JANUARY 2008
Duck, Cover, Upchuck
by Frank Scott
So the evil Iranians menaced our warships, and all just
because those
ships were sailing in their waters, thousands of miles
from our own
shores. Isn't it shocking? And the fact that our media
repeated every
word of the absolutely ridiculous and hilarious if it
weren’t so
dangerous story as though it was all true? Why that’s
just our
democratic freedom in action.
While AIPAC and the evangelical zionists in Washington
were all pressing
the panic button, millions of Americans had to be
laughing if not crying
at this patently absurd scare story, but our leadership
either rattled
word sabers or remained in stunned silence waiting for
its orders. Was
this a Comedy Central production, with idiotic dialog
that might be
expected during the writers strike?
Luckily, once again the fissures in our ruling class
revealed
themselves, as only one day after this science fiction
story broke,
another revelation was made even though millions knew it
years ago: the
famed Tonkin Gulf incident which got us into the Viet Nam
war was a
contrived nonevent. The president and congress, with only
one outspoken
dissent, rushed into a war that killed millions of
Southeast Asians,
more than fifty thousand Americans and tore the nation
apart for years ,
for a fiendish lie foisted on the people by a disgraceful
government and
a willing and compliant media .
Could it happen again? Of course, given the gullibility
of so many under
the thought control of so few, but sectors of the ruling
class who fear
the current regime will destroy their system, rose to the
occasion once
again. That's the good news, the bad being that among our
alleged
representatives there was either collective silence or
the usual
rumblings of anti-Iranian bigotry and war talk. What’s
a democratic
nation to do?
Of course, the resounding laughter and snorts of
disbelief from so many
helped to bring more rational stories to the surface.
Like, the whole
thing was a fabrication, due to nervousness on the part
of young
sailors, or a production of the Iranian version of The
Daily Show. And
the timing, to coincide with our Doofus leader’s
visit to our fifty
first state, Israel? Just a coincidence, having nothing
to do with
Israel’s endless war against Islam, and especially
Iran, seen as the
center of threats to the Jewish apartheid settler state,
now that
Saddam’s Iraq is no more. But though the temptation
to laugh
hysterically is always there, these idiots in power
cannot be dismissed
easily, especially with the sorry lot of alleged
opponents running for
Corporate America’s top government service position:
the presidency .
Listening to the pundit putzocrats shaping our
consciousness on the next
election won’t help much at all, given the paparazzi
nature of their
coverage and analysis. A public seemingly polled every
fifteen minutes
and with an attention span changing faster than their
numbers can be
dialed has already confused the witch doctors of media
into beginning
the ending of the beginning of one or another campaign
deemed the hot
pick of the week, then glorifying inane comments and
pointless
statements by any candidate who seems photogenic enough
for page one
highlights on the non news hour. After polls totally
miscalculated one
vote, a richly financed establishment favorite was said
to have become
the “comeback” candidate, and this after a
grand total of two small
turnouts of voters in two very small states totaling a
tiny fractional
percentile of the national population , and as tiny a
fraction of their
respective eligible voter populations. Wowee!
In this environment, an honest poll taken of everyone in
the country
would probably show that more than seventy percent weren’t
even remotely
concerned about the elections to come later this year,
while a small
group would be passionately involved, though not nearly
as well informed
about the candidates as they were about some celebrity's
bout with
divorce, drugs or sex. The best financed presidential
wannabes said to
be against the war all vote to fund it, and make weasel
statements about
ending the war in the right way, responsibly redeploying
troops, or only
leaving enough there to protect our bases. And these oily
word meisters
receive screaming support from a supporter base as
desperate for hope as
starving children for a crust of bread, thus reduced to
accepting the
intellectual garbage stuffed into their heads and even
praying that they
can mentally digest it and that all will turn out well
when it is
recycled at the toilet. Which seems to be where things
are at the moment.
Ready to flush? Not all at once, please.
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