Hmmm...so many leaked stories and images of the degradations of war...torture, abuse, inhuman treatment of prisioners...physical and psychological abuse of citizens...a vanquished ex-leader shown in his underwear. Indignities not just for the victims, but, normally, for the perpetrators. One would think that the current U.S. military, and administration, would want to conceal such horrors committed in the name all north American citizens...if only to somehow justify their actions in the name of being the "better", or perhaps more highly "moral" side of the conflict.
But no. These stories and images continue to leak out of the various hell-holes produced by what they call the "war on terror". How is it possible? It is logical to assume that with all their power, technology, and seeming indifference to American Constitutional safeguards, that these people would be able to stop such information from emerging.
Which leads me to believe that it is all quite purposeful.
Purposeful behaviour from people who are not functioning in any classically American-style pragmatic manner, nor ruled by any traditional notions of realpolitique. If it were so, this would provide at least a glimmer of hope, in that the torrent of lies and murderous brutality shown by the U.S. administration would represent nothing more than a greedy oil grab and mega-pork project for the Halliburtons, et. al. That would simply be a classic display of cold-hearted power by mafia types in suits. This has happend before, and it will happen again. In any case, that would call for a more thorough and professional P.R. front. Barbaric practices by U.S. citizens, representing all such citizens, one might think, would needlessly erode the kind of political support needed to maintain this unholy oil/military industry pork soup.
But no. This news and these images continue to emerge. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that they simply want to scare the shit out of what these crazed fascists believe are "the other"..."the bad guys"...those who don't even value life...
In short, it is a manifestation of the "new crusade" mentality against, for now, the Muslim world.
It would seem that we are not only witnessing a horrid display of greed and evil in the name of "defending" America, with the accompanying creation and exploitation of fear and ignorance, and the resulting attack on the American political system (they call these people "conservatives"!!), but at the same time the perpetrators are quite insane religious fanatics. Not only do they talk this way, but their actions lead to the uncomfortable conclusion that they really believe their own fascist fantasies.
Those who annoy me the most in all this are the spineless yapping chickenhawk "intellectuals" who supported and continue to support carnage and evil in our names. They should know better than to fall into this simplistic "clash of civilizations" formula.
Yet they yap on, in their arrogant way.
Hay que joderse!
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
yapping
I've just read that there are currently 10 million of these blogs...with 30 t0 40 thousand more added each day. A wonderful thing indeed, with all of us being able to share all of our wonderful, insightful thoughts, stimulating and interesting experiences, lovely photos and whatnot with each other. And if we are particularly adept and energetic with our "advertisements for ourselves", we can rest assured that our contributions will be soaked up by hundreds, thousands or even millions of other minds.
At the same time.
All of us, yapping away in cyberspace. Mass self-actualization.
Great stuff. Like millions of barking dogs in the electronic night...
awwooooooooooo!!!
At the same time.
All of us, yapping away in cyberspace. Mass self-actualization.
Great stuff. Like millions of barking dogs in the electronic night...
awwooooooooooo!!!
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Monday, April 25, 2005
Jesus!
Watched Tim Robbin's amazing "Bob Roberts" last night. It was made back in the early 90's, with the emphasis on the outer limits of social pathologies spawned by Reaganism. At the time is was a frightening but humorous parody...
Not now. I no longer laughed. The film was utterly believable. As they say, reality always trumps fiction, and the depths of grotesque insanity into which U.S. culture/politics is falling have made Robbin's film very troubling to watch.
At about the same time that I was watching "Bob Roberts", tens of millions of "Christians" in the U.S. were watching and listening to a host of christofascist politicians and media figures celebrate "Justice Sunday"...in which so-called "conservatives" lined up to toss stones at the Constitution and the separation of church and state. Lots of foaming at the mouth. More insanity.
How did things get this way? The U.S. has always had a minority current of extreme religious pathology running through its culture...and sometimes into its politics (One nation under God). But the project forged by the Enlightenment-inspired wealthy intellectuals referred to as the "founding fathers" has never been under greater threat of destruction...the christofascists seem like sharks on a feeding frenzy.
Whoever the hell was behind the big-time violence of 9/11 surely knew which button to push. Fear has twisted a large portion of a nation into ugly insanity. I shiver to think what would happen after another such episode.
Meanwhile...an old Nazi-Youth - the head of the Vatican's modern day inquisition, the destroyer of the spring of decency once represented by Liberation Theology, one who has the nerve to equate 60's political movements with potential Nazism - is head of that ridiculous institution.
There's a good word in Spanish for all of this: esperpentico...
Not now. I no longer laughed. The film was utterly believable. As they say, reality always trumps fiction, and the depths of grotesque insanity into which U.S. culture/politics is falling have made Robbin's film very troubling to watch.
At about the same time that I was watching "Bob Roberts", tens of millions of "Christians" in the U.S. were watching and listening to a host of christofascist politicians and media figures celebrate "Justice Sunday"...in which so-called "conservatives" lined up to toss stones at the Constitution and the separation of church and state. Lots of foaming at the mouth. More insanity.
How did things get this way? The U.S. has always had a minority current of extreme religious pathology running through its culture...and sometimes into its politics (One nation under God). But the project forged by the Enlightenment-inspired wealthy intellectuals referred to as the "founding fathers" has never been under greater threat of destruction...the christofascists seem like sharks on a feeding frenzy.
Whoever the hell was behind the big-time violence of 9/11 surely knew which button to push. Fear has twisted a large portion of a nation into ugly insanity. I shiver to think what would happen after another such episode.
Meanwhile...an old Nazi-Youth - the head of the Vatican's modern day inquisition, the destroyer of the spring of decency once represented by Liberation Theology, one who has the nerve to equate 60's political movements with potential Nazism - is head of that ridiculous institution.
There's a good word in Spanish for all of this: esperpentico...
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
An April Morn
I recall reading a line just after last November's elections that made me chuckle. Something along the lines of how the elections had transformed the writer into a right winger, i.e., he hated the working class and had ceased to believe in evolution...
Indeed.
Now I read that it's time for the Christofascists to ideologically cleanse the "liberal-biased" (whatever the hell that is) U.S. universities. Any professor accused of "offending the beliefs" of a student (e.g., not giving equal time to creationism) can be sued in court by that student.
Why not just throw the offending "liberals" into concentration camps (they could be set up around the new oil drilling fields in Alaska)...
Jeez.
Meanwhile, I was thinking about what Spain was like last year at this time. The Islamofascists had done another deed for their skygod by blowing up a bunch of commuter trains...blood and guts just before the general elections. The political party in power at the time, the Partido Popular, erroneously sensing that they could loose support (90% of Spaniards were consistently against Spanish participation in the Iraq war), quickly panicked. They blamed the attacks on the Basque separatist group ETA (a situation which, if true, would have served to increase public support for the PP). Evidence quickly accumulated that this was not the work of ETA, but rather of a group of Islamofascists. However, the PP continued to insist, blindly and emphatically, on the other thesis. They managed to continue in this "massive lying and manipulation of the Spanish people" (as Zapatero, the new president would describe it 6 months later) right up until election day...
An amazing thing happened. Millions of disgusted Spanish voters went to the polls (most of whom were left-leaning, and who hadn't voted in years due to disappointment with the "left" parties), and voted the lying bastards out.
For this act of courage and democratic action, the Spanish people were immediately treated to accusations of bowing to terrorism, cowardice, etc. All of this, of course, from foreign columnists, chickenhawks and other opinion mongers...
And I have to laugh today, thinking about how the terrorists have truly affected elections in this world. They have succeeded in transforming the USA into a population ruled by fear. A population (a goodly percentage, anyway) who voted for the most inept, anti-American administration in history out of fear. Cowardly fear. An adminstration that is cynically making fools of their own voting base...
And they say the Spaniards succumbed to terrorism...
Hay que joderse.
Indeed.
Now I read that it's time for the Christofascists to ideologically cleanse the "liberal-biased" (whatever the hell that is) U.S. universities. Any professor accused of "offending the beliefs" of a student (e.g., not giving equal time to creationism) can be sued in court by that student.
Why not just throw the offending "liberals" into concentration camps (they could be set up around the new oil drilling fields in Alaska)...
Jeez.
Meanwhile, I was thinking about what Spain was like last year at this time. The Islamofascists had done another deed for their skygod by blowing up a bunch of commuter trains...blood and guts just before the general elections. The political party in power at the time, the Partido Popular, erroneously sensing that they could loose support (90% of Spaniards were consistently against Spanish participation in the Iraq war), quickly panicked. They blamed the attacks on the Basque separatist group ETA (a situation which, if true, would have served to increase public support for the PP). Evidence quickly accumulated that this was not the work of ETA, but rather of a group of Islamofascists. However, the PP continued to insist, blindly and emphatically, on the other thesis. They managed to continue in this "massive lying and manipulation of the Spanish people" (as Zapatero, the new president would describe it 6 months later) right up until election day...
An amazing thing happened. Millions of disgusted Spanish voters went to the polls (most of whom were left-leaning, and who hadn't voted in years due to disappointment with the "left" parties), and voted the lying bastards out.
For this act of courage and democratic action, the Spanish people were immediately treated to accusations of bowing to terrorism, cowardice, etc. All of this, of course, from foreign columnists, chickenhawks and other opinion mongers...
And I have to laugh today, thinking about how the terrorists have truly affected elections in this world. They have succeeded in transforming the USA into a population ruled by fear. A population (a goodly percentage, anyway) who voted for the most inept, anti-American administration in history out of fear. Cowardly fear. An adminstration that is cynically making fools of their own voting base...
And they say the Spaniards succumbed to terrorism...
Hay que joderse.
Monday, April 04, 2005
Impossible to watch the news. Nothing but post-canonization of a supposed saint. Helped "free the world of communism". Another hero akin to Reagan. One feels like screaming bloody murder. Indeed. How many millions or hundreds of millions of souls were caused to suffer for the sanctified opinions of this man? How long will those of us who believe in facing reality honestly and with dignity have to bow before the dream merchants, the salesmen of metaphysical tripe? How long must we watch as those around us choke on the fodder, spitting it in our faces when we question the absurdity and hyprocrisy of it all? How long will it be completely acceptable and politically correct to overtly or covertly condemn the worldview of hundreds of millions by insisting we all shall suffer eternally in some fantasy hell?...this, while non-believers are harshly judged for even mildly questioning the stories and foundations squeezed out of the metaphysical madness that abounds.
Hay que joderse.
Hay que joderse.
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