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America has lost its national mind
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by Don Nash, Unknown News
May 22, 2007
I arrived here as an accident of birth. How was I to do anything
about
where I was born?
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Things were bad enough, in that I was a bastard and
the old man held it against me for screwing his life up. Yeah, like
that could have been my fault.
However, it was, and the old man did
hold it against me, and that pretty much decided the relationship we'd
share for years and years to come. All that is simply background
noise
for how I ended up planted in the Anglo Homeland.
Life will take some twists and turns as one wanders forwards or
stumbles on. Almost as if life is some kind of crazy clock
that doesn't necessarily respond to the normal ticks of physical
time.
Individual existence can play time games on a soul, and figure in
personal foibles and ancillary indulgences, and one can get
lost in personal stupidity. It might take years to figure out
how
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one ended up where one ends up. Twenty years can consume one's
attention, and when the awakening finally or eventually rears its
accountability head, a world can seem vastly different than one might
possibly remember it being, prior to that getting lost scenario.
Stark
reality can be a cold cup of intolerant gruel when one isn't paying
attention to the finer details of how gruel burns.
Nevertheless, events will change existence in manners that transcend
the routine changes that mark the passing of lives. Events that are
singular and monumental. Events that are sinister by design and
whispers of conspiratorial treason put the regular citizen in the
untenable position of having to choose.
You have to choose between the apparent
irrational explanations offered by those elected to positions of
leadership and responsibility, and the surface evidence. How does
one cope with that which is incomprehensible? How does one explain
that which is unexplainable? Factor in personal anguish and pain,
there beckons fertile ground for exploitation. Believability becomes
'plausible deniability' and therefore, the wildly bizarre.
Seeds of distortion are planted in wracked and ravaged earth. The
seeds of uncivil patriotic jingoism are planted in minds that
wrestle with some indescribable horror. Couple that with soul-numbing personal and national loss, and reason might take a field trip to
the land of fantastic propaganda.
Serious investigative questioning
becomes like the bastard stepchild that is cast off and forgotten, for
obvious reasons that are in actuality, not so obvious.
Personal pain requires an anesthetic. National pain requires the easy
scapegoat -- especially when lazy minds are not so disposed to do the
work or give proper attention to necessary detail.
Convenience
becomes
an 'Islamist Radical Jihadi' and that suffices for the present. A
cure
is found for the national discomfort -- any Muslim is henceforth called the
nefarious 'Islam-o-fascist' and the scapegoat is discovered living
alive and well, in the Anglo Homeland.
Enemies are under any bed and
thriving around every dark corner -- the government says so. War is
engaged to salve the national wound, and all else is tossed into the
dustbin of irrelevance.
Questioning the questionable becomes a threat
to the national psyche, and therefore questioning is uncivil,
unpatriotic,
treasonous, damnable, and isn't likely to sit too well with one's
neighbors. Questioning is the work of hideous devils. Who would dare
question the official party lines that dribble from the hallowed
halls of governance? Rational explanations are for the unpatriotic,
and
those who would ask questions are relegated to the sidelines and
discounted as 'enemies of the state' for asking the obvious question.
You
possibly could imagine how one stranger in the Anglo Homeland might
ask, What in the hell has happened to you people? I can remember
when rational, reasoned questioning was perfectly permissible and
posed
no threat to 'national security'.
Why has ignorant hostility entered a nation's debate with itself? Are
neighbors now the suspicious status quo?
Shouldn't any civic-minded American, whether 'strange' or just close
to normal, ask our government what it's doing?
Why is there a war
that
has no reasoned justification? Why are men held in a prison camp, and when asked why the government explains that it can't offer a reason, as
the reason is 'classified top secret national intelligence operation
eyes only', so to ask any question about the government's answer
poses
a continued threat to 'national secrecy'.
From a stranger's
perspective, this is beyond insane.
America has 'no-fly lists' and 'no work lists' and 'this one is
suspect lists', and one can't even ask how or why one might end up on
such stupid lists. It's that asking thing again -- asking questions places one in the
'suspicious' category... so how does one defend an honest question in
light of overwhelming suspicion?
America's service boys and girls are offered up to the gods of war as
some kind of profane 'sacrifice', so if you question the political
clergy about how such a pornographic irrationality could exist in
post
modern 9/11 twenty first century world, one is more than likely to
get
an impolite slap upside the head and sent to time out for being
unpatriotic.
Sacrifice is a waste, but one had better not point to
that glaring omission of logic. The obvious becomes the very cross
that one gets crucified on, and public crucifixion of those in dissent
has become trendy and more palatable than American Idol.
How is
America threatened by those that America claims it's at 'war' against?
Defending America's freedom is an insane rationale for genocidal
national policy, and feeding an out of control war machine is the
national mania.
Arms and legs are expendable, one could suppose.
Slaughtered bodies are grist for a national organ transplant industry,
but one shouldn't ask or mention that profane reality, as that's
unpatriotic.
I got lost for a time, two times, and a third of a time,
but America is worse than lost. America has lost its national mind,
and there again, one shouldn't mention the obvious.
A dysfunctional family dynamic can be a bad enough thing to have to
bear. A national dynamic that is dysfunctional way past the
intolerant, delivers a tyranny that is on first sight a twisted
obligation to 'patriotic duty'. However, any family bastard will carry
'authority issues' that are simply one's birthright. The exercising
of
one's birthright can produce a dichotomy in civic relationships and
therefore put one squarely in the sights of government displeasure.
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How are corrupt and obviously criminal leaders of government exempt
from normal standards of accountability?
How is the asking of
questions about malfeasance in office a sleight to the
national honor?
Wasn't accountability and government of the people,
by
the people, and for the people the democratic ideal that our nation was
founded on?
Where are the noble foundations
that
Americans fought a revolution for?
It's painfully obvious that
democracy, integrity, honor, and rational justice are gone by the
propaganda wayside.
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Government 'surveillance' is a minor inconvenience, but being labeled
a neighborhood 'enemy of the state' for asking why the nation's
corrupt politicians are killing boys and girls and waging wars that
are profoundly illegal is troubling and wildly irritating.
How are corrupt and obviously criminal leaders of government exempt
from normal standards of accountability? How is the asking of
questions about malfeasance in office a sleight to the
national honor? Wasn't accountability and government of the people,
by
the people, and for the people the democratic ideal that our nation was
founded on?
Where are the noble foundations
that
Americans fought a revolution for? It's painfully obvious that
democracy, integrity, honor, and rational justice are gone by the
propaganda wayside.
So like any suspect bastard, the American dissident is construed to
be
'suspicious' -- a malcontent, a traitor, seditious sum-bitch, insurgent
appeaser of terrorists, Mexican lover, Muslim sympathizer -- and those
are some of the epithets that are fit for polite civil discourse.
That
which is immoral in American government policy cannot be defended by
logical debate, therefore we slay those who would question a
government's insanity.
Current government practice is insane by any
Constitutional standard. However, one isn't supposed to question that
insanity. It's unpatriotic and indefensible to say it.
It is more than
curious how Americans can give away what is theirs by right -- by
Declaration of Independence, by the powers of the United States
Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The truly sad part is, what is
easily given away, will never be returned. Never, and
Americans have welcomed the end to that great experiment in
democracy by a boredom with civic duty.
It is ever
so
easy to slam those that are in dissidence. The dissidents are the
few,
the discounted, the malcontent functionaries of discord, and national
bastards.
C'est la vie.
Sloganeering like
'America, love it or leave it' or 'America, right or wrong' or even
'Support the troops' is hyper-hysterical pap, and falls nauseatingly
short of reasonable excuse for presidential, congressional, or
political expedients that are criminal by treaty and international
legal standard. War crimes are by nature and definition, war crimes.
The punditry in cahoots with political spin machines can't
legalize that which is illegal.
However, better not make too big a
deal about that. Dissident questioning bastards will get themselves
tossed summarily into the hellhole lovingly known as Camp Inquisition
Guantanamo, Cuba... or worse. One might find themselves on a CIA
rendition to Romania and, mercy, that has got to suck. Pose a question
about that and one is really 'suspect'.
I got lost for awhile and woke up in a Twilight Zone America that is
both scary and on the verge of comprehensive collapse. What happened?
And no, one can't use that lame-ass it was '9/11/01' excuse. Not
without some kind of serious investigation that is open to all and
thoroughly exhaustive.
Were the country to demand an honest investigation, then one could be satisfied with credible answers. A
credible and above board investigation with absolute neutral
investigators -- but it doesn't seem overly likely that will happen. Not in
this life. The first 9/11 High Commission Report was pure whitewash
and that doesn't help any American in the least.
The illegal war on
Iraq doesn't help any American either. It does however, get a massive
amount of American and Iraqi innocence slaughtered. Shouldn't
Americans be demanding answers for that miscalculation, too?
One would
think so but, don't ask too many questions about it. A
hyper-xenophobic air of suspicion will shroud the questioner and
Chris
Matthews will Hardball your ass for being anti-American,
anti-nationalist, and an unpatriotic dissident bastard malcontent.
Kate O'Beirne (Did you know that her husband is the Army's liaison officer to the White House?) will spit in your face and Tucker
Carlson will force you to wear a bow tie as penance.
Exclusion for the questioning dissident bastards is, at least, an
honest position to be in. Running red flag ops for treasonous scum
that would gut America's democracy is the far more sinister treason.
So I'm a bastard and dissident. However, I am cute. No really, I am. And
think about it America, who would you rather see topless -- me or
Britney Spears? The answer should be obvious. But, who would you
rather see questioning our corrupt government and Congress?
America is
in
real trouble and the question Why that is remains to be answered. So
no, the questioning won't stop. Ever. It is this bastard's birthright.
© by the author.
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I got lost for awhile and woke up in a Twilight Zone America that is both scary and on the verge of comprehensive collapse.
What happened?
And no, one can't use that lame-ass it was '9/11/01' excuse.
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