Afghanistan Bananastand Redux

It's really happening.

Like a scenario from a high-tech political thriller with Orwellian overtones, the fleecing of America is occurring right in front of our disbelieving eyes. Through years of induced passivity and using the people's innate pride and loyalty against them, the infrastructure was put in place and the sting was executed.

Hell, it's going on now.

The fraudulent grounds for what will be an even larger haul than what was bagged by The Shakedown in Iraq have been laid out by the latest Bush henchman Machine Gun Henry Paulson and his sidekick Binky Bernanke: almost a trillion buckeroos pulled from the remaining orifices of the now officially comatose American public to bail out the very wankers who have picked them clean. Wow. Even Winston Smith is dumbfounded.

It's like watching a rape from a few feet away only nobody's screaming and nobody cares. So desensitized and dehumanized is the American public that the thieves are sure to get away clean. This will surely become a fascinating chapter in the history of the late, great United States for future students to study. They will see the deleterious effects of constant exposure to television, an educational and entertainment tool that was used for nefarious purposes by Those Greedy Bastards. They will build dioramas of the massive shopping boxes which perched like roach motels in cities and towns, drawing people in to consume beyond their means to digest, beyond their means to afford. They will study the steady reduction of standards of education and information, the virtual obliteration of history and they will note the side effects: progressive brain softening and deterioration of free will and the diminution of once proud swaths of the American public to atrophied, docile clods, roused only when their sugar is withheld or one of their pagan gods is criticized.

It's bold, it's brazen and it's bound to work. It is working.

What to do, what to do?

Voting? Well, yeah, sorta, maybe. Another institution that's been reduced to white trash thrill ride: "Hey, Vern! Move the ferris wheel axle off the flatbed so we can git to the Diebold underneath! It's almost November!" It's kinda like that other fusty amusement: religion. Pull the lever and pray.

Blog? Well, it is a definite alternative to the mainstream media, the modern equivalent of a communal bathing pond filled with criers and decriers, a place where the proles with book learnin' can encounter those without, sans rules and regs and hope that logic surfaces alongside the scum. (And a place where metaphors can reproduce with the alacrity of yeast).

Revolution? Well, yeah, except that the sense in which it would actually be effective requires real sacrifice and mass organization. Everyone's got to be on the same page and know that the corrupt legions who stand between you and Democracy will fight tooth and nail to keep their oligarchical status intact. Clip the right wing by turning off its propaganda machines, laugh at their comedian-spokespersons, call them on their lies, STOP CONSUMING LIKE ZOMBIES!!!!!

How about only for a week. Or two weeks. It's all about money (duh!); that's what they care about. They don't really care about moment of conception, they don't really care about lifestyle choices, they don't really care about establishing democracies or freedom or health or education or anything else that is actually essential to life on this planet, the one we are on for only a short goddamn while.

I don't advocate bloody dissent. I do advocate people waking up and getting active for the coming push: the one in which the crooks make one final play to stamp out the last vestiges of American liberty, the inalienable rights of Americans to pursue lives free from tyranny and corruption.

Afghanistan Bananastand: snap out of it.

Comments

[SurferKit]

Clipping the right wing, turning off its propaganda machines, laughing at their comedic talking heads, and calling them on their lies, I can do.

What's tougher is fighting the fear mongers and the fantasy logic. What I've started doing is building up a cache of facts to hit the fear mongers, and the ones spouting their fantasy logic over the head with whenever I encounter the obvious tired old objections to voting for Obama. I can't tell you what a difference it makes when you use facts over fantasy in an argument.

I can tell you firsthand, it works.

[libladyohio]

It just drives me nuts, so many just aren't smart enough, or not attentive enough, or distracted enough, or all of these things to grasp what is in motion. For whatever reason not enough people can see the big picture, or even care to try to do that.

It time for people to WAKE UP!!!

JFK wrote a book after WWII called "Why England Slept" or something like that. Well. much of America has been sleeping, distracted by "American Idol " or whatever.

Read the Naomis people, Wolfe and Klein, they get it and have both sounded the alarm. The threat is real and could easily make our lives much harder very soon if the people don't rise up.

[princessofnowt]

Latest from Naomi Wolf:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/the-battle-plan-ii-sarah_b_128393.html

comment I liked on there:
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Sadly, these words are apt:

(The version inscribed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. reads)

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me.

We must speak now for everyone who holds what this nation can still become dear, it's past notwithstanding.

[piquet]

99% of my post points directly back at American Citizen because that is where the war truly is.
As a soldier of discipline the "way" of American has been offending my sensibilities for quite some time. I no longer have the patience or stamina to go toe to toe with ignorance and 2 dimensional conclusions. "My War" is with my neighbor, friends and even family if they have the limited capacity to only feed at the buffet of bumper sticker philosophy or the brand that has no interest in your own existence.

Until YOU have the courage to TURN OUR BACKS on "your" local fear mongerer and fantasy logic we will not create the systemic "vision" necessary to WAKE PEOPLE UP from their fog of religiocracy that has become the tool of the autocrats hell bent on micromanaging your thought process.
I too can not promote violent revolution because of common sense law that we need to maintain moderate control. What I can do is alienate your ideas and render you useless in the real process of evolution that WILL not be bogged down by redneck chants of gluttony and greed.

So I ask. Are YOU willing to cut those personal anchors loose from your life and allow them to drift in their sea of insecurity? I have and let me tell you. If you "feel" or can actually "see" it's a breath of fresh air knowing that you are no longer responsible for trying to save "stupid".

[kellygrrrl]

I am With YOU!!!!!

I, too, no longer have the patience or tolerance for HYPOCRISY and WILLFUL IGNORANCE

[beingrepubwontmakeurich]

Hey piquet - between you, the ever-articluate Mr. Weber, and a mighty "harumph" outta kellygrrrl here I have nothing left to add. Except RIGHT ON!