Land of “Murka”
Part II of II - Part I Here
The Fundamentalist Threat
By Manuel Valenzuela
03/10/05 "Information Clearing
House" - - To live in Murka is to see firsthand its degeneration
into an emerging Christian theocracy, with its collection of televangelists,
cult leaders, mullahs and Taliban, nothing more than corruption-filled,
hypocrite-behaving, masterminds of pervasive ignorance, false prophets and
preachers drunk off the liquor of fundamentalist thought misguiding tens of
millions of lost souls through the chalice of brainwashed and unenlightened
thinking.
Commanding the attention of born again, salvation-seeking, messianic and
Armageddon-searching souls in need of finding their way past the fires of hell
and into the gates of heaven, these wolves dressed in sheep skin embrace
principles of extremist belief and fanatical dogma. The flock of sheeple succumbing
to the distortions, deceptions and delusions of their dangerously unwise
shepherd leaders follow blind, deaf and dumb, disregarding all semblance of
rational thought and analytical thinking in their discarding of common sense
and proven scientific fact.
Instead, mesmerized by the incantations of those they follow, eager to buy
lifetime supplies of snake oil being sold, captivated by the charlatans
speaking the tongues of fraud and deception, tens of millions of Christian
fundamentalists choose to place blind faith in make-believe stories of fantasy,
relying on the primitive myths of ancient and unlearned tribal men and their
archaic fables used to explain both the world of yesteryear and their
psychological fears and insecurities, of no more significant use to modern
humans today than the technology of 8,000 years ago.
In the
In a land where one would expect abandonment of primitive and archaic dogma as
a result of greater socioeconomic integration, enlightened investigation and
advancement of both technology and knowledge, one finds the opposite to be
true. In order to maintain their subjects hypnotized by the aura of
supernatural myth, and by consequence under the control of those who usurp the interpretations
of religious dogma, those living off the fruits of the sheeple maintain their
subjects in abject ignorance, forcefully demanding the absolute right to teach
youngsters in Murka's educational system fantasy written thousands of years
ago, choosing to indoctrinate youth to rudimentary and backwards thought
instead of the advanced evolutions of modern thinking.
In addition, they stridently seek the fusing relationship between church and
state, constantly seeking to impose their delusional beliefs on secular
citizens and on believers of other faiths. To them, Murka is and always has
been a Christian nation, failing to understand Murkan history, the philosophies
and beliefs of its Founding Fathers and the changing evolution of its society.
They fail to comprehend and practice the teachings of the Christ they claim to
worship, going against the tenets of his meaning to mankind, conveniently
forgetting his messages of peace, love, compassion, acceptance and
forgiveness.
Living under the fumes of fantasy, these Taliban seek to impose Christian
prayer in schools and other government functions, trying to weave ever-closer
the connection between church and state, desperately clinging to the idea of a
theocracy. They wish to exhibit the Ten Commandments in public buildings, no
matter how many times their kind breaks many of these same tenets and no matter
how hypocritical they are in the behaviors they exhibit and the exhortations
they proclaim.
Murkan Taliban wish to control a women’s right to her own body, and hence her
own decision making, thereby robbing her of freedoms and rights finally granted
after millennia of suffrage. They rabidly seek the protection of pin size cell
structure yet have no problem applauding the death penalty or an
Seeking this fraudulent form of teenage control and brainwashing in public
education, in an age group saturated with chemical changes, hormonal firework
explosions, psychological alterations, bodily transformations and an increased
attraction towards sex is so out of tune with reality, with biological truth,
with common sense, that it is preposterous it is even being implemented.
Self-defeating and dangerous, this push to condition children is about control
and retaining power over the mind of blossoming independence.
One can no more succeed in stopping a frog from jumping or a dog from barking
any more than you can inhibit a teenager’s sexual libido. Teenage sex is as old
as humanity, a manifestation of biological urges and evolutionary behaviors,
molded by the hands of nature and our inherent need to procreate, and to try
putting a stop to it using primitive dogma, issuing edicts that fail to embrace
human truth, instead of using pragmatism and educating children to its reality,
teaching protection and wisdom, is to see how out of tune with reality, and
with life in the 21st century, extremist fundamentalists truly are.
Indeed, they seem more worried about their own insecurities, fears, stereotypes
and in the private lives of people who will never cause them harm than in
helping billions of humans worldwide, just as Jesus asks them to do, many of
whom subsist on two dollars a day or less, many of whom die of malnourishment,
disease and misery. Yet their interests lie in maintaining control, and thus
power, over the dwindling supply of sheeple still able to be shepherded in
Murka than in pursuing true religious convictions worldwide.
In order to maintain a dumbed down following, as well as to keep free-thinking
children in the flock, and under control, the false preachers corrosive to
human society demand the teaching in public schools of ancient creationist
fantasy along with the scientific realism that is evolution. Fighting a
perpetually losing battle with reality, and evolution, and clinging to the
hopes inherent in desperation, they continuously repackage, remarket and
relabel the fantasy of creationism in hopes of sneaking their religious dogma
into the public domain. Never mind that the concept of “intelligent design” is
nothing but pseudo-science, completely discredited by the scientific community,
a desperate quasi-attempt to evolve a primitive fable into the modernity of
21st century thought, knowing that the reality of evolution continues to feast
on and eat away at the carcass of an extinct idea worthy of the cavemen that
invented it.
The Falwell’s, Robertson’s and Graham’s of the land of Murka, along with their
clones, shills, hacks and lackeys, see more and more members of the population
escaping their detrimental grip and the trance-like belief in the fundamental
theology they inspire, and feel the very real threat to the continued existence
of their power and control. They see the intrusion of secular thought, of
logical, analytical and reasoned minds penetrating and obliterating those
segments of society once reserved exclusively to the ancient domains of
scripture and realize that if not halted, if momentum is not shifted, the
logical wisdom and knowledge that comes with time will inevitably make their
kind, and the fantasy they believe in, an extinct reality.
They only need to take a peek at
It is therefore vitally important to these Murkan Taliban to establish, as much
as is presently possible, the parameters of a theocracy in the
In their minds, the continued fusion of church and state must continue, using
the appointment of conservative theocrats to the benches of the nation, the
religious zealots in Congress and state legislatures, government officials who
can affect policy and members of school boards to impose upon the peoples of
Murka their Christian Taliban ideas of theocracy. These false preachers are selfish
creatures who would rather implement policies that will endanger members of
their flock than subscribe to the notion that their coffers will dry up and
their power will be eroded. With the legions of political prostitutes
masquerading as leaders scattered throughout the hallways of power, many of
which have been recruited to join and further the interests of the
fundamentalist army of Armageddon-seeking sheeple, there exists the very
frightening possibility that they may succeed in augmenting their already
growing power.
At present they are emboldened; their power has never been greater, their
numbers are strong. Residing in the White House is a born again Christian,
conduit to the Almighty itself, doing the arduous work of the Lord, holding the
spear of war and shield of crusade. Since his ascension as Emperor to the
Christian Right and Dictator of Murka, the war between the secular and the
religious has increased. At no other time has the distinction between church
and state been so compromised, and never has the struggle to keep both mutually
exclusive been harder. Under the bull manure of ‘moral values’ those seeking
expanded power onto the Christian Taliban have hijacked the nation, making
millions believe that their power is greater than it really is, in the process
silencing a great majority of the secular population. Yet they have gained in
strength and numbers, and have become a major threat to the
The weak minded capacity of the dictator who twice stole office aside, the
Establishment knows that with religious belief comes greater control of the
masses, clearly exemplified in the last three years of perpetual war. With
theological belief comes unenlightenment and ignorance, a citizenry less likely
to question authority and the decisions of leaders. Emulating the herd
mentality, extremist believers in the metaphysical have been conditioned to
place blind faith in leadership, whether seen or invisible. They do as they are
told, not as they want. They are blind and so are told what to see; they are
deaf and so are told what to hear; they are mute and so are told what to say;
they are ignorant and so are told what and how to think.
Easier to control and manipulate, this group can be, at the push of a button,
at the showing of emotional video or the speech of a demagogue, stirred into
the frenzied lunacy of hatred or the violence-seeking, blood-thirsty plague of
vengeance. In time, and with enough propaganda and brainwashed stimuli, this
segment of the population, millions strong, can be made to focus all attention
and all animal emotion at a chosen enemy, the scapegoat created by government
and needed for the perpetual wars necessary for the continued hegemony of the
Establishment. Through systematic precision, the Establishment can manufacture
enemies, new Pearl Harbors and the quick mobilization of large segments of the
population made to think and behave in accordance with the wishes of those
pulling the strings of a marionette masquerading as a society.
Blindly following, never asking questions, naively believing everything they
are told, this group of Murkans is quickly molded into a nationalistic,
patriotic, religious and warmongering fervor, wishing death upon innocents and
made xenophobic racists conditioned to hate anything alien. In their lunacy
they seek the use of nuclear weapons upon foreign lands, without regard to
life. They seek the suffering of untold civilians through ceaseless bombing and
the sadistic torture of human beings through disappearances and kidnappings. They
hate because they are told to hate; they detest because they are conditioned to
detest; they seek violence and unconditional death of innocence because they
blindly follow the words of hatred; they are filled with anger because they
suffer frustrations in their daily lives, repressed in their employment, never
being able to think for themselves, instead incorporating the jingoistic and
anger-filled tirades of fascist commentators as their own.
Without empathy, without understanding and without humanity these millions
stand complicit, through their silent acquiescence and in deriving sadistic
pleasure in the misfortune of others, in war crimes and crimes against humanity
upon their fellow beings. Advocating religious belief, proclaiming themselves
seeds of Christ, believing themselves good Christians, these lost energies
turned hypocrites seek the total annihilation of innocent life for simply being
of different color, ethnicity and religious belief. They champion their beliefs
on others yet fail to implement teachings into their own lives, breaking sacred
tenets in their Crusade of Rabid Hatred against concocted enemies of the
state.
These are the Murkan Sheeple, a grave and gathering threat facing the nation,
tens of millions strong, looking forward to the total destruction of humankind,
the fulfillment of prophesy (had the stories of the Bible been written in
Russia, would they care about the Middle East? End Times would be sought in
Siberia, not the Fertile Crescent), becoming suicidal seekers of Armageddon,
desperately seeking a Rapture their kind have been waiting for every generation
for the last 2000 years, only to be disappointed every lifetime that passes as
fable never delivers upon its promise. They are told to hate diversity,
secularism, heterogeneity, embrace everything Israel (in order to fulfill
prophesy; exploited severely by Zionists of all kinds), hate foreigners of dark
complexion and different religious belief, accept war against infidels and
violence against heathens, label as communist progressive secular thinkers and
loathe anything unorthodox not in tune to their – and their false preachers’ –
idea of a world that has long since passed them by.
Humanity Lost, the Human Animal Resurrected
The land of Murka is today an incarnation of an Evil Empire, a terrorist state
unleashing carnage and barbarity abroad and exploiting, with callous
indifference, its own citizens at home. It has bastardized human rights, in
essence stomping with its marching boots of “shock and awe” the innocence of
humanity, becoming an overgrown hypocrite moralizing virtue but mandating
criminality, no longer able to light the torch of human rights or reprimand
fellow abusers. It smears with the feces of wickedness universal principles of
human rights, in a mere matter of three years unleashing, along with its
thousands of tons of bombs and missiles raining down from the skies, a
devastating aura of human suffering that has resulted in over 100,000 innocent
deaths and countless more injuries, maimings and forms of mental and
psychological devastation. A beacon of human rights and humanity has vanished
from Earth, becoming that which it most abhorred and fought to make
extinct.
With the destruction of the
A military given free reign to decimate and destroy, without punishment or
moral leadership, allowed to unleash death upon the population of
As sadistic and as hate-filled as millions of their compatriots in the Land of
Murka, those soldiers illegally occupying foreign land have killed without
remorse, shooting joyfully at innocents, taking pleasure in targeting women and
children, much like the video games they play at home. This army has wrongfully
imprisoned thousands of Iraqis, treating them inhumanely, overcrowding their
cells, dehumanizing them with the lessons learned from Israeli Defense Forces,
barbarically torturing many, sodomizing some, raping others and treating all
with the cruelty of occupiers thinking their conquered subjects sub-human
creatures unworthy of human sympathy.
Entire cities have been destroyed, with homes and infrastructure turned to
rubble; WMDs have been used, including napalm; mosques have been obliterated,
Iraqi religion spat on; Iraq’s – and the world’s – cultural patrimony has been
destroyed, including the relics of man’s first civilizations and the ruins of
Babylon; mass graves have sprouted in clusters where non existed before, full
of innocent men, women and children, killed by Murkan soldiers; news reporters
have been targeted and assassinated, attempts have been made to shoot and
murder those possessing information the Murkan government does not want
released; young children throwing stones at tanks have been shot; Iraqi freedom
fighters, wounded and unarmed, have been shot point blank by sadistic, trigger
happy soldiers; hospitals and doctors have been targeted, bombed and killed
because they constitute “enemy propaganda”; thanks to depleted uranium
radiation festers throughout the land, penetrating soil, water, air, vegetation
and human bodies, with Iraq’s environment now equivalent to 250,000 Nagasaki’s,
promising to be infested with the invisible poison for billions of years to
come.
The army of Murka has embarked, with the tacit approval, and some would say
with the sadistic pleasure, of its Commander in Chief, on a hurricane-like
annihilation of Mesopotamia, killing hundreds of thousands through weaponry,
condemning scores more through the purposeful disregard of infrastructure and
basic services such as electricity, sewage, clean water, healthcare and the
providing of food, which will in the end result in the deaths of more Iraqis
than all the bullets and bombs used by Murka’s military. Whether dying by
bullets or bombs or by the collective punishment of an entire nation, such as
in the complete destruction of infrastructure or the disregard of basic
services, Iraqis, especially the young, old and frail, will continue to perish
by the tens of thousands, dying of disease, malnourishment, lack of medicine or
from the sorrow of what George W. Bush has wrought onto their land.
When one combines these present and future casualties with the million and a
half, including half a million children, that died at the hands of economic
genocide implemented by Murka in the form of sanctions during the 1990’s, along
with the silent mass murder of depleted uranium, the ultimate WMD, that has
already killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis through illness, cancers,
disease and birth deformities, the world will in the future recall what the
Land of Murka unleashed upon Iraq as nothing short than a systemic holocaust
comparable to the worst crimes of Nazi Germany.
It is not necessary to construct gas chambers, incinerators, gulags or
concentration camps to exterminate millions of human beings. We are seeing this
reality today in
Yet the Land of Murka, being the sole superpower, unable to be touched by the
peoples or nations of the world, dictating and trumping the laws of humanity,
never surrendering even in defeat, will erase these truths from the history of
the planet. Nobody will be tried in Nuremburg, no one will hang for war crimes,
no one will be brought to justice, for in today’s world, those in power create
reality, writing and revising history to suit their needs. In the end, and much
like the three million southeast Asians who died in their own holocaust a few
decades ago, Iraqis and their stories of human wickedness reborn will disappear
into the abyss of nothingness, their silent cries going unheard, their truths
sequestered and their horrible suffering forgotten.
For Iraqis do not manage and operate Hollywood, the printed media or the
televised media, those great bastions of propaganda. They do not have as
advocates the gatekeepers of information, those who take it upon themselves to
inundate the memories of old Holocausts into the conscious of humanity,
monopolizing and exploiting its horrors to garner sympathy or pity, using its
evils as excuses to cleanse native peoples, occupy lands, dehumanize
populations, ignore resolutions, claim perpetual victimhood, silence protest,
intimidate criticism and further vested interests at the expense of the rest of
the world.
No, the lessons of history will go unlearned, new generations will never be
made privy to the evils of human malice, truth will be whitewashed and glossed
over and in the span of a few years or a decade or two the same horror will
befall mankind once again, for we never learn, we never understand and we never
care, giving birth to yet another holocaust like those in Rwanda, Congo, Vietnam,
Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Cambodia, Indonesia, World War II Europe,
Sudan and Yugoslavia.
The occupation of Iraq has been nothing short of a barbaric and savage assault
on humanity itself, resurrecting into the collective conscious of mankind
memories of those nations of yesteryear possessed with the demons of human
wickedness that launched the world entire straight into the crosshairs of
death, destruction, suffering and the devastating onslaught of the human
animal. The occupation of Iraq, much like the pervasive occupation of
Palestine, exhibits to the world, once again, that the human animal is alive
and well, living in maniacal leaders sprouting the seeds of human wickedness
among their subjects.
Indeed, what this decade’s war crimes and crimes against humanity show, much
like those of every decade throughout the globe, is that war criminals have
little problem mobilizing their populations into the arms of fear, anger and
hatred, nationalistic lunacy and religious fervor, manifesting in the easily
controlled masses – nothing more than violent apes awaiting to be resuscitated
from the black holes of depravity – a hunger for violence, a thirst for
vengeance and an indifferent disregard for the suffering of innocent human
beings that is nothing short of barbaric and primitive. The human animal never
changes, ending one millennium with war, violence and destruction and
commencing another with worse of the same. Until we confront this truth,
primitive we will remain.
Once the right buttons are pushed, once new Pearl Harbors are manufactured, the
Establishment has little problem bringing out their mobilized army of
hypnotized primates, millions of citizens mutated by fear, hatred and anger,
conditioned into them by the same elite that will begin exploiting their
emotions, in short order bringing to the surface the ever dangerous, never
thinking, blood-thirsty and always self-destructive human animal.
With millions of little Hitler’s rising together in unison, each possessed by
the demons of conditioned and manipulated hatred, anger and fear, a mob-like
mentality springs forward inside the psyche, thereby allowing warmongers acting
as leaders the flexibility to spawn unimpeded and unquestioned policies to
enact their malicious war crimes against entire populations. The millions who
have granted their leaders such power prefer to be led into blindness and
ignorance rather than being confronted with the savagery and suffering taking
place behind their silent acquiescence, purposefully imposing on themselves
deaf ears and dumb minds to hide from their conscience the guilt of knowing the
crimes against humanity being perpetrated in their name.
It is better, it seems, to bask in the comfort and self-delusion of ignorance
than face the guilt of reality, preferring to remain living in the façade of
innocence than being confronted by all they validate by their actions and
words. For a war culture and a blood-thirsty population, this is how granting
mandates for mass murder and crimes against humanity gets shielded by human
psychology. Just ask Germans of the 1930’s and 40’s.
In the invasions and subsequent occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan – nothing
short of chess moves on the geopolitical board game taken for imperial
hegemony, energy resource control and geostrategic maneuvering hidden under the
fantasy, for consumption of the masses, of now proven lies of WMD, “fighting
the terrorists” and bringing freedom and democracy to tyrannical lands – the
land of Murka has taken it upon itself to contravene all laws of peaceful
nations, waging preemptive and aggressive offensive warfare on sovereign and
non-threatening nations in order to begin securing for itself, and the
Establishment, the last remaining vestiges of the primitive form of energy
called oil. Welcome to the Age of Resource Wars, a most ominous and dark period
that will soon befall humankind.
Land of Lies, Illusion and Rabbit Holes
In the daily atrocities and carnage being committed in Iraq the world sees the
degeneration of Murka and its society. With half the population rabid in its
hatred of Arabs and Muslims, full of xenophobic fears and violence-laden
thoughts, easily manipulated and conditioned, serving the interests of power
and control, one is witness to how low the Lands of Murka have fallen since
9/11. Human rights no longer have meaning as illegal wars of offensive
aggression have been validated through the vote of tens of millions, or the
indifferent acquiescence of millions more, who cared too little to help alter
the course of the nation and the world. As a result, the murderous rampage of
Murkan soldiers, laying waste to both land and man, has gone on without so much
as a whimper from the population.
With the re-election of George Bush, many will argue through his second coup d’etat,
though one cannot argue with the close to 60 million citizens who voted for
him, the war crimes leading to the death of 100,000 innocent Iraqis and 10,000
Afghanis were endorsed, granting the war criminals in office a mandate to
continue their reign of terror in the Middle East. Through elections,
uncontested appointments and silent submission to crimes against humanity,
torture has been given reason to exist, making it, in the minds of millions of
Murkans, the preferred way to deal with Iraqi freedom fighters in Iraq and
innocent Arabs and Afghanis in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, kidnapped and
left to rot in the many Bush gulags.
It has not seemed to bother Murkan society that the Iraq war was based on lies
and deceptions that have led to the murder of over one hundred thousands
people. Living in a state of perpetual amnesia, embracing all forgetful
principles of Alzheimer’s, the Murkan people quickly chose to disregard an
amalgam of lies and scandals that would have rocked to pieces any other western
nation and would have helped to bring down the vast assortment of scoundrels
lingering like flies on fecal matter in the halls of power. Instead, using the
remote control, Murkans change the channels showing them the little reality
made available, finding instead escapist fiction or sensationalized gossip.
Such is the mind of the average Murkan.
Onwards the Murkan people continue, never looking back and seldom looking
forward, preferring to never remember and always forget. Conveniently they
overlook how their government clandestinely ships their dead loved ones in
transfer tubes under cover of darkness, placing a media ban on coffins and
funerals so as to better control the psychological mood of the populace. It
understands that images of dead soldiers and flag draped coffins are a powerful
and sobering reminder of the horror of war, helping to mobilize the anti-war
movement in Vietnam, which helped put a stop to that wicked debacle. This the
government knows, which is why it lies and manipulates, hiding death, funerals,
mourning and anger away from the public.
Preferring to live in ignorance rather than confront the horrific truth, the
Murkan people have deluded themselves into believing the official death count
of Murkan soldiers, which presently hovers around 1,500 dead and 10,000
wounded. In reality, as happened during Vietnam, the death figures are being
manipulated, deceiving the public as to the real casualty numbers. Presently,
the Department of War is implementing an Enron-type accounting method that
fails to count as dead those dying en route to hospitals outside Iraq. If a
soldier does not die inside Iraq, but dies while evacuated abroad or once
inside a hospital, say in Germany, he is not counted among the official list.
Also, many new immigrants, mostly those from Mexico, have been recruited into
the army with the promise of a green card if they fight in Iraq. When these
soldiers are killed, since they are not Murkan citizens, their numbers are not
counted in the official list. Granted that these immigrant soldiers are
routinely sent directly into the front lines, so as to limit the deaths of
Murkan citizen soldiers, the implication arises that many of these soldiers
have died in combat but are not counted.
Finally, expunged from the lists of official casualties are Murkan contract
workers, mercenaries and private security that have been killed while working
for the Murkan military. Estimates, then, place the number of dead Murkan
soldiers at between 5,000 and 7,000, with more than 20,000 wounded. Add to this
the untold thousands of Murkan soldiers that will inevitably die in the next
decade due to their exposure to depleted uranium, not to mention the 11,000
that have already died of depleted uranium exposure from the first Gulf War,
and one can see the damage done to our loved ones.
Seen in this light, the Murkan quagmire in Iraq takes on an entirely new and
horrific dimension, becoming not the rosy delusions of Bush but the fields of
carnage they in reality are. For the profit and wealth and empowerment of the
Establishment thousands of young and talented soldiers have and will die, for a
war based on lies and deceptions. Sent to secure oil fields and geostrategic
lands, sent to allow the robbery of the national treasure and the pillage of
Iraq’s finances, businesses and resources, Murkan soldiers were thrown into a
hornet’s nest of anger, forced to battle resistance fighters waiting for a
guerilla war those in power must have clearly seen coming. These soldiers have
been sent to die for greed and the Almighty Dollar, representing to the
Establishment nothing but cannon fodder in a war of illegality, designed to
enrich a few miscreants in the military-industrial complex and further
aggrandize the power of the elite over the masses. This is what Murkan soldiers
are dying for; this is what they are being maimed over; this is the reason so
many are returning home mentally destroyed.
The truth is that the Iraq debacle represents what Murka and half its
population have become since 9/11. A war culture conditioned to the drums of
war needs enemies to fight, new Pearl Harbors to help mobilize, scapegoats to
profit from, and bogeymen to instill fear and insecurity in the minds of the
masses. It needs blind patriotism to function, nationalistic tendencies to
mobilize and distract, jingoism to unite and vanish from public thought the
corruption of the Establishment and evildoers to spawn the hatred and
xenophobia inherent in the human condition that makes entire populations
conduits of violence and easily controlled and manipulated beings. Finally, new
Pearl Harbors are needed to thread the needle necessary to bring all of the
above into fruition, creating the veil binding the masses to their continued
subjugation.
Without a constant battle of cowboys and Indians, of English and
Revolutionaries, of Communists and Murkans, of good versus evil, Arab versus
Christian and terrorists versus Bush, the Establishment cannot convince the
masses that wars, invasions, occupations and the subsequent pilferage and profiteering
of conquered land, resources and Murka’s national treasure are necessary
components of a concocted and bogus ‘war on terror’ or its mutated and
repackaged ‘war on tyranny.’ Already $200,000,000,000.00 have been wasted in
Iraq, with an additional $100,000,000,000.00 already set aside for the
continuing debacle that has no end in sight. Additionally, the Defense budget
continues to skyrocket, going from $350,000,000,000.00 per year to 2005’s
record sum of $420,000,000,000.00. Each year the monies allocated to the
military industrial complex rise; each decade that passes results in the
voracious gorging of the Department of War to the detriment of all other Murkan
expenditures.
Also, billions of dollars have been appropriated for rebuilding Iraq’s
infrastructure destroyed by decades of Murkan imposed sanctions and aggressive
warfare, further enriching the elite, friends, profiteers and crony capitalists
close to the Administration. Nine billion dollars ($9,000,000,000.00) of this
sum has simply vanished into thin air, unaccounted for and lost, having become
a casualty of war, though probably safe and sound and well hidden in the Swiss
bank accounts of Republican lackeys and hacks that worked in Baghdad’s Green
Zone and in those accounts owned by Bush-friendly corporate executives and
profiteers. With so much money and power at stake, so much treasure to plunder
and wealth to accumulate, perpetual wars and perpetual enemies make good
business sense to the Establishment, courtesy of our taxes and the blood of
loved ones.
Without enemies, real or concocted, the Establishment cannot expand its wealth
and power. It cannot warm up the profitable assembly lines of its machines of
destruction and violence, spitting out from its conveyor belts those weapons that
will kill, maim and destroy. Profiting from human death, suffering and
destruction, the military-industrial complex, with an ever-increasing budget
allocated to it, needs perpetual war and violence to continue expanding its
mammoth hegemony. War, after all, is the ultimate revenue-making business model
that is guaranteed to redistribute Murka’s treasure away from the people and
towards the elite. By destroying the infrastructure of a nation, the
Establishment assures itself of having to rebuild it back up again, using
cronyism, corruption, fraud, Enronesque accounting practices and
Halliburton-style robbery to further enrich itself at the expense of the
masses.
Using up and exhausting its weapons of war, manufacturing new and ever-more
supplies, creating evolved technologies, flattening cities and infrastructure,
rebuilding once again using the businesses it owns, taking possession of the
oil industry and all its resources, having Iraq’s industries, utilities and
businesses privatized, buying and carving them up, monopolizing the nation,
exploiting Iraqi citizens through lower wages, higher prices and the
evisceration of social programs, the elite of Murka assure themselves of the
enormous bounty created by war, occupation and the implementation of their
neo-liberal policies that continue to decimate scores of underdeveloped nations
throughout the world.
Meanwhile, in the Land of Murka the population goes about its daily lives,
amnesia guiding its short-term memory, its attention span converged on the celebrity
trial of the week, diverting its attention away from disasters at home and
abroad. Fed a steady diet of bread and circus, enthralled by the latest Michael
Jackson story or celebrity gossip headline, millions continue gorging on the
intravenous feeding tube called denial, becoming so out of tune with the rest
of the world’s opinion and reality that rabbit holes continue to sprout
everywhere, sending the Land of Murka into a wonderland of delusion,
manipulation and fantasy.
Today’s lone superpower is dangerously falling down a slippery slope of
perilous undertakings, dumbing down its population, creating, with each new
generation, an army of worker bees and soldier ants not capable of rational and
analytical thought. Millions of unenlightened drones are now the rule rather
than the exception. They now allow state-sponsored terrorism in their name. War
crimes are ignored, as are gross violations of human rights. Voluntarily and
without protest or debate they are giving up their civil rights and freedoms.
Democracy has vanished before their unknowing eyes. Murka has become an Evil
Empire, hated by the world and detested by billions, yet those residing inside
the belly of the beast seem not to care, not bothering, not understanding and
not giving a damn. It is this hubris that will in the coming decades cause
Murka to implode from within.
Recovering America’s Imprisoned Energy
The Land of Murka is a wonderful spectacle of heterogeneous synergy, a land of
impeccable beauty and multi-talented humans. Tens of millions of its citizens
are honorable, good and decent people striving for the highest integrity and
virtues, seeking life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The greatness of
humanity exists in abundance in this country, waiting for the world to see.
Millions possess the intelligence, wisdom, talent and ability to move the
nation forward into stratospheres of greatness.
Yet an entire nation is being led astray, hijacked by greed, unenlightenment
and the forces of the Almighty Dollar. We are being sodomized by the cross and
buried alive with the red, white and blue, allowing ourselves to be gang raped
by miscreants in power. Murka is a nation currently lost in the netherworld of
amnesia (remember Enron, Halliburton?), sickened by a plague of Alzheimer’s,
possessing the attention span of a gnat, the wisdom and IQ of a shoe, gleefully
handing over our civil rights and freedoms, becoming submissive fatalists to
corruption, rotting with fascist momentum, infested with the maggots and
leaches consuming us from inside. Tens of millions residing inside the belly of
the beast have been sucked into the fog of schizophrenia and paranoia, allowing
their frightened and stressed out minds to yield to frustrated angers and
exploited hatreds. Without a doubt, the Establishment and the corrupt lackeys
it owns are ruining a great people and majestic nation.
We deserve better than what we presently have. If the People do not rise the
land entire will eventually fall, flattened by powers too strong for a small
cluster of dissent to fight alone. Great potential lies within our shores, yet
it is crushed and exploited, made submissive and manipulated to the dictates of
power, turning many into seekers of war and violence. The many are made
subservient to the few who use a vast array of tools to control and divide us.
From our hypnotized slumber we must wake before all that has been gained is
lost. There is still time for the Land of Murka to once again become America,
yet this window of opportunity is passing us by.
Let us, then, recover our great energy that once transcended oceans and borders
and cultures and differences, making this land the bastion of goodness and
humanism. Let us become the shining example of all this is good with mankind,
once more lighting the beacon of greatness that has been extinguished by the
veil enveloping our land. Let us once more be Americans, for we are the world
just as much as she is us. Let us rejoin the peoples of the world, embracing
the fraternity of nations, educating our progeny, enlightening our population
and learning how to lead not as an empire, but as one global village, through
wisdom, reason and a humbleness that will make our children stand proud to live
in the land we once knew to exist. This legacy we must leave our future, not
the one we are presently embarking on.
Let us purge alternate worlds and parallel universes from our lands, making
extinct the sickness that has plagued us for years. We are the solution, not
the problem, and inside each of us is the energy that has been imprisoned
inside the dungeons of the human animal. It is time to make it free, allowing
it to fly unhindered through the zenith of renaissance, granting it the freedom
to change the direction this country has taken, giving it life to fill dark skies
with enlightenment. The key to unhinging the locks holding back America lies
within us, one and all. Searching deep inside we will find this catalyst for
change, and what we decide to do with it then could very well alter history as
we know it.
Mr. Valenzuela’s new novel is now on sale through
Authorhouse.com at Echoes in the Wind Sales Page.
A philosophical, educational and spiritual story on humanity and our
civilization, as relevant as today’s headlines, this book is almost 600 pages
in trade paperback form on sale internationally through secure web page
transaction. Additionally, the novel is now available on Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com, as
well as other online book sellers.
If preferred, the novel can also be ordered at any local brick and mortar
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Manuel Valenzuela is social critic and commentator,
international affairs analyst, Internet columnist and author of
Echoes in the Wind, a novel now published by Authorhouse.com. A
collection of essays, Beyond the Smoking Mirror: Reflections on America and
Humanity, will be published in early 2005. His articles
appear regularly on www.informationclearinghouse.info
. His unique style and powerful writing is read internationally and seeks to
expose truths and realities confronting humanity today. Mr.
Valenzuela welcomes comments and can be reached at [email protected]. A
collection of his work can be found visiting his archives and
by searching the Internet
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