Below is part of a commentary on this American quagmire by Ed Encho, His eloquence is on a definate par with David Michael Green's interpretations of this comic book senerio that is todays reality. I urge you to read the complete article.
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Fourth of July on the Great American Lemming Farm
Diary Entry by Ed Encho
The Fourth has taken on an especially loathsome and menacing nature in 2010 that has been metastasizing like a cancer through this sickened society since the American Reichstag fire of September 11, 2001 and has confirmed for all time the words of Sinclair Lewis about fascism being delivered wrapped in the flag. The Teabaggers will be out in force this weekend, armed to the teeth and plotting their revolution or to those who are knowledgable of historytheir American Gladio. They will bray for the blood of the hated Muslims, Commies and Libruls [sic] in between stuffing food into their rancid pieholes, belching beer and singing God Bless America. That much is a given.
Yes, my friends, I have been away far too long and much has gone on that I have not been on record about, the one thing in Der Heimat that is consistent is the decline, the descent into morbid obesity, indolence, wrath and just plain dumbness has if anything since that helicopter hauled away George W. Bush like so much garbage only gained momentum.
We here in between the shining seas have other wars to worry about that have more urgency than the lost war in Afghanistan. I primarily refer to the lopsided class war during which the state uses the full power of the militarized police to ensure that the upwardly redistribution of wealth continues. The ballyhooed Wall Street/Financial Reform bill is nothing more than a rotten, rigged and borderline criminal defense of the big banks whose Gordon Gekko worship and chronic gambler mentality have effecively nuked the entire global economy. What will remain of this travesty by the time that the bumbling boob Obama finally signs it will be the proverbial band aid on the sucking chest wound. The derivatives casinos will continue to hum along, there will be only the illusion of any sort of change that helps the average peasants and the stage is being set for the last catastrophic economic blowup of all time. The next one will be where the pigs retreat into their stocked and heavily fortified compounds, install a buffer zone of militarized police and private security thugs and then let the poor dumb bastard rabble rip each other's throats out in what will be something of a cross between The Road Warrior and the savage battle for the last can of Milwaukee's Best at a teabagger July 4th bund rally. The end is coming people and you all would do best to prepare yourselves for it by stocking up with canned food, water, batteries and guns with plenty of ammo. You are going to need to hunker down and try to survive while the less prepared are out beating each other into pulp with whatever they can find to use as a bludgeon. Do you really think that the average American a**hole is cognizant enough of anything on any sort of a level where they are able to comprehend the implications of a Malthusian level catastrophe? sh*t, during my time away from blogging the primary topics of conversation and news coverage all were about the exhuming and raping the corpse of poor Natalee Holloway with the story of some Dutch degenerate named Joran Van Der Sloot. It's what works here in Murka, keep the monkeys fascinated with these idiotic lurid scandals while the entire f*cking world collapses. Next up, Van Der Sloot will be trotted out on CNN, FOX and MSNBC as the latest suspect in the long-running Jon Benet Ramsey child murder case...that is if the shameless sequel to the great Clinton blowjob inquisitions involving the alleged semen stains of Al Gore doesn't swallow them whole. So take my advice, these stupid bitches and bastards likely don't have enough food in their refrigerators to get them through half a week let alone a prolonged collapse in the social structure. Food, Guns and Ammo....you will thank me for this advice one day.
Lastly, since I have already been rambling on extensively today I will keep it short I am going to keep with the cheery news in that the speed of the collapse could be escalated. I speak of the colossal environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico courtesy of British Petroleum with a big assist to our corrupt American style of Capitalism that continues to worsen by the day. There is really no accurate way to assess the magnitude of this catastrophe, the media is only being given bits and pieces of the bad news - not that the suckers of the corporate and government elite would bother to report the f*cking truth anyway. This is going to be a long term, life-altering event and there has been little to no mention of what is going to happen when one or two hurricanes roar into the gulf, pick up all of the toxic goo and deliver it inlands with 120 + mph winds and a massive storm surge. Think that New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina (ok, it was the chronic inability of anyone to build a modern levee system that magnified the damage) just wait until a heavily populated area is not only torn to bits by a savage storm but all of the property, vegetation, roads and other infrastructure, personal property, vehicles and animals wake up covered in oil sludge and deadly chemicals. That is coming and that is what the government is NOT telling anybody about. I don't blame this all on Obama though, the gutting of the environmental protections began long before he found himself enscsonced upon the throne. Sure he has dicked aroud by coddling the corporations and his decision to not only retain corrupt officials (see Tim Dickinson's great Rolling Stone article The Spill, The Scandal and the President) and playing nice with BP, probably due to the fact that they are a huge supplier of fuel to the Imperial U.S. military but at least he isn't practicallyblowing BP executives like the fascist Republican a**holes in Congress are doing,retrogradegoons thelikes ofJoe Barton of Texas (where else?) but it is stillone more of the inexcusablemassivefuckups on his watch.
So what now? I seriously considered wallking away from all of this sh*t forever for a good while because as I mentioned once before there is a chronic inability in America to hear the truth. The whole sh*ttin' shebang is all going to collapse anyway no matter what I do. I am pushing 50 now and given my lifestyle over the years have at best and realistically (optimistically too) around 25-30 years left on planet sh*t. I have no kids so I really don't give a rat's ass about anything other than getting out of here before the worst hits, just run out the clock you know. But I just can't, damned as I may try to just stop caring, not that I am any great lover of humanity or anything, truthfully, I really dislike most people, they are stupid, selfish, mean-spirited and vain, they are believers in the most ridiculous things. Things like serious change, peace and justice in our time, that America is a great nation, exceptional and unlike every other empire in history that murdered, enslaved, pillaged and stole the resources of those of lesser strength, superstitious hogwash like the bible and worst of all faith in the wondrous economic system that is American Capitalism. I do not suffer fools kindly and Christ knows that I am seriously outnumbered by them. A grim sort of resignation is what I have and a serious case of revulsion and outright contempt for the majority of Americans. I can proudly say that I am ashamed to be an American so all of the flag swaddled, Becked up f*cksticks can go out and gorge themselves on potato salad and patriotic nonsense this weekend, they deserve each other.
http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Fourth-of-July-on-the-Grea-by-Ed-Encho-100704-343.html
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Leo Tolstoy: " The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born."
Santayana: " Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it."
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Hang onto your ass for it may be all that is left you!
Good Luck
KAK
Thanks for sharing this great article, KAK. I loved the line, "We once used to conduct a war on poverty. Now we just incarcerate the impoverished. In privately-owned, for-profit, jails, no less." How very true. We have lost our way and it's a long way home.
Posted by: askcherlock | July 24, 2010 at 01:45 PM
Yes how very true. Privatization is killing us financially and from a control aspect and is the wave of the future if we do not stand up now, I fear these upcoming elections(10/12) are a now or never point in time. Privatization is the Police State coming at you.
"Give me your tired, your poor, you huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door.".......It kind of has a reversed meaning today.
Posted by: KKAK | July 24, 2010 at 08:35 PM