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CounterPunch
January
25, 2003
The
Right to Commit Preemptive Infanticide
America Never
Was America to Me
by ANTHONY GANCARSKI
And of course, it was a shell game. A protection
racket of the highest order. So convinced were you that you were
powerless that you surrendered your spirits to these jackals.
To Krauthammer, an American conservative born in Uruguay. To
a President willing to let a Canadian carpetbagger write those
three words -- Axis of Evil -- that he will not outlive. Bush
as cover for machinations so obvious that they cry out to be
named.
But no one can name them in polite society.
Look how they got Scott Ritter, planting barrettes and N-Sync
compact discs in the front seat of his vehicle, practically.
Was it a sixteen-year-old at the Home of the Whopper, or a taunting
nymphet under the golden arches? Those Happy Meals seem like
unhappy affairs now, huh? No longer can Mr. Ritter appear on
MSNBC without the danger of having ACCUSED PEDOPHILE appear
under his name.
Ritter's predilections -- whether he
holds them or not -- have no bearing on his arguments. But that
doesn't matter. One of the most suspicious phenomena of 2002
actually was the amount of play given to Ritter and his positions.
He was portrayed as a serious, high-profile critic of US invasion
of Iraq at a time when so much of the media seemed devoted to
 advancing the idea that no
criticism of US action mattered. Now it's clear why. There was
dirt on Ritter, and that dirt was a matter of common knowledge
in certain circles. Ritter got a run of token offense in, raging
against the war machine, serving as our proxy. A rock-ribbed,
square-jawed ex-Marine. And look at him now. I mean, if you can
find him. Don't expect Phil Donahue to have him back on the show
anytime soon to lay the smack down on Ken Adelman. No sir, seems
Mr. Ritter has problems of his own now.
And, to think, there were those who wanted
him to run a primary challenge against W in 2004. Never has a
Whopper tasted so much like decayed flesh.
Many things are common knowledge about
the wars on tap for 2003 and beyond. They will probably be about
oil, either the direct control of the commodity itself or simply
the ability to fix its price. The defense of Israel is about
as important as the defense of the US itself. Charges that Saddam
Hussein makes that actions against his country are part of a
Zionist conspiracy must be discounted, as Hussein is an evil
man who gasses his own people, and who holds political prisoners.
Since only about one in every 34 Americans is entrapped by the
criminal justice apparatus, it is clear to everyone in the world
that the US leadership is radically different than that of Saddam
Hussein. No one-party state here!
Since everything in the last paragraph
is "known", perhaps we should consider alternative
interpretations as to why the US plans multi-front wars for the
foreseeable future. Take what Shelton Hull has to say about the
increasingly perilous condition of the US economy:
The nation's economy. . . assailed
by forces both internal (like crooked CFOs) and external (like
organized Islamic banking which only does business with those
adhering to shari'a law). The dollar's main opponents for what
amounts to home-field advantage in the grand game of international
finance are the Euro and gold. Whomever has control of whatever
the main "settlement currency" is at any moment can
screw with the entire world economy through simple internal manipulation,
which isn't nearly as bad for the home team as the visitors.
But now more Islamic nations are beginning to peg their currencies
to gold, a commodity which they have massive supplies of. Upward
spikes like we've seen in 2002 (25%) heighten the disparity between
what their money buys them from us and the reciprocal, which
is a big problem because we want to control them. Control needs
ontrol to control, and it starts with the money supply.
The chickens, coming home to roost. Or
better still, the bill collectors at the door and ringing your
phone while you try to sleep. Since the mid 1930's, there has
been a concentrated campaign underway to bamboozle the American
body politic. To convince them that men so far from their home
bases have love for anything but their own power, that there
is wisdom in allowing a Kissinger or a Martin Indyk to have any
say-so in American foreign policy decisions. To make them believe
that the military-industrial complex could somehow pull off the
loaves and fishes miracle.
Sure, once upon a time there were loaves
and there were fishes. The reward for establishing the US military
occupation and control of Europe that has existed since 1945
was the GI Bill, and the Greatest Generation ™ got over
more than any generation since. But the free food was no longer
quite so forthcoming after stalemate actions in Korea and Vietnam.
The US government realized that it could never fully subjugate
a people quite so well as its own. Its tired, its poor, its debtor
prison white trash, its drunken Injuns, its Irish travelers,
its refugees of all hues, all crying, all damned. And so that
government turned its guns on the people who supposedly ran it.
Lose Vietnam, get a War on Drugs that
exists only as an end in itself, a police action every bit as
disgusting as what the IDF does to the Palestinians. Your car
gets flashlight searched during a purportedly random seatbelt
check. Get out of your car and spread 'em. You're not from around
here, are you boy? What's in that bag on the front seat?
Lose Vietnam, get a bunch of corporate
liberals, gussied-up corpses with eighty dollar haircuts. All
of these Democrats feel the need to run their own campaigns for
the Presidency. Lieberman pimped his on the Israeli Home Shopping
Network, practically. But no need for divisive language here,
because they all found common ground just this week. At the behest
of NARAL, six Democratic candidates for the 2004 Presidential
nomination found themselves extolling the wisdom undergirding
Roe V Wade. Fitting, that Sharpton, Gephardt, Holy Joe, and all
the rest could come together to see that the state protects the
right to commit preemptive infanticide. And they say the Democrats
lack a cohesive message.
Anthony Gancarski, author of Unfortunate
Incidents [Diversity Inc, 2001], welcomes comments at
Anthony.Gancarski@attbi.com.
Rumors that he is considering a bid for the US House in 2004
cannot be addressed at this time.
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