Please God, deliver us from the banality of evil

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/6859

Please God, deliver us from the banality of evil
by Jason Miller | Apr 17 2007

"I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler".
---Paul Robeson

Virtually every day our mendacious corporate media publicizes the farcical “debate” between officials of the Bush Regime and Congress. While numerous polls have indicated that over 2/3 of US Americans want an end to the war in Iraq, and voters positioned the Democrats to exercise the will of the people, the war rages on.

Between the Gulf War, the subsequent US-driven draconian UN economic sanctions, and the seemingly endless US invasion and occupation of Iraq, well over a million Iraqis are dead. Infrastructure essential to vital human needs, including transportation, health, utilities, water, and sanitation has been decimated. Depleted uranium will continue to visit misery and death upon the Iraqi population long after the imperial invaders have been sent packing, as we were in Vietnam.

Machiavellian plutocrats, whose moral development has not progressed beyond that of an earthworm, scheme incessantly to convince the American public that we can “win” or “succeed” in Iraq. How much murder and mayhem must we inflict before we achieve the “victory” the cynical bourgeoisie covets?

Yet despite the overwhelming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a relative few individuals and corporate entities, each of us in the United States is complicit in the crimes of our nation to some degree. Obviously, some bear much more responsibility than others, but we have each had a hand in the obliteration of the Iraqi nation.

While a majority of US Americans now vehemently oppose the Bush administration and its abominable war, too many of us still believe that both are anomalies which will be “corrected” once we “elect” a new cast of characters to take the political reins in 2008. Sadly, little could be further from the truth. As with most putrescence, ours runs deep beneath the surface.

Fed a steady diet of carefully crafted agitprop from cradle to grave, many of us zealously pursue the American Dream of suburban utopias bordered by white picket fences. Utterly oblivious and indifferent to the staggering cost we impose upon the rest of the world, we ignore the stack of bloodied corpses on which we climb as we reach for the sacred brass ring. Ready-made delusions eagerly provided by our corporate masters assure us that we are entitled to all that we desire, convince us that we are morally superior to those we bleed dry to gratify ourselves, and shield us from the grim reality that we are the “monsters on Maple Street.”

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[jwirr]

1. Amen.

[katty]

2. smoke 'n mirrors.....

[Phredicles]

3. Given how much our media remind me of Pravda, how much our govenment

acts like a one-party state - even now - etc., I can't help but wonder how much time we have before the US dissolves like the USSR did.

I suspect the next president HAS to get it right, or that will be the last one.

[MasonJar]

4. In The Prince Machiavelli says that the prince must go and live in

country that he conquers to assure that all goes well in his conquered regime. Now I hate to add this burden on the already aggrieved Iraqis. However, if Bush and Cheney would just follow the dictates of The Prince to the letter, Machiavelli would soar into the zenith as the greatest thinker this side of Christ himself. I am willing to help fund their trip.