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May
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Uncle Sam is YOU
A
Field Guide to Boobus Americanus
By ADAM ENGEL
Bloated and paranoid addicts of sugar, salt, lard,
beer, nicotine, aspartame and MSG-- Oh, Boobus Americanus, carnivorous
sheep, slaughtering and led to slaughter--Uncle Sam is YOU!
Fighting fighting fighting. Against whom? Has any "foreign
enemy" ever tried to mess with my freedoms? Any man, woman,
or child from the Mid-East (or France) ever once caused me grief
and aggravation by obliterating people, forests, cities in my
name while simultaneously snooping on me, stripping me of my
"cherished freedoms" all on my dumb tax-payer dime?
No way. Never ever. It's YOU, Jackson. It's always been YOU.
THE MAN says jump and YOU jump. THE MAN says "Wreck the
joint" and YOU start smashing everything in sight, and leave
me holding the bag.
I can't, I won't even blame "America," for what is
a nation but a fiction, a set of laws agreed upon by it's people,
in a real democracy, or enforced by it's elite, as in whatever
we have now? America might not be such a bad place if YOU had
stood up to the MAN instead of running to fight every war HE
gets himself into, waving HIS symbols, hating HIS enemies even
if formerly they were HIS friends, even if his enemy is YOU.
That's the deal isn't it? YOU'LL do anything HE says, so long
as the enemy isn't YOU.
And why? Cause it's "YOUR" country? It is not YOUR
country, it hasn't been for years (if it ever was), and YOU know
it. Even so. If a band of thieves broke into YOUR house and wrecked
the place and abused YOUR children would YOU excuse them because
they did it all in "YOUR" home? When they decide to
do the same thing to some poor family two blocks away, a family
YOU'VE never met, a family YOU have nothing to do with, will
YOU go along with them on their terror-fest because the idea
was hatched in "YOUR" home? Do I have to push the analogy
further or do YOU get the point? I know YOU'RE not big on subtlety,
but this seems pretty cut and dry.
YOU are an ignorant, violent, boorish people addicted to bad
food and overpriced drugs. I know, I know: it's the Media, the
Corporations, the Government, the evil gnomes from outer space.
Well, maybe if YOU hadn't been so dazed and confused we wouldn't
be in this mess. What kind of power would a first rate third-rate
moron like Dubya possibly have over a free and informed populace,
which would demand the truth from ALL media sources and probably
wouldn't care to buy ninety percent of the junk the "all-powerful"
Corporations sell daily by the Garbage Bag-full? Such a people
would never buy the idea that a legal fiction had the "rights"
of an individual person (whoever thought that one up deserves
to be dictator, as opposed to Il Dufus who merely stumbled into
the job).
Don't gimme that crap YOU don't know about the thousands slaughtered
for no damn good reason in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine just
cause YOU didn't see the corpses in the New York Times or YOUR
local gazette. YOU saw the photos of cruise missiles smashing
into cities. Think Uncle Sam's gonna waste millions in hardware
to smoke empty buildings?
"We" did it all for the thousands killed in the WTC.
Oh really? Then why aren't "we" clamoring for an investigation
into just who did all that killing. I grew up with someone who
died there, as did my wife. And I smelled the burning from my
west side apartment. YOU didn't. Yet YOU wave yer little flags
like when teacher told YOU to in the fifth grade about how grand
it all was. Send teenagers who should be living life and studying
it instead of destroying it thousands of miles away to kill other
teenagers and teenagers' children just so YOU can feel safe in
your twice mortgaged shit-box of a house, so you can march off
to your corporate cubicle, if you have one?
That "it's not the American peoples' fault, it's their government"
line wore thin years ago. Isn't this supposed to be a government
"of the people, by the people and for the people?"
Then how do we point the finger at the government if the government
is us? Of course, it's not us, not even remotely so, but that
doesn't excuse YOU for pretending that it is. There's the "evil,"
as Dubya, who wrenched that term back from the 19th century,
might say. Pretending that "we" are all in this together.
"United We Stand." Isn't that what the corporate sponsored
billboards and banners say?
So, what to do.
Nothing. Shut yer yap, if YOU know what's good for ya. Eat yer
Beef-a-Roni. Suck yer Bud. Chew yer corporate cud, crud, crude,
cruel, crucifixion of the real. What's on TV? I hear they're
making last week into a movie. Or was it next week, or the week
before? Well anyhow, one of these weeks is going to be coming
to a theater near YOU. Then on video. They signed Today and Tomorrow
to play the leads. Yesterday's in it too, but YOU know how it
is in show biz once you're 24 hours old. The roles stop comin.
Gotta get what you can. Supporting character's not bad. As Boris
Karloff once said, "A Yesterday is a working Day."
Something like that. Remember Boris? The guy whose make-up informed
YOUR nightmare visions of Frankenstein's monster (that's Mr.
Frankenstein, to YOU, Jackson). Speaking of Frankenstein...oh,
never mind.
Peek-a-boo. I see YOU. Eating snacks before the telly. Man on
the screen says
"We like you."
Astounded, mouth full of chewy goodness, YOU gurgle,
"You like ...me?"
"We love you. Very much."
"Love. Loooovvvvve. Love ME?"
"We've always loved you."
"Love. Gooooooooood. Love good."
"But there are people who want to hurt us."
"Hurt...you?"
"If they hurt us, who will love you?"
"Love. Good. No hurt. No hurt you!"
"You wouldn't want bad people to hurt us, would you?"
"Bad. Bad. No hurt. Love."
"You'll protect us, won't you?"
"Me. Protect. You. You me protect. No hurt love. Kill. Kill.
KILL!"
And so on. YOU'VE been through it all before, I'm sure. And it's
a good thing, a noble thing, that YOU want to protect the guys
on TV who appear to love YOU, beasts that YOU are. But let's
be clear. What do I get outta this? I'm not the guys on TV. In
fact, I hate the guys on TV. It's not me they claim to love,
but YOU. And to be honest, I'm not alone. There are almost six
billion of us, and we hate those guys on TV.
So, it comes down to this. It's us against YOU, whoever YOU are,
and the Guys on TV. I refuse to take any blame for all this.
I've been fighting YOU since Reagan. True, I should have done
more to protest the First Gulf Massacre, but it was such a tidal
wave of YOU, YOU everywhere waving yer little flags. And it seemed
to be over pretty quick-- until the sanctions.
YOU are a danger to myself and others. Think about it. Think
THE MAN would have any power whatsoever without YOU? Who's he
gonna get to do HIS dirty work, me? But with YOU and your unquestioning
obedience HE's got Auschwitz, the Gulag, Hiroshima, Vietnam,
Iraq and all sorts of global chess games-- and guess who's the
pawn? I mean, YOU put Hitler into power. True, YOU and your kids
ended up cannon fodder ten years later and had your cities bombed,
but I ended up in concentration camps (and I'm not just talking
about Jews and Gypsies, but Communists, Anarchists, Conscientious
objectors, clergymen, intellectuals, dissidents, in short all
the folks who are what YOU are not: free.)
I guess, ultimately, it's YOUR cowardice that gets me the most.
I don't honestly believe YOU'RE stupid-- willfully ignorant,
yes, but not stupid. YOU'LL just do anything, ANYTHING to anyone
to save your pasty skin. Be honest: YOU'RE terrified; hence,
the "war on terror." YOU hope maybe THE MAN will make
fear go away? The fear that began when Daddy...uh, let's not
go there. Suffice it to say that THE MAN controls YOU through
fear-- and that's a lot more powerful than Stupidity.
Anyway, YOU and I are through. There's nothing left between us.
As Michael Corleone said to his weak, stupid, cowardly brother
Fredo, "You're nothing to me now. You're not a brother,
you're not a friend..."
Yes, I believe in what the founding fathers said about the peoples'
right to dissolve a government that turns on them. And hell yeah
I believe in the Second Amendment, though unfortunately, with
a mega Trillion Military built on "the American peoples'
tax dollars," the opportunity to form a "well-regulated
militia" to protect myself and others against the tyranny
YOU support is long past.
But don't worry. I'll think of something. Me and the other five
billion some-odd other folks who want to save the world from
YOU.
Adam Engel is not YOUR "countryman" or "fellow
citizen." He'd feel safer confronting a real enemy, with
or without arms, than a mob of rats like YOU (patriots seldom
travel alone, eh?) with YOUR symbols and "United We Stand"
yackety yak one Nation under a vengeful, psycho god in love with
DEATH go tell it to Dubya and Perle and the Gang. Johnsons and
other Free People can contact Engel at bartleby.samsa@verizon.net.
No patriotic SPAM or pre-fab slogans, please.
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