Jeff Huber asked this question in title of his most his recent post:
Now Jeff appears to be one of millions of well-meaning servicemen and ex-servicemen who have worked for the military in the faith that they were somehow preserving the American way of life, fighting for God, country and family, etc. It was at least somewhat that way during W.W. II, for sure.
But that was 60 years ago.
Here’s where it stands now.
First of all…”we” are not doing a damned thing.
This government does not represent the people of the United States, nor do the armed forces. They OCCUPY the United States, they do not represent the people of the United States. That should be perfectly clear upon simple examination of what the Butcher Boys are obviously going to do in Iraq a scant two months after the American people quite plainly told the government that they did not want to continue the war in Iraq. With “Whaddaya gonna DO about it, you fucking pansies!!!” as the REAL order of the day. Delivered steaming hot right to Ms. Pelosi’s door.
“Whaddaya gonna DO about it, you fucking pussy!!!”
And you know what?
She can’t do SHIT.
Read on for more.
She can’t do shit.
Not even if she really wanted to do so or understood what is really going down here, upon neither of which concepts would I willingly bet my life.
Just like they have told Iraq that they will do whatever it takes, the Dems have been told “Count the votes, assholes. Butch will veto any goddamned thing you do to try to stop it, and if you PUSH it…why we will FUCK YOU UP!!! Remember the Reichstag.”
Surge. A sanitizing word for the escalation of murder.
OK…given that simple fact, what are they doing?
They are doing the same thing that they have done since Vietnam in small wars and large, in overt ways and in covert ways.
They are overkilling in an effort to convince the opposition that the U.S. is so batshit crazy that it will fuck up your mama, your kiddies, your elderly relatives, your friends AND your fucking infrastructure EVEN IF DOING SO DOES NOT CORRESPOND TO THE APPARENT BEST INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Why?
Because they believe that the “best” best interests of the United States are served by making it quite clear that it will brook no resistance whatsoever.
None.
Nada.
Zilch.
Right up to the Big Bang if pushed.
Military terrorism.
It works…
it works on other, smaller systems. I know this for a fact because I have lived in neighborhoods where it was in effect.
I lived on a block with the Hell’s Angels. 3rd St. between 1st and 2nd Avenues. They are still there. Why? Because people are sacred shitless of them.
With good reason.
“We CRAZY!!! You complain about the noise waking up your kids and we will FUCK YOU UP!!!”
“We CRAZY!!!”
And they will.
I have lived with the Mafia.
Up close and personal.
In Joey Gallo’s Red Hook and in the black and latin music scenes of NYC.
Until recently, they owned those scenes lock, stock and barrel. And they STILL have a good sized interest in them.
How do they run their game?
Same way.
“We CRAZY!!! Oppose our criminal enterprise on any level at all and we will FUCK YOU UP!!!”
“We CRAZY!!!”
And they are.
Drug gangs. Cop gangs. The “Justice” system. Right on up and down the line.
The “We CRAZY!!!” tactic.
Blown up big time.
“We will FUCK YOU UP!!!”
As above, so below.
What are they doing in Somalia, in Iraq, in Iran, in their support of satrap powers like Israel?
They are saying “We CRAZY, motherfuckers!!! We CANNOT be beaten. Take it TOO far, and you know all those nuke subs lying around on the bottom of the Mediterranean?”
“We will FUCK YOU UP!!!”
“Got some possible Al Quedas hiding downtown in Mogadishu or wherever?”
“Why, boy, we will FUCK YOU NIGGERS UP!!!”
What are they “doing” in Somalia?
Gunship lynchings.
“Kill ’em all. God doesn’t even HAVE to sort ’em out…not OUR God, anyway…because we don’t really give a shit WHO we kill. Take out the innocents as well. It breeds surrender and terror, and we FEED offa that kind of shit.”
“We will FUCK YOU UP!!!”
THAT’S what they are doing.
Soon in a theater near you.
Bet on it.
America.
What a blight upon the world we have become.
AG
P.S. I want to add a little something here.
It is often said that the devil is in the details.
Well…the devil is in the words as well.
“Surge.”
As brilliantly weighted a piece of spin work as has come down the pike in a long while.
surge
• noun 1 a sudden powerful forward or upward movement. 2 a sudden large temporary increase. 3 a powerful rush of an emotion or feeling.
• verb 1 move in a surge. 2 increase suddenly and powerfully.
– ORIGIN from Latin surgere `to rise’.
Got it?
STOP USING THE WORD!!!
It is THEIR word.
I have advocated the use of language as a weapon against these people since I first started posting over on the Sour Orange.
Do not refer to Butch as “President”. Do not even give him the respect of saying his name correctly.
USE the language.
DemRats and Ratpubs.
Name ’em.
Maybe we wIll hit the right Rumkplestiltskin name and they will all be forced to whirl around three times and disappear in a puff of foul-smelling smoke.
“Surge?”
My ASS!!!
The term “surge” is merely being used as a sanitizing word for the continuing escalation of murder most foul.
The stench of death, not the surge of priapism.
DO NOT PLAY THEIR GAME!!!
I GOT YER “SURGE”, RIGHT HERE!!!
Wake the fuck up, people.
The Dems are not gonna do it.
Nor is the media.
“Whaddyou gonna DO about it!!!” is the operative word now.
Well?
What ARE we going to do about it?
March? Take photos and get arrested like that guy in Connecticut?
Fat lot of good THAT does.
That mole asshole is still the Senator.
And that other asshole is still the President.
Vote?
LOOKIT WHAT’S GOING DOWN HERE!!!
Deep.
Remember…every surge has a countersurge.
Hunker down, babies.
Hunker down.
AG
Hunker down? Fuck that.
I am gonna march. That’s what I can do. And get arrested if it comes to that. Then I’ll fuckin march again…
And btw, it’s not who you know, but what you do.
Stop paying taxes, like Thoreau?
As best as you can and still survive.
But then…that’s the American way, isn’t it? EVERYONE cheats. That’s what has gotten us in to this fix in the first place.
Thoreau?
If there had been computerized surveillance then like there is today, they would have red-flagged him as a prominent enemy of the state and pinned him faster than they did Al Capone.
Bet on it.
AG
I’m with ya babe. Arthur, are you going to march in DC this month? Or NYC or wherever?
Somewhere…
But I march in the full realization that it will do no good.
Sorry. But that is the way I feel.
Unless we can get MILLIONS marching, and soon…which possibility is nil as evidenced by the respect that this surge idea is receiving from the mainstream corporate media that has its hand on the off/on faucet of majority public opinion…then marching will have the same practical effect as it has had for the last 6 years.
None.
The disease is as if it is soon to reach a crisis point.
After that…the patient either recovers or dies.
Sorry…
AG
I’ll tell you what works.
In MN Klobuchar (D) beats Kennedy’s (R) ass for an open senate seat in 2006. Now Coleman, who is Cheney’s hand-picked senator, has to run for re-election in 2008. The spineless sleazball today came out against the escalation hoping to save his hide. Coleman will never be anything but a sleazball, but the pressure from the people is working!!
It hinges on a secret, which Muslims all over the Middle East know, but we do not. Actually, it’s an open secret:
The US–its government, its media, its corporations, its “way of life”–has nothing, absolutely nothing to offer to anybody, but deceits and death.
Once you understand that, doing the necessary thing becomes easier. We don’t understand it yet, but we will. Some of the folk in New Orleans understand already.
Patience. Keep working on it.
I understand this, Gaianne.
Bet on it.
AG
People are willing to get arrested here, on our planned Jan. 15th event to cut the fence around public housing in New Orleans. The feds have closed off thousands of units of affordable housing in New Orleans so that the working poor can’t return, and in return, we have a horrible crime wave in our city. People are desperate, and the government is not responding.
Sometimes, all that is left, is civil disobedience.
when practiced by a critical mass number of people.
The media plus the whole of Bread and Circuses America in general preclude our reaching that critical mass.
What then?
AG
You still have the internet.
I’m sure the word “surge” was chosen for the implication of this definition:
But if we know anything about Bush, we’d know he wants those troops there permanently, to install a permanent US base of operations in the middle east theater.