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Advancing the Civilized State: Inch by Bloody Inch
Satire
By
William A. Cook, Ph.D.
08/02/08 "ICH"
-- -- - There are those who condemn Israel’s siege of Gaza,
penning plaintive polemics against the barbaric behavior
exhibited by the IDF forces as they seal the inhabitants behind
cement walls that would be the envy of Edgar Allen Poe had he
lived to see this day. How paltry his stories appear now when
placed in opposition to the technological advancements the
Israelis have employed. Contrast the mealy mouthed weeping of
the narrator of “The Black Cat” who fulminates about the affect
alcohol produced in him as he cements his loving wife behind his
wall having struck her a savage blow with his hatchet or the
vengeful narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado” who tricks his
friend into the basement wine cellar where he is likewise
entombed behind a brick wall; contrast those childish attempts
to rouse the deepest emotions of fear in the reader with the
horror our advanced civilization has achieved by entombing 1.5
million, in full view of the civilized western world that sits
transfixed before their television sets in envious wonder and
watch the slow calculated decimation of Palestinians achieved
through scientifically designed experiments that are used to
sell the newest technologically advanced military ordinance,
state of the art surveillance equipment, and psychologically
tested torture techniques to the highest bidder.
One can only
marvel at the entrepreneurial efforts the Israeli government
takes to ensure an economic future for its nascent companies
that must compete with older industrial nations many of whom are
subsidized by socialist governments or by corporate tax
incentives. One need only recall how inferior and uncivilized
the efforts of our forebears were in dealing with the problems
associated with extermination of their enemies to recognize the
superiority of the Israeli government’s actions: mark how the
early Israelites surrounded the city of Jericho anxiously
awaiting with great trepidation G-d’s word to tear down its
walls and savage every living thing inside, women, children, ox
and ass; or how the renowned doctors of the Roman Catholic
Church in its earliest years attempted to exterminate the
heretical Gnostics who preached that Jesus did not demand
allegiance to an organized church to be saved, an obvious and
blatant error since it did not uphold the exclusivity of the
chosen, and for those crimes they were routinely burned at the
stake; or how Innocent the III created the Albigensian Crusade
to exterminate the Cathar sect from Provencal and Bosnia and
Tuscany in the first decade of the 13th century lest
their condemnation of the corruption of the church be taken
seriously, for which errors they, too, were burned at the stake
or tortured and made to suffer a brutal and prolonged death; or,
more recently, the efforts of the Nazi regime in the fourth
decade of the 20th century to eradicate the Jewish
population, Gypsies, and political dissidents beginning in 1938
at Kristolnacht with the forceful takeover of businesses,
expulsions, and incarceration in ghettoes, efforts that resulted
in death by disease, starvation, or slaughter by German
soldiers, a grizzly and totally unacceptable savagery. Such were
the primitive methods employed to force compliance and eventual
extermination of those questioning the will of the state.
Fortunately, these less than civilized methodologies have been
superseded by the progressive methods enjoyed by our democratic
brethren in Israel. It will be noted that the above cases
required a frontal engagement with the offending people putting
the innocent soldiers in danger of their lives should the
citizens of Jericho fight back or the Gnostics join in an
alliance to counter the church’s move to eradicate them or the
Cathars enlist the protection of favorable Lords and Dukes.
Needless to say in all cases, the extent of the action could not
be hidden from public view since each required armies of
considerable size, 50,000 peasant soldiers in the case of the
Crusade, to destroy the enemy.
By
contrast, Israel uses unmanned drones and computer driven
bulldozers to wage its devastation on the Palestinians, ensuring
that no Israeli soldier is put in harms way. Satellite
photography serves to record the outcomes of the drones’
effectiveness so that client states seeking to understand the
virtues of this modern method of stabilization of errant
populations can be satisfied. The same might be said of the
electronic fencing and the electrification of the 25 foot cement
monoliths that serve as the imprisoning wall. Since the soldiers
are housed in towers that oversee the people incarcerated and
have available computer monitors that scan the walls’
parameters, there is no danger for the Israeli soldiers although
they are in a commanding position to kill at will. And it goes
without saying that the modern torture techniques, done at
undisclosed locations behind closed doors efficiently and
surreptitiously, are also recorded for client viewing. All of
these methodologies improve on the older more savage,
uncivilized procedures cited above. No Israeli is placed in a
compromising position, yet the ability of the IDF to control the
populace and impose its will on a defenseless species is
absolute.
Nowhere else in the world has a nation a like situation, one so
perfectly designed to provide for a world in a state of fear
caused by the rise of “terrorism,” that can be used as an
experimental playpen to record human behavior under siege
whether it is elicited by the sudden presence of the silent
drones that hurl missiles into buildings and streets purporting
to assassinate a known militant, or a trained sniper, from the
security of his armored protected tower, that kills children or
women who get too close to the wall, or IDF soldiers that serve
as interrogators or torturers or observers that record the
behavior of the persons tortured. No other state is so advanced
in its design of security measures tested on a population that
has no means of fighting back except in the futile act of
suicide brought on by despair and hopelessness.
Consider, then, the bravery of the Israeli government as it
publicly promotes its siege of Gaza to an astonished world.
Heretofore, Israel had maintained a shroud of silence over its
efforts to subdue and ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from
their homeland. Indeed, the world hardly noticed that it had
annexed all but 14% of the original Palestinian land since 1967,
a slow, tedious and costly process that could unravel at any
moment.
Two pressing events have intervened that enabled the government
to advance its cleansing policy despite the negative sentiments
expressed by the liberal press. With the American President in
his last year in office, the desirability of cleansing Gaza of
all Palestinians became evident even though that same President
had called for a peace initiative by the end of his term. Since
no one expected anyone to pay attention to the lame duck
President, now was the time to advance actions that would make
life unbearable for Palestinians and force them to leave or die.
The government assumed that Egypt could be induced to take the
remnants of the population into the Sinai and let Israel annex
Gaza.
The second event ensured that little interest would be devoted
to the suffering of the Palestinians since the economic collapse
of the U.S. dollar and its reverberation throughout the world
would take priority in the press and main stream media,
especially in the U.S., England and Europe. The impending
instability caused by the recession and probable depression
would require states to redouble their efforts to control their
own people through tighter security; that in turn provides
Israel with the opportunity to demonstrate to the world at large
the virtues of its unmanned drones used for surveillance and
missile attacks on unsuspecting people, the electronic
monitoring of government secured buildings, military training
grounds, industrial complexes, and prison facilities, and
lastly, the scientifically researched psychological procedures
used to elicit confessions from enemy combatants, techniques
designed by government supported and funded professionals.
Consider the carefully calculated research that designed this
progressive set of procedures to avoid the pitfalls of prior
methodologies of extermination. A review of the most recent
atrocity, the Nazi regimes brutal attempt to eliminate the
Jewish people from Europe, will suffice. Two distinct failures
resulted from the Nazi experience: swiftness of execution
results in observable blunders, the most obvious of which is
exposure of the methodologies to the general public, and,
secondly, to experiment with extermination without
scientifically caging the species under experiment in sealed,
controlled areas of investigation invites criticism and eventual
condemnation.
Analysis of the Nazi efforts
disclosed that the experiment should not be undertaken until the
species is adequately isolated and the procedures can be
appropriately monitored. To advance the experiment by moving
across borders that have not been cleansed of foreign elements,
as was the case when the SS set up the Warsaw Ghetto in a
foreign country, was doomed to failure even though cautionary
procedures were taken to ensure success like the utilization of
IDs, confinement, transportation infrastructures, sub camps and
labor camps. It should be noted that establishment of each of
these measures imposed a heavy and unnecessary economic burden
on the civilized state requiring constant monitoring. Under
proper procedures, the isolation of the experiment can result in
a complete eradication of the species without those
expenditures. None of these procedures could contain the purpose
of the experiment from outside observation, indeed most of them
achieved the opposite result. However, research established that
a sealed enclosure controlled by the experimenter would ensure
that outside observation would likewise be controlled by the
experimenter. It followed as well, that swiftness of execution,
eight years in the case of Nazi Germany, forced the effort into
the public domain before the experiment could be brought to
completion.
Consequently, as we observe the
process utilized by the Sharon and Olmert governments in
Palestine, we note the recognized need to erect an appropriate
enclosure that seals off the intended species of the experiment
into enclaves behind 25 foot walls or electrified chain link
fences patrolled by the IDF as described above. Since it is the
experimenters that control both egress and ingress to the sealed
off experiment area, interference by outside observers is
minimized and on-going recording of behavior inside the
experimental cage is ensured.
Of particular benefit to the
experiment is the elimination of accomplishing its goals in an
abbreviated period of time. Swiftness of execution is removed as
a necessity since no one not engaged in the experiment knows
what is happening to the species under examination. Indeed, by
slowing down the process, more extensive research into human
behavior suffering from prolonged exposure to loss of health –
sickness, distemper, indisposition, qualms, nausea, dyspepsia,
malnutrition, seasickness, prostration, consumption, paralysis,
shock, shaking palsy, ague, famine fever, scabies, cankers,
shingles, infections, prickly heat, indigestion, loathing,
aversion, isolation, despair, and hopelessness – contributes to
our scientifically observed ailments and psychologically
examined behaviors thus providing cures for those suffering such
maladies within the dominant society responsible for carrying
out the experiments, a benefit that lifts this contemporary
methodology far above the primitive experiments itemized
above.
Perhaps the most significant experiments, and no doubt the most
useful to client states, are those being developed in the
advanced areas of mind control, obedience development and
information transferal resulting from the new scientific
empirical processes developed for systemized excruciation.
Suffice it to say that the Israeli
experimenters have premised their research on the most current
scientific theories, most especially “Living Systems Theory.”
Clearly, Israeli scientists recognized that the enclosed cage
provided a unique opportunity to witness, over a prolonged
period of time, the consequences of systematic deprivation of
life sustaining subsystems that support living organisms
interacting within their environment. Living Systems Theory
cites supranatural organizations like the European Economic
Community as illustrative of the outcomes that can result by
manipulation of subsystems within complex species that depend on
their sustenance for survival.
Noting that the essence of life is process, the Israeli
experimenters have calculatingly and gradually removed the
required subsystems from the Gaza species beginning with the
elimination of electricity that maintained the flow of energy to
businesses and households thus impairing the use of
refrigerators, ovens, lights, furnaces, automobiles and
sanitation systems. Observation of the reaction by the species
to this interference in the normal process of societal operation
revealed some anticipated but also some unanticipated outcomes:
for example, people resorted to ancient and/or obsolete
utilities to offset the destruction of their infrastructure,
i.e. the use of candles, kerosene, and donkeys; health
conditions deteriorated as sewage systems were made inoperable
causing outbreaks of diarrhea, dyspepsia, and acidity; and,
unexpectedly, symptoms arose that suggested an outbreak of
indisposition, distemper, and acute anger among numerous of the
species.
Having duly recorded these observations, the experimenters
interfered with a second process of the 20 needed subsystems
that sustain the living, self-organizing system that constitutes
the Palestinian community at Gaza: they sealed off all egress
and ingress from the strip forcing the complete closure of all
economic traffic that provided access to goods and services to
the people. Observation of the reaction by the species to this
interference in the normal process resulted in the following
postulates: complete obstruction of required subsystems results
in (1) a transference of the normal negative reaction of the
people to the experimenters, heretofore seen as colonialist
occupiers, to the agents of the community’s governing group
since there is no other outlet for their desperate plight; (2)
the community assumes a gradual, yet perceivable degradation of
personal health as the hospitals run out of necessary supplies
to care for the sick and injured; and (3) symptoms of
frustration, hypertension, distemper, hysteria, neuroses,
delusional dreams of love, and near insanity gradually surface
and gain in intensity as the weeks pass. These outcomes of the
experiment were encouraging signs that the modifications made in
the Nazi processes of extermination would ensure positive
results in time.
The last and most provocative disruption of the living system
followed, the complete severance of food supplies to the
species. Observation confirmed the anticipated consequences of
this interference, malnutrition, disease, consumption, and death
by starvation. However, one unanticipated consequence surfaced:
people broke through the barriers that sealed them into their
cage. Experimenters were forced to note that total interference
with the living system forces the species to resort to
instinctive reactions like self-survival to overcome the
interference and, perhaps as importantly, forces the
experimenters to record the impact of that instinct on the
external community that could observe the desperate actions
taken by the laboratory specimens resulting in an expressed
sympathy for the victims. Conclusion: individuals, even those
contained within a controlled extermination experiment, cannot
be made indifferent to their condition and will by force, in
face of personal danger or even death, choose to fight the
experimenters. Corollary: the will to endure, in time, conquers
the conqueror.
Strange how the most civilized of the world in their time carry
on experiments in extermination of their brothers and sisters,
not as conquerors, but as victims of an evil they define.
Stranger still how the most civilized find justice for their
behavior in the words of the God they created, the only real and
true God, whose beneficence to them justifies their indifference
to their enemies even as it makes sacred the theft of that
enemies’ land. Yet more strange is the sanctimonious efforts
that follow their extermination and conquest to establish, with
all those who watched the butchery, a document that testifies to
the equality of all humans, a universal declaration of human
rights to ensure that it will never, never, never, ever happen
again – until more land is needed and God’s word, newly
interpreted, justifies yet another extermination of the
infidel.
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