it's
astonishing how many sentient persons
are
caught in the snares
of the latest Russian scare,
brought
to us by the very people
who crushed
the independence of the sixties,
subverted
the dreams of Latin America,
opened
the clouds of hell
above Southeast Asia,
and
condemned large swaths
of the Middle East
to
rediscovering the stone age,
the
dependably duplicitous CIA,
with
the righteously remunerated,
self-aggrandizing
encouragement
of
their insatiable enablers
those
virtuous beacons of truth,
the Times and the Post,
and
the Party that pretends
to be Democratic.
now
this league of lesser,
more effective demons
is
condemning the
Great Strutting STrumpet's
outrageous
crop
of dead disruptors.
not
for being a despicable gang
of
disastrous,
disassembling dissemblers,
no.
for
communicating with the Russians
and
attempting to interrupt
the eternal pounding
of nuclear war drums.
(and
just when our Nazi bedfellows
were
so handily installed in the Ukraine,
throwing
over yet another
displeasingly
independent election,
consigning
yet another
population to penury,
at the very same time
our nooses are strung
so invitingly
around
those inherently evil people
born in Russia, Iran, and China,
and
the skyrocketing
profits of Armageddon
beckon so brightly
from the glossy pages
of self-indulgent,
suicidal prospectuses.)
this
talking with,
instead of threatening,
the Russians,
who've
embarrassed our terror spin
once again
(by
actually taking territory AWAY from ISIS),
was perhaps the ONLY tattered shred
of questionable evidence
that
the 45th corporate representative
of
the insanely profitable military machine
wasn't
intent on destroying
every
vestige of humanity
his
piggy eyes can see.
but
no president since Eisenhower
has
successfully waylaid
the war plans,
er…"foreign
policy",
of the Deep State's
feed-me-Seymour,
regime-changing,
border-bashing,
"exception" pivoting
(from sea to oily sea),
threat-inventing,
peace-circumventing,
un-elected and irremovable,
heedless-headed
hydra
of "Defense".
and
they're NOT going to let it happen now.
*
there
can be all kinds of dissension
amoungst
the Empire's minions.
(indeed,
as Noam Chomsky points out,
that's
how the rumours of Democracy spread.)
but
stepping away
from a lockstep subservience
to
the manifestly infested,
unquestioned myth
of
America's
divinely predestined
Right to Rule the World
is
NEVER tolerated.
that
is, in fact, why Martin Luther King
was
taken from us.
of
course the Russians,
and
every other government capable of it,
spy
on each other.
all
diseased people
who feel the need to lead
turn
out to be paranoid.
it's
quite the nature of the beast.
and
this unrelenting insistence
on secrecy
(thus preempting
the unthinkable situation
of an honestly informed Citizenry)
coupled
with
an exponentially expanding,
virtually limitless
eavesdropping
on us
is
the precedent
our very own
"transparency president" set
(at an astronomical, "1984"-shaming level).
but
blaming our fiasco of an election
on
Boris and Natasha,
notwithstanding
its fashionable nod
to
McCarthy's apple-pie,
with-us-or-against-us,
righter-than-white tradition,
is a desperate and pathetic slap
of last ditch projection.
a
refusal to face
what several decades
of
bipartisan defunding
of the commons
was
all about.
a
denial par excellence
of
the quadrennial circus'
descending
death rattle
dearth
of choice.
an
acrobatic avoidance
of
the 'Democratic' un-Democratic
primary race,
the
FBI's final-hour,
branch-breaching sneak attack,
and
the graceless coup de grace
of
Hillary casting aspersions
on
the very people she needed
to
cast swing votes
for her.
if
it's so upsetting to contemplate
the
latest hatching of
congenitally disingenuous,
purchasable
persons
discussing
invariably
hidden-from-their-people
inter-conspiratorial
relations
with
their Russian counterparts,
why
wasn't there a REVOLUTION
when the courageous,
recovered acolyte
(Edward Snowden),
that
fugitive from American-style "justice"
held
at bay by 'liberal' yapping hounds,
informed
us that President Obama
(he
who chased him to the ends of the earth)
was
sharing all of our private and personal,
constitution-protected
communications and data
with
the "five eyes"
(the national spy outfits of
Britain,
Australia, New Zealand, and Canada)?
can
it be that this
ridiculously
misplaced thing
called 'patriotism'
(this
fear-based grist
for manufacturing walls
between human beings)
only
gets offended,
or swells into deputized censors
when
the 'foreigners'
raising our
eternally vigilant eyebrows
don't
speak English?
funny,
that.
**** * * ****
-
Evan Hawthorn, the 26th of February, 2017
