Friday, June 09, 2006

9/11, the acid test of the American character

Americans have two main roots to draw from in forming character. They are the Declaration of Independence and the penal colonies. Of course, there are thousands of minor roots in between. The Declaration of Independence holds the highest goals, which America has never met and most likely never will or can't.

The most powerful root, the strongest influence on our character was the penal colony. The penal colony centered around Georgia and is the backbone of the South and the West. This criminal strain has always prevailed over the values of the Declaration of Independence. The genocide of the American Indians, lynching, wars of aggression, theft of resource around the world, all were possible because of the criminal nature of Americans. Greed and selfishness are considered virtues. With virtues like that, the nation can never be civilized.

Contributing to the World's Mafia role of the U.S. is a depraved brand of religion. Christianity, as practiced by all by a couple religions such as the Quakers, Amish and Jehovah's Witnesses would make Christ retch if he returned to earth today.

September 11, 2001 brought all the character rot to the surface. Every institution betrayed America, humanity and civilization. Most decadent was the Executive Branch which is nothing but hardcore, irremedial criminals. Most disgusting was the Republican Party which proved to be shameless and devoid of any principles. The Democrats betrayed the people, the Constitution and decency. Part of that can be attributed to the fact that they would get anthrax in their mail if they crossed Dick Cheney or Karl Rove. There was not a hero among them.

The military brass shamelessly parroted the lies they were instructed to tell with a couple brave, honorable exception like ex-general Shinseke and ex-Secretary of the Army White.

The media were nothing but two-bit whores. They should take that as a compliment.

The only source of real heroes, people who genuinely reflected the values of the Declaration of Independence, and can be a source of pride for the few civilized Americans, was the bureaucracy. We will never know who all the heroes were because many were silenced or intimidated, or the mainstream media suppressed their stories. We can appreciate the fact that there were more than just a handful of these true heroes. People like Joseph Wilson, Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern were among them. While there was more than a handful, there probably were less than 100. Of 300,000,000 people, there are no more than 100 true heroes. How pathetic.

The pigs in the White House, who are not fit to tie the shoes of any one of these people, and who happily soil their own nests and lie in it, did almost everything they could think to retaliate against their heroic, honorable acts of decency.

It's a great shame to be an American today. When those who can't function above a stimulus/response level are the leaders, there is no hope for the nation in a civilized world.

1,000 Zarqawis better than one Bush

The world would be far better off if there were 1,000 Zarqawis and no George W. Bush. Bush is a wanton murderer. He proudly holds the record for most people executed by a U.S. governor (152). Apparently state executions were not fast enough, so he ran for president where he could kill by the thousands.

The British Lancet estimates that Bush is directly responsible for over 80% of the approximately 130,000 deaths of innocent people in the needless, senseless war in Iraq. In fact, he is responsible for all of them plus nearly 2,500 U.S. military deaths. Bush was quick to send Americans to die where the opposition had the home-field advantage, but not as quick as he was to desert the military when his nation needed him to fight in Vietnam, another needless, senseless, criminal war.

What if there were no Zarqawis willing to leave their comfortable homes in places like Jordan to risk their lives for their neighbors and fight a behemoth enemy that had them vastly outgunned? What if George Bush had not been bogged down for years in Iraq?

Most likely, if he had encountered little resistance in Iraq, Bush would have invaded Syria and Iran by now, and, like Hitler and Napoleon, the mad megalomaniacs that preceded him, been making plans to invade Russia. Hitler and Bush share experiences in their rise to power that are too similar to be coincidental.

Bush’s invasion of Iraq was very similar to Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Judges who heard cases against Nazis said they hanged Germans for acts of aggression, and Bush’s invasion of Iraq was an act of aggression.

Zarqawi may have saved the world from a 21st Century holocaust, if not nuclear annihilation. History will judge who the most evil man was. I’m betting on Bush.