whitewashed. Missiles rain down from above yet severed limbs
and decapitated heads do not exist. The destruction of cities, houses and
lives is too inconvenient to cover in the plot. The suffering and the wretchedness
of human violence upon its own kind never sees the light of day. Special
effects form a cornucopia of digital mastery, glossing over death and maiming,
blood and guts, becoming the fiction we see and the reality we fail to
understand.
-
- Audiences at home or in the theater fail to ever experience
the reality of human violence, unable to feel the pain of injury, the concussions
reverberating in air, rubble falling everywhere, explosions creating deafness,
bullets penetrating flesh, the last moments of life, the entrails exposed
or the limbs blown to bits. We never are confronted with the sounds of
war, the smells of death, the taste of violence and the very real destruction
wrought by America's many instruments of human violence. Comfortably we
sit in our couches or stadium seating, under cover of roof and air-conditioning,
munching on popcorn and soda, all the while becoming ever more desensitized
to death, destruction, violence and the horrors of war.
-
- This makes a culture such as that found in America a
purveyor of violent solutions to conflict, a populace indifferent to the
violence, destruction and death created by its government and unleashed
on the savages and inhuman peoples of lands not known or understood, alien
to our reality but familiar to our fictions. With a citizenry completely
conditioned to accept violence as a solution for conflict, with a people
desensitized to the horrors of human violence inflicted on its fellow beings,
with tens of millions brainwashed into seeing violence as rose-petalled
fiction and not as a malicious reality, the government, military-industrial
complex and the cabal of corruption in control of our lives are free to
unearth the most wicked forms of human violence upon innocent human life,
killing with abandon in a wanton slaughter applauded by a complicit army
of fascism whose minds are completely under the control of warmongers and
fascists in power.
-
- When you add in the bogey man of the moment, the chosen
Muslim Arab enemy for years implanted into our minds by government and
corporate propaganda, seen in television, movies and the realm of fictionalized
violence, replacing the Indian and the Soviet and the black and the Vietnamese
as the enemy required to hijack the thoughts of the average American, needed
to induce fear and enslave fogged minds, the brain begins associating negative
feelings of hatred onto this scapegoated ethnic and religious group. Fear
commences its powers of erosion, stripping rational and analytical thought
from the human brain, replacing hatred and thirst for violence against
the latest enemy to grace the collective imagination of Americans. Ignorance,
fear of the unknown and conditioned fear of dark-skinned enemies combine
to form a deadly cocktail of hatred, manipulated into the American mind
by government and those whose interests lie in marginalizing Arabs, that
furthers the recruitment of the army of fascism as well as the fictional
"war on terror."
-
- Combined with the creation of a completely dumbed down,
ignorant, believe-anything, nationalistic-driven, violence-conditioned,
fiction-living, theology-brainwashed, fear-induced, schizophrenically-manipulated,
paranoid-delusional segment of the American population, the recipe is ripe
for those in power to sound the drums of perpetual war for perpetual profit,
using their new and ever-growing army of fascism, blind to the tunes of
reality, to unveil the erosion of civil rights, freedoms and democracy
at home and the mass murder of untold thousands abroad in an immoral attempt
at achieving imperial hegemony.
-
- Using the ignorance of the army of fascism to its advantage,
this cabal of corruption is giving birth to corporatism, transforming the
nation into a conduit for despotic rule in a police-state environment,
where the army of fascism is used against itself, for the attainment of
a continued form of corporate feudalism, and as a tool in fighting the
other half of the population that refuses to accept the master plans of
those in control or to bow down to the dictates of tyranny.
-
- An army dumbed down by an anemic educational system whose
only purpose is the systematic transformation of little primates into obedient,
non-thinking drones loyal to the government that exploits and the corporations
that enslave them has become a reality which today we can see in the tens
of millions, perhaps half the population of the United States, that gives
a thumbs up to mass murder, torture, gulags and the destruction of an entire
society by their vote for warmongers, greed addicts and power hungry corrupters
of civilization.
-
- Brainwashed from birth to adore the red, white and blue,
trained to never question the authority of government or the decisions
of politicians, conditioned in the fine arts of nationalistic propaganda,
manipulated into loyalty to the state and deceived to the altruistic fictions
of American history, children are subjected to an education designed to
eradicate free-thinking minds, transforming questioning entities into subservient
soldiers devoid of rebellion or resistance to bad governance. Educated
to avoid seeking truth, taught to inhale as fact whatever the government
states, children are methodically robbed of their natural desire to question
the world around them, failing to seek accountability of authority and
their innate desire for truth searching.
-
- After years of dumbed down education, in schools that
serve to hinder knowledge and evolving intelligence thanks to rotten curriculums
and decrepit resources, children become the molded adult drones of the
state, unthinking, unknowing and unquestioning. The mockery that is American
education, purposefully instituted by those in power, spits out a populace
that fails to grasp the world around them, lacking curiosity, creativity
and an ounce of knowledge of history, current events, politics, foreign
nations, the arts, science, culture, geography and common sense.
-
- An assembly line of ignorance and indifference is created
through years of abandon, both educational and parental, that is transforming
American society into a culture lacking the precepts of human understanding.
The wisdom of older societies is recklessly disregarded, the sophistication
of cultures is frowned upon, the lessons of history are arrogantly trampled
on, the convergence of diversity spawns fear and the advice of old friends
is discarded. To the army of fascism, America does not need advice or assistance
or friends or historical lessons. We are the greatest nation that ever
lived, unable to do wrong, unable to condemn billions to misery and virtual
enslavement, the chalice of altruism, the seeker of good, the defender
of freedom, the protector of democracy and the Almighty's chosen nation.
America is an unbeatable superpower, emanating arrogance and cockiness,
the most triumphant society that ever existed, free to do with the world
and its peoples whatever suits its needs. Unfortunately, after years of
brainwashing, the army of fascism believes just about anything, unwilling
to even contemplate the minimal idea that all they have ever learned is
false, based on propaganda and conditioning of minds, blitzkrieged into
their brains for the benefit of the state and the corporate world that
owns it.
-
- The army of fascism chooses to live in fantasy, unwilling
to discard their tiny bubble protecting them from confronting reality.
To them truth is stressful, reality is frightful, ignorance is bliss, and
escaping the illusion they watch on Fox News or any other corporate propaganda
channel is an exercise they would rather not confront. Their bubble is
their paradise, no matter how pathetically delusional it may seem, no matter
how obviously false it appears and no matter how much it is eroded by the
plethora of truth attacking the fables and fictions sustaining their delicate
web of concocted bull manure.
-
- To the tens of millions living inside the rabbit hole,
Earth, its lands, nations, cultures and peoples are as alien as the vast
expanse of universe, science and nature as hazy as history and knowledge.
The reality of what the United States has been since its inception, an
Evil Empire laying waste to billions of world citizens and their lives,
is never taught to the very citizens now affected by the blowback inherent
in perpetuating human malice throughout the globe. Instead, we are told
the world hates us for our freedoms and rights, that billions are angered
at us because we are such a great nation. The truth, it seems, is always
discarded for fiction, and the army of fascism gobbles it up like Thanksgiving
turkey, forever wanting to escape knowing painful truths by smearing themselves
in euphoric falsity.
-
- Hijacked Fiction, Hypnotized Minds
-
- As if hypnotized by the thunderous sound of its marching
boots, the army of fascism, millions of worker bees and soldier ants laboriously
furthering the interests of state fascism, surrenders itself to its masters
sounding the trumpets of fear and hatred. Ever since 9/11, millions of
Americans have experienced a profound shift in their psyche, becoming,
over time and thanks to ceaseless corporatist manipulation and propaganda,
the mirror image of what they perceive their enemy to be.
-
- They have become, in a sense, what they most fear, the
nighttime bogeyman lurking in dark corners and black shadows, emulating
the behaviors and psychology of how they are told the enemy behaves, casting
a long dry spell of hatred and racism over the lands of America, awakening
from horrible nightmares to find themselves afflicted by paranoia and schizophrenia,
possessed by hatred and seething anger, unable to listen or see, made deaf
and blind to reality and unable to exorcise from their minds the horrible
disfigurement to the national character spawned by the ghosts of 9/11.
They have, for all intents and purposes, become the enemy they fear most.
-
- It is exactly the manipulation of fear and hatred by
those who control, spawned by 9/11 and its post traumatic stresses that
has elevated the numbers joining the army of fascism. A plague presently
afflicts the United States, born in sin and broken psychology, rendering
once capable minds as weak as rotting wood, impregnating in the ignorant
among us deep hatreds and angers giving rise to increased levels of xenophobia
and a growing search for scapegoats.
-
- The fear prevalent in the army of fascism, tirelessly
manipulated and exploited by the Bush administration, birthed by the horrors
of 9/11 and the correspondent images no human society has ever had to experience,
played live and replayed countless times via multiple camera angels and
narrated through various media outlets and personalities, immediately bombarded
by anti-Arab propaganda by the corporate media, has given rise to a racist
hatred seldom seen in the United States in the latter decades of the twentieth
century.
-
- It was 9/11, that sparkplug from which all hatred now
derives, that spawned the beginning stages of the army of fascism. It was
in the aftermath of the collapse of the twin towers in New York City that
the early manifestations of mass change in the minds of vast portions of
the populations could be seen. Suddenly, as if hit by a powerful surge
of psychosis, millions of Americans became conduits of seething anger,
no doubt affected by high doses of post traumatic stress disorder and of
feelings of catastrophe, uncertainty and bewilderment.
-
- The world Americans had once known changed in the rapid
transgressions of a few horrific hours, popping long-lasting bubbles of
invincibility and security that had for years insulated the populace from
the carnage, fear and human wickedness that befell the rest of humanity,
most of it at the hands of America and its vast legions of mercenaries
of imperial control and domination. The new Pearl Harbor had been allowed
to come into fruition, for it was the tool needed to mobilize a pacifist
populace into war, introducing the fog of mass psychosis onto a suddenly
fearful nation, in the greatest psychological warfare operation ever conducted,
on the way to neocon and military-industrial complex pre-planned mastery
of world hegemony. Along with falling towers, the fall of American rationality
and analytical thought was not far behind.
-
- Implanted into the minds of now fragile human brains,
the violence witnessed and conditioned into our psyches by endless videotaped
repetition and immediate talking head jingoistic tirades was no longer
relegated to the giant screens or the television monitors or the video
games. It no longer lived in third world countries or was monopolized exclusively
by dark-skinned peoples. Violence was suddenly scary real, a shocking energy
of carnage, death and destruction imported to once safe shores, crumbling
the fabric of a society's entire psychology. This was not a movie, nor
the work of special effects capturing the latest digital technology for
our viewing pleasure. This was no longer the fiction we had for too long
enjoyed along with popcorn and soda and stadium seating.
-
- Soon, through vast media/government propaganda, manipulation
and conditioning, the collective wrath of an entire nation was thrust upon
the people's and lands of the Middle East, for a convenient enemy allowing
for pre-planned wars of pillage and conquest had already been chosen. Muslims,
long marginalized in movies and the media, became the newest bogey man
to grace the long line of chosen American enemies. It was their lands and
valuably needed resources, the geo-strategic location of their homes, their
global position on the way to imperial hegemony, their threat to Israel
that condemned millions of Afghans and Iraqis, and perhaps soon Iranians
and Syrians, to the full might of American military evil.
-
- Through careful propaganda, then, the American people
were blitzkrieged with the seeds of hatred and ignorance, fed a vast assortment
of misrepresentations and lies that linger to this day. Weapons of mass
deception were introduced via the airwaves and into televisions and radios,
designed to plant the foundations and pretexts for embarking on wars of
aggression. With the public in the collective grip of those in power, fragile,
fearful, ignorant, insecure, paranoid and schizophrenic, bowing down to
the power of our animal instincts, desperately needing feelings of protection
and security, ready to accept whatever lie was placed at our knees, enraged
at an enemy we were told hated us for our freedoms, suffering from the
effects of massive post traumatic stress disorder and willing to place
our trust and futures on those we have since birth been brainwashed to
obey and follow, the project for a new American century could commence.
-
- A nebula of fear gripped the nation, thoroughly exploited
by the right wing, government, media and the military-industrial complex,
suddenly transforming a man of questionable courage and apparent mediocrity,
with no discernable leadership skills, possessing not an ounce of morals,
into a Dear Leader of unquestioned character, strength and leadership.
The puppet of the corporatist world had, in the time it takes to read 'My
Pet Goat,' become an appointed conduit of the Almighty, an heir to greatness,
on the way to perpetual war, and perpetual profit and wealth, lest we forget.
The questioning of the President and of government was discouraged and
threatened. After all, we were either with the President or with the 'terrorists.'
Dissent was quashed, protest was made extinct, discourse was nonexistent
and debate was nowhere to be found. The myth of the Dear Leader firmly
entrenched thanks to massive Rovian propaganda campaigns, his re-selection
by both the vote of the army of fascism and the corruption of elections
was a foregone conclusion.
-
- In time the healing began, and with it returned the rational
and analytical thinking minds of hundreds of millions of Americans. As
time passed most of the nation began to escape the clouds of 9/11, awakening
to the lies and the deceits and the many manipulations that pushed a nation
to war, in a sense returning to normalcy and exorcising the demons of lingering
stresses and fears. The realization emerged in the minds of millions that
pre-emptive wars had been based on nothing but lies, all now proven to
be false, all destroyed by reality and rational thought.
-
- Slowly, the fictional war on terror is being discovered
for what it is, a charade, a fear-engendering escapade, created to control
and command, to breed power and profit, a mirage whose tentacles are used
as tools in the pursuit of conquest of land, people and resources. Used
like the Cold War, birthing fear into the populace through the use of fantasy
bogey men lurking in the shadows, said ready to kill for our freedoms and
ready to attack for our way of life, the war on terror is a control mechanism,
a way to lead a nation in a certain and most ignoble direction, based on
lies and manipulations, needing a concocted enemy to thrive, misdirecting
the attention and energy of the people away from real internal problems,
away from what is being done to them at home and in their name abroad.
-
- The creation of a few charlatans and messianic Machiavellis
in power, the 'war on terror' was concocted to consolidate power at home
through the erosion of civil liberties, freedoms and democracy and to expand
the empire's hegemony abroad through ruthless devastation and destruction
of both land and man, exploiting and oppressing peoples whose homes the
Empire needs to continue the global chess match called geopolitical maneuvering.
The 'war on terror' is a useless game that selected as enemy a most ambiguous
entity, unlike the Soviet threat, without borders or faces or uniforms,
allowing for its fictions to continue lingering into perpetuity, making
the American people acquiescent slaves firmly controlled by fear and insecurity,
their rights and freedoms evaporating more each day. It has selected over
a billion people as enemies when only a few thousand exist, allowing the
military-energy-industrial complex unfettered profit and wealth through
war, conquest, ceaseless production, pillage and the robbery of American
treasure.
-
- The 'war on terror' is one more fiction created by those
at the top to retain power, distracting and dividing the nation away from
the rape of their ways of life, allowing a warmongering corporatist government
the means to expand its power, making 300 million people fight themselves
instead of the real enemy at the top, even as their lives are placed in
ever more danger thanks to a self-defeating, unwinnable and perpetual conflict.
Thankfully, more and more citizens of America are waking up to the faÁade
that is the 'war on terror,' joining the rest of humanity in seeing that
a corrupt few have exploited the honorable many.
-
- Dangers Real and Perceived
-
- Yet, for about forty percent of the population, the 'war
on terror' is as real as night and day, a most important war against the
hated Arab heathens who share neither religion nor culture nor skin color
with noble America. To the army of fascism, Arabs are evildoers extraordinaire,
savages and primitives intent on killing all of what America stands for.
They are barbarians, a people worshipping false gods and idols, mere subhuman
animals willing to kill themselves, the army of Satan and reincarnations
of demons past. They are an enemy that must be defeated and exterminated,
whatever the cost, whatever the consequences. This belief by the army of
fascism, however, is one based on ignorance, the belief of fantasy and
a sheer weak-minded capacity to distinguish fact from fiction. When bombarded
by a Zionist-first media and scapegoat-needing government, using a massive
and methodical propaganda campaign, though, the Fox News and talk radio
addicted army of fascism easily succumbs to such manipulations and lies.
-
- While most Americans have recovered their senses in the
years after 9/11, the army of fascism still remains trapped inside the
clouds of asbestos and debris and smoke and dust, refusing to take the
hand of truth and reality, firmly digging themselves inside the trenches
of a horror-filled fantasy. Because they wish for its truth, they make
it so, retaining the lies and deceits and manipulations they hear, never
questioning for an instant the validity of such claim and never seeking
their own education of such matters. Trained to always believe what they
hear, they incorporate deceptive propaganda as their own, every day hating
and fearing more and more, scapegoating an entire culture, religion and
race, justifying their hatred and growing racism through the bull manure
they hear and see on a daily basis.
-
- The army of fascism remains deeply distraught by the
horrors of 9/11, still possessed by its demons and its stresses, unable
to exorcise the memories or ghosts of an operation allowed to succeed by
the same heroes the army now religiously follows. Their outward bravado
hides a deep inner fear, acting as their protective surrogate, for traumatized
they remain and brainwashed they have been made to be. Psychologically
fragile and mentally intimidated, they cling to the Dear Leader their monitors
and radios command them to adore as a father figure in whom they seek protection
and security. These millions are not able discern the falsity of the war
on terror, nor the reality of what their 'leader' truly is, nor the true
nature of the wars of conquest against Afghanistan and Iraq.
-
- To the army of fascism, lies become truth just as much
as reality becomes falsity. In their inescapable bubble, they see not how
the world is but how they want the world to be, refusing to accept truth
even as it showers them with unending facts and even as it utterly destroys
the fictions they cannot let go of. These Americans remain traumatized
and haunted by 9/11, clouding the rational and analytical thought processes
they might have once possessed. Every hate and racist filled tirade by
their favorite talking head vermin only validates in their minds the necessity
to wage ceaseless war upon innocent Arabs and Muslims. Every diatribe they
hear confirms their belief in the elimination and mass murder of hundreds
of thousands of humans, replacing the goodness they once had with the thirst
for malice that now runs through their veins.
-
- They have become cold-blooded manifestations of their
Dear Leader, the embodiment of all the psychopathic traits he possesses.
They are the exact image of the President of the United States, indifferent,
uncultured, unwise, callous, complicit, without love for their fellow human
beings. Warm hearts have given way to frozen arteries, their desire to
do harm to chosen scapegoats running rampant inside their bodies. They
hate because they are told to hate, they wish death and destruction because
they follow propaganda, never questioning anything but dissent. They fear
because they are ignorant, they do not understand alien ways of life because
they know nothing beyond their tiny bubbles, wishing instead to remain
captives to the producer and consumer lifestyle they have been conditioned
to follow.
-
- They desperately cling to the beliefs that Arabs and
Muslims are sub-human creatures and evildoers needing the salvation only
America can provide. To them, America is bringing democracy and freedom
to those it now occupies, and the noble intentions of the Bush administration
are all that matters. The army of fascism refuses to see that tyranny was
replaced by tyranny, that corruption has now been increased, that democracy
is but a sham excuse to enslave and pillage, that an entire civilization
lays in ruins and that 25 million people have had their lives shattered,
that their tax dollars are being pilfered by corporate greed, that their
sons and daughters are dying for nothing but the profit, wealth and power
of the elite, that their rights and freedoms are being eliminated not by
Arabs but by the leaders they shower with praise and adulation.
-
- Millions of Americans are being transformed into conduits
of hate and racism, citizens thirsting for Arab and Muslim blood and for
the destruction of millions of lives. More and more we hear them talk about
using nuclear bombs and WMDs to destroy Arabs. We hear them talk about
curtailing Arab and Muslim civil rights and liberties in America, with
cries of sending an entire race of people to internment and detention camps.
We hear them validate war crimes and the death of over 100,000 innocent
civilians, extolling the virtues of shooting and bombing Iraqis and Afghans
to pieces. To these warmongers and violence seekers, the more Arab blood
spilled the better.
-
- To them torture under Saddam is horrific but under the
red, white and blue, not to mention under the Star of David, it is encouraged
and acceptable, no matter how sadistic and malevolent it becomes, no matter
how much it contradicts basic foundations of humanity. Two dozen beheadings
are condemned as barbaric yet the use of cluster bombs, missiles, napalm,
bunker busters and 2,000 pound bombs that kill thousands and maim and decapitate
countless more is seen as a civilized and necessary way to bring freedom
and democracy to those we invade and occupy. To the army of fascism, an
amalgam of Bush gulags is welcomed, and if death, torture and dehumanization
results, so much the better. From Guantanamo, Cuba to Abu Ghraib, to prisons
in Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Afghanistan, the army of fascism revels in
the imprisonment of innocents and the torture of humans, wishing the keys
to cages be thrown away for all eternity. The prisoners are Arab and Muslim,
after all.
-
- They approve destroying cities such as Fallujah, Najaf,
Mosul and Sadr City in order to save them. Under no circumstances can they
ever see the quagmire that is Iraq for what it is, nor the mistakes that
have led to disaster and inevitable defeat. The army of fascism sees no
problem appointing as Attorney General the man responsible for legalizing
torture and endangering American soldiers. They feel comfortable keeping
as Secretaries CEOs and executives of the corporate world that fleeces
their lives. They look forward to a State Department run by a liar, conniver
and unscrupulous cobra responsible for the death of over 100,000 innocent
civilians. Ignorantly they allow the dangerous Likud-first neocons to remain
pestering like flies in the halls of the White House and War and States
Departments, hijacking foreign policy to the tunes of Israel's delight.
They rush to the polls to cast votes for the worst president in the history
of the nation, having accomplished nothing but problems for the electorate
since stealing the election of 2000, yet providing a treasure trove of
favors to the corporate world.
-
- Our Own Worst Enemies
-
- The parameters of life in America were altered in one
giant implosion of two towering monoliths, and the resulting psychosis
which has ensued has only progressed further down the slope of the surreal.
To America's worker bees and soldier ants, hatred of Muslims and blatant
racism of Arabs, combined with searing nationalism and growing ignorance
of reality and the world, are fusing together to form a malicious combination
of behaviors and psychology that is following a clear pattern of growth
that, ever since 9/11, has multiplied in aggression.
-
- Today, America is fast approaching a slippery slope of
hatred, with xenophobia and homophobia at the frontlines, threatening to
divide the nation and explode the fiery cauldron of diversity, creating
a nation on the verge of implosion. Hate now fills the air, racism lingers
in the environment, and, with ignorance the sparkplug of this most frightful
engine, a new dawn fast approaches, pitting those blinded by hate, fear,
ignorance and the clouds of 9/11 against those now free of demons, ghosts
and inner turmoil.
-
- Lines are being drawn in the sand, and slowly, yet surely,
America is being divided based on the wars of George W. Bush. Hatred, fear,
racism, fantasy, blind patriotism and corrosive ignorance stand on one
side with the army of fascism. On the other side stands reality, courage,
peace, love, diversity, world citizenship and education. The real danger
is being played out today, with the army of fascism reporting dissent to
the Department of Fatherland Insecurity, thereby placing anti-war voices
on "terrorist watch lists," with protest being confined to ìfree-speech
zones," with Republican politicians seeking to curtail still more
rights, with right-wing Congressmen seeking to define dissent a psychological
disease, with the army of fascism acting as national spies, keeping tabs
on those not in tune with pro-war, pro-America, pro-Bush dictates.
-
- This army is growing as the mass lunacy that has taken
over America continues its reign of terror, invading minds and possessing
spirits, catapulting inner turmoil and invasive demons onto the national
stage. The army of fascism comprises your neighbors, friends and relatives,
your co-workers, elected representatives and teachers. Hijacked by the
psychosis of post-9/11, this army knows not what it does, doing the dirty
work of the elite and warmongers who are unleashing devastation upon the
green lands of Earth. They are captured by the fear exploited every day
by those in power, exchanging once held sanity for evolving hatred and
brewing racism.
-
- The danger lies in another violent attack upon the nation,
whether real or concocted, for the army of fascism will undoubtedly wage
war against Arab and Muslim Americans, against those seeking peace, tolerance
and justice, and against those not espousing the beliefs of the fascists
in government. Another bombing or unconventional attack will result in
the complete assault of civil rights, freedoms and habeas corpus, resulting
in the complete fascist overhaul of American society, the introduction
of a police state and the implementation of repression and subjugation
of large segments of the population, no doubt abetted by the growing legions
of the army of fascism.
-
- Resurrected from the catacombs of lunacy and human wickedness
past, mutating to the dictates of malice and corruption present, becoming
the oxygen by which tyrants thrive, the voices by which hate prospers and
the muscle by which the worst in the human condition grows, the army of
fascism, birthed by brainwashed conditioning and bred in ignorance, unwillingly
serves the masters who have created it, becoming its own worst enemy, the
force that will self implode upon the evisceration of the freedoms, rights
and democracy it took for granted.
-
- Soon, when the forces of corporatism no longer need the
army that so blindly follows, the awakening of millions will arrive too
late, and from the long slumber of post 9/11 hysteria millions of minds
will realize the self-implosion they wrought onto themselves, wishing they
had only known, wishing they had been wiser to the propaganda, wishing
to wake from the horrible nightmare now confronting their lives. Until
then, however, they are helping lead us all directly into the wretched
path of despotism of old and fascism of new, pulverizing our relations
with the outside world and making extinct the life we once knew to exist.
-
- Worker bees and soldier ants are condemning us all, for
their numbers are many, possibly reaching half the citizenry, helping to
keep in power the most unscrupulous cabal of human refuse to ever stand
perched atop the halls of power. The world entire will have to suffer for
the post 9/11 traumatic stress disorder affecting tens of millions of Americans
who cannot escape the demons of crashing planes and falling towers, played
and replayed countless times on video, in dreams and in the mind, that
can now be seen as the sparkplug that launched America into a realm of
lunacy, paranoia and incalculable human wickedness.
-
- As the evolution and continued growth of the army of
fascism persists, the decline of what America once espoused continues.
We are becoming, in the end, our own worst enemies.
-
- - Manuel Valenzuela is social critic and commentator,
international affairs analyst, Internet columnist and author of Echoes
in the Wind, a novel now published by Authorhouse.com.
-
- http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5027
|
