| |
12/01/08
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
February
15, 2004 Our chief export, democracy by death and torture, has become an Iraqi deliverable served up in a far more brutally efficient manner than was ever the case with Saddam's despotic regime. And as we export democracy while both our trade and government deficits increase, China's non-interventionist economy and its educational system's productivity are skyrocketing. So the American people are not to linger mentally on the disturbing visions emblazoned forever upon our now-disgraced history as regards our merciless and inhuman brutality against defenseless citizen prisoners at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. As usual, at the forefront of the numbing-down/dumbing-down are our intrepid journalistic wonders in the mainstream corporate media, opining and aligning themselves shamelessly with our errant, plotting, neoconservative genocidal maniacs. Iran is indeed next on the imperial agenda for a dose of "compassionate neoconservatism," but how to prepare the American public for this next planned, unwarranted, unconstitutional and immoral invasion of a nation that again poses no threat to US? Enter the champions of free speech, utilizing their special station and limitless authority in exposing government fraud, abuse and waste. As a former statist and right-wing Republican loyalist, "Dittohead," and yes, even as a former subscriber to Buckley's National Review, the fissure began with the astonishingly ignorant response I received from one of the latter's former associate editors: "Blaming the media [for uninforming and propagandizing the public] was a bit of a stretch!" A "bit of a stretch," huh? I vowed never again to subscribe to that highly-respected, intellectually-challenging worthless tripe of a publication. And following closely on the heels of that resolve, I cancelled my subscription to the Limbaugh Letter as well. Crimes by the state are okay as long as they are authorized by the Republican Party? How sad it is that so many seemingly intelligent people are incapable of thinking outside the petty box of partisan politics snugly situated within the facade of voter efficacy. We have indeed been "prepped!" But fear not -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has just promised that Iran is off the table, just as she assured US that our intelligence efforts prior to 9-11 never disclosed the fact that airliners could possibly be hijacked and used as "missiles." And this was said in spite of the fact that our government was so advised by the Philippines police as far back as 1993. Her hedge is of course: "human rights violations" [thereby legitimizing American style "democracy" exportation sometime in the near future]. Apologizing for my redundancy in pointing out the murders and torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, again such activities are not to be construed by BoobUS AmericanUS as human rights violations, but merely compassionate conservatism against a backdrop of college style fraternity pranks, hazings and just "blowing off some steam." And again, pardon my redundancy as I attempt to deal with the latest effrontery to normal cognitive processes which National Review Online is now attempting to alter and rearrange via the personage of one Michael Ledeen. Ledeen, clearly a compassionate, neoconservative chicken hawk and keyboard warrior, offers as a subtitle to his February 7th piece, "Faster, Please," offering: "Iran needs change. We need to help -- now." That about sums up the intense neocon analysis leading to the inevitable conclusion: We need to search for Iranian WMD [read nuclear bomb and missile factories], bring about regime change, and export democracy. Where have we heard all this before? We need to kill, maim, murder and torture the Iranian people so they can experience democracy as quickly as possible! Our government is here to help! The Bush administration has repeatedly dropped the gauntlet, and continues to do so, offering that an attack on Iran "cannot be ruled out" and portraying Iran as the world's "primary source of terror." And it didn't take long for the usual suspects complicit in America's military campaign initiating worldwide terror against any and every nation the regime considers as against us to chime in. And of course there's the Condi visit with Ariel Sharon. The two previous meetings between Sharon and Bush resulted first in 9-11, and then second, the internal improvement of Israel's "Berlin Wall" in Gaza. Now against this backdrop, let's check out the Ledeen propaganda. Here's a gem: "Hundreds of democracy advocates are being tortured in Iran's prisons." Please don't tell me you need further analysis regarding this absurdity! Want another? Here: "As everyone knows, a steady stream of information shows that these evil people are relentlessly pursuing their dream of building atomic bombs, which they foolishly believe will protect them against the forces of freedom." Again, I really have nothing to add to this noxious, gaseous emission. Enter also from stage right the monumental front page splash on Drudge from Yahoo on Thursday morning's February 10th edition, and the Dr. Joseph Goebbels propaganda send-off will shortly launch our ship of state on yet another glorious killing, maiming and property destruction spree. And this time around, no Mr. Nice Guy! Can you believe the gall of the Bush regime and its journalistic enslaved parrots? Ledeen continues to construct his and the Bush regime's "arguments" with well thought out and intellectually challenging volleys, such as "everybody knows," and a "stream of information," and "evil people." Watch out! This trigger-happy keyboard nut wants more rivers of blood and screaming mothers and children to improve America's democracy export business! What nation introduced atomic weapons to the world community? What nation first used them employing exactly the same type of racial and ethnic hatred as is now being expressed by genocidal maniac Ledeen and his National Review Online? And I'm sure they still believe that the corporate media lockstep partnership with the state is "a bit of a stretch!" Read Ledeen's "reasoning" in total. Just make sure you don't have to stretch too far to reach the barf bag!] Ted Lang
© THEODORE E. LANG 7/12/04 All rights reserved Ted Lang is a political analyst and a freelance writer. Visit his new website soon |
Election Electives - Choices In Spite Of None Lost in a Crowd - Always A Threat To Freedom Election Reflection and Beyond - The House Bush Built Triple Indemnity - Who Dies And Pays? US Media Propaganda-Phase II- Preparations For Attack On Iran Lead Blockers - Someone's Got To Do It! The Drug Lords - Kingpins Of Government Drug Traffic Ghosts Of Guantanamo And Abu Ghraib - More Revelations AIPAC: Still Spying, Still Tax-Exempt Sir Ronald Dumbsfeld - The Pentagon's Beloved Dummy Clashing Generalizations - Evaluating The Use Of Force Destroying America - Job One In Establishing NWO |
||||||||||||||
 |
Submit
Feedback
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
