The fervor with which Americans indulge in patriotic pageants and parades
would lead one to believe ... what? Not that there's any courage in
it. All it took to get America to give up its treasured civil
liberties and the principle of rule by law was one attack in one city.
Most of the country went into paranoid hysterics and hasn't recovered since.
George Bush said, if I provide you with the illusion of safety will let me
listen in on your phone messages without a warrant, and America said yes,
yes, please yes, anything to keep us safe. Obama said, will you
re-elect me if I take it upon myself to kill people who frighten our
intelligence agencies, and America said yes! And Romney said, I will
save you from the Russians. And so far, America says, what?
When did Obama become the head of Murder Incorporated?
Malcolm X got raked by the media when he commented, in reference to the Kennedy
assassination, that "the chickens have come home to roost". He was
referring to the role of the U.S. in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in
the Congo, and the history of violent racial oppression in the American
South.
How exactly does the U.S. condemn murder and assassination when it has
adopted-- enthusiastically-- the exact same policy when dealing with
whomever it chooses to define as an enemy?
The U.S. will proclaim loudly to itself-- when the chickens once again,
inevitably, come home to roost-- that it is outraged, outraged, I say,
that so-called civilized nations would resort to murder and assassination as
tools of foreign policy! How dare they!
And within it's own borders, Americans will purr contentedly that all of the
mayhem they sow in revenge if justified by the angels because we are such a
good, virtuous nation....
And the rest of the world will see that for exactly what it is: the rankest
hypocrisy. You did it too! You've been bombing and droning and
murdering for years, and now you're upset that other nations said, okay, we
get the idea.
Does Obama mind? You can't be a priss, after all. Americans will
forgive many things in a leader-- fecklessness, moral turpitude,
inconsistency-- but never that he failed to show a willingness to kill on
our behalf, a facility with mayhem, a willingness to converse with
unspeakable cruelty, always, always, oh always, with the illusion of moral
rectitude.
