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The national nervous breakdown
Don Nash
11/22/04 "ICH" -- The President of the United States was in Santiago, Chile attending a meeting of the Pacific Rim nations. So the elites are going to have a banquet and Bush gets in through the front door and his S.S. guy gets caught up in the crush and loses his normal position of at the elbow of the President. The Chilean security guys aren’t going to allow the S.S. guy to get in the front door and a scuffle ensues. Our commander in cheese George Bush, must go back to where the scuffle is happening at the front door and push his way into the melee and grab his S.S. guy and drag him into the aforementioned banquet. One potential presidential brawl is summarily defused.
The Indiana Pacers are being hosted by the Detroit Pistons for a little b-ball. A player for the Indiana Pacers decides that he is going to foul a Pistons player on a drive to the hoop. The Pistons player takes exception to the deliberate foul by the Pacers player and “the brawl” ensues. Not one of your regular everyday brawls, this brawl is one for the record books. Into the stands dives the Indiana Pacers and they’re going preemptive on the fans of the Detroit Pistons. This is the kind of action that every fan of the NBA dreams about. The extraordinary opportunity to get themselves knocked out cold by one of the NBA’s highly paid celebrities. In the numerous replays of the “brawl” that were everywhere on television, one Detroit fan got exactly what he had been dreaming about. Holmes got himself knocked smooth out by one of the Indiana Pacers players that sucker punched home-boy for stepping out onto the b-ball floor.
The University of South Carolina is hosting the Clemson Tigers for their annual ‘in state’ rivalry. Or possibly the hosting was the other way around, it really doesn’t matter. The farm teams for the NFL were brawling before the football game even started. The quarterback for one of the teams got his eye poked out at the bottom of a pile of players after a tackle. Brawl. One team scores a touchdown and the other team doesn’t like it and...brawl! Preemption, preemption everywhere and there is no lack of violence and preemption. One season ending in state rivalry that would have barely made the South Carolina local news, is headline news nationally. Brawling has become headline news. The South Carolina vs. Clemson brawl is shown over and over with the pundit commentary on how shocking and unprofessional this all is. No doubt. One shouldn’t forget that these guys are still youngsters. Emotional, tightly wound, futures on the line youngsters.
These three disparate and unusual events are all inextricably linked to America’s current state of psychosis. It is also commentary on the United States of America as a nation that is on the verge of a national nervous breakdown. The psychosis was birthed in November 2000. When George Bush was appointed president by the Supreme Court in December 2000, the entire nation knew instinctively that it was wrong. When George Bush withdrew the U.S. from the Kyoto Accord, the nation knew it was wrong. Not much was ever mentioned but instinctively, the nation knew this was a bad move.
The American people were beginning to know fear.September11,2001and everyone’s worst fears were reality. The nagging little voice of conscience that every American heard, was whispering that with George W. Bush at the helm of state, this was going to turn out bad.
Post 9/11/01 and Congress gave America the Patriot Act. We all knew this was Constitutionally wrong. The Bush administration gave America and the world the “war on terror” and it just didn’t ring true. As abjectly horrible as the events of 9/11/01 were, this was still an act of criminal homicide. Massive homicide and the police were shut out of the investigation. Americans knew this was a blown assignment by the Bush administration and Americans knew this was going to be a Keystone Cops screw up galore. America’s psychosis was growing exponentially with every day that passed after 9/11/01. No one wanted to mention it or debate it publicly. Fears that are not processed therapeutically result in psychosis. Psychosis acts itself out pathologically.
The Bush administration took America’s psychotic panic and sense of fear and they exacerbated the climate and turned the American people into a population of babbling accomplices to secrecy. The American people gave their hard won open democratic form of government over to the Bush fear-mongers and we received back the dreaded “threat level index” compliments of Tommy the Baron Ridge. America’s panic and fear level was manipulated on a daily basis with every issue of the newest “terrorist threat” and two days later it would be revealed that “well that intelligence was not reliable.” Americans have been on an emotional psychotic roller coaster ever since.
Anthrax scares and dirty bomb scares by secretly detained Americans. Every American knew or should have known that detaining Americans was illegal and unconstitutional. Had any New York detective been allowed to work the anthrax case and the chances are exceptionally good that the case would have been solved. The case is still unsolved and there is another fear that Americans live with and internalize. The detainee issue gnaws at the American psyche and we all know it is evil and inhumane. The Bush administration simply declares that “we have the right to hold the detainees without due process” and that is pure crap on a crisp.
The fabric of American society is frayed and wearing thin. Bush’s preemptive war on Iraq was, is, and will be illegal. The rationale used by the Bush gang was deceit pure and simple. Bush deceived Congress, the American people, and the world community. It doesn’t matter how one might care to wrap this deceit, it is illegal by U.S. Constitutional law, United Nations charter law, and according to the Geneva Convention. You can’t wrap Bush’s deceit in an American flag and make his atrocity into something that is worthy of patriotic praise. You can’t drag Bush’s deceit into church and then expect God to anoint his atrocity as a “holy crusade” and I don’t care how big General Jesus Boykin’s god is. The collective conscience of the American people know and they know deep down, the U.S. has been taken down a road of illegal deceit and preemptive war that is now a very real genocide and war crime.
The national nervous breakdown is about one more rush hour traffic jam away from tearing this country apart. Regular American family is sitting at home and nervously wondering if they will be able to keep their jobs and homes. The American service families sit at home and wonder if their children will be just another body bag or worse. An Iraq casualty that will spend the rest of a wasted life doing rehab for a war wound that should never have been inflicted in the first place. These are real and tangible fears. They eat at the American conscience and America is on the edge. America is on the verge of a national nervous collapse.
George Bush just got himself re-elected to another four year term. America’s big deal media concerns are telling us that it is so. Why aren’t the actual results reported as verified? Every American knows and they know full well that the election was suspect and Bush’s re-election is suspect. That fear is as tangible as the fear of another terrorist attack on our beloved country. Will the next attack be the “nuclear” one? Is mommy putting the children to bed with the complete reassurance that America is truly safe? Mommy is putting her children to bed and lays awake at night worrying about a tomorrow for her children. Mom’s fear are real and they are on the verge of going ballistic at the next PTA meeting. George W. Bush and his entire administration whether it is the one that is leaving or the one that is getting ready to work a little more fear on America, is responsible. So, if I can steal a line from Mick Jagger, here comes your national nervous breakdown. Psychotic fear can and should be treated. Brawls and breakdowns can and must be treated. George Bush is an entirely different matter and the American people need to start thinking about impeachment. Openly, realistically, and without fear.
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