“The trick is, that you just watch what everyone else is doing, and do what they do.”
-Randy Hickey
I’ve been warming the rhetorical bench since 2006, after realizing that speaking truth to power attracts unwanted attention from members of the Secret Service. Okay, so maybe it wasn’t G-men who were faking bird calls outside of my apartment, but whoever it was… my roommate and I heard them whenever we went outside after dark.
Full disclosure: Suggesting to a member of the bar association, that a federal representative would only see the light on Iraq if he were kidnapped and properly re-educated, was highly inappropriate. In other words, beware of lawyers bearing free drinks, especially when they are congratulating you for any civil disobedience actions.
After having my modem crash whenever I posted any evidence regarding government atrocities on the live-streaming threads of Occupy Wall Street, and after Google gagged me on their Youtube platform for referencing “21 Questions for Donald Trump” too many times, I temporarily decided to accept that all resistance was futile.
https://www.nationalmemo.com/21-questions-for-donald-trump
Fast forward to 2019, and the increasing mission-creep of post-9/11 statists into every facet (and rural corner) of American life. Even worse, this was happening more than 100 miles from the U.S. border, where people were supposedly immune from the laughable ruling of a federal judge who stated the U.S. Government can suspend the Bill of Rights without an official Declaration of War… as is actually legally required under the rules set up by the Constitution of the United States of America.
So, any decent folks brave enough to raise a stink, may inevitably find themselves trapped inside a private detention facility, alongside Central American refugees seeking asylum from the same brutal dictators brought to power by Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush… AND Obama, while the “Make America Great” crowd labels them Socialist, pervert, child molesters ever so deserving of the worst torture imaginable.
The irony that grandchildren of a generation successfully mobilized to end the global atrocities of fascism, are now blindly waving American flags while our nation blatantly violates international law, should be enough to raise eyebrows. But as the oversimplification of those four years of world history known as WWII, has been successfully condensed into a single multiple-choice question on standardized tests, there simply is no context available to offset the panic-driven anxiety generated nonstop by today’s television commentators who market in both fear and loathing.
The “best and brightest” would be wasting their time to fill out online applications, unless their callousness score outweighed any possible legitimate (or even imagined) academic credential. Journalists/CIA assets just seem to keep popping up behind the national news desks of cable TV networks in our good ole’ USS of A.
Can you say “Anderson Cooper”? (Sure… I knew you could.)
Perhaps you’ve managed to ignore the pattern of authoritarian deceit (read: propaganda) that was deployed nonstop by both major political parties since passage of NDAA 2013. Even so, there’s a certain symmetry to the creation of a jobless, un(der)educated underclass, dependent upon government largess and a constant barrage of media (dis)information, to provide them with economic survival, and the endless racist hate-mongering which now somehow passes for ideological sustenance.
Threats of taxation are aggressively levied against any religious organization that bothers to mention Jesus was a liberal pacifist supporting income redistribution, while a deafening silence is somehow interpreted as moral approval for the third consecutive decade of U.S. foreign occupation in Asia. Sure, possible infiltration of Sharia Law into our country is a problem, but seriously… doesn’t U.S. Government complicity in the ongoing slaughter of unarmed children in Yemen also qualify?
At this point it appears that a Heart of Chrome has replaced many human souls, along with most of their internet browsers. And in that chrome reflection, we find an image so distorted that the egregious offenses of corporate influence, military excess, and personal greed, have been successfully concealed, while the looming edge of economic collapse hovers just beyond the shimmering event horizon.
A coordinated message of hate this overpowering, hasn’t spewed forth from both economic and political elites, since Eugene V. Debs was framed for sedition, and the Socialist Party of America was crushed just before the Great Depression. In light of Bernie’s recent recent betrayal by the Democratic Party, it is easier to comprehend exactly where all of this insanity is actually headed: total… economic… meltdown!
So, while managing to employ hundreds of thousands of willing rubes within a Vichy state of low-wage entry-level jobs, short-sighted underachievers like the Neocons and Blue Dog Democrats, have been duped into a petrodollar dead-end by their finance sector handlers. There is simply no hope for any recovery in a debt-driven economic system, especially after it’s been saddled with more financial liability than the collective wealth of all fiat currency in circulation, both real and digital. End of story.
Historically, the sole means of propping up a bankrupt, crumbling artifice of political deception, has been through the use of unjustified violence directed outward in the name of “national security.” I’m not really sure if that means the U.S. has been in mid-collapse since the early 1890’s, but maybe so. It has been pillaging the world under the guise of an ill-fitting fig leaf of democracy since the unjustified invasion of Hawaii!
Meanwhile, the internment or execution of all who would dare to question the immoral acts of a supposedly representative government, is usually employed to suppress any organized dissent. But with recent widespread distribution, the Heart of Chrome can now successfully distract our collective conscience, keeping us all online, hypnotized, busy posting selfies… or just texting pictures of our most recent meal.
In essence, all rational Americans are faced with a hopelessly failed-state economy, currently controlled by banking vultures eagerly competing to offer second-mortgages, and auto, home, student and payday loans to those whose inevitable lay-off notices have yet to be mailed. Just imagine a Gadsden Flag featuring a Red-White-and-Blue rattlesnake that is so obsessed that it’s consuming its own damn tail.
And here is where the Heart of Chrome grows really ugly. In an online world where the intersection of technology and public policy should be dominated by those with the ability to express and implement complex ideas in a manner full of hope and promise… instead we find programmed keyword algorithms which actively identify and promote the lowest possible common denominator in order to secure further economic gain for the billionaire class. So… please Like and Follow us on Facebook!
The darkness to which Conrad referred (and which made Coppola a rich man), is more a personal choice than a universal character trait. Sure, it’s easy to be intimidated into silence by government muscle with night vision devices and no real rules… but if you can’t muster a sneer for the bureaucratic slacker with an attitude problem and a stain on their shirt, exactly what are you afraid of? This used to be the “Land of the Free!”
If my arguments don’t convince you the nation about which Woody Guthrie so lovingly crooned, is somehow capable of much better- then maybe you too, should consider adopting the words of Randy Hickey and applying for a job with the TSA. From what I hear, they don’t even care if you lovingly fondle other peoples’ testicles!
FACT: Col. Rodolpho Mendoza turned over an Al Qaeda suspect to the CIA and FBI, who openly confessed to participation in a conspiracy to hijack passenger airliners and fly them into the World Trade Center in February of 1995.
“I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center…” -Condoleezza Rice May of 2002.