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'There Are Cracks in Everything'
That's how the light gets in
By Jim Kirwan
06/13/07 "ICH" -- -- Every nation has a set of myths by which
its people live and die; the USA is no exception. We just
finished Memorial Day and soon we'll be approaching the
tortured-celebrations of July 4th. Both these national
spotlights involve public mythologies that have guided this
nation for decades; yet the events that these holidays are meant
to commemorate are no longer even remotely questioned. War is
cheap for most Americans, because the lesser people among us
fight our wars not us!
We are approaching the seventh year of national denial and
treachery. US foreign policy is in shambles, as is the
enforcement of national and international laws that we
supposedly abide by. At home we have become the mirror opposite
of who and what we say we are: just look at the survivors of New
Orleans, at the homeless, at the unemployed and at the sick as
well as the disillusioned that roam this land like the living
dead that they are fast becoming.
The government has used the spineless public to turn each agency
of this government into its own mirror opposite. EPA is in
charge of destroying the environment-not saving it. FDA spreads
disease and contamination through the food and water supply,
instead of protecting it - while it's supposed task of
monitoring the world of legal drugs has been sold to those same
companies that they were created to monitor and oversee. It's
the same throughout the government in every federal agency
beginning with the so-called Department of Justice that writes
laws to licensee torture while justifying the suppression of
Habeas Corpus: making a total farce out of anything remotely
resembling Justice. However since the Supreme Court violated its
duty to protect and defend the Constitution when they appointed
George W. Bush-it could be said that 'Justice' was just
following the example of nation's Supreme Court. Congress
eagerly also joined in the bloodless coup when they illegally
gave away their constitutional powers of legislative oversight
and financial control over the executive-to that same executive
they were charged with guarding the public against.
If we dissolved congress, because they no longer represent the
public, and the Supreme Court because they violated the
Constitution that they are charged with protecting-we could
officially declare ourselves to be the dictatorship that we have
become. At least then we could eliminate all the confusion among
the legalities and the actual powers themselves that have become
so distorted under a congress that no longer functions and a
court system that supports our enemies.
The truth is we are no longer a Republic. The United States of
America has been taken over by the corporations and by their
insatiable greed for profits. The American public opted out of
that discussion and has begun their own private descent into the
horrors of wage-slavery that will end when the sharks run out of
companies to buy or other nations to suppress: If you doubt
this, just look at the maps for all those places we have
selected for 'Regime Change.' It's a long list and every one of
those targeted nations has major deposits of oil. In Iraq alone
there is $21 Trillion worth of oil under their sand-and we've
promised the oil companies that we're not leaving without it.
When our political puppets made that promise, most likely in
those secret meetings that Cheney held in his offices back in
January of 2001 while creating America's energy polices: From
that day, this nation has become an Outlaw Regime, and in the
interim we have finally become the leading Rogue-State in the
world today.
This all happened because too few questioned those myths by
which we have lived. Our national history is a lie: because the
truth and all its attendant crimes have been suppressed. We did
not bring Democracy & Freedom to the more than 50 nations that
we overthrew: we brought them tyranny, corruption, chaos and
murder-but we brought them these "gifts" in the guise of Freedom
& Democracy. So many nations contain the horror-stories of
invasions by the United States, and the dark memories that we
left them with, long after our appetites for their natural
resources were used up or forcibly removed.
We have the world's largest nuclear arsenal, the same with
Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction, and we now have one of the most
unbalanced leaders that the world has ever seen. We and Israel,
our barbaric and principal partner in these crimes, have become
the major threat to world peace and stability. Yet it is we who
continue to call for 'Regime-Change' in country after country:
We who continue to threaten and invade other nations. It is we
who continue to defy the United Nations and the global community
of nations. We do this in the name of promoting 'universal peace
and democracy,' and the only ones who believe that lie are those
who spread it.
The myth is and was that we are 'fighting to protect America and
Americans around the world.' The fact is we are using mercenary
forces in conjunction with the US military and taxpayer dollars
to suppress liberty and freedom in the name of corporate theft
and greed the world over.
If the USA still had a draft we could not have done these crimes
because the public would naturally have wanted to know the exact
reasons for putting their loved ones in harm's way. But since
ending the draft was necessary to being able to stop the Vietnam
War-a war that threatened to destroy the US military from
within-we no longer have that safeguard to protect the world
from our national arrogance and greed.
All of this fit nicely within that plan for the inside job that
was the crime of 911. That was a major crime that we allowed
this government to immediately brand, within 33 minutes after
the explosions, as an attack by a hostile power without even
considering any other possibility: Yet even as the evidence was
being assembled and hauled away to finish off the cover-up, the
United States was launching our first attacks on Afghanistan,
and the rest is 'history.'
In all that time amid all the blood that we have spilled
including about 3500 of our own uniformed troops, not to mention
the draining of the treasury, or the looting of the entire
federal system of checks & balances along with the Bill of
Rights: The Decider continued to promise us that he has "changed
course," yet he has continued to "Stay-the-Course" right up to
this moment.
If we had representatives inside the government we could have
stopped this, but our "protectors" are the same "lawmakers" that
stood by while the Decider and his Outlaws stripped the public
of our basic protections from our own government: which was the
whole point behind the US Constitution in the first place.
That's where we've been going during these New Dark Ages of the
Old World Order under 'The Decider.' What is fast approaching is
a widening and possibly irreversible 'next step.' This was
announced yesterday by Senator Joseph Lieberman, a self-declared
Independent who in reality speaks for Dick Cheney in this case.
Lieberman said that 'we must threaten Iran with air strikes and
military reprisals for training Iraqi's and for supplying
weapons that are killing Americans in Iraq.' Apparently the
Senator is unaware that: "IRAN has threatened to launch a
missile blitz against the Gulf states and plunge the entire
Middle East into war if America attacks its nuclear facilities.
Admiral Ali Shamkhani, a senior defense adviser to the supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that Gulf States
providing the US with military cooperation would be the key
targets of a barrage of ballistic missiles.
Shamkhani told the US journal Defense News that missiles would
be launched not only at US military bases but also at strategic
targets such as oil refineries and power stations." (1)
Since 911the US flag has played a crucial role for the American
public in this entire obscene saga. That flag of three colors
once represented the people of this Republic along with their
courage and the honor of its citizens. Yet the way that flag is
now being used by the White House it should be changed from
its vibrant colors to the simplicity of black & white. We have
become two dimensional uncritical cowards, human robots in a
world that blindly follows self-appointed fools that dictate
from beyond the laws and from beyond the boundaries of all
that's needed to live with others, in a world where justice and
prosperity can flourish equally.
America no longer builds or seeks to compete in a
world-marketplace where creativity or freedom can be tolerated.
We no longer compete for success-today we simply kill or steal
it. Our citizens have become sheep that shall soon become even
less, because too many have refused to fight those that have
truly come to kill us. The enemy we need to fear is here, and
the threat to all Americans increases daily.
Too many of us have given up on the great dreams, and instead
chose by default to embrace only "math science & money." There
is no music, no art, critical-thinking is no longer taught or
encouraged anywhere. The language along with individual personal
courage and honor, have been butchered: Our youth are taught to
follow orders, schooled in 'how to fit in,' and are encouraged
to become a number instead of a person. The results of this sad
state are everywhere around us: Look at our prisons, look at our
non-existent medical care, at the state of the compact that
gives our silent partners (the State) permission to steal what
we must work for, just to live each and every day. Black & White
and prison gray is what we've earned, and if we do not begin
that struggle soon then that fate is all that most of us will
ever come to know. Ron Paul has some suggestions that can be
thought about. (2)
Gore Vidal also comments on the sorry state of this once proud
nation. (3)
Challenge the US myth of invincibility by questioning the true
history of this nation; so that when the Fourth of July rolls
round again, you will at least know about the actual state of
this nation. Then ask if you dare: is this what I really want to
give those that will come after us.
Kirwan's work has been in print nationally and
internationally since the mid-1970’s in the form of posters,
prints, puzzles and note cards -
http://www.kirwanesque.com/
Notes
1) Iran Threatens Gulf Blitz
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1909896.ece
1a) Military Plan Against Iran is
Ready
http://tinyurl.com/ywb8bj
1b) Pace Axed Because He Opposed Nuking Iran?
http://www.rense.com/general76/pace.htm
2. Enjoy the music video
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=105429
3) Understanding America's
Terrorist Crisis What Should Be Done
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17828.htm
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